Litchfield enquirer., 1868-09-24

! NIT. Warner, "I l received letter from { Democratic friend, saying, you will be surprised at your appointment as dele gate to the New York Con nvention;' and he then gave history of the Convention that appointed me, showiay hoso- -tai1f5cseh n eyas to ] procure tue appointnaen! ofa naaa of conse,- odttce Uieics. l replied, thanking him fcl sis efforts n my behalf. but said that l probably should not attend, as from r,-eseu is'dic'nions, t scas scarcely possible Ma Me Coaee'tflon ecoa!d m0n1inate C Wd1e ! could i support ia 1o7'efere1ce to Gen. G1uat-there acere veryt tesU sucb in Me nation In fact. had 1 attended the convention, I should have felt like moving the nomination of Gen. Grant by exclamation. I know l could have improved the ticket by an amendment. striking out the word flora tio, and inserting 'Origen & ,"
 HoRATIo SEYMOUR
 Regarding the Democratic nominee, Mir. Warner said, "There are three classes of Democrats : lst, The out-spoken Peace men. These have always led tho party, controlled it's conventions, edited it's jour- nais, and run it's party machinery. Bold and uncompromising, they now oppose reconstruction" from the same motives. and with the same arguments, that they op- posed "coerciop."
 Second, is that vacillating class which sometimes supported the war, and some times cried for peace. Chief of these has always been Gov. Horatio Seymour. Against the private character of Gov. Sey- mour 1 have not 8 word to say. He is Q christian gentlemen, man of education, refinement, and many social virtues, who at times gave much support to the war in in- Huence. and in money. But as public man his course has not been of that firm, con- slstent kind that we need in 6 president of the United States. He wants the spinal column. 1 would engage to convict him of moral weakness before 8 jury of twelve intelligent Cornwall Democrats (provided he was not their candidate for the presi- dcncy). In 1862 the cry for 8 moro vigor- o;ls prosecution of the war made him Gov ernOr of New York. In 1863 found him making speeches in this state i'll favor of Thomas H. Seymour, who denounced the war from first to last. This seemed to me like change of front His conduct in re- peatedly declining the nomination and fin ally accepting it, indicates tho char acter of the man. The public pro- ceedings of the convention show that after declaring that he could not in honor accept
 
 maintain that honoy The secret history of that convention,a as disclosed by Col. Brown in his Frankport speech, shows that not only was Gov. Seymour pledged to the friends of MT. Chase, but that he was to have delivered a set speech putting the Chief Justice in nomination on the very morning he yielded to the pressure brought to bear on him by Vallandigham and the friends of Pendleton. do not charge him with duplicity; but he is one of those pliant, tiaciIe men who look one way and ride the other,< ,<who is far too, weak ever to resist the pressure of the revolutionists who now control tho Dom aooratic party-the Vallan- hams, Hamptons, and Blairs. Before the sitting of the convention. I said repeated ly that Horatio Seymour would be the Democratic nominee. For once l proved e true prophet.
 ''The third class of Democrats were those who at all times and under all cir cumstances had sustained our soldiers in the field. To this class I have always be- longed, and consider it my duty and theirs in the present crisis, to support General Grant, h no other way can we bring about that permanent settlement and lasting peace which tho country needs above all things"