The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1868-07-16
Democratic Nominations.

dency, if it pleases the Democratic party
as well as it does the Republicans, must
be highly satisfactory all round. No nomins
ton could possibly have been made, which
more fully represent the great mass of the
Democratic party, not only of to-day, but
during the war of the rebellion. All his
public and private acts, were in sympathy
with the anti war Democratic sentiment
of the north. His record is one of hostili-
ty, to every effort of the Government, to
arrest the progress of southern secession.
He denounced the war as failure, and
counselled the withdrawal of our Union
soldiers from the South
The Democratic Convention are deserv.
ing of thanks for nominating Seymour
it places the Democratic party in its true
position before the country his record
during the past seven years is fresh in the
memory of all. 1t will not do for the De.
mocraey to pretend, that the platform
adopted by the Convention, has remodel
ed Seymour, and made him changed
man. lie must be held accountable for
his acts,and sentimentspublically uttered.
1t is with Mr. Seymours war record we
have chiefly to do at this time For all
anti-draft men, peace sneaks and rebel
sympathizers Seymour must be especially
acceptab bic. When in the summer of 1868,
our Union armies were depleted in hard
fought battles, and when the demand be
came urgent for more men. from the north
Seymour, then Governor of the State of
New York, was engaged in an effort to
prove to the country, the utter hopeless
ness of attempting to put down the rebel
lion, and signifed an utter unwillingness,
to allow the quota of men assigned to the
State to be sent forward. This was the
darkest period in the history of the rebel
lion the Governor of the great State of
New York, who by virtue of his office was
the Commander in Chief of the military
thereof, appeared on the point of with
holding the men, who were needed in the
great emergency of the country.
The government at Washington ordered
a draft, to meet the urgent national neces-
sity; Seymour was averse to the draft j; he
counseled peace on the ground that the
war was unjustifiable. His openly ex-
pressed views, encouraged resistance to
the U. S. officers In the month of July
1853, mob in the city of New York rose
IN arms; took possession of the enrolling
offices, beat the officers, murdered the
chief of the enrolling force, sacked the
residence of the Mayor, mobbed the news
paper offices, destroyed public and pri-
yate buildings, murdered Union men, and
for four days disputed the possession of
the city against the military and police
forces. On the second day of the riot,
Gov Seymour requested the rioters to as
semble at the City Hail. Here he adj
dressed them with the affectionate appel
lation, "mey dear friends" He told these
blood stained vagabonds that he had sent
has Adjutant General to Washington tohace
the draft stopped and requested them to
suspend further mischief, as the State of
which he was the chief executive, would
protect them and make it all satisfactory
The mob cheered Seymour yociforously,
but did not heed his request to cease their
acts of violence, but there immediately
followed such scenes of bloodshed, plum
der and destruction of property as would
have disgraced untamed savages For
some time anti-draft rioters had things
their own way, nor did Gov. Seymour use
any means to arrest their work of destruc-
ton. aH
L This is the man whom the Democracy
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