The Hancock Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Ohio) 1857-1870, 1868-07-24
Mr.. Corey on the New York Nom
ination and the Ohio Delegation.

Mr.. Corey on the New York Nom
D ination and the Ohio Delegation.
[From the West and South July ii
We had lost Mr.. Pendleton b,
/, agreeing to go to the city of New
: York on the 4th of July, and hold
: Convention. OF course. no sounde
Democrat than he could have beer
expected, and he labored under th,
fatal weight of a false financial doc
trine. Our delegates were not only
inimical to Mr.. Chase, but to Mr.
Hendricks, and there did not seem tC
be any other Western candidates
They were, we admit, in a great di.
ilemma; they had nothing to say il they
could not nominate Mr.. Pendleton. In
such case silence Is imperative. II
you have nothing to say, say nothing
and so should MIR. Pendleton's friends
had acted after the twenty first ballot
But they were too much frightened
to be wise. They led Off for Horatie
seymour, who is the very antipodes
Iof PendletOn, and of the Pendletor
doctrine. He is the man who has
most ably and assiduOusly spoken
and written against the greenback
dodge, and he never was any believ-
Ier in State rights. Governor of New
York, he had the power, and he made
the pledge to test the draft in his
State courts, and if it were sustained,
revise the enrolment so as to give
New Workers the same chance as the
Yankees. He did neither He sue.
cumbed to Lincoln. He allowed the
great issue to degenerate into de-
testable anarchy Of races between
Irishmen and negroes, which for
three days gave up the great metro
|pOlis to a murderous mob, and extin-
guished a thousand lives. Fifty
Thousand State militia and volun.
teers would have done his bidding,
but he preferred writing letters to
Lincoln and giving Butler the armed
possession of New York. In 1864,
at Chicago, he helped nominate Gen
eral Mcclellan. for whom he made
speeches, and he had Mr.. Longs
motion to add the first Kentucky, res
olution tothe platform strangled. He
is not a man who has either the body,
or the mind, or the character, to rally
the Democratic masses even of New
York City and State in these evil
days. The burden of his speeches
is that we must augment the public
credit, and by all meaus raise the
value of greenbacks to par, and then,
with cent. per cent. pay the public
creditor. He will consent to tax the
bonds contrary to the act of Con
gress; but not to scale nor repudiate
the debt. Indeed, in every way with
the emphasis of Indignation, he af-
firms the sacred obligation to pay the
debt, dollar for dollar; and resist
either partial or total reputation.
There is no real difference in regard
to this mighty matter between Hora-
ito Seymour and General Grant.
They are both In favor OF taxing the
farmers and business Of the produc-
ing States, down to the point of a
bare subsistence for the citizens. in
order to keep on paying the interest,
and ultimately the whole specie face
of the bonds.
When the West and East
met last winter by delegates in the
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Washington we were poorly represen-
ted and miserably cheated. We
must heed the lesson in future. What
was it 1t was simply that brains
prevailed over US from the start tol
the outcome, beginning at the score.
In the committee, Mr.. Belmont
took the initiative. We knew his
party, and how to deal with them
he had done the business of many
such superficial gentleman before.
He said: There are three points in
this matter; the candidate; the plat
form, and the place. We conceide
you two of these in their order they
are by far the most important. You
have said he or his proxy, the can
didate (Pendleton) and the platform
(greenbacks) and all we ask is the
poor privilege of making our city of
New York the place for holding the
How plausible and CON-
Portable; the victory almost won,
our simple delegates thought, al
though men Of any talent could have
seen the danger. The place was the
only certain thing the committee
could decide upon; it was for the
to choose creed and can
didate. Like tie greedy dog in the
fable, we dropped the substance by
grasping at the shadow. If we had
fought in the committee like heroes
for Western city as the place, we
should have had Mr.. PendletOn for
the candidate, and no worse a plat
form. When we agreed to take him
to New York by giving up really e, y
thing the committee could dislose e
of, and accepted transparent cheat
for the rest, we invited total de-
feat.
The moral of the defeat is in two
words we must not send any more |
such delegates as re had in the So
called National committee to COM
pete with New York tacticians and
strategists.
What can be more transparent tOl
any body after the event than wel
were outmatched and Outgeneraled
from the very commencement
The Vest and South has twenty
times said, when the candidate came
to be selected he would be Horatio
Seymour, the favOrite son Of New
York. We have taken the occasion
of every one ofhis letters and speech
es to be q candidate, to say that it
meant the contrary. We had an in
stinct, as we'll as logical conviction,
that the apprehended result would
and ought to oyertake us, because of
the inferior agents by whom our
business has been effectually done
We sent a parcel of delegates, none
of whom had any right to be heard
for five minutes in SO vast an assem-
blage of the Unions ability. They
came themselves, after the meeting
when it was too late, to that convic-
tion. and the incapables abdieated to
let in others who had abilities, but
no preparation.
Vallandigham had no sort of call
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