Mineral Point weekly tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1859-1868, 1868-08-05
HoRATiO SEYMOUR.
Daniel 8. DfckinsOn's opinion OF the
Democratic Nominee.

The late DANIEL S. DICKINsCr, the
abIest orator and statesman of the
New York Democracy, knew HoRA-
ITO SEYMOUR we'll. In a speech at the
Cooper Institute on the 2nd of Octo-
Der, 1852, he spoke thus concerning
him:
When the most atroclous conspir-
acy which ever desecrated earth found
development in an assault upon our
national flag at Sumpter, and in eff
forts to massacre a half-starved gar.
rison, placed there IN time of pro-
found peace according to uniform
usage, for no other offence than as
serting the supremacy OF their coun-
try's constitution, and giving to the
breeze, a. emblematical thereof, the
glorious Stars and Stripes of their
fathers-when the brave volunteers
who were hurrying to the defence of
our nations capital, to save it from
mob rule and rebellion, and conhagra-
tion, were bleeding by traitorous
hands-when n strong men trembled, f,
when women wept, and children IN
stinctively clung closer TO the mater
nal bosom-when all communication
between the loyal States and the cap
ital wa. cut off by rebellious forces
when the President-elect of the
United States had then recently
reached the seat Of government, where
duty called him, by a circuituos and
unusual route, and in disguise, to es-
cape the dagger of the assassin, and
when our land was filled with excite
ment and CONSERVATION and alarm
when - Shrieked the timid and stood
still the brave" and the conhdIng
masses looked about to see WHO were
the men for the crisis among the cit
izens of the Empire State, who had
borne a part IN public affairs, and
were naturally looked up to as exem-
piars IN such crisis, he (Horatlo
Seymour) hied himself away on the
doublc-quick in the opposite direc-
ton, laughter and for nearly half
a yea hid himself among the lakes,
and rivers, and romantic woodlands,
and inland towns of Wisconsin; and
his tongue was as silent on the sub
ject of denouncing the rebellion as
those of the murdered volunteers.
:" whose ghosts walked unrevenged
amongst US" Sensation. There
we may suppose he basked and bal
anced, and watched and waited, and
turned and twisted laughter until
autumn, when a small knot of defunct,
defeated, desperate and despicable
politicians, who had for years hung
upon the subsistence department Of
the Democratic party in tins State
came to his relief by entering the
field. FLaughter. They borrowed
without leave the honored name of
Democracy, under which to perPetu-
ate their covert treason, as the hypo-
critic
''Stole the livery OF the court of Heaven
To serve the devil in"
Their disgarceful and disloyal rec
ord stands out as the doings of men
too solid in political depravity to be
gifted with ordinary instincts, and too
of the popular will TO be
of shame and the defeat they
experienced at the hands of the peo-
pie should serve as a warning to trim
mers and tailors, and parricides, and
ingrates, through ali future time.
This movement drew the secluded
one from his hiding place, and he came
forth, with all the courage Of him,
who in a conflict with his wife, being
driven under the bed, while remain
ing thus esconced, declared, that
whether she consented or not, he
would look out through a knot-hole
in the clap boards, so long as he had
the spirit of man. [Great and re-
peated laughter and applause. He
entered the political canvass, and on
the 2S.h of October, 1861, few days
before the election, made speech,
the burden of which was an apology
for the rebellion, and cordemna-
ton of the administration for having
meted out the rigor of martial law to
those in arms against the govern
ment. Though abounding with finn
sy disguises and sophistical general
itIes, it contained one point worthy
Of not only notice, but of the seyerest
reprehension, and here 1t is:
"If it is true that slavery must be
abolished to save this Union, then the
people of the South should be allowed
TO withdraw themselves from that
government which cannot give them
the protection guaranteed BY its
terms"
What Place this glorious Union
this heritage of human hope-this
asylum for the worlds pilgrim-this
refuge for the oppressed of earth, in
the scale of being beneath the black
and bloated and bloody-the corrupt,
and corrupting-the stultihed and
stultifying Institution of slavery =
No! Sooner than this Union be sew
cred. let not only the institution per
ish whenever and wherever it can oe
found. bu. let the habitatIons that
have known it perish with it and be
known no more forever. Tremend-
Gus and long continued applause
" That's So" That's the talk -
Three cheers And vet this return
ing fugitive from patriotism proclaims