, 1868-07-31
nnpArIn sEYMouR.

Tho s. F. Bulletin, which supports Grant,
in commenting on the nomination Of Sey,
mour, says:
Seymour will be acceptable to every DEM
ocrat wLo was resolved to act with the party
at all, and is undoubtedly the most able
man Of all whose names were presented to
the Convention. 1t is certain that he can
concentrate heavier party vote than Pend
Teton, whose loose financial notions would
have repelled many in the Atlantic States !;
or than Hancock, whose brilliant war record
would have repelled many at the West and
South There we're just two courses open
for the democracy-one was to plant them
selves iu advanced ground under the lead of
republican like Chase, or Union soldier
| like Hancock, and make an effort to divide
the liberal sentiment of the country; the
other was to adhere TO the old denunciation
of everything republican, whether an accom-
plished fact or not, nominate an out-and out
democrat, who was recognized as an oppo
nent of the war, and appeal to party tradi>
tions and prejudices The latter course has
been chosen, and the immediate result is
before us. With such platform and cand-
idate as have been presented, the contest
will be more sharp and bitter than if more
liberal choice had been made, and there will
be stronger disposition on both sides to
revive the memories and passions of the war.
Horatio Seymour was born in Onandaga
county, N. Y, about 81 years ago, though
most of his life be has been citizen of
Oneida county. His father was a friend of
Dewitt Clinton, and one of the builders of
the Erie Canal, and left him a competence.
He was educated at West Point, but had no
taste for military career, and never entered
the service. He studied law and was adj
mitted to practice, but although he showed
great capacity in the profession, his feeble
health induced him to live a rather quiet,
retired life, and even to embark in agricul-
tural pursuits Althouyh he always took
great interest in politics, and was influential
and popular as a democratic partisan, he has
never been very anxious for office Before
his first election as Governor of New York,
in 1852, he had been several terms a mems
Der of the Legislature and once Speaker OF
the Assembly. In 1850 he was beaten for
the Governorship by Washington Hunt; and
after his term in 1852, he was beaten by
Clark on account of his veto of the Maine
Liquor Law. In 1862, he was elected Gov
ernor a second time, and was renominated
for that place, but beaten by Gov. Fenton.
He is man of splendid presence, of mag
netic manners, and absolute purity of char
acter, which traits, combined with his disin-
tercstedness as partisan, give him great
popularity and influence, and will make him
the most formidable competitor of Grant
that could have been nominated for the great
State of New York. The objections to Sey-
mour will be purely political. AT the in
ception of the rebellion he opposed the idea
of attempting to save the Union by force,
and justified to some extent the action of
the South. His Tweedle Hall speech, de-
livered in January, 1861, expressed his idea
fully on this point, and had considerable inAu-
ence at the time, both in strengthening the
Northern democracy against the presumped
republican policy and encouraging the
secession leaders at Washington and in the
South.