The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1868-08-20
nv the Conslitnlion on AmerLoan oItLz.ns.

by the Constitution on American citizens.
(Great aDpause.) Can you safely deuy Us ine ,e9
win you not trample upon your own rights If
luton when you say that your persons may be
rightfully seized, your property condscated.
your homes entered? Are YOU not exposing
yourselves, yOur own Interests, 10 as gre ~ a
peril AS That with which you threaten us?- Re-
member this, that the blopoy, aud treasonaole,
and revolutionary doctrine OF puOlic necessity
can be proclaimed 10y mob as well as b.
government. (Applause) F ...
To-day The great masses of conservatives
who still battle for time houOred principles of
government, amid denunciation, contum9ly,
and abuse, ore The only barriers mat stand ne
tween this Government and It's own desJruc-
ton. II we should acquesce in Tue doctrlue
pended, ana l-ws have lost their force, then we
should accept 4 doctiue that the very right by
which this Government administers It's power
has lost its virtue, and we would be brOugnt
down to the level OF the Rebellion Itself, havlng
an existence only by virtue of material power.
When men pit despot SIN, they may have a
choice as TO who the despot snail be- Toe sJrug-
gle then Will not be, Shall we nave constilu-
uine that tn e Constitution has lost It's force,
every instinct of personal ambition, every in.
stinct of personal security, will lead men 10 pat
themselves under the protection of that power
which theyrsuppose most competent to guard
their persons"
These covert threats of mob violence and
State secession were the palpable overture to
the negro-killing house-sacking, orphan asy
lum burning outbreak that soon followed,
That outbreak was the fulfilment of Thayer's
threat that, if the North would have civil war,
it should be inaugurated on her own soil. But
for Lees defeat at Gettysburg, aud Pember-
toms surrender to Grant at Vicksburg, and
Banks capture of Port Hudson, all providen-
tally vouchsafed us az this critical time, our
cutters would have run shoe-deep in blood
and our city probably been burned by our do
mestic Rebels. The disasters of their Southern
compatriots blasted their hopes and ineasura-
bly, parslyzed their arms.
VIII. We have charged that Governor Sey-
mour, coming to our city while the bloody
Rebel riots were in progress, and at once sur
rounded by part of the mob, who suspended
their siege of tn, Tribune office and faced
toward the City Hall steps to listen to him,
addressed them as follows:-
II assure you my fellow citizens that am
here TO show you test OF my friendship.
my Adjutapt- General TO Washington to confer
with the authorities there, and to have this
draft suspended and stopped" (Vociferous
cheers.)
Here you see that Seymour comm ends
himself as the friend of these rut6ans because
he was doing his utmost to get the draft
stopped and had sent his Adjurant- General to
Washington for the purpose. They wanted to
help the Rebels, and stopping the draft was
exactly in their line.
TX. We have charged that Governor Sey-
the draft as though it were an act of wanton,
needless, tyrannioal exaotion, and not stern
necessity required for the national salvation
-saying:-
at is believed by at least one.half of the peo-
pie of the loyal States that the COnscription act
which they are called upon to obey because IL
is on the sJatuLe.b book, is In itself violation of
the supi eme Constitutional law. do
consequences of o violent, harsh policy, before
the constitutionality of the act is tested. You
Can scan the future as well as L. The temper OF
the people to-day you can readily leain." r.
President Lincoln, thus abusively ap-
preached, calmly add sweetly replied as fol-
lows:- 90
81 do not object to abide the decision of the
United States Supreme Court, or of the Judges
law. In fact should be willing to facilitate
the obtaining of It, But cannot consent to
lose the time while 1t Is being obtained. We
are contending with an enemy who. as under
stand, drives every able bodied man he can
reach inio ms ranks' very mach AS SutcneI
is wasted, no argument Is used. This produces
army which will soon turn upon our nov
victorious soldiers already in the field, If they
shall not be sustained by recruits as they should
be- 1t produces an army with rapidity not to
be matched on our side, II we first waste
time to re-ex pertinent with the volunteer sys.
tenn, already deemed by Congress, and pal lpably,
in fact so far, exhausted as to be Inadequate;
and then more time 10 obtain a Court decision
as to whether la " IL constitutional which re-
60 to the aid of those who are already in it; and
still more time to determine with absolute GER
tainty that we get those who are to go in the
precisely legal proportion TO those who are not
TO go. My purpose is TO be In my action just
ana constitutional. and yet practical, in per-
forming the important duty with which am
charged; of maintaining the unity and the free
principles of our common country"
Such are the grounds whereon we have
arraigned HoratiO Seymour as the proper can
didate of Admiral Semmes, General Forrest,
Howell Cobb, Robert Toombs, etc. etc., who
were then fighting to destroy and divide the
Union as zealeusly as they are now struggling
to elect Seymour and Blair, and not fit can
didate for those who, with Grant and COlfax,
were doing their "level best" to put down the
Rebellion.
Wherein have we done Seymour wrong
The worst charges we have brought against
him are citations from his own deliberately
prepared and carefully uttered words. Judge
him by no mere assertion, but by his own
record