The Tiffin weekly tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1859-1868, 1868-08-13
Irrom the New YOrE Tfibuno.i
Gov. Seymour's Loyalty.


The World is very willing to 90.
eupy our columns with citations in.
tended to prove Gov Seymours
fidelity to his country during her
late fearful trial, but carefully avoids
any citation or consideration OF the
proofs we offer Of his disloyelty. We
demur to such long-range oontro-
versy, aud insist on a more decisive
method. Let us SEQ how the World
will relish and receive close Crap
ple--ls follows:
l. We charge the. Horatio Sey-
o. mour,. at tho Twoddlo Hall Convex
ton Of Jan. 81. 1861, furiously
assailed the Republicans in Congress
for proposing toresist secession and
disuuioh by force, saying
Let rs see " saccessfal coercion By
ho North Is less revolutionary than
q sueceisfai secession By the South"
We ~. We charge that Gov. Seymour,
few weeks after that Convention,
being in our city and meeting here
Judge Charles II. RugglSs,. asked
him, T" Judge, have you read tho
Confederate Constitution7 4 = y
I have and it is preferable to the
Federal Constitution. Now, why not
AVOID pll trouble by ourselves adopt.
ing the Confederate Constitution r.
that is, by suporseding the Federal
by the Confederate Government,
kieking out Lincoln and making
'V'rNopy President. 81 ~
publicans, fiFEga. that, When the Re-
Fifty Thousand, pfSlierity ofat least
party altogether IN the ito ignore
1861, and unite the whole poop3p Of
our State on o ticket selected from
both parties, aud standing on the
simple platform of q vigorous prose.
cution Of the War for tho Union,
Horatio Seymour and his friends re.
-jectel the proder, insisting on party
ticket aud party platform sur
charged with hostility to those on
whom the Nation had dovolved the
duty of defending its existence.
vi We charge that lloratio Sey-
monr publicly said. soon after tho
issue of Lincoln's first Proclamation
of Freedom, that, IL the Union could
only bo maintained by aboliohing
Slavery, then the Union ought to be
given up.
VII. Wa charge that Horatio Sey.
nour, being elected Governor OF our
State, gave but a cold, reluctant,
hcsitating, grudging, caviling sup
port to the Federal authorities, then
struggling to avert the disruption OF
tho Union, so that President Lincoln
was constrained to say to his brother,
who was atthe White House on bust.
moss, Please remind your brother,
the Governor, that il ho is ever to be
President OF the United States thefS
must be such 4 country left to preside
over" ..fr.,, .rrrr-rr
- VIII, We charge that, whom i,
became tiocessary TO resort to Draft
ing to replenish the National armies,
Gov. Seymour threw his influence
against that resort and, in appeal
ing to the President to suspend its
enforcement, menacingly said
at is believed by at least ono half
the people o? the loyal States that the
Conscription act, which thoy are
called upon to obey because it is on
the statute-book, is in itself a vio.
,lation)of the supreme constitutional
law. 4 do not dwell
upon what l believe would be the
.coqsequences of a violent, harsh
policy, before tho coustitutionality of
the act is tested. You can scan tho
future as we'll as |. The tep,per Of
the people TO dag you can readily
learn"
Does any man on earth believe
that the man who thus demanded Of
the President a suspension of the
Draft till its constitutiooality could
be tested in the Courts, really wished
the Rebellion put down Ky the strong
arm1 A few days before, he had
said tU1the rioters assembled in our
City Hall Park;
/ assure you, my fellow-oitizens,
that l am here to show you a tost Of
my friendship. TCbsers.1 wish to
inform you that / have seut my Ad
jutant.General to Washington to
confer with tho authorities there,
aud to have this Draft suspended
ahd-stcpped" EVoeiferous cheers I