The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1868-07-16

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crous mouse of the Democratic Pres
idential candidate against the con-
querors Of the rebellion. Seymour
against Grant in 1868 amounts to o
surrender or disbanding of the DOM
ocratic party. The ticket of McClel.
Ian against Lincoln was q strong
ticket compared with this of Sey.
mour against Grant. It has not the
prestige Of the ticket in 1852. In
deed, Mr.. Seymour was elected Gov.
ernor, but it was on the platform Of
vigorous prosecution Of the war. In
1868 he returned to his idols Of the
Copperhead faith, and there he wo'd
have remained, but for. the detection
of Republicans and their divisions on
the State elections last year. Now,
as in 1868, ga, IS, and sc, after
| their successes OF 1862, all the CAPT.
tal and oil tho ioothold gained BY
Democrats have been thrown away
and lost, and the battle Of 1864 is re-
vived with some changes, to DO sure,
but as against Seymour, they are all
in favor Of Grant. There is nothing
in Seymour, nothing in his record,
nothing in his platform, that will
bring q single recruit to the Demo-
csatic party; but everything to rally
the whole floating vote Of the United
States, with all the Conservative Re.
publicans. around the glorious ban
ncr of Grant.
alt is supposed by his friends and
political trainers, that Seymour is at
least good for New York, with its
fifty thousand Democratic majority
of last fall. hatmaiority, however,
was the delusive result Of Republican
disaffections and dissensions, which
only the nomination Of Chase as the
Democratic candidate could have
turned to substantial advantage. In
this campaign Seymour against Grant
will bring all Republicans into line,
and the result win be another politi-
cal reaction, which will give New
York to Grant BY twenty, thirty, or
forty thousand majority. =
We can give no countenance to
this movement of the Democratic
| party. The movements Of the age
are progressive, and we must 60 with
them. All the world is going forward,
except our Democratic party. 1t is
behind Austria, Russia and Turkey,
for they al! recognize tho necessity
of shaping the policy to the pressure
of living events. Seymour is behind
the age, and Blair, as q soldier on
this ticket, makes mockery Of the
combination. Grant and Colfax a.
gainst such a ticket will sweep the
country from the Atlantic to the Pa
| cific, because the blockheads of the
Democratic party will have it that
we are still living under the regime of
poor Pierce and Buchanan"
The Lawrence <Kansas) State Jour
nal leading conservative organ ofthe
state says:
"The Democratic party, IN the0hot
days Of July, has preferred death to
life. Guided by the demon of insani-
ty, it has rushed to suicide. Tho
galvanic shock the Chase move
ment inspired for time in the party
q nobler impulse, q grander future
and better purposes. If brains werc
weighed by the pound it would have
succeeded, but numbers outruled
brains and virtue, and with 1t reac-
ton, and the cold damp of death set>
ties upon the party, and Seymour and
Blair lead the mournful procession
to the tomb. An avalanche of ice
from Alaska could not have had Q
more chilling effect upon the Demo-
cracy of Kansas than the nomination
| of Seymour and Blair.
| The wellinformed Washington cor
respondent OF the Chicago Tribune
| speaks thus Of the wet blanket effect
| of the nominations Oh the Copper.
heads in Washington:
"Thc New York nominations con-
tinue to be the general theme Of con-
versation, and the Democratic Con-
| gressmen are just asfree asthey were
yesterday in expressing their disgust
at the selections made. They see that
| Seymour's Copperhead record and
Blair's bloody letter cannot be sus-
tanned, and the feeling about the lat
ter is SO strong that Senators Davis
and Buckalew both publicly disavow-
| cd it in debate ia the Senate o-day,
and declared that tho, Democratic
Iparty cannot be charged with its en-
dorsement, even if they have nomi-
mated its writer for Vice President.-
! One Democratic member Of the House,
from Pennsylvania, speaks of Blair
as did foo for writing It, and q
I greater did Zoo. for printing it. Mr..
Barnes, Democrat, from Brooklyn,
autographed to leading delegate in
the convention yesterday. after the
news Of the nomination OF Seymour
was received, that the Republicans
were jubilant and The Democrats &c.
pressed that the matter ought to be
reconsidered and Seymour made to
deciiae. The leading Democrat in
the Indiana delegation, when asked
what he thought Of the nominations,
held up his hand in "a deprecatiEg
manner and answered, FLUSH, my
friend; you are treadiug on u newly
made grave" One oil the Ohio Dem
| ocfats, when asked Il siln ilar question,
replied that the ticket could not
carry single State west Of the ALE.
ghanies. The ablest Democrat in
Massachusetts, though not now in
official position, spoke this morning
OF the convention work as, s.Amazing,
perfectly amazing" And then added,
II did hope they would give US anew
plate this time. but it is the same old
dish OF hash they made at Chicago
four years Ego Mr.. Seward remark
ed to Gentleman this morning that
Governor Seymour had a great fac>
ulty TO: running behind his ticket
The only th:ag With which the Dem
ocrals s@ana pleased is the slaughter
Of, tn Chief Justice. They chuckle
owe, this q great deal, and make all
sorts OF pleasant remarks about his
Innocence and simplicity. Republi-
cans speak II him as the deadest man
politically nov living, and Democrats
suggest that Tie Republicans might
give them q vote ogthanks for laying
him odt. Mr.. Seward talks OF him as |
spoor Chase, poor Chase"