Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1868-08-12
Seymour Accepts.


The long xpecsed come az last letter
of Horatio Seymour, accepting the Demo
cratic nomination, occuries two columns oil
an ordinary newspaper, and is far more re-
markable for what it does not, than Tor what
If does contain. The financial question IS
dropped like hot potato word
about payment in greenbacks. Like
Statesman he dod-es this difficulty, and
leaves the pillow holders in the :, est and
the ''bloatcd bond holders in the East, to
fight it out on any Zine they please.
Equally silent Is this letter on the subject of
"a white mans government, negro su-
premacy, and Niger equality" Although
his supporters all over the country are ex
claiming against the negro, and declaring to
| their de'uied followers that eight millions
of white men in the South are 20 be kept
down ard DEGRADED by three millions Of
negroes, not one word has the Statesman,
in all his prolix epistlc, to say on the favor
itc theme. Again, we have searched the
elaborate production from one end to the
other, to ascertain his views on the PROPOSE
ton of his confederate F. p Blair, to dis
perse the carpet bag governments in the
South, but not a word could we find. On
the subject of Blair's new revolution, the
letter is as silent as the grave. Whether
he too, ike Blair, Hampden, Forrest, and
others, proposes TO nullify the laws of Con-
gress and resist, by the bayonet, their en-
forcement, we are wholly left TO conjecture.
| What the letter does contain is simply an
Indictment of the party in power for endeav-
oripg to reconstruct the states torn asunder
by the Democratic rebellion Every thing
done by Congress is w1or 2, in the esti-
nation of MIR. Seymour. 1t was all wrong
/ in 1861 to prevent the rebels from going out
/ of the Union on their own terms, and il is
! all wrong in 1865 to permit them to come
back on any terms but their own. Mr.. Sey-
mour would have them do just as they
please, and hence he protests most siren
uously against radical violence = But as
he has been protesting against it for the last
eight years, it has got to be an old song
| He declared four years ago, that radical yio-
| lence was failure" and of course We
would not expect so consistenta statesman
to change his opinion. He has nothing to
say, however, about the violence" OF the
| ''Ku Klux Klan,' numbering and robjing
| Union men all over the South-orab0ut the
| threats of Blair, Wade Hampden, Vance,
| Perry, Toombs and Hill that they will over
turn, by force, the existing governments in
Presidency. His elaborate dissertation on
violence" might with rerfcct proprietv
be addressed to his colleague On the tick
/ ct, and to his supporters who are threat
ening a second rebellion and civil war. IF
| he Is so much in favor of peace, and quiet,
and order, why does he not boldly and open
| lydisown the schemes of Blair and Rampden
to plunge this country INTO second bloody
struggle? If he is too weak md I. O timor-
Gus to repudiate these schemes now, would
he not lack The will, the judgement. and the
resolution to prevent their consummatiop if
elected?
IL is easy to find fault with Congress and
! the Republican party Tor the manner in
which the war was conducted and the
states reconstructed, but it Is not so easy to
| demonstrate how the nation is to be edeliver-
ed from the evils brought upon it by the
Democratic rebellion, and restored to a con-
dition of perfect and enduring peace and pros
perity. Mr.. Seymour can pick flaws, but
why does he not propose a remedy He
offers no solution of the financial problem,
and no plan by which the Southern states
can be reconstructed. He says vote the
Democratic ticket elect me to the Presi
dency, and then what? Why the election
Of Democratic Executive and a majority
of Democratic members to the House of
Representatives ,roula not gire hat party or
goai-atjon the poIce' To make sudden or rio
lent changes What plea for States
man?' If he were elected with a House of
Representatives to back him, he would have
no power to remedy the evils he deplores
Then why elect him? Have we not, for the
last three years. seen enough of want of
harmony between the different departments
fthc Government 1t must be perfectly
plain, from his own showing, that whatever
difficulties and troubles press upon this
country, no relief is to be obtained by the
election of Horatio Seymour.
This pititul, begging, egotistical and lying
letter, has added nothing to the strength of
the Iammany ticket, bat has only served to
weaken the force of Blair's manifesto with
those who made both ticket and platform