Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1868-07-29

tnereOI, ana the cat eating the klaO-
Der in the mans eye. "Old Bonny
Klabber" would be good name for this
latest jelly fish of department. Be-
yond these eXternals the only signi6-
cant thing to be observed Of Mr.. Sey.
mour was an uneasy wildness of the
eyes, as if some mental excitement
shone there. Conioiued with his due.
tile face this unnatural restlessness of
the eyes insensibly suggested to me the
misfortune of his parents, both insane
the shadow of whose fate has been his
constant premonition.
1t was my old experience again, of
coming a thousand miles to see cele-
brated presence and finding merely a
commonplace person with the problem
of reputation in him.
SEYMOUR SPEAKING.
When old Judge Denio had picked
his one tooth a good while, and chew
ed his words OF welcome on his forefn-
ger, making altogether the most unin-
teresting speech ever heard. Seymour
put his hand in his coat breast and re-
piled in a bronchial, lsborious voice,
little nervous in his manner, to the
effect that it was good to be welcomed
by ones neighbors without distinction
of party, aud that he must not speak
further. Then he backed into the
house and without noticing the or
phans of a white mans government,
clipped upstairs and so out to his car
riage, when he trotted OFF TO DeeFheld,
y r-,sI.-n. 7 Nn-rr1N -
that while Judge DEMO was getting
his one tooth ready for the speech of
welcome, Mr.. Seymour, with genuine
political habitude, dived for q mans
hand near By and hand-shook a vote
out OF him.
THE SEYMOUR FAMILY.
TIE Seymour family is composed of
FIVE members, HOratio, John, Mrs. Conk-
ling, Mrs. Shonnard, and Mrs. Link
lean. The father of them all emigrat-
ed from Litch6eld, Connecticut, to
Pompey, in the present county of o.
ondaga. He was a successful politician,
rose to be canal commissioner, left his
children money, removed to Utica, and
here shot himself through the heart
with a shot gun while crazy. John
Seymour is lawyer, who occupies his
brother Horstio's city residence. His
abilities are fair. Mrs. Shonnard lives
at Cazenovia, Mrs. Linklean at Yonk-
ers, near New York, Mrs. Conkling,
the younger sister, resides at Washing
ton, with her husband, part Of the year.
She has two children.
The characteristics of the family 90
no further than social position. They
are not noted for charities they all
married well, and got, by marriage, in
crease Of goods. Mrs. Conkling is a
strong partisan of her husband as
against her brother, and it is related
here that when Horatio Seymour said
he was prepared to spend ten thous-
and dollars TO defeat Conkling for the
United States Senate, his sister pre-
sented her husband with her check for
five thousand dollars, and stood prepa-
red to go FIVE better.
ConklIng has frequently decourcsd
Seymour in debate and on the stump.
Seymour is jealous of him, for Conk-
ling has the better mind and body of
the two, and though he makes more
enemies than Seymour, he plays surer
game.
Horatio Seymour cannot be said to be
lawyer, as he is not anything thor
oughly, unless it be a politician. He
studied law and began its practice, but
getting early in life the agency for the
great BECKER and Dudley property
Albany proprietsries-he found that
merely tending to its rents and real
estate gave him abundant competence.
He married Miss Bleeker, of the Alba
ny PATRON family, for suppose every
body with Dutch name is a PATRON
in this state. The ''patroon" is getting
to be as big a nuisance as the first
family of Virginia" or the Huguenot
of South Carolina. Miss Bleeker had
money and estate, SO Horatio Seymour
set himself Systematically to work 10
make politics an art and craft.
The war for the country and freedom
had probably no supporter so sinister
and luke-wsrm. His country extend
ed no further than the Democratic par
ty, and he foresaw that with the ex-I
tinction of slavery the sheet anchor of
prejudice would 60. and he knew that
Democracy was dead without preju-
dices. Therefore, at TWeddle Hall, in
Albany, in 1861, he made speech where
his terror of the consequences of the
war made him bold to the very verge
of treason itself. He said that the
war was more unjust than secession,
and would not have union unless his
cabal could be kept alive by it.
Soon after, in the city Of Utica, he
declared that secession had better tri-
umph rather than slavery perish, q
sentiment which neither patriotism
nor humanity will ever forgive. TAX
ing this part in the vital and almost
friendless hour of the country, Govern
or Morgan, who knew Seymour's un-
scrupulous ambition, hoped TO quiet
him by making him Chairman of the
War Committee. This bribe OF Office,
all potential with him, silenced his sla-
very heresies, and Seymour, seeing a
faint hope of identifying the Demo-
cratic party with the war, and so pre-
serving it from total humiliation, made
a few war speeches, feeble to his decla- !
rations in favor of treason.
As the war progIesscd.f and towards |
cried peace with every new defeat, Ho-
ratio Seymour. full of discouraging |
criticism upon President Lincoln, Con-
gress, and the more uncompromising |
Of the sOldiery, ran against General |
WadsRorth for Governor in 1862. The |
rebels measuring the number of north
ern towards by the dimension of Sey-
mour's vote, took fresh confidence, |
and brandished their battle flags along
the whole line of the Union. The dead |
soldiers vote, murdered by his triumph,
would pass the roll, grand as it shall be,
of the living veterans whose ballots
will inurn Seymour. Straightway on 1
his election the stews and dens of New |
York poured out in insurrection, taking
hope from his defiance of the central
He stood on the steps of
the City Hall. blsnched plsusibility,
and made such speeches as Queen Jez-
ebel might make to her hounds. No
man in New York State IS the hero of
the riots Of New York City so eminent
ly as Horatio Seymour, General Grant
has his VicksbuIg and his Richmond,
but Mr., Seymour has victory st the
Orphan Asylum in Grand street on Sec
ond Avenue, at the City Hall, and
round the body of Colonel O'Brien,
whom the friends of the Governor, ,hsr
ridan and hsg. and dog-hghter and
prize fighter, kicked to death as he lay
in his uniform, exposed to the putrify-
ing sun.
Mr.. Seymour was an embarrassment
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