The Hancock Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Ohio) 1857-1870, 1868-07-17
HORATIO SEYMOUR.

HORATIO SEYMOUR.
The following article from the
New York Tribune so plainly puts
the nominee of the Democratic Con-
vention, in his true light before the
country chat we give it prominent
place in our columns. Read it care
fully and note the difference between
Horatoi Seymour and Ulysses S.
Grant:
If the Democratic Convention had
been intent on selecting that candi-
ldidate for President least likely to
win Republican votes and most Ger
tain to arouse and intensity Republi
can opposition, it could not have hit
1.-THE mark more exactly. Horatio
Seymour has been the deadliest,
most implacable enemy throughout,
of the ideas which triumphed in the
abolition of Slavery and discontinue
Iof the Rebellion. He was an open
advocate and champion of that Ne
Ibraska bill whereby Slavery shame
Iessly repudiated a solemn compact
whereof she had reaped the full ad
vantage, and strove to wrest from
Free Labor vast region which she
had quite claimed for valuable con
sideration in hand. For the victims
in Kansas of Border Ruffian arson,
outrage and murder, he had never
word of cheer or sympathy. He
was for Buchanan against Fremont
when this State gave the Pathfinder
a plurality OF $4,000. He was for
anybody against Lincoln in 1850,
when New York gave the latter
clean majority of $4,000. Mr.. Lin
coin being elected, he insisted that
the Republicans should give up their
cardinal principle of No Extension
of Slave Territory, or be held accoun-
table for the Rebellion that the slave
holders would otherwise initiate.
He attended the Tweddle Hall Con
vention, in Albany, Jan. l3, 1851;
and there-because the Republicans
I'M Congress kept quiet. and did not
ask pardon Of the Slave Power for
having elected President-assailed
them thus abusively:
"What spectacle do we present to-
day? Already six States have with
darwn from this Confederacy. RevO-
luton has acctually begun. The
term Secession divests it of none of
'|its terrors, nor do arguments to
prove Secession inconsistent with
our Constitution stay its progress, or
mitigate its evils. All virtue, patri-
otism, and intelligence, seem to have
fled from our National Capitol it
has been well likened to the conia-
grafton of an asylum for madmen--
some look on with idiotic Imbecility ;
some in sullen silence; and some
scatter the firebrands which consume
the fabric above them, and bring
upon all common destruction. Is
there one revolving aspect in this
scene which has not its par
allel At the Capitol of our coun-
try gfDo you not see there the sense
less-imbecility, thegarrulous idiocy,
the maddened rage, displayed in re
gard to petty personal passions and
party purposes, while the glO-
ry, the honor. the safety of the
country, are all forgotten2 The
same pervading fanatlcism has
brought evil apon all the institutions
of our land. Our churches are torn
asunder, and desecrated to partisan
purpose. The wrongs of our local
Legislation, the growing burden of
and taxation, the gradual destruction
OF the African in the Free States,
which is marked by each recurring
census are all due to the neglect of
our own duties, caused by the CON-
plate absorption of public mind by a
seLseless, unreasoning fanaticism.
The agitation of the question of Sla-
very has thus far brought greater SO
cial, moral, and Legislative evils upon
the people of the Free States than it
has upon the institutions of those
against whom it has been excited.
The wisdom of Franklin stamped
upon the first coin issued by our
Government the wise motto Mind
your own business ? The viola
ton of this honest proverb,
which lies at the foundation of the
doctrines of local rights, has, thus
far, proved more hurtful to the med
dIers in the affairs of others than to
those against whom this pragmatic
action is directed.
awe are advised by the Conserva
tive States of Virginia and Kentucky
that, il force is to be used, it must
be exerted aginst the united South.
1t would be an act of folly and mad
ness in entering upon this contest,
to underrate our opponents, and thus
subject ourselves to the disgrace of
an inglorious warfare. Let US also
see if successful coercion by the
North is less revolutionary than sue
cessful Secession by tbs South. Shall
we prevent revolution by being fore
most in overthrowing the principles
of our government, and all that makes
in valuable to our people, and dis
tinguishes it among the nations of the
earth ?"
Gov. Seymour proceeded to DEM
onstrate, after his fashion, that the
South was so strong, so earnest, SO
united, that she could never be put
down, and that we had no question
to decide but this:
"Shall we compromise after war i?
or compromise without warp
which, you see, wasn't the real ques
ton at all.
A few weeks later, MFR. Seymour,
meeting Judge Charles III. Ruggles,
asked him: "Judge have you read
the Confederate Montgomery Con-
stitution have; and 1T Is
better than ours the Federal } Then
why not," he continued, ''obviate all