Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1868-09-03
The Danger of Mr.. Seymeur's In
sanity. ..

The Danger of Mr.. Seymeur's In
sanity. as
Abiding to the attempt of the New
York World to explain away the reports
of insanity in the Seymour family, the
Cincinnati Gazette narrates and vouches
| for these facts: a -iH" -
l. Gov. Seymour's father, Henry
Seymour, shortly after the exposure OF
some of his malpractice as canal com
missioner of New York, became subject
ed to fits of mental alteration, in one OF
which he committed suicide by blowing
| his brains out.
2. Gov. Seymour's brother fell vic.
tim to the same terrible maladp, and
likewise died maniac by suicide.
8. Gov. Seymour himself has been
constantly warned by his family and
physicians to avoid all harrassing men,
tai cares and great excitement, as al
most inevitably tending to develop the
same taint in his own blood Once
after some heavy pecuniary lesses, they
took the precation to remove him from
political excitement in New York to the
seclusions of Minnesota, and kept him
there in retiracy for several months, in
accordance with the suggestion of his
physicians. His mind was believed
then, by both the physicians and The
family, to be trembling OH the balance
4. Gov. Seymenr has himself referred,
as distinctly as could be expected, to the
imminent peril in which, as he well
knows he is standing. To Mr.. Harvey,
a member of the Massachusetts delega
ton to the New York convention, he
said significantly that his health (which
fob 10,
fect) was such that it would be most.
perilous for him to accept the nomina-
tion. If his physical health were per-
feet. what could it be that made it per-
ilous for him but the danger of excite
ment at which his medical advisers were
constantly pointing, with the admoni-
ton, That way lies death. To the
New York delegation he said, in one of
his speeches at their caucuses, that they
well knew that it would be dangerous
for him to enter upon such alife of tr lin
ed uncertainty and anxiety as the can
vass would open up. To the convention
itself he said: 81 cannot become your
candidate without imperiling both the
party and myself. - These are facts of
public notoriety. No New Yorker,
during the convention, pretended to
deny Gov. Seymour's danger from in
sanity. Many of those in the delega-
ton frankly admitted it to be an insup-
cradle bar to their presenting him as
candidate. 1t was as freely talked about
and as currently recognized among the
better in formed delegates, as the exis-
tence of Pendleton's greenback theory,
or BlaiI's letter. He received the nomi-
nation, as is known, in an agony of
conflicting emotions, and his first eX-
clamatio was MY God, what shall l
do?n
TO elect the democratic tcket.is to stim-
ulate fresh rebellion at the South, and to
place at the head of public affairs man
who such excitement must, in his own
fear, in the belief of his family and his
physicians,I send to the lunatic asylum.
1t is to plunge the nation into new whirl
pools, and give tia crazy pilot Or
rather, to look straight to the inevitable
end, it is to make Gen. Frank Blair
President of the United States. This is
not a matter to be salved over by pleas
for the sanctity of the family affairs. 1t
is not a matter to be whistled down by
stilted talk abont the decencies of poll
tical discussion. The decencies consist
in forcing such peril upon the country,
not in giving the country timely warn
iTg of it. Shall Frank Blair be Presi-
dent instead of Gen. Grant? That is
The pras tical squestion. .t