National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1868-08-07

OlEW AhI, NEh ADA. Nil
President: Mr.. Seymour was
Peace Democrat, was an associate |
and friend of Pendleton, Vallandig !
ham, and of those who opposed the |
war. Why is it that the Democrats
have nominated for President the !
man of bad eminence, who was
Governor of New York in the most
critical hour of the rebellion, when
everything was trembling in the
balance ? Why have they taken
the man who, when the South was
red with loyal blood, when the
hearts of all men beat with anxiety,
went to the Academy of Music i'll
New York, on the 4th Of July, 1868,
in company with Pendleton and
others, there and then to advocate
resistance TO the draft. there and
then to proclaim to the excited peo-
pie of New York City that a mob
had an equal right-to proclaim the
law of necessity with government ?
Why did they take the man who,
on the 4th of July, 1868, told the
American people that the war was
failure, and that the only way to
preserve liberty was to resist law q!
! Why did they take the man who,
on that occasion. Sncered at every
effort of this Government to main
tain its own existence ? Why, above
all things, did they pass over every
patriotic name, and take up the rep
, reSentative of the cold -bloOded,
f reasonable Peace Democracy ]
f will tell you the reason. If any
body doubts his record, | have be-
fore me a small portion of it, and |
. can produce more. One or two eX-
tracts are enough. He commenced
z his speech on the 4th of July, 1913,
$ thus:
"When ! accepted the invitation
/. to speak, with others at this meet,
r. ing, we were promised the downfall
/ of Nicksburg, the opening of the
e Mississippi, the probable capture OF
s the Confederate capital, and the eX-
}. haustion of the rebellion. BY com
/. mon consent, all parties had fixed
r upon this day when the results OF
the campaign should be known, tc
|. mark out that line of policy which
., they felt that our country should
# pursue. But in the moment OF eX
q pected victory, there came the mid
il night cry for help from Pennsylya
e MIA, to save its despoiled fields from
4 the invading foe; and, almost with
,. in sight of this great commercial
/. metropolis, the ships Of your mcr
NJ chants were burnt to the waters
IS edge"
D. That was the way he talked
If Why is it that they put him at The
|. head of their ticket, a man whC
Ic used such language ON the day wheI
the invinciblc Grant took NiCkS
r burg Why is he selected cal
Al the special attention of the loya
n. Senator from Indiana, whose virtue
a. that convention could not appreei
II ate, to the following beautiful sen
i. fences OF his successful rival:
ID Are you not exposing yourselves
X. your own interests, to as great ;
IL peril as that with which you threat
al en- us Remember this
II. He was discussing the draft, an,
20 advising them in this very spcec
rs to defend their hearths, dcelariu
nm the draft unconstitutional, dcclarin
that the Government Of the Unite
Nh States had no right to enforce it.
* He Said
II. Remember this, that the blood,
~ and REASONABLE. and rcvolutionar
ro. doctrine of public necessity can |
in proclaimed by mob as well as /
in. a government
It That is the language Of yonr pre-
he ideutial nominee.
ID. Mr. Howard. Read it again.
an. Mr.. Stewart. " Remember thi
to that the bloody, and trcasonahl
its and revolutionary doctrine OF publ
So. necessity can be proclaimed 10y
"a mob as we'll as by government
ION And within eight days from tn
tx time the most diSgracciul mob tn
jr, mars the good name of our matte
ion was raging in the very metropolis
nee the State of which he was Cove
lis nor, vindicating his words, takil
en- the ground that they had rs good
no. right to proclaim the law Of necc
of Sity by which they might take i
de-. and destroy property as the &c
ms eminent of the United States. |
, it was the representative of the id
crs Of mob violence. Every line
that speech contains a suggestion
disobcy the law. The mob can
=, and You say he helped to put
'I n down. say he ought not to ha
: Ut advised his friends to enter into il
lair