The Placer herald., 1868-10-17
ELEMENTS OF POPULARITY.

most captivating ana elOquenC speakers III
or ou: Of his party. Prof. Wilson, who is
as,,unch Republican, in recent lecture
to his elocution and rhetoric class, in Ho-
bert College, referred to Governor Sey-
mour as follows: "He is the best living
specimen of popular orator, partaking III
his style of the logic of Webster, the apaly-
sis of Calhoun, the grace of Clay, and the
fluency of Choate." All of his published
speeches, messages, proclamatio and let
tiers evince the highest order OF intellect,
the most clear and cultivated habits OF
thought and the profoundest study OF the
subject on which he treats.
FRIEND OF HpUAT1oN-A PRACTICAL
FARMER.
He is firm friend of popular education,
and has been for many years one OF the he
gents Of the University at Albany, deliver
ing several addresses on educational mat
tiers before that learned Society. The va
riety of his accomplishments and attain
ments may be judged from the fact that
his address before the Mercantile Library
Association, on the topography and physl-
cal Geography of the State OF New 1ork,
and another essay read by him before the
Geological Institute, are admitted py all
educated men to be among the most elo-
quent and learned productions OF the age.
Gov. Seymour is very popular among the
farmers of his region. He lives on his own
farm. of about four hundred acres, near
Utica, and is well known as practical
farmer, Of the highest knowledge and
standing. He is President of the Amer
lean Dairyman's Association, and has
done much, by scientific investigations
and exhaustive agricultural essays and adj
dresses, to advance the interests Of his
brother farmers, in almost every branch.
GOVERNOR sEYMoUR's PRIVATE CHARACTER.
Governor Seymour's bitterest enemy
has never dared to impugn his charac-
ter. His habits are above reproach. He
never wronged human being in per-
son or purse. He is genial, cultivated,
Chistian gentleman, on when the laurels
of the White House would cit as gracefully
as thew did on Madison and Monroe in the
halcyon days OF the Republic. Very natu-
rally then the members of the National
Democratic Convention, knowing they had
a fierce struggle before them, selected
this man as their standard bearer-thelr
greatest, their best man. But his nomina-
ton has not pleased the Republican stump
orators and newspaper writers at all. NO
nomination the New York Convention
could have made would have pleased them
any better. They were bound to abuse and
vllify whoever the Democrats nominated,
be he man the purest and noblest in the
nation.
SLANpER-AS POLITICAL CAPITAL.
SANDER has formed portion of the peliti
cal capital of the opponents OF the Democ-
racy in all past time. The ISLANDERS on
Thomas Jefferson and james Madison
would fill volumes. They slandered Gen.
Jackson and assailed his wife after she was
in her grave. Stephen A. Douglas could
at one time ride from Washington to Chi
cago by the light Of effigies they were burn
ing of him. The party which profess such
admiration for the Little Giant, now that
he is dead, covered him with vituperation
while living.
FALSE CHARGES AGAINST GOV. SEYMOUR.
It is, therefore, not surprising that
the most shameful falsehOOds should be
circulated at this time concerning Gov
ernor Seymour.
HIS WAR RECORD.
He was a war Democrat, and as such, and
on q platform demanding o more vigorous
prosecution of the war, he was elected Gov
ernor OF New York, in 1862. When the war
broke out, in 1861, Governor Seymour was
sojourning in the Western States; he at
once raised from his own means company
of men, and in a recent speech he alluded
to the event as follows:
81 was gratifed that while was in re-
mote part of the great West it was in my
power to promote the formation of COM
pany of as bold and as sturdy men as ever
rallied in defence Of our country's flag. I
recall with pride their array when drawn
up before my lodgings, they expressed,
through their commander, their goodwill
towards myself and their obligations for
such assistance as l had been able to
give Them"
The following extract, from q speech in
1862, shows how Governor Seymour re-
garded the war for the Union:
Now, when the men OF the South make
the bayonet and the sword the arbiter (they
elected and not we), when they determined
to settle it with blood, and not we-the
sword. 30 far as the present is concerned,
must be the arbiter; and in our.SrOnWfs16r
iauha makA v0untry, for its Institutions.
the hiRLe dag. Now, let mo say this to
the higher law m mes :, Of +. the North. and to
WAC "oole world that looks c on x; ana TO