New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1868-08-19

hattie for time honored principles OF government amid
denuncatlon contumey. and abuse are the Only arrer
that stand between thus i tbs dnctpne mai in
times OF war constitutions are shspti'eu anu law nav
yery right by which this Government administers its
power has lost its virtue, ana We Mot pe urouRie
r. The level ~ the rebellion itself having existence only
by yrine OF material power When accept despoflsn
they ttag hare u chOice as 10 GhO nc "sSppt W"" t
stry ,gs tben will not be- shall have constitutional
beTty But having accepted the doctrine that the Cop
stitutIOn has lost its force every instinct OF peregd %
,i Sc The protection OF Gt porer rheh hey
Suppose most com eteni 10 gtard their PERSONS"
These covert threats of mob violence and
State secession were the palpable overture to
the negro-killing, house sacking, Orphan-asy-
lum-burang outbreak that soon followed
That outbreak was the fulillment OF IDayer
threat that, if the North would have civil WAL
if sbould be inaugurated on her own soil. But
for Lees defeat at Gettysburg, and Pemberton
surrender to Grant at Vicksburg, and Banks 5
capture of Port Hudson, all providentIally
yoncbsafed us at this critical time. our cutters
would have run oe-deep in blood, and our
CITY probably been burned by our domestic
Rebels. The disasters of their Southern COM
PATRIOTS blasted their hopes and measuraDly
paralyzed their AIMS.
VIII. We have charged that Gov. Seymour
coming to our City while the bloody Rebel
riots were in progress and ut once surrounded
by part of the mob, who suspended Their
siege of TIGr TRIBUNE Office and faced toward
the City Hall steps to listen to him, addressed
them as follows
81 assure you, my fellowcitzens, that am here 70
show you test of my friendship Cheers wish 70
inform You that have cent my hdJutantGeneIal 10
Washington To confer with the authorities there ana
have this Draft suspended and stopped Nocherou'
cheers
Here you see that Seymour commends him
self as the friend of these ruflians because he
was doing his utmost TO get the Draft stopped
and had sent his Adiutant General to Wash
ington for the purpose. They wanted to help
the Rebels and stopping the Draft was exactly
in their line.
IX. We have charged that Gov Seymour
appealed to President Lincoln to stop the
Draft. as though it were an act of wanton,
needless, tyranncal exactiOn, and not a stern
necessity required for the National salvation
saying:
ct Is believed by at least oneaN he people or he ioyol
States that the Consumption act. which they are called
Edition of he sgprcne Constitutional lar lido not
dwell upon What ibeucve would be the consequences Of
act tested You can scan the future well as The
temper Of The peop!e 'oday you ean realty iearH."
President Lincoln, thus abusiycly approached,
calmly and swectly replied as follows:
do not object TO abide the decision OF the United
states Supreme Court OF the Judges thereof the
cOnsttutonality ~ the Draft law In fact should be
willing TO facilitate the obtaining Of H. But [! cannot
consent 20 lose the time while 10 Is being obtained We
cOntendlng with an enemy VINO, az l understahu
drives every abebOded he can reach into bis ranks
very much butcher drives bullOcks into slaughter
pen. No time is wasted, argument is used TINS pro
duces army which will soon turn upon our now yeto
rous soldiers already in the field II they shall not be sls
tanned by recruits they should DC. IL produces an
army with rapdty not To be matched on our side. II we
first waste time to IteNperment with the volunteer sys
tenn already deemed by Congress and papaby, IN fact
far exhausted to be inadequate; and then more
time 10 obtain a Court decision to whether law Is
constitutional which requires part OF those not now III
the service 20 the aid OF those who are already IN
IT, and still time 20 determine with absolute GER
anty that get those who are Ia go IN the precisely
legal proportion those who not 10 go My purpose
Is to be Ia my action just and constitutional ana yet
practical. performing the important duty win when
am charged OF maintaining the UNITY anu inc Tree prh
Ciplcs Of our common country
Such are the grounds whereon we have
! arraigned Horatio Seymour rs the proper can
didate of Admiral Semmes Gems. Forrest,
Howell Cobb, Robert Toombs, &c. &c, who
were then fighting to divide and destroy the
Union as zealously % they are now struggling
to elect Seymour and Blair. and not a fit can
didate for those Who with Grant and Colfax,
were doing their level best to put down the
Rebellion.
Wherein have we done Seymour wrOng9
The worst charges we have brought against
him are citations from his own deliberately
prepared and carefully uttered words. Judge
him by no mere assertion, but by his own
record!