The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1868-10-30

sible that the negro votes in New York,
which Will be very convenient now 70 4
seymour, and MS friends may have
to do with Il. -
He evidently feels greatly oppressed /
by the revolutionary attitude which be |
and General Blair occupy toWard the |
country, and would retrieve himself
from II II possible. In his speect Al i
Rochester he affected extreme indigna- /
ttonat the idea that he or any member /
Of the Democratic party would do an |
act OF violence or revolution, or tram
pie a law into the dust. but this will |
appear to have been said with an III |
grace when we review the Democratic |
PLATFORM which declares that the re- |
laws are unconstitutional, |
null and void, and when we read the |
letter Of his colleague upon the ticket,
Gen. Blair written only one week be-
fore his nomination, and which caused |
his nomination, in which he declares
we must restore the institution be-
fore we can restore the finances, and to |
do this we must have President who |
will execute the VIII OF the people by
trampling into the. dust the acts of
Congress known rs the reconstruction |
acts.
Mr.. Seymour went on to argue at
length that he and Gen. Blair could
do none Of therevolutinnary acts which
they were charged as pledged 10 per-
FORM because the Senate and House of
Representatives would be against
them. This is begging the question:
1t was for this very reason that General
Blair declared the laws should be
trampled In the dust, because they
conld not be repealed in the ordinary
way. Its absurd to hear q man argue
that revolutionary acts Will not be
committed because they cannot be
committed eonstitutionalIy. The very
idea OF revolution involves q trampling
under foot of the Constitution and
laws. III the policy to which Mr., Sey-
mour and General Blair stand pledged
could be executed constitutionally, 1t
would not be Evolutionary.
In all these speeches Mr.. Seymour
steers as clear of the New York plat
form upon the subject of Reconsideration
as IL it5had been the smallpox. he has
neveronce alluded to the declaration
contained in il that the reconstruction
laws are unconstitutional, null and
void. He has never limited at the de-
clarRtlou of Gen. Blair's letter. While
he has complained in general terms that
the Republican party hRs managed
affairs badly at the South, he has not
once attacked our plan OF reconstruc-
ton, except that in his speech here last
night, in referring to the rebel States,
he said that most of the white men in
them had been diafranchisad by the
laws Of Congress. His statement Is
most unfortunate, and is even wider OF
the mark than the tax of six cents per
pound on raw cotton. The reconstruc
ton laws did not disfranchise more
than fifly thousand men in all the
Southern States. and they were those
who had before the rebellion held office,
in which they had taken an oath to
support the Constitution of the United
States, and Rfterward committed peT1u-
ry by going into rebellion. The persts-
- 81 NJ To
speakers upon this subject proves that
the real truth will not answer their pur-
He. complained much last night that
the Republican party had not pursued
a course of Cancellation and kindness
toward the people ofthe South, because
they had mot tried to restore them inn
mediately TO their former condition OF
equality and power In the Union, and
had thus excited them and embitteFed
them against the North. Ills not hard
for those to forgive the Southern pe0-
pie and take them to their arms who
think they have committed no crime
against the government, and have done
nothing but what was proper for pa
triols and good citizens, while murder
runs riot at the South, and Union men,
both white and black are slaughtered
with impunity, Democratic politicians
at the North have no word of condem-
complain only thRtthe Republican par
ty has by It's expressions hred the
Southern heart and stirred 1t up to just
Indignation.
In his speech at Rochester he in
quired with an air of innocence If the
Democratic party did not I'LL up the
ranks Of the army, and IL they did not
stand by the administration during the
war, and IL 1t has not since the war
ended inculcated peace, good Will
and submission 70 the laws. an
swer, no, the Democratic party never
put man into the armies. true,
thousands and hundreds of thousands
OF Democrats went into the army, but
thew were not sent there by their party.
They went in defiance OF the prayers
tears and imprecations of their party;
and I tell him, further, that the demo-
cratic party did not stand by the ad-
ADMINISTRATION during the war. On the
contrary, it did everything in It's power
to defeat and break 1t down. IL OPP
posed every single measure which
| looked to the suppression of rebellion.
It reviIed Mr.. Lincoln as the wtekedest
man in the land, and sought to make
| the rebellion q success by displaying
the most open and shameless sympathy
/ for 1t. And tell him that since the
| war is over 1t has not inculcatedr peace,
good willard Submission 10 the laws
| but has labored assiduously to Keep
alive the embers of sedition, 10 prevent
the paopIe OF the South from accepting
the situation, and Is to-day chiefly re-
sponsible for the murders, eonhagrA-
tions and erueIties with which the
i Southern States are AFFLICTED.
! This great statesman has come to the
West; he has presented here and else.
where chapters of accusations-of sus
piclons; his business is that of fault
finding. Z Only read all his speeches
from the time he left Utica mp 10 las
4 night, and you cannot ind that he bai
PRESENTED or suggested a single remedy
for any OF the evils of which he com
plains. What claim has Mr.. Seymour
to the votes OF this peOPlea When Ih'
war first began, or-rather when tn
work of secession began, In the win
ter OF 1892. Mr.. Seymour encourag
!, ed the rebels to 90 forward in'the Worl
OF rebellion by declaring TO the work
that the Government had no right t
coerce State to remain in the Union
. and from that hour to the end of tn
war, his influence was ever eXerted, hi
voice was ever raised against the Wal
/ against every measure that was intend
led to put down the rebellion, and il
open encouragement of the rebels.
II It is true that, as Governor OF th
{ State of New York, he did organic
: troops, as required 70 do by law, bu
ylit was done reluctantly, and could no
/ have been, avoided without bringing
) | him into direct collision with the Gov
) ernment AZ Washington. On that Gel
brnted 4th day of July, 1868. he deliver
ed an oration in the-ctty of New Yorl
in this same Cooper Institute, on th
|, 4 very day that Vicksburg was takeL
> on the very day that that We triumphe
u over General Lee 1t Gettysburg, an
) in that GRAFTON he pronounced the wa
| | a failure, and denounced every meal
} ure that had been resorted 10 put dow