Litchfield enquirer., 1868-09-24
Col. Brown on Gov. Seymour.

In Mir. Warmers Cornwall speech, to be found on our first page, reference is made to the disclosures of Col. Brown of Ky, 8 supporter of Mir. Chase, regarding the conduct of Gov. Seymour at the Tamma- nv Convention The evidence on this i'm portant matter stands thus:
 On the 20th of August last, Col William Brown of Nicholasville, Ky, made a speech before the Frankfort Grant Club, in wtich he set forth the origin and scope of the Chase movement and the counte- narce and promises of support it received from the T;emmany Convention, especially from Gov. Seymour. "When the Coven- ton adjourned, on Wednesday evening, those who were in the secret of the vote given for Gen. Hancock considered the vic- tory as won, ans ii ii -,~ .1 4. nomination the next day" " At midnight MT. Horatio Seymour still pro- tested that he was in favor of MT. Chase" The progrossionists" had up to this point been entirely successful, and the "reac- tionists" seemed to have exhausted their strength in vain attempt to force the nomination of Pendleton. 'The only hope they had after Mr. Pendletons s defeat, was to secure a weak, nervous, cowardly man the first place on the ticket, and to nominate bold, courageous, strong willed reactionist for the Vice Presidency"
 Col. Brown describes the final, success full maneuver of the rebel-copperhead com bination in the following language:
 have been told by gentleman now living in New York City, and whose veracity Ihave no doubt to question, that on the morning of July g. a short time before the Convention met Mr. Seymour read to him from the manuscript, 8 very chaste, neat little speech, which he said he would deliver to the Convention when Mir. Chase's namo was brought before It, and he believes Mir. Seymour had that speech ill his pocket when he was nomi- mated. Relying on Mr. Seymour and the New York delegation, the prog"essionists met in the Convention on the morning of July 3, full of hope m the success Of the plan. But counter move ment had been going on. was told in Cincinnati the other day, by prominent Democrat that only SIX members of the Ohio delegation were made privy to the nomination of MT. Seymour. This was the game: These meR determined with the ald of the Southern rebels to capture Horatio Seymour from the progressionists and nominate him; knowing that this would so iemoralize that faction as to give them absolute control of the ConSenIlon, and that not voice would be raised when they brought forward their own man for the Vice Presidency, who had already been agreed on by the reactionists. It was the most successful movement ever made i'll this country in National Convention; but 1t was tororn hope: and moral on Mr. Seymour's part, $ would have covered the reactionists with overwhelming defeat; But they knew well their man: Ohio led ciI Mr. Seymour rose to his feet. The stiffness of death filled the great hall. There on that bright July morning, i'll the midst of that vast iass of humanity, III the commercial metropolis afN lao mat l. eyes Of forty millions of people were turned that day, Mir. Seymour, trembling with excitement and liied with lear, stood and pleaded for his charac ter. It was piteous sight. The poor man told of his promises; that when he had refused the use oI ms name he meant 1t, and that now his honor forbade It. Think of this, my hearers! He stood there and pleaded for his ''honor." believe he Ict what he sald. for to say that, under the cir ciinstanccs, he was guilty of preconcerted treach- CT. would be tO say that by his side Judas Iscar- 10. and John Wilkes Booth had lost the lustre of tlle.r i1iaT1y When he had finished his appeal he was boldly :osd that, after what had occurred his noLOr Was HOW safe in the hands of the reactonists Onio returned to the charge: the rebels through out out 'he hah raised the same wild and savage yell ~AaA "nien Hampton and Forrest had so often cnarScd the soldiers of the Union, It was too much Tor MT Seymour. Braver men than he had qn1Iic9 before that battle-cry; he hesitated, he yielded, then fled ignominiously from the scene
 The World without attempting direct reply, sneered at Col. Browns statements as improbable. The Col. returned to the attack, referring in the first place, to we'll known Kentucky Democrats, among others Gov. Stevenson and the Hon. Jas. B. Beck (against whom he ran for Congress last year.. to show his standing at home; and next to prominent Democrats pres ent at the New York Convention, to verify the foregoing statements. Among the latter was Hon. Alexander Long, late Dem. member of Congress from the 2d District in Ohio, who published statement n the Cincinnati Vest and Somh, from which we condense the following:-
 's The scheme for nominating Governor Seymour was concocted at Delmonico's on Wed .esday night and fully agreed upon I'm ssiay morning at the Fifth Avenue HOsei. The parties to it included Thur man. Pagh, and McCook of Ohio, and Samuel J. Tlden of New York Only four others of the New York delegation were