Nebraska advertiser., 1868-08-13
Gov seymour PhOtogFaphed.

GoW seymour Photographed.
Al correspondent Of the Hartford
evening Post, writing from Utica, n.
X, the home Of HoratiO Seymour,
gives his impressions Of that gentle
man IN a very long letter, from which
We extract the following:
They call Seymour up here indif-
ferently q Grafton Seymour 8 Rash
SEYMOUR Rachel Seymour" and
sold Jelly Fish" The Seymour city
residence is aIead-cOlored brick house,
with wide, dOubled~chimneyed gables.
Here, when he wishes to catch a new
fish, or spring a coup detGt upon any
body, Seymour acts the part of the
intriguing host by giving q dinner.
Attacking a mans belly, be forks him
in the conscience after awhile, and the
assassination is complete. When q
blacker conspiracy is to be preached,
the cOnspiratOrs HE to Deerfield, or
hide themselves in Bragg's Hotel.
The liquor. interest, railroad ring, the
canal people, r all represented
They make the slate and tap the rosy,
and the Democratic masses Of the
tate never say Nay" a clammy
B of the wills and ballots Of the
Democratic party, he has raised never
his eyes from the contemplation of
his own fortunes. Love, children,
society, women, have no joys to him.
His education began and ceased when
they put a 1'slate" into his hand. His
department, street manners, courtesy,
or whatever it may be called, is no
implanted amiability, but only q part
of his political restraint, cOnned like a
lesson to take him to the head of the
class. His nature is too feeble to
make him eminent even ininsincerity.
Strong men go and carry the flag of
conservatism, and make enemies by
their earnestness, but Mr.. Seymour
only waits. In all this time of action
he is at Deerfield writing a speech,
full of sWeetened like Warmness, and
when his bold associates have STUN
bled, disagreed, or served his destiny,
behold from his ambush our placid,
philOsophic statesman comes to gather
the sheaves of other men. His con-
victions are NIL; his power of decision
is Rihi. His speeches are notable for
Iago-like tact to awaken discomfort
and promote public infdelity, while
they suggest no relief, for the plain
reason that Mr.. Seymour has no
opinion whatever. He is a timid
lawyer, who gave mp the profession
because he had neither nimble nor
profound qualities to give him abid-
Ing place among his competitors, nor
moral courage to give nerve for the
fair conflicts of wit and education.
He Quilted the bar as a sick man quits
a Earring chamber, not from any deli
cacy of organization, but from sheer
want of pluck and conscious inapti-
tude. He is intensely selfish, very
stealthy, earnest for power, reckless of
fame. He worked like a beaver for his
nomination, as everybody in IItiee
knows, and he declined 1t before it was
offered to him. AS a President, he
will narrow and belittle the destiny
of the country, rruckle to the chanti-
cleer vanity of the rebel chivalry,
make our Northern character con
temptible again, monumentalize the
rebellion, and carry us into the last
ditch of dishonor. He will be bully
ragged by his advisors, give Bill
Tweed and Pete Sweeney all the In
dian contracts, and make the mighty
recollection of the cOnquering armies
mightier by the impotence and servil-
ity of his succession.