The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1868-07-13

the sterling qualities of the distinguished men
II has nominated. Their names will make the
union Of the Democracy still stronger, invite
the increased confidence of the conservatives.
and break the thraldom in which radcalism
holds its followers. Under them we are to go
into, and 60 through this battle for the saliva
tion of popular rights, and the perpetuation OF
repubicanlberty. They sound the call for
millions of freemen TO rise and renouuce
tyranny whose CALLING yoke must be broken
now IL at all. They challenge the continuance
of rule under which genuine republicanism
cannot live on our soil. They embody and
represent that swelling sentiment Of hatred to
tyranny in all its FORMS and under all its dis
guses, on whose full and irresistible tide the
ship OF State must be foatsd off the rocks, or
else 60 to pieces.
The Democratic party, and all its adherents,
declare by its latest act and proclamation, that
we must have peace and fraternity, and no
longer blast the hopes of patriotism with the
spirit of hatred and calumny; that the States
shall be put in full possession OF all their rights
that military rule shall give way everywhere
to the majesty of law; that all the national
pledges shall be faithfully kept according to
their terms; that taxes shall be lightened by
their equalization; that the public expendi-
lures shall be governed by the rigid rule Of
economy, so that the nation shall not lose its
strength by waste nor its vigor by corruption;
that the axe of reform shall be laid to the root
of abuses of administration; that the work of
the soldiers and sailors shall be speedily per-
fected; that the foreign-born citizen shall be
protected everywhere equally with the native
and that justice, equality, and liberty shall
still remain the great supports and pillars of
constitutional liberty.
We have no statesmen in the country before
Horatio Seymour in philosophical insight,
practical sagacity, administrative ability and
lofty patriotism. He is one of the few great
men on whom a nation in ita honrs of naril
instinctively leans. Elevated to the guber-
material chair of his native State in the darkest
period of a gigantic civil war, on a plat
form which demanded it's more vigorous pro-
secution to insure the triumph of the cause
for which it was undertaken, he stood
faithful and steady pilot at the helm when
few deserted CLEAN of hope in the dark hori-
zoD, and, by his single prompt executive
act, encouraged the purpose of a sister State
until the relief should arrive which at length
turned the tide of disaster for the Union at
Getty sburg. A purer public man than Gov
efnor Seymour We have not in the country;
nor one more conscientious, devoted, or cour-
ageously consistent. In him pre-eminently
shine forth all the virtues of his profound
faith in popular government and free institu-
tious. He represents in speech and action
the living truths that give vitality to our re-
publican SYSTEM and he has defended them
from first to last at the head of powerful
minorities, with the full vigor of his intellect
and all the earnestness of his nature. New
| York cherishes Linn as her tavorite son,
| and will give him such majOrities in Novem-
Der as will drive opposition of all kinds to
| shelter. As the next President of the United
| States, he will revive in the popular mind the
| ideas of dignifed simplicity which are insepa-
rably associated with the administrations of
the early Presidents, while executing with
hrmness and fidelity every high trust commit
ted to his hands by confding nation. The
| new time on which we are entering will be the
| lineal descendant, and in all respects worthy
| of the old. We hail it under the leadership of
| that pure and patriotic name which we have
| inscribed On our banner.
The nomination OF General F. P. Blair for
the Vice Presidency is worthy recognition of
| the services of gallant Union soldier and of
his ability and integrity as public man. He
went from Congress to the field when the
| Government was to be defended there, and
made his mark not more legibly as soldier
of the Union than he had previously done as
a legislator. AS the presiding officer of the
| Senate and Vice President of the United
States, he will occupy with honor the post
| for whose duties he is admirably fitted. He
| is believer in the Union under the COnsti-
tuition, but not "outsde' of its limitations.
| AS man he is equally without fear and
without reproach. The American people are
ready to honor him with their confidence and
approval.