The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1868-08-20
ssymOar's Iattsr Il Acceptance.

idency fully endorses the platform Of
the National Convention, and repeats
his former approval Of its several resc-
lutions, Congress is severely criticised
for its ruthless partisanship, and arraign-
ed for converting its sessions into mere
party caucuses. That is what the Sep
TENDER meeting simply means. The
weight of our taxes he refers to as
something to be lighteued with no loss
Of time, which he, does not believe pos
sible except through the establishment
of peace and order, and the universal
revival Of industry. e
It is not possible, in Gov. Seymour's
opinion, for the dominant party TO frame
or execute a policy of prudence and
wisdom, for the reason that it has SO
long been committed to extreme mea-
sures, and been bound up with violent
and revolutionary schemes. There ID
but one way, he holds, in which to re-
strain this violence Of the party in
power, and that is by.a popular election
Of Democratic Executive and Demo
cratic members Of Congress.
That the election of the Democratic
candidate is highly probable, he feels
strongly assured from the energy with
which the action of the recent Demo
cratic Convention has been endorsed
throughout the country. He does not
doubt, from all these tokens, that victory
will perch on the Democratic BANNER,
which in turn will bring universal and
permanent peace, and insure wise,
economical and honest Government
The action of the late Soldiers Con-
veution went far in demonstrating this,
a body that spoke fer the whole of that
vast army which would see the results
of the war for the Union realized.
In his letter of acceptance and his
speeches, Horatio Seymour is the states
man who truly comprehends the situa-
ton, and grasps the principles on which
extrication from existing perils is pos
sible. In all his public efforts there is
the calm and unerring reasoning of the
philosophic mind, and noticeable lack
of the blind aud impetuous sallies OF
the partisan. It is because mere parti-
sans cannot scale the heights of his
logic with their pettifogging ladders,
nor shake. the foundations of its sus-
tanning statements, nor put to rout the
formidable array of his facts, that they
assail him with all the missiles of their
envenomed hatred. That is their only
answer to him. The tread of his argu-
ments brushes the life out of their false
theories. Their artsstheir frluds, their
lies, their unrepublicahp practices, their
usurpations, their corruption, all un-
covered to the public sight, and a long.
delayed condemnation is ready to over
whelm them at the instigation of his
sound and patriotic appeals.
Something more then the mere routine
of accepting the nomination belonged to
the occasion. 1t was precisely the time
to impress freshly upon the popular
mind the enduring character of simple
republican principles to revert to doc
trines which have been buried out Of
sight under the wreck thus far made Of
our institutions; to hold up to view the
magnitude of the dangers from which
there is no possible extrioatiou save by
our own effort; to draw vivid contrast
between corrupt and an honest ad
ministration of the Government; and to
point out the yawning gulf into which
it is possible for reckless and revolu
tionary faction to plunge the hopes and
aims of the country which they have
shown themselves resolved to rob and
ruin.
His allusion to the state of the coun-
try will create lasting impression every.
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where; and the warnings he utters and
the remedies he proposes will be needed
as no candidates words were ever heed.
ed before. The public mind is by ma.
ture patient and hopeful; and anxious
as it has become at this period of doub,
and danger, it still needed the vigorous
appeal Of such patriot, to startle il
from the attitude of lrepose, bred OF
confusion and uncertainty, which the
faction in power are most anxious it
should assume. No rejecting and can
did citizen can give this letter a perusal,
without being moved in his Utmost con.
victions by the power of that plain truth
which its author Yields. 1t bears the
marks Of q statesman's handiwork, and
breathes the spirit of an exalted pa
triotism. rs
Messrs. John Murphy & Co., Baltimore,
are just issuing, lin superior style, the
Acts and DEGREES Of the late Plenary Coun.
Gil of Baltimore" The work is doubtless
one Of tho most important to its own reli,
gious denomination even issued in America,