The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1868-08-20
Has Seymour Been Slandered I!
From the ". y. Tribune.
The IYorld asserts that

The W 0Ttd asserts that
when Governor seymour was first nomi-
cracy, the tribune and otuer radical organs at
once began throwing mud at MIN, and they
have continued ever since so TO do" etc, etc.
We meet this charge with fat contra
diction. We have thrown no "mud' at Gov
ernor Seymour. AS the World in effect con-
tesses, we have in no manner assailed nor
questioned his private character. But he is a
candidate for our very highest public trust,
and his public life and utterances have been
made legitimate subjects of inquiry and
criticism, not by US, but by our political
adversaries They have set Horatio Sey-
mour before the country, and challenged a
scrutiny of his past career as polti-
clan. We have taken up the glove precisely
as they threw it down. They virtually say
''Here is our foremost statesman and
patriot scrutinize his course, and decide
therefrom how he would serve and suit you as
President, and judge us and our aims by our
deliberately chosen standard bearer /" We
accept the issue as they tender it, and have
endeavored to show, from his own deeds and
words, why he should not be chosen President.
What else should we have done? In what
scales should he desire to be weighed II to
quote SeymOur's harangues to prove Sey-
mour's disloyalty to human liberty and his
imperiled country be Throwing mud, " how
shall we conduct the canvass so as not to
evoke Jn6 SQTl6hS Ol Iu6 |IOTtuF
Let us see what we have charged, and how
far our charges have been met ....
/. We have charged that Horatio Seymour,
throughout the long struggle between liberty
and slavery for predOminauce in our country,
has been the subtle, fluent, adroit, sophisti-
cal, uDscrupulous, untiring attorney OF
slavery-the champion of her successive ag-
gressiens on the rights and the dominion of
free labor in the annexation of Texas, the
ONy.r thrnxu nft thA fh. hnr
der rutfian Outrages in Kansas, the bred Scott
decision, the Lecompton iniquity etc. etc.
Has this been denied? Has it not been virtu-
! ally confessed, even by the World?
ii. We charged that, when the Southern
Democratic chiefs, having deliberately divided
the Democratic party in order that Mr.. Lin
coin might be chosen President by the Repub-
cans, at once made that election preteXt for
inaugurating secession, Governor Seymour,
instea ad Of blaming them for such conduct and
threatening them with fearful consequences in
case they did not desst IRON attempting TO
break up the Union, pitched savagely into the
Republicans, and insisted that Mey (nOt yet
invested with power) should surrender their
cardinal principle and bargain to unite in eX-
tending slavery over free territory, or bear the
blame of having broken up the Union. Is
this denied Where By whoml
III. We charged that Governor Seymour at
the Tweddle Hall Convention, Feb. l, 1861,
thus berated the Republicans for not consent
ing to aid in the extension OF slavery
| "What spectacle do we present to-day? AL
| ready six States have Withdrawn from tails Con
| federacy. Revolution has actually begun. The
term 81 cess on divests IT Of none oi IT'S terrors,
nor do arguments To prove secession 1nconsls-
| tent with our Constitution stay It's progress, or
mitigate its evils, All virtue. patriotism, ana
| Intelligence, seem to have fled from our Ma
| iloDal Capitol; IL has been well likened 10 lhe
| cOphagratiOn OF an asylum for madmen-some
! look on with idiotic lmbeclity; some IN sullen
| silence; and some scatter the hTebrands Wnlch
| consume the fabric above them, ana Drlng
| upon All a common destruction, Is there one
revolving aspect in this scene which mas not It's
parallel at the Capitol of your country? DO
you not see there the senseless iInbecllity, the
! gaIrulous idiocy, the msddeued rage displayed
! win regard 10 petty TelsOual passions, aud
! patty purposes while the g,Ory, the honor,
! ana The safety of the country, are ali for
! brought evil upon all the institutions oi