The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-08-26
The worst OF INsANIrIEs.

The Radical papers, not long after Horatio
Seymour vas nominated, finding that his own
character as an intelligent and moral being
was above assault, impugned the sanity of his
ancestry, in the hope that they could make
the public believe that, if be were elected, the
country would incur the risk of having an in
sane President, This poor argument was re-
ceived with su general contempt that they
dropped it, and, with canicular instinct, re-
turned 10 the stale and sinking slop of SLAM
der which, at the instant of his nomination
they had exgurgitated- about his "dis-
loyalty as a sympathizer with rebellion
during the late war. But the public disgust
with the foul stuff is not to be overcome 1t
becomes clear that Gov. Seymour is not to be
hurt by this species of calumniation. The
Radical editors are in dismay. Here is man
at the head of the Democratic ticket who, in
point of moral worth, in point of intellectual
power, in point of official purity, in point of
knowledge and grasp of public affairs, is in
vulnerable to all the weapons Of slanderous
warfare In utter bankruptcy of resources,
they turn sgain to the genealogical research
which had already proved a contemplate
failure. "Let us see" they say, with a sar-
donic and despairing grin, eff we cannot,
after all, brain this Democratic Achilles with
the bones of his dead ancestors" And here
upon they break ont with o muddy eruption of
gossip and tradition touching the pathology
cal history of the Seymour family, traced from
all its ancestral sources. Of course it would
be puerile waste of time to discuss seriously
the yeracity Of their statements in this rela-
ton, or the importance of their bearing, even
supposing them to be true upon the political
issues now pending. The Only statement, in
deed, which they pretend 10 advance as not
open to dispute is that ore of the Seymours,
in transitory delirium, put an end to his OWE
life. And this is the most that the Radical
press can bring up against the Democratic
nominee for the Presidency. And upon
this they rely as a basis for the presump-
ton of possible insanity against Horatio
Seymour. And upon this presumption
they plant themselves with an air
of triumph, and ask If it would not be
even more imprudent TO confde the chief
magistracy of the Union to a man bearing the
seeds OF hereditary lunacy, than to a man
with an intellect clouded with the fumes of
habitual and incorrigible inebriation? Such
an inquiry simply shows that those who pro-
pound it have, in their desperation, lost all
shame. The people are not to be distracted
from the central and vital import of the Presi-
Dental contest either by groundless assump-
tions or shameless admissions on the part of
Radical editors, with regard to the mental
health or the bibulous habits of the opposing
candidates. The supreme question which
they are called to consider is, whether the
country shall continue under the misrule of
Radicalism, going with fatal acceleration from
bad TO worse or whether it shall be blessed
hereafter with government conducted by
statesmen, in the inspiration of sagacious
patriotism and genuine reform, and not by a
set of fanatics, knaves and charlatans, who
know nothing in politics beyond the reckless
application of force and fraud. The only in
sanity which now imperils the country is the
moral as well as intellectual insanity of the
Radical politicians. Their Madness unfor-
tunately, does not display itself in the suicidal
development they take good care of their
own precious carcasses but it runs irrepress-
IDLY into wholesale murder-the murder of
constitutional government, of liberty, of
peace, of prosperity, and eventually of the
dupes who follow their cowardly and treacher-
Gus counsels OF all the insanities which
ever afflicted the world, this Radical insanity,
combining disorganization of intellect and
corruption of heart, is the worst.