Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1868-08-28
Gov. seymour PhOtographed.

A correspondent of the Hartford Ev-
/ ening Post, writing from Utica, n. Y,
the home of Horatio Seymour, gives his
impressions of that gentleman in a long
letter, from which we extract the fol-
| lowing:
They call Seymour up here indiffer-
emily, "Oration Seymour" Crash Sey-
mour," "Rachel Seymour" and sold
Jelly fish, The Seymour city resi-
dence is a lead-coIored brick house,
/ with wide, dOuble-chimneyed gables
Here, when he wishes to catch a new
| fish, or spring a coup 'detat upon any
| body, Seymour acts the part of the in
| triguing host by giving dinner. At
| tacking the mans belly, he forks him
| in the conscience after awhile, and the
assassination is complete. When a
blacker conspiracy is TO be broached,
the conspirators HE to Deerfeld, or
hide themselves in Bagg's hotel. The
liquor interest, the railroad ring, the
canal people, are all represented. They
make the slate and tap the rosy, and
the Democratic masses of the State
never say "Nay." A clammy dictator
of the wills and ballots of the Demo-
cratic party, he has never raised his
eyes from the contemplation of his own
fortunes. Love, children, society, Wo-
man, have no joys to him. His educa-
ton began and ceased when they put a
'sslates into his hand. His department,
SbA65L AAAaAAEASs GOuLB6SEg OF NndL6NBE
it may be called, is no implanted amia-
bility, but only 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 IN insincerity. Strong
men go on and carry the flag of con-
servatism, and make enemies by ear
nestness, but Mr.. Seymour only waits.
In all this time of action he is at Deer
field writing speech, full of sWeetened
IukeWarmness, and when his bold as
sociates have stumbled, disagreed or
served his destiny, behold from his
ambush our placid, ph1losophic states
man comes to gather the sheaves of
other men. His convictions are nal -
his power of decision is 9liltiI. His
speeches are notable for their Iago like
tact to awaken discomfort and promote
infideIity, while they suggest no relief,
for the plain reason that Mr.. Seymour
has no opinion whatever. He is a tim
id lawyer, who gave up his profession
because he had neither nimble nor pro-
found qualities to give him abiding place
among his competitors, nor moral cour-
age to give nerve for the fair conflicts
of wit and education. He quilted the
bar as sick man quits a jarring cham
ber, not from any delicacy of 0rganiza-
ton, but from sheer want Of pluck and
conscious inaptitude. He is intensely
selfish, very stealthy, earnest for power.
beaver for his nomination, as every
body in Utica knows, and he declined
it before it was offered to him, AS a
President, he will narrow and belittle
the destiny of the country, truckle to
the vanity of the rebel chivalry, make
our Northern character contemplate
again, monumentalize the rebellion,
and carry us into the last ditch of dis
honor. He will be bully-ragged by his
advisers, give Bill Tweed and Pete
Sweeney all the Indian contracts, and
make the mighty recollection of the
cOnquering armies mightier by the inn
potence and driyel of his succession.