The Opelousas courier. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1852-1910, 1868-09-12
Seymour and Grant.

Horatio Seymour is statesman by
education and experience. He is pro-
found, sagacious and patriotic, and has
been trained in the highest school of
politics.
Gen. Grant has declared over his own
signature that he knows nothing of pol
itics, and that he is not fit to be Presi-
dent. He first made this declaration
four years ago, and virtually repeated
it in letter to a convention of soldiers
and sailors last year.
Horatio Seymour is a gentleman of
unimpeachable honor. His bitterest en-
emies concede this, and do not even at
tempt to assail his personal character.
Gen. Grant has been convicted of
falsehood by the President and five MEM
bers of the Cabinet, and Of the meanest
treachery by the honest sentiment of the
whole country.
Horatio Seymour possesses abilities of
the highest order, and would bring to
the Presidential office dignity, learning
and thorough political knowledge, COM
bined with personal qualities which have
always marked him for distinction and
respect.
Gen. Grant is confessedly lacking in
all these attributes. The boldest of his
partisans do not claim for him single
quality demanded by the Office to which
he aspires, except one-strength of will.
tical history of his country, and is an in
dustrious student of all the sciences re-
lating to government.
Gen. Grant has never been in a field
that demanded knowledge of this kind,
and has never given an indication OF
proficiency in it.
In the great questions of finance and
political economy Horatio Seymour is as
well informed as any statesman this
country has ever produced.
To Gen. Grant these questions are
like sealed book He has never shown
any taste or talent for mastering. them,
and it is doubtful if he possesses sufiici-
ent intellectual grasp to deal with them
at all.
sHoratio Seymour understands the full
scope of the principles upon which the
government was founded, and is earnest
ly devoted to their preservation.
Gen. Grant has never had special oc
casion to study these principles, and his
silence in regard to them justifies the
presumption that lie knows little or no.
thing about them.
Horatio Seymour has we'll defined
views upon all the questions now of spe-
cia1 interest to the American people,
and q mind capable of conveying these
views to the country.
Gen. Grant has no views but those
made for him by the men in whose hands
he has placed himself, and even if he
solid convictions he could not clearly in
terpret them to the people.
Horatio Seymour has placed himself
ON record as believing in the execution
OF the wishes of the people, sChen those
rishes are coastitutionaHy expressed, and
as defender of the rights of minorities.
@ Gen. Grant has announced his viii
Ingness to become q passive agent in
the hands of his partisans, to execute
the will of the people, without regard
to the manner in which that will may
rights OF the minority.
Horatio Seymour has always been an
upholder of the civil law, a defender of
the Constitution and an advocate of the
rights of the States.
Gen. Grant has risen to prominence
ON the bones of his countrymen, and has
frequently evinced for civil law and con-
stitutional restraint the contempt that
successful soldiers generally show when
circumstances give them an opportunity.
Horatio Seymour is gentleman Of
temperate habits, whose natural tastes
are refined and elevated.
Gen. Grant is charged by members of
his own party with being q drunkard,
and it IL well known that dogs and
horses are to him the most interesting to-
pics for conversation.
Horatio Seymour has risen gradually,
by the exercise of his talents, to the
foremost rank of American statesmen.
Gen. Grant was lifted suddenly to dis
tinction by events which were beyond
the control of man.
Can the American people hesitate or
doubt as to which of these men should
be placed in the office that was filed by
Washington, Jefferson and Adams
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