Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1868-08-27
we second Jarneg Buchanan

President OF the United States. IL
! November, 1860. he knew that Mr.
Lincoln had been elected President
that it was the purpose Of the South
ern States to secede and set up ,
Confectionery Of their own, and thai
several members of his own Cabinet
we're active participants in the con
spiracy. He knew that disunior
was meant, and q civil war to main.
tain that disunion, bat he never by
word or act sought to arrest the re.
belliOn OF to yindicate the national
authority. Horatio Seymour is
playing precisely the same dishon-
est, disloyal and cOwardly part
Had Buchanan openly avoWed his
sympathy with the rebels and prom
ised them his official aid, he would
not, perhaps, have served the rebel
lion more efiectually than he did,
but his treason would not have been
stained with pusilIanimity. He
preferred to keep one record for
the world, and another for the rebels
"a record for the winning side, no
matter which it might be.
Horatio Seymour's game is equal
ly dishonorable. The platform
which he accepts was written, as
Wade Hampton says, in such Ian
guage as to leave no doubt as to
the lawfulness and duty of indiyid-
ual and State resistance to the laws
of Congress, to the DEGREES of
courts. and to the action of States
under these laws. Wade Hampton
says he wrote that part of the plat.
form in order that he might be able
to assure the people of South Car
olina that, when they resOrted to
arms to overthrow the government
in that State, and the other govern
ments in the other rebel States, they
would have the armed ard and as
sistance of the Northern Democra-
cy. Wade Hampton has returned
to his State and told his people to
prepare for the war, in which the
principles, supposed to have been
lost at AppomattOx, shall be vindi-
Gated by Northern Democratic vol
unteers led by Ewing, Franklin,
Rousseau, Blair, and other men
bearing Seymour's 10000 commits
sions. E
General Preston has returned to
Kentucky, and told his people that
he nominated Frank Blair, because
Frank Blair was pledged to lead the
Northern army "to trample into the
dust the acts and authority of
Congress, and that Frank Blair's
pledge was embodied in the plat
form which Horatio Seymour had
approved, Howell Cobb, Buchan
ans traitorous Secretary of the
Treasury, has repeated to the peo-
pie Of Georgia the assurance that
in November. if Seymour, be elect
ed, the rebellion will be renewed,
but this time with the President and
Vice President at its head. Pirate
Semmes has promised his aid in or
ganizing steam navy on the Mis-
sissippi to aid Seymour and Blair
to blot out of existence seven State
governments, and by force to rein
state the rebel organizations Of
1S61-5. Forrest, the butcher of
Fort Pillow, has notified his "gal-
liant host" that in November, under
the lead of Frank Blair, and with
the commissions of Seymour, they
will take the field and exterminate
the filthy horde who triumphed un-
der Grantin 1865. Mayor Monroe,
civil leader of the New Orleans
massacre, from his retirement in
Havana, snuffs the gale of new re-
bellion and greets Blair and Sey-
mour with his bloody hands. The
whole South is in joyful expectation
of resumption of the war, with
Seymour in the White House and
Blair at the head of the rebel
trOOps-with the Executive using
the army to suppress the National
Legislature elected by the people
and to install new one chosen by
rebel chiefs.
Horatio Seymour knows that ev-
cry rebel soldier in the South is
awaiting the summons of his old
commander. He knows that his
election will be equivalent in 1868
to that of Jefferson Davis by the
Confederates in 1861, He knows
that these armed rebels expect him
to begin precisely where jeff Davis
left off in April 1866 and what does
Seymour do9
Like Buchanan, his aristocratic
aspirations have taught him to des-
pise the laboring and toiling masses
of the North, and to respect the
race at the South who are both too
lazy and too proud to work; and
who, as "belonging to a superior
race" claim an exemption from the
degradation of toll His sympa.
thies are with these people in their
rebellion against the abolition OF
human slavery; his heart is with
them in their feelings of bitter hos
tility against political equality; ne
hates the Republican party because
it has reduced these men to obedi-
ence-and he submits to these re-
peated and universal declarations
1 in his name that he will put himself
at the head of their renewed rebel
lion, and will, as the Executive, co.
operate with them in extinguishing
the National Legislature.
All his hopes, and ambitions,
feelings and thoughts, like those of