Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1868-10-14

ot2te governments huSt De oVcrtnrOwn, IL
the only guaranty the Sou hcrn leaders
required of his fidelity to their interests
The following record Of this peace
mau in war aud war man in peace" will
show how we'll they have judged his char
actcr, and how safely they may rely on
his efforts to restore to them the Consti-
tuition as it WAS and the Upion as they
would have it As the Democratic pres,
becoming alarmed at the array of evi |
dence against aim, are quoting Mr.. Lin
coins and Mr.. Stanton's certificates Of
good chara cter to prove his loyalty, rc
present the other side of the picture;
Why THEY CoMpLIMENrEp SEYMOUR.
Gov. Tod, of o, in recent speech at
Orwell, in that State, thus satisfactorily
explains the matter:
Seymour is an intelligent man. |
know MIN we'll. He was Governor at
the s4me time was Governor. Mr. Lin
colu called for volunteers sent him
thirty thousand. while Seymour sent ff
teen thousand The President went round
compimenting Seymour, and ss ing moth
ing about what had douc took Mr
Lincoln to task for this | said, 'Hows
this that you are compimeuiiug Seymour
for his fifteen thousand mcu, and neglect
ing to compliment me I? why, Tod,
said he, i never tn .nkeI Mrs Lincoln
TO. u cup of tea III my life he truth
w.s. Morton aut had done unthlng more
than Was expected Of US. while Seymour
had. We hah never done the like before
and never did afleiward."
>gYM UR FuRcED TO SUSTAIN, ,Tux WAR
Ca.taiu Edwar, NJ rshal brother If
'rhomas I made speech at receut
Democratic ratification meeting. which
is thus sketchcd in Kentucky paper :
"He was enthusiastic in the support Of
Seymour, and gave his rcasoAs therefor.
! Tie said Seymour was nominated az war
| Democrat for the reason that no other
couln WIN But he had ueyer given any
aid or support to the Government in the
prosecution of the war when it could be
-I-asaids4 lnlSGs ,whes,- he relsl -tfaops
were IN fennsy ylvsuia, and the Govern
ment called on Seymlur who was then
Governor Of New York to furnish troops
to expel them. hc answered. in the SAINT
manner, if not 10 the same language. al
the Governor of Kentucky 10 1862, viz.
THAT lie WOULD NOT SEND THEM
4 He did send them, however, for the reason
that be was, pu, bic TO do otherwise"
4 AN OalGISAL sgcE~sioNisT.
4 Mr. w II. Russell, the well knowI
correspondents of the LONDON Times,
throws some additional and still stropge
light upon .he question OF Mr. Seymour
secession views in the following passag
from hls published Diary North ant
South F" slr Russell is describing din
, ner party in N Y in 1861.
The occ sion offered itself to Mr.. IL
Seymour to give me his views Of the Con
z ssitntion of the United States. and +.
degrees the theme spread over the table
: There was not man who maintained tha
the Government had any power to coerc
, the people Of State or to force Stat
to remain IN the Union or under the ac
ton of the Federal Government Nj
Seymour is man Of compromise, but hi
, views go farther than those which wcr
entained by his party two years ago, A
| though secession would produce rcvolutio
. it was, nevertheless, in his opinion.
r right founded on abstract principles, ,whic
: could scarcely be abrogated with du
regard to the original compact"
PaErERREp THE REBEL CONSTITUTION
Q In 1861, Mr. Seymour, meeting Judg
G. H. Ruggles, asked him:
Judge have you read the Confedera'
8 [ Montgomery Constitution ? have; an
. it is better than ours [the Federal ] The
4 why not. he continued, obviatc all diff
. Guilty by simply adopting that COussit'
Q ton ?"
He proposed to settle the war by ha
+ ipc the whole North join the Confederat
q aud adopting the rebel constitution.
4 AN lNGLoRIt US WARyARs.
|. Following up this right which "cou
!, scarcely BIZ abrogated.' he again said
the Twecdls Hall Convention in Alban
), New York, January 81, 1851, b
o fore Sumter was fired on, and befo
is any measure of an arbitrary nature "
d instituted.
ia 1--WE arc advised by the copscrvati
% States Of Virginia and Kentucky, that
a force is to be used, it must be exerted
N gainst the united South. 1t would be
Q. act Of folly and madness in entering u
IN on this contest, to underrate our oppo
epts. md thus subject ourselves to !