The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1868-10-08
Dickinson on Seymour.

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In the following extract from speech
made by the old Democratic War
Horse, Daniel II. Dickinson, - bitter,
thought well deserved castigation Is
given to Horatio Seymour.
Alta great meeting in Cooper fnsti-
tute, New York, Oct. 6th, 1852, Mr..
Dickinson said:
"When the most atrocious conspiracy
which ever desecrated earth found de-
velopment in an assault upon our ma
tional flag at Sumrter, and in efforts to
massacre half starved garrison placed
in time of profound peace, according
to uniform usage, for no other offense
than asserting their country's Constitu-
ton, and giving to the breeze, as en-
blematical thereof, the glorious Stars
and Stripes of their fathers the
brave volunteers who were hurrying to
the defense of our nations capital, to
save it from mob rule, and re- elton
and confiagration, were bleeding by
traitorous hands; when strong men
trembled, when women wept, and chill
dten instinctively chung closer to the
maternal bosom: when all communica-
tion between the loyal states and the
capital were cut off by rebelious forces;
when the President elect of the United
Stateshad then recently reached the
seat of government, where duty called
him, by circuitous and an unusual
'rout, and in disguise, to escape the dag
ger Of the assassin, and when our land
was filed with excitement, and conster-
nation and alarm; when ''shrieked the
.timid and stood still the brave" and
the confiding masses looked abo& to
see who were the men for the crisis,
among the citizens of the Empire state,
who had borne part in the public
affairs, and were naturally looked up to
asrexamplars i'm such a crisis, he Hora-
ito (Seymour) hicd himself away on the
the double quick in the opposite direc-
ton daughter and for nearly a year
hid himself among the lakes and rivers
and romantic woodlands and inland
towns of Wisconsin; and his tongue
was as silent on the subject of denounc.
ing the Rebellion "a those Of murdered
volunteers, whose ghosts walked unre-
Venged among lis. Sensation. There
we may suppose he basked and balanced,
and wntcfed aud waited, turned and
twisted daughter until autumn, when
q small knot of defunct, defeated, des-
perate and despicabIe politicians, who
had for years hung upon the subsistence
department of the Democratic Party in
this state, came to his relief by enterin g
the field. tLaughter.) They borrowed
without leave the honored name of
Democracy, under which to perpetrate
their covert treason, as the hypo-
critic
"Stole the livery Of the court of Heaven
To serve the devil in"
"Their dsgraceful and disloyal record
stands out rs the doings of men too stolid
In political depravity to be gifted with
ordinary instincts, and too regardless o.
the popular will to be mindful of shame
and the defeat they experienced at the
hands Of the people, should serve as q
warning to trimmers aud traitors, and
paricides, and iugrates through all fl.
ture time.
This movement drew the secluded
one from his hiding place, and he came
forth with all the courage of him who
in conflict with his wife, being driver
under the bed, while remaining thu.
ensconced, declared. whether she con
scented or not, he would look outthrougl
knot hole in the clap-boards SO lont
as he had the spirit of man. (Grea
and repeated laughter and applause
He entered the political canvass, ant
on the 2sth of October, 1861, few days
before the election made a speech, thu
burden, being a condemnation of thu
administration for having meted on
the rigor Of martial law to those in arms
against the Government. Though
Astounding with tiimsy DISCUSSES ant
sophistical generalities, it contained
one worthy of note only, but deserving
the severest apprehension, and here i
is:
eff it is true that Slavery must be abol
ished to save this Union, then the people
of the South should be allowed to with
draw themselves from that Government
which cannot give them the protection
guaranteed by its terms.o
"What! Place this glorious Union
this heritage of human hope-this asy.
lum for the worlds weary pilgrim-the
refuge for the oppressed of the earth, in
the scale Of being beneath the black
and bloated and bloody the corrupt
and corrupting, the stultified and stul-
tifying institution of Slavery! No!
Sooner than see this Union severed, let
not only the institution perish wherev-
er II can be found, but let the habita-
tions that have known it perish with it,
and be known no more forever. Tire
mendous and long continued applause.
That's the talk Three cheers And
yet this returned fugitive from patriot
ism proclaims as his creed, in effect if
not in terms, that if Slavery or the
Union must be destroyed, it should be