The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1868-08-08
American Political News.

We have this week n few days later Intelligence
fr,m the United States and Europe, received by
way Of Portland, Oregon. The telcgraPhic adj
vices relate mainly to the proceedings OF the Dem
ocratic Presidential Convention, which met IN
New York city ON the fourth of July, and on the
ninth nominated ex-governor Horatio Seymour,
Of New York, for President, and General Frank
Blair, Or Missouri, for Vice President. The strug-
Gle. in the convention. for nomination Of Presi-
dent, was 4 long and bOisterous one, and 1T was
only on the twenty-second ballot, after all the
other popular candidates were tried and kept
down, that the name of the successful nominee
WIS brought forward. There was evidently STRAIT
egy in it. The very fact that the New York dele
cation proposed an unknown man rs their NOM
inec, and said nothing about their strongest man,
il conclusive proof of this. On the eighth ballot,
when New York abandoned It's candidate, had it
taken up Pcndleton, lac would probably have won
the nomination., but this was not the game.
Coz. Seymour is probably one of the most fin
ished and adroit politicians in America. In New
York State Inc will poll n very heavy majority, US
he is popular with the rowdy class that control
politics in that State and city. An Oregon paper
gives the following sketch of him
HoRAuo SEYMOUR was known during the war as
one Of the numerous class who were .. in favor of the
war but opposed TO its prosecution" His principles
are precisely those OF Pendleton and Vallandigham,
but he has more adroitness and plausibihty than those
Democrats champions. Like them. he denied the
constitutionality OF coercion, and like them he threw
every possible obstacle in the way of prosecuting the
war. We know il Is claimed by the .regenerated
Democracy that when Gov. Of New York in 1868 he
hurried forward troops to repel Lees invasion Of
Pennsylvania but there was an obvious reason for
this act Of patriotism So long as the field Of war was
the region sCuth of the Potomac, Seymour opposed
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when the conflict Was transferred to the State of
Pennsylvania and Lees army threatened Philadel-
Phia, New York City and the mansion of Gov. Sey-
mOur, he was compelled TO act for the defence of his
State. This one instance OF enforced patriotism is the
only one which can be named in SeyInour's history.
so soon as Lees army had been driven back he i'm
~Ineiiately began again to oppose and hinder the eff
forts VI the National Government To put down the re-
beIliOn. lie tried to stop the draft, and the riots Of
1869 and the nurier Of enrolling officers were the
direct results Of his policy. The mob relied on him 10
stand between them and their country, and he gave
the most satisfactory assurances. to his blOOdy-handed
friends. On the Fourth Of July, 1863, while Grant
and Meade were delivering the country by defeating,
Horatio Seymour was Decorating the day by an in
hamatory speech against the Government for prosecu-
ting the war to the injury Of the Southern people.
The burden of his Grafton was n malignant attack
upon those who were charged with u~pholding national
authority, for urging on the war to the discomfort
and oppression of the chivalrous Democracy of the
South who were in arms for the destruction OF the
Union. Abiding to the draft, he told the treasona-
BILE Copperheads present that the National Executive
should be resisted in case his 9 usurpatiOns'' and
50 outrages'' were persisted in. A few days after
wards the riot broke out as n direct result of Scy-
mOur's incitltiOns, and after it had ragged for three
or four days this model Governor came down to the
city, went into the midst Of the riOtous mob, called
them his - friends and fellow-citizens. told them lie
was there to show them a test of his friendship, and
assured them that he had sent to Washington TO have
this draft suspended and stopped. The substance
and meaning of his. speech was that 1t would be right
a. 49, .-I Inr- slltn anI hnnf nfrroa< and
slaughter officers, if the draft were to 90 on but he
would have it stopped and given up. So go home
and keep the peace There is not a man IN the
Democratic party not excepting Vallandigham or any
one else. whose record has been so vicious as that of
HOratio Seymour. He was nominated for the pur-
pose of making the electoral vote OF New York sure
for the Democratic party by the sutfrages OF his muir
dering friends, the forty thousand 90 plug-uglies'' of
New York City.
The campaign may be said to be now fairly
begun in America, and like that in England,
where the election takes place in October, it
promises to be one of the most stubbornly-con-
tested that has ever been held. The election in
America occurs in less than three months, on
Tuesday, November 3. of course all the machin-
cry of party tactics will be brought into requisi-
ton, and money spent without stint to secure the
victory. But after all, the sound sober sense of
the people will decide the issue. If they think
tuht the continuance Ol IHc IcpuDllChu ESiEty III
power il necessary to secure the reconstruction of
the Southern States, on the only basis that is
prac;icablc-that which is now being worked
out; if they consider the national credit and
faith likely to be imperilled by change of party,
then there will be no change, and Grant will be
returned to carry out the present system.
OF course there will be various speculations
as & the result of the November election, accord
ing as preferences are given To one or the other
party. And it may seem of little use to predict
what the issue will be, where the contest is likely
TO he So excited. Yet We will hazard our predic-
tIon, and class the States as they are most likely
to 90, judging. not from the last elections only,
but from the general tenor of late political adj
vices. First we will insert a list OF such States
as are pretty sure to give Republican majorities
and cast their electoral votes for
GRANT AND CoLFAx. !
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