The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1868-08-27
Daniel 8. Dickinson on HOratiO
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The following is an extract from
the speech of Daniel S. Dickinson,
delivered at the great ratification
meeting held at the Cooper Institute,
in the city of New York, October 8,
1862. II AS Mr.. Dickinson was life
long Democrat, and in position to
be perfectly posted on Mr.. Sey
mour's record, the picture he draws
may be especially refreshing just
now to those conservative sol
diers'' who, at their late Convention
in New York, committed themselves
so unreseryedly to the support of
the Democratic nominee for the
Presidency: !, ..r r..-toiy s!a-lJ
When the most atrocious conspi-
racy which ever .desecrated earth
found development in an assault
upon our National flag at Sumter,
and in efforts to massacre half
starved garrison, placed there in a
time of profound peace, according
to uniform usage, for no other of
feEse then asserting the supremacy
Of their country's Constitution, and
giving to the breeze,as emblematical
therof, the glorious Stars and Stripes
of their faith hers,-when the brave
volunteers who were hurrying to
the defence of our nations capital,
to save it from mob rule and rebel
lion, and confagration, were bleed
ing by traitorons .hands-when
strong men trembled, when women
wept, and children instinctively
clung closer to the maternal bo-
som-when all the communication
between the loyal States and the
capital was cut off by rebellious for
ces-when the President; elect of
the United States had then recently
reached the seat of Government,
where duty called him, by a circui-
tous and an unusual route, and in
disguise, to escape the dagger of
the assassin, and when our land was
filled with excitement and conster-
nation and alarm-when ssshrieked
the timid and stood still the brave"
and the confiding masses looked
about to see who were the men for
the crisis, among the citizens of the
Empire State, who had born a part
in public affairs, and were naturally
looked up to as examplars in such a
crisis, he (Horatio Seymour) hied
himself away upon the double-quick
in the opposite direction laughter |,
and for nearly half year hid him
self among the lakes and rivers and
romantic woodlands and inland
towns Of Wisconsin; and his tongue
was silent on the subject of denounc-
ing the rebellion as those of the
murdered voluteers, whose s'ghosts
walked unrevenged amongst u.s.
[Sensation. There we. may sup
pose he basked and balanced, and
watched and waited, and turned and
twisted laughter until autumn,
when a small knot of defunet, de-
feated, desperate, and despicable
politicians, who had for years hung
upon the subsistence department of
the Democratic party in this State,
came to his relief by entering the
field. Laughter. They borrow
ed without leave the honerd name of
Democracy, under which to perpe-
trate their covert treason, as the
hypocrite .lra- 4se.[
''Stole thelivery Of the court of heaven
To serve the devil in.''
Their disgraceful and disloyal
record stands out as the doings of
men too stolid in political depravity
to be gifted with Ordinary instincts,
and too regardless of the popular
will to be mindful Of shame; and
the defeat they experienced at the
hands Of the people, should serve
as warning to trimmers and trait
ors and paricides and ingrates,
through all future time.
This movement drew the secluded
one from his hiding place, and he
came forth, with all the courage of
him who, in a conflict with his wife,
being driven under the bed, while
remaining thus ensconced, declared,
that whether she consented or not,
he would look out through knot
hole in the clap-boards, so long as
he had spirit of a man! Great and
repeated laughter and applause.
He entered the political canvass. and
on the 2Sth October, 1861, a few
days before the election, made a
speech, the burden Of which was an
apology for the rebellion, and a con-
demnation of the Administration for
having meted out the rigor of mar
tial law to those in arms against the
Government. Though abonnding
with flimsy disguises and sophisti
cal generalities, it contained one
point worthy of not only notice,
but of the severest apprehension and
here it is: -. e..
If it is true that slavery must be
abolished to save this Union, then
the people of the South should be
allowed to withdraw themselves
from that Government which can
not give them the protection guaran- :
teed by it's terms" s}
What! Place this glorious Union
this heritage of human hepe-this
asylum for the worlds weary pilgrim
this refuge for the oppressed ofearth,
in the scale Of being beneath the
black and hloated and bloody-the
corrupt and corrupting-the stulti-
fed and stultifying institution of
slavery! No! Sooner than see this
Union severed, let not only the in
stitution perish whenever and wher-
ever it can be found, but let the hab-
itatlons that have known; it perish
with it, and be known no more for,
ever. Tremendous and long con-
tinued applause. That's So That's