The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1868-09-05
FIRST Edit o N
SECRET HISTORY.

HOW seymour Procured the OminatIOn.
Mr. Henry Reed writes as follows to the Ci n
c,nnsu Vest and South m.
honest, that his conduct owed its origin either
TO treacbery or imbecility, is q thing SO palpaole
as 10 forbid denial. His act was that of a knaye
or of a FOOL and that knave or fool-whlch-
ever 1t may have been-of no common magnl-
when his apoiogists can only maintain his in
teRrlty at the expense of his understanding,
and his Ing Cond1oe at See efpeMRne M
Seymour before and at the Convention, is
upon Inc polnttb the ot nsd hs saes
This is no time for either weaklings or trick
fters at the head of The Government. and that
ersntly dishonest, is a proposition which cannot
safely be disputed, Indeed, 1t is virtually ad;
OF June 25-implies that within the knowledge
OF the writer Mr.. seymour was thinking OF tne
Presidency as long as last fall; even before he
began his continued series Of elaborate de-
clinations." -, - .,. =, =,
Alexander Long, OF Cincinnati
''1he scheme for nominating Governor Sey-
mour was concocted at Delmonicos on We'd
nesday night, and fully agreed upon Thursday
morning, at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. The
parties to it were Wash. No. can, George =.
Pugh, Allen q. Thurman, George w. McUook,
George w. Morgan, Hugh j. Jewett. and Joseph
Q. Butler of Ohio. and samuel J. Tilden; Ben.
York Neither Wood, Sweeney, nor Barlow
was a delegate, and we have the assurance OF
saying that only four membeos of the New
YORK delegation, including Samuel j. Tilden,
kmow anything e6pS nS %ns Was Was sorups oe
upon the Convention by McOook. They
were Intentionally Kept .ofn,o in ignorance by by
scheme, lest they, knowing what was intended,
should have presented the name of Chief JUS
delegation Vallandigham was not let into the
secret until Thursday morning. aud the residue
OF tbe tne plans OF Mclean and the other seven
until after the 2lst ballot, on which they dt-
yided the vote between Hancock and English,
and after which they retired for consultation,
when McCook, Mclean, and others insisted
upon casting the next ballot unanimously for
Governor Seymour, as the last and only hope of
preventing the nomination of Mr.. Chase, whose
name, they insisted, would be formally pre-
this the delegaii ion assented. In q conversation
with prominent New York politician. Cover
nor Seymour said that under no circumstances
whatever could he consent to become a caudi-
date said he was weighed down with family
he eSpected to see his brother consigned to a
lunatic asylum, and that the condition of his
own oealth was such as to forbid his becoming
q candidate; said he could not get elected, and
even if he could he would be utterly powerless
In the White House-his hands would be tied
by the Senate-he would be unable to secure
even the confirmation of a Cabinet of his
choice, and to hold II 9 same relation before the
country to the Senate, whatever might be the
complexion of the House, that was sustained
by Johnson. and be perplexed, worried. and
a0pseu m hs 1n ein n less than Year from the time
he assumed such posit1on-while, said he,
with Mr.. Chase 1t would be altogether dlHerent;
his election would divide the Senate, and the
conservative Republicans, who would identify
themselves with hts administration, united
while he said he firmly believed the nominal
tion of the Chief Justice by the Convention
would disintegrale the Republican party, secure
his eie ection beyond doubt, and give us
majority of the Forty-hrst Congress. He spoke
In 1svor OF Mr. Cheses nomnation, IN Inc New New
which vote was taken, when thirty seven
of the delegates expressed their preference
NJ ,faf Tnct a w n
cast a vote as a unit. Ga his way to the Con-
vention aud in less than two hoars before his
New York, an deliberately prepared speech,
which he intended to make on seconding the
nomination OF the Chief Justice on benalf of
New York. he expecting, as did the convention,
that Mr.. Chase wIuid be nominated that morn.
Ing. he had made arIangem,ents en-, Win General RAJ
might speak from The floor, and had this speecn
in his pocket at the time he wes nominated.
HIS speech to the Convention declining the
nomination, aud concluding with the emphatic
declaration:-'Your candidate cannot be-, was
heard heard it it as ~ positive dsciarati5n and denial
OF the right Of the Convention to use his n anne.
and would have so ended had 1t not been
TOR The man VINO is impressed with the belief
thst the world would cease To revove on It's
axis If he did not make o speech on all occa.
sions when he has permission 10 be heard. Mr..
Vallandigham is entitled 10 all the honor that
attaches to the nomination of Horatio Sey mour.
Mr.. Tilden, IL seems, was the first to look after
the Governor in the confusion that followed,
and found him in the ante room adjoining the
a retreat from the scene of his achievements,
and as he led the Governor down the stairway.
with the tears vet in his ey 3. be met his old
friend Peter Harvey of Boston, one of the
Vice Presidents of the Convention. when he
seized him by the hand. and exclatmed-"Pity
me, Harvey, pity me-" The srtful Tllden.
knowing full well the importance of getting
him out of the reech of his true friends until
after the Convention had separated, hurried
him away, and kept him In a secluded part OF
the city four hours before his friends knew
the United State Senate, and hs thinks that
with Seymour the candidate for Pres esldent
The Democrats can carry both branches OF the
New York Assembly; and hence he united with
The leaders in Ohio, and has thus far carried his
DO ints successfully.