The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1868-07-21

the tone of the press nor to the one of public
feeling TO show you how, at this moment, par
lies are thus exasperated and stand in defiant
we're told that sectional strife, waged n words
like these, would DO no harm To our country;
hut YOU have seen the sad and bloody resulGs.
Let us be admonshed now in time, and Jake
care tnat this irritation, this ceiling wnich is
growing up in our midst, shall not also rlpen
into civil troubles that shall carry the evils of
war into our own homes.
upon one point all are agreed and that is
this:-Until we have united North, We can
have no successful war, Until we nave united,
harmonious North we can have no bsueh3ent
peace How shall we gaiu harmony? dow
shall the unity OF all be obtained? Is II TO be
coerced? appeal TO YOU my Republlct
life and existence hang upon harmony aud
concord here, If you yourselves, In your serious
moments, believe that this Is 10 be produced by
seizing our persons, by infringing upou our
rights by insulting our homes, and by depriv-
ing us OF those cherished principles for which
our fathers fought, and to which we nave
always sworn allegiance" (Great ap pDlause)
Having thus grossly misrepresented, and
DETAINED those who were trying to save the
Union from the conspirators in the Free States
who secretly cloaked their treason, and did
not disguise their sympathy with the Rebel
cause, Governor Seymour turned upon the
Republicans, and thus addressed them:-
1--WE only ask that you shall give To us that
which you claim for ourselves, aud that which
every freeman, and every man who res 2ecis
himself, will have, freedom of speech, the right
To exercise all the franchises conferred bv the
Constitution upon American citizens. treat
applause.) Can you safely deny as these? viii
you not trampe upon your own rights If you
refuse TO listen? Do you not Great revolution
when You say that your persons may oe right
fully seized, your property conhScated, your
homes entered? Are you not exposing your
elves, your own interests, to as great peril as
that With which you threaten US? Remember
his: that the bloody aud reasonable aud revo-
lutionary doctrine of public necessity eau be
proc aimed 0y MOB as well as by Govern
To-day the great masses of conservatives
who still battle for time-hOnored principles of
government, amid denunciation contu uely,
and abuse, are the only barriers that stand be
tween this Government and its own destruction.
| If we should acqulesce In the doctrine that, in
| times of war, constitutions are suspended. aud
laws have lost their force, then we should ac-
| cept doctrine that the very right by which Tn
Government administers lis power mas lost it's
| virtue, and we would be brought down To the
| level of Rebellion itself, having an existence
| only by virtue of material power. Wnen meu
| accept despotism, they may have q choice as to
| who that despot shall be. The strGgg then
will not be, shall we have consu uLionai llOeriy?
| But, having accepted the doctrine that me Con.
stituion has lost its force every instinct of per
| Nonal ambition, every instinct Of pers 1nal SO
| curity, will lead men TO put themselves under
| the protection of that power which they sup
| pose most competent to guard their persons"
Who can fail to see here the seed openly
| sown whence sprung our baleful harvest of
| riot, arson, rapine, and murder, eight to ten
| days afterwards
But Governor Seymour was not content
with holding up to reprobation the President,
|
| tanned them, as the guilty authors of our
national woes and perils. He exulted over
our national disasters and disappointments as
| follows
| when I accepted the invitation TO speak
with others, at this m meeting, We were proln SEQ
The downfall OF Vlcksburg, the opening of the
| Mississippi, the probable capture of tue Coz.
| f tderate capital, and the exhaustion OF the Re-
| beilion. BY common consent, all paroles mad
fixed upon The day when the result OF tue cam
| paign should be known, to marx out that line
| OF policy which they felt that our country
| should pursue. But in the moment OF the ex.
| pected victory, there came the midnight cry for
| help from Pen nsylVania TO save its despOlled
fields from the Invading foe; aud almost Within
| sight of this great commercial metropolis, the
ships OF your merchants were burned TO the
| waters edge"
This was uttered on the 4th of July-the
very day of ''the downfall OF Vicks sburg''-the
| day whereon Lee relinquished to the Army OF
! the Potomac the hard-tought field of Gettys-
burg, and commenced his final retreat from
the soil of the loyal States. Governor Sey-
mour had, of course, written it some day
| before. But would he not have been wise
enough to suppress it, had he read the Tribune
of that morning, wherein his attention must
have been arrested by these special de-
| spatches:-
Special Dispatch to The ". Y. Tribune.
HANOVER, Friday. July 8, 1868 The mos
| terrific nght OF the war mas taken place. Oar
| men never stood up so herocally. To-day was
T. @ most awful OF all. The loss on both side
has been tremendous. We have Longstreet a
| prisoner sure. l left the battle heid at 81
O'Clock, and reached here by relay OF horses
We had the best of the t1ght to-day, aud the
| General says II Coach arrives Tonight ths VIC
tory Is ouIs beyond a chance. [Alas! If. ]"
Special Dispatch TO The N Y. Tribune.
"MoUHT CLARE, Friday, July 3. 1903, via
| Wasnington.-Tne 1ght rageo furiously Till lO
O'Clock last night. We took Gettysburg, occu.
pying two-thiids of the field the Reoes tine
other third. Our forces opened OH about 5000
Rebels, who covered the reld this mDrning ~
daylight, pillaging our dead. The Rebels
hastily retreaied. The fighting was the mos
terTinc OF the war. The loss on bDta sides l.
heavy. General Sickles was wounded aoout
O'Clock, In the right leg, which was subse-
queptly amputated He is doing we'll"
We must devote one more article to the
loyalty of Horatio Seymour. He will hardly
impeach our chief witness-tO wit, himself.
We quote no hasty, casual utterances, but his
own carefully prepared, deliberately weighed
language. In view thereof we ask a public
judgment on this question-"Can he who thus
sweepipgly assailed aud denounced the head
OF our Government when he evidently sup
posed the Union just tOttering to its fall have
been loyal to his tearfully imperilled country2'