Brownlow's Knoxville Whig. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1866-1869, 1868-09-16
SlIs 10Y J-s@S aEAtUe yUu kiSo Oh
respects to Mrs. Ingarsol l shall be glad TO hear
from you ct all times. Truly yours,
HoAATIo SEYMOUR

respects to Mrs Ingsrsoll l shall be glad TO hear
from you ct all times. Truly yours,
HoRATIo SEYMOUR.
Hon. G. NJ Ingersoll, New Haven, Conn.
COMMENTS BY THE TRIBUNE.
Mr.. Seymour is greatly mistaken If he really sup
poses that the Republicans wish TO make this per-
sonal canvass. They oppose his election not on per-
sonal but enphatically on political grounds-be-
he is the confederate and chief Of the authors
of the late slaveholders' rebellion, and because his
election restores them to the high places which they
deserted to plungethe country into the bloody abyss
| of civil war.
Nor is 1t at all true that we seek TO dodge the
financial issues" or object TO having him and his
satellites "push the debt and taxation upon public
attention" They could not please Us better Those
issues that debt and taxation are among our strong
| reasons for keeping Howell Cobb & Co. out Of
power. They had the Government wholly in their
hands-they conspired to throw it away by divid-
| ing and disorganizing the Democratic party at
Charleston, eight years ago, and thus bringing the
Republicans into power. They did this, not that
they hated the Republicans less but that they loved
| disunion more. They tell US now that they loved
the old Union and Constitution, but their acts con-
tradict their professions They had the old Union,
with very moderate debt incurred in the Mexican
war, and light taxes. Howell Cobb, as Buchanans
Secretary OF the Treasury, paid some fifteen per
cent. premium part of this debt which he can
celled in order TO leave the Treasury empty when
ne ran away 70 engage in the rebellion, after bor-
rowing money to meet pressing demands at tlgelve
per cent. he thus deranged the finances so as to
leave us neither money nor credit while his fellow
conspirstors in Buchanan's Cabinet dismantled the
forts dispersed the fleets, and gave the command of
the bulk Of our little army TO a confederate who
betrayed 1t into the power of the rebellion. Thus
was our Government stripped, bound and plum
dered By Democratic traitors in order that it might
oe easily oVerthrown; and thus was the rebellion
enabled TO triumph over our distracted efforts till
confronted by the stern resolve and slowly path-
cred resources of Ulysses s. Grant The debt IS one
thousand millions more to-day than il would have
been If Buchanan's chief counseors had not shame
tuly, treacherously abused their official stations 70
Destroy the Union whose sworn servants they were,
rom whose Treasury they took care TO be fully
paid.
Nor were they alone. While the Government.
In Buchanan's trembling hands vrss drifting 10
wreck, Hofato Seymour and his friends were hold
ing conventions in the North 10 strengthen the
anGs ana cneer the hearts Of the bOl1er traitors at
the South. Seymour, in the Democratic Conven-
ton at Tweddle Hall, January 81 1851, abused the
Republicans without stint for not surrenderino AZ
oseretion to the traitors but he had not the sofest
word OF rebuke for those who were then tearing the
onion 10 pieces The rebel chiefs having decannped
from the cabinet and from Congress, to push on the
rebellion at home, Seymour declared that q ali viz
tue patriotism and intelligence seem 20 have fed
rom cur National capital though there we're two
% three Of the mder type Of shareholders still ef
sneie. ms entire speech devoted 20 exalting
sue sIrengIn and resources of the South and show.
ing that the North could not possibIy ove-eo,',o
ner. The question is simply this" said Seymour
snsii we nave compromise after the war, or com.
promise WITHOUT war P'-but we didn't have either
Let US see said he "if successful coercion bv tha
oftn i less revolutionary than successful secession
wa sns 2outn so we did And he virtually de-
clared the rebels in the right by assuming Ibai
t ullsI know best what their own safety demanded
40 assume said he that our brethren 10 aftesn
2saas lack the capacity 10 understand and the abiI
ny 70 protec, their interests is 10 assume thai
our government Is failure and ought 10 be over
Cobb & Co. " N7y niour,