The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1868-07-10

to the war. and therefore moved a vote Of
thanks. He also allowed his name to be placed
by the Aojutant General at the head CT county
committees for tuTthering enlistments, all of
which facts prove rather the desire of the q nion
intri1 sic loyalty on his part
In the fail OF 1862 under the influence of Nc
hnniny campaign, which were ingeniously
distorted INTO charges not against Tue General,
sadly depressed in New York. and Governor
sey mour was nominated against Genera!
by a gang of corrupt Republican politicians,
who, failing TO rule the nominating Conven-
secretly supporting the Democratic nominee.
seymour was elected, though running, as on
all other occasions, largely behind his ticket.
As Governor, he pursued his characteristic
timorous course, occupying himself mainly In
reducing the quota OF New, York, In
filing 1t, elc., until the July rlo's In this city
in opposi lion TO the draft. The object OF these
riots, which were undertaken while Lees army
was Ftill in Pennsylvania was to stop the draft,
not only in New York, but In all the States, aud
so com pei the Government to abandon the war
A series of vast murderous mobs of many thou
sands each, swayed wildly through the city,
killing, burning, and ro6bing venting tneir
vengeance especially on negro orphan asylums,
schools, and lenements, but killing also Repub.
licans, soldiers, draft officers. police, aud Who
ever came adversely in their way From 1000
TO 1850 persons were thus being murdered. At
the time of Governor Seymour's arriva! at the
bled in front of the Tribune Office, and were
being urged by their leaders to make an assault
address them, moved en- n,dSSe over to the City
Hall, where Seymour delivered to them the
following speech, their ringleader standing be-
side him while he spoke. He said:-
MY FRIENDs:-I have come down here from the
quiet OF the country to see hat was the dtcUly to
LIT me assure y. that am your Trend: GUproarl;
%s w be
-and now assure you, my fellow cllizens, that am
wish to inLofm you that have sent my AdJuttnt
lhtre, and to have this dram suspended stopped
M Gus cheers Pss you & as god citizens ans 70
that to see that there is no inequality wrong
pTOptIly, good citizens ard that every person
is safe The safe keeping of property and persons
y is your duty TO malnIan the good order Of the
SeFarste as good Citizens and you can TS ASSEMBLE
again wher ever you wish TO do So ask you to leave
until my adjugant relurus from Washington and you
shall be satisfied. Listen to me and see that there is
! tire peac, ably.
The draft was not stopped, and so far Cover
nor Seymour's promises were falsided, but its
enforcement required $4,000 troops to be with
! drawn from The army to New York at time
| when they were most needed TO confront the
| enemy. Probably no public officer ever more
| signally disgraced himself than Governor Sey-
mour did on this occasion by making promises
which be could not perform, to those who were
| contending against Government he had
sworn to support. AT this time Governor Sey-
mour prepared the way for Pendleton, by pre-
| dieting reputation, by arguing the hostility
between % the East and nd West on the national
| the bonds Pendleton having since stolen his
| thunder and surpassed his eluquence on these
| qbestionS, he has recently spON Nen more mode
| Tatey, and at last leaned sufficiently the other
way 10 raise an issue on which TO defeat PEN
! dletOn.
| In 1864 Seymour was again nominated for
! Governor, but was beaten by Governor Fenton
Seymour sgain running far behind his ticket.
| In the National Democratic Convention of that
year, at Chicago, Seymour was permanent Pre-
| sident, and the New York Delegation exercised
| ruling influence. The platform which de.
clares the war failure was jointly concocted
by Seymour and Vallandigham, the two lead
ing spirits of the Committee on Resolutions.
Thus, at the darkest crisis of our great strugg e
with the Rebel lion, MIR. Seymour took the
lead, and exercised more potent inf renee
! than any other man In denOuncing the war as
a failure encouraging the Rebels TO fight on,
and spreading distrust in the minos of our
army and people, and dismav in the hearts of
The friends of the American Union throughout
the world.
The means by which Horatio Seymour has
obtained his present nomination are character.
istic OF that low political cunning and duplicity
which have marked mis- whole career. His in
fluenCe, as shown by his recent speeches, is ad-
verse 10 Pendleton's doctrines, which he
New York delegation, whose vote for Church
was a transparency sutterfuge, was all directed
first declined the nomination, so that his
name should not be brought into antag onism
| with that of Pendleton and so make the fight
an open one. For this purpose the New
York delegation talked anout vOtiug for
vote for Hendricks. All this was done so
adIoitly that 1t finally became necessary for
Pendlelon's delegation TO nominate Sey ymouT
themselves TO prevent the success of Chase or
Hendricks either of which would have been
fatal to Pendleton's future aspirations. Since
SeymOur's henchmen had voted for Hendricks
the latter could do no less than return the vote
and thus began the mobilize stampede which
ended in the nomination of Seymour, The
whole affair was an adroit specimen of political
hyl clisy, by which the actual favorite of the
majority OF the Convention was not only sold
but was induced TO nominate the trickster who
had defeated him.
Mr.. Seymour is a skillful political gambler
NM "a pI1n N nj In nalI nafta NJ
partisan character he mistakes falsehood for
fact with affectation of religious sincerity
which is little less than exasperating to all
they hear IL told He has all of Johnson g low
cunning, with Buchanan's accom- o lisn m ~ Is
and cowardice. 1t is difficult to conceive o
any character whose accession to the Presl-
depcy would place the Government in hands sc
weak, unsteady, factious, and CORFU pt, or do SO
much TO plunge the country into anarchy, re-
bellion, aid civil war
Frank II. Blair, Jr.
Frank p. Blair, Jr,, is selected as the Demo
cratic candidate for the Vice-Presidency, te
! balance Seymour upon the same principle that
our loretatners in carrying their grain TO mill
having put the grain into one end OF sack
found II necessary, TO Keep IL from sliding off
TO put stone into the oher, Seymour, with
| his peace record is the grain, and Blair, with
his war record, is the stone. Seymour repre-
sents the Northeast and Blair the South west
| Seymour represents the men who didn't tignt
and Blair represents the men who fought, bui
were sorry Tor IL. Not to leave the figure inc I'm.
plete, the ass that carries the sack is the Demo,
| cratic party.
Frank p. Blair, Jr., has a record much more
national and conspicuous than Seymour. Mr.
Blair, Sr., as the founder of the Blair dynasty
the editor Of the Cube, and stauuch and
valued supporter OF General Jackson and SUB
sequently an organizer of the Republican party
and supporter of Fremont, was one of the most
saRacious political managers the country has