The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1868-08-22

Tho nasa anaire+ Soy,r, ie SO etroncs tl,ot
any novice can successfully impeach him. 1t
has been done thousands of times since his
nomination, but there is completeness
about the following from the pen of the SEN
makes it very strong and perfectly unanswer-
able:
/. We have charged that 81 Boratio Seymour,
throughout the long struggle between Liber-
ty and Slavery for predomnance in our coun-
try, has been the subtle, fluent, adroit, sophis-
tica, unscru2ulous, untiring attorney OF Sav-
ery-the champion of her successive agress-
ions on the rights and the dominion OF free
labor in the annexation or Texas, the over
throw of the Missouri restriction, the Border
Ruffian outrages in Kansas, the Dred Scott
decision, the Lecompton, Iniquity, &C., &c.
Has this been denied?
Ii. We charged that, when the Southern
Democratic chiefs, having deliberately divided
the Democrat party in order that Mr.. Lin
coin might be chosen President by the Re-
publlcans, at once made that election a pre-
text for inaugurating Secession, Gov. Sey-
mour, INSTEAD of threateningthem with fearful
consequences is case they did not deSist from
attempting to break up the Union, pitched
savasely into the Republicans, and insisted
that they mot yet invested with power)
should surrender their cardinal principle and
bargain to unite in extending slavery over
free Territory, or bear the blame of having
broken up the Union. Is this denied? Where !?
BY whom?
Ill. We charged that Gov. Seymour, at
the Tweddle Hall Convention, Feb. 1, 1861,
thus berated the Republicans for not consen-
ting to aid in the extension of slavery:
What spectacle do we present to-day? AL
ready six States have withdrawn from this
Confederacy. Revolution has actually begun
The term Secession" dvests it of none Of its
terrors, nor do arguments to prove Secession
inconsistent with our Constitution stay its
progress or mitigate its evils. All virtue, pat
riotIsm and intelligence, seem to have fled from
our National CAPITOL it has been well lkened
to the ccnfagration of an asylum for madmen
some look on with idiotic imbecilty; some
in sullen silence; and some scatter the fire.
brands which consume the fabric above them,
and bring upon all a common destruction. Is
there one revolving aspect in this scene which
has not its parallel at the Capitol of your coun-
try? Do you not see there the senseless imbe-
cility, the garrulous idiocy, the maddened rags
displayed with regard to petty personal pas
sions and party purposes, while the glory, the
hoGOr, and the safety of the country, are all
forgotten? The same pelvading fanaticism
has obrought evil upon all the institutions of
our land. Our churches are torn asunder and
desecrated to partisan purposes. The wrongs
of our local legislation, the growing burdens of
debt and taxation, the gradual destruction of
the African in the Free States which is marked
by each recurring census, are all due to the
neglect of our own duties, caused by the COM
plete absorption of the public mind by sense
less, unreasoning fanatacism. The agitation
of the question OF slavery has thus far brought
greater social, moral and legislative evils upon
the people OF the free States than it has upon
the institutions of those against whom it has
been excited The wisdom of Franklin
stamped upon the first coin issued by our gov
ermnent the wise motto Mind your OWL busi-
ness!" The violation of this homely proverb,
which lies at the foundation of the doctrines
of local rights, has, thus Tar, proved more
hurtful to the meddlers in the affairs of others
than to those against whom this pragmatic ac-
ton is directed.
We are advised by the Conservative States
of Virginia and Kentucky that, if force is to
be used, il must be exerted against the United
South 1t would be an act of folly and mad
ness, in entering upon this contest to under
rate our opponents, and thus subject ourselves
to the disgrace OF defeat in an inglorious war
fare. Let us also see If successful Coercion oy
the North is less revolutionary than SUCCESSFUL
Secession By the South. Shall we prevent revo-
luton by being foremost in overthroWlng the
principles of our government, ana an tnat
makes it valuable to our people, ana d,stln-
guishes it among the nations OF the earth?
Is it denied that Seymour said this? Who
impurns our assertion that he did?
iV. We have charged that Horatio Sey-
mour, being on visit to this city soon after
tbe Confederate Constitution was promulgat-
ed at Montgomery, declared to Judge Chares
| II. Rugsles that he had carefully read that in
strument-that he deemed it decidedly pref
erabIe to the Federal Constitution framed for
us by Washington, Franklin, Madison, Ham
ilton, Pinckney, Rufus King, Gerry, &c.,
and that he deemed it advisable that our
State should adopt the Confederate Constitu-
tion just framed at Montgomery, and so OBJ
viate civil war by joining the Southern Con-
tederacy. Has this been denied? When
| Where?
V. We have charged that Horatio Sey-
mour, in his speeches, messages, &c, through
out the War for the Union, continually rep
resented the rebels as in the right, the Un-
| ionists as in the wrong, not with regard to
secession and disunion, but as to all that pre-
| ceded and produced these. His continual as
sumntion was substantially this "The South
has been greatly provoked, wronged, abused
but disunion is not the proper remedy for her
wrongs" According to his habtual logic,
the rebels were fundamentally, substantially
| right, and only technically incidentally
wrong They were like plaintiff who has a
| perfectly good cause of action, but has sued