Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1868-07-31

Among the speakers at the Grant and Colfax IA
tifcation meeting in Brooklyn, Nm, was Lieut..
Gov. Stewart L. Woodford, brave and gallant
soldier. Some Democrats present tried to hiss
him down, when he paid his respects to Horatio
Seymour in the following eloquent and truthful
language;
- And now would that | could justly close
these words without reference TO Horatio Sey-
mour (Hisses.) But fidelity alike to history
and to my old comrades in the army, living and
dead. compel that | should speak of-one passage
in his public history. | make no attack upon
Gov. Seymour a man. Most courteous and
gentle in his manners, cultured i'll mind and
persuasive in eloquence his private character Is
without spot or blemish. But his official acts
are proper subject of criticism. On the Fourth
Of July 1863 when Governor Of the State, he
stood at the Academy of Music in New York and
in most elaborate address apologized alike for
slavery, the South and the rebellion. He had no
word Of cheer for the patient man who was bear
ing the nation sorrow in the capital. Gap
plause He had no word of encouragement for
our gallant soldiers who that very hour were
graphing with Lee in life and death struggle
among the hills of Pennsylvania nothing but
/ lev sneers. but cold calculations and but lily
concealed sympathy with treason. (lou are
/ right Thank God, at that same hour, Meade
gave the lie to his eloquent sophstry As he hurled
/ Lee back in terrible defeat from Cemetery Hill
and Round TOP, at Gettysburgh and Grant :
cannon made strange echo to his cowarily hut
] concealed appeals for compromise and surrender
rs Vickshur.,h fell and Pembertou's most cast
down their flag, in defeat. applause lat
that point there were some indications Of "A dis
"A
sign when So soon after Democratic ConVen-
ton. the dcyotecs Of that school finding their
way into the Democratic Church \ few short
days uasssl and ON July - Of the same year
the terrible draft riots broke out ia New York
CITY Now do not charge that Seymour did not
seek To qucll the riots But do charge that
these riot, were the natural. logical and almost
necessary results of his speeches, his teachings
and his public official acts 1t was the logic of
his polished brain rooted and growing in the pas
sion of the mob And then when the storm hal
gathered he addressed these maddeuei, brutal
led rioters a. his friends, and hesought Their
patience by the plea that he had sent his AdIu-
iant General to Washington to bes that the draft
might be suspended
When the tidings of these riots aud Of Sey-
mours conduct IND speech reached me with my
regiment. was toiling along a dusty road Of
49, Ill Fsirtip, urjo, the terri
Inv Lo', .,,5, c,I;r., and oven J,ng h., m,
- ,,;i, o cn wore sin nr,,,i1g on, tn,
loyal arms had been victorious at Gettysburg
I ,,,- W. y..ra uesrv Int ,tiu we could Sc,
Ill a,,l tl,e ,is,cr,- drayiu, nigh Lik,
-. So l,a IL, foI rho tiI;n7,, If tbi.
H.. IT ,,. L,re ,i,.f the .,oy-
eminent and the flag. Strong men wept with
I'll =. ,bcT vbisnqrei the news down the
- ,,,d r;,,-s.ts were ,rinue.l with a yenre-
s,i sol;r,, srcb as we bn.l MT known before In
,I,;,;.l, and L,ttle Couj ". have FLED that
ia,, into Rro,Jr,v there would have been d
H.. rertonin,, and short wort would hay,
-, al viii His Fxcellencv's especial
fr;a,,Jl IAnTi,nseD We had LETT home o.
~, ,.-,,, I'll and ,ra f.lt that won wer,
~ ~ ,.,,,rseIyes IL need he IN the last
J,lIar IN rcp:ion our widows. 10 .uccor oui
,rannieI md f., feel our little ones. We wer,
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