Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1868-07-15
Seymour and Blair.

'great-unwashed, the New York Conven-
ton accomplished It's work by nominating
Horatio Seymour, of New York, for Presi-
dent, and Frank p. Blair, jr,of Missourl,fo
Vice President of the United States.
Though Seymour refused time and again
! to be their candidate, declaring III the face
of the convention that he could not accept
the nomination without peril to himself
and to the party" they forced it upon him
and resolved that willing or unwilling, he
should be delivered up to the slaughter.
Valandigham loomed up largely, took the
lead and carried the convention for Seymour
with rash.
Horatio Seymour was born in Onondaga
county, New York, in 1911, and is therefore
in the 57th year of his age. He is simply
and exclusively local politician having
| never held any national position. His po-
litical record, however, has at least the
merit of being plain, and there is no room
for mistake as to his sentiments on national
questions When he rebellion menaced the
country he declared that the South had
been upiustly provoked. When the traitor
senator's aud representatives abandoned
their seats in Congress and went home to
take up arms against their government, he
had the efFrontory to declare, in a speech
at Albany, that all true Virtue, patriotism
and intelligence had departed from the ma
tional carital" In the same speech be de-
nounced the men who stood by their country
as 'imbeciles, madmen and fanatics - When
the threats of rebellion eliminated in actu-
al war he said ''If it be true that slavery
must be abolished to save this Union, then
the peopleot the South should be permitted
to withdraw themselves from that Govern
ment which cannot give them TIE protec
ton guaranteed by its terms" In other
words he proclaimed ''lct slavery be pre-
served though the Union be destroyed"
When candidate for Governor of New
York, he made frequent and elaborate assaults
upon the principles of human liberty, true
Government, and the war waged against the
frantic efforts of slavery to overthrow the
Union. His first message to the Legislature
after his election, was filed with the same
bitter denunciations of the Government,
sneers at the loyal people of the North, SYM
pathy with the rebels at the South, and
opposition to the war When Lees army
was invading Pennsylvania, and our noble
field of Gettysburg protecting our hearths
and homes-on that ever memorable fourth
of July lS63-he made speech in the Aca-
deny of Music in New York, in which he
SAID public necessity is plea Which MoBs
may urge as well governments, and / warn
the authorities at Washington to take care
was Immediately followed by those terrible
riots that for whole week disgraced alike
our country and our humanity And when
the MOB had been thus evoked, in the
hope that it would stop the draft, not only
in New York but in all the States, ard thus
compel the Government to abandon the war,
it swayed wildly through the streets burn
ing orphan asylums, numbering women,
children and soldiers, robbing inoffensive
citizens and committing with impunity every
species of debauchery and crime To this
mob, of towards and assassins which he
had deliberately called into existence, Gov
ernor Seymour made speech from the
steps of the City Hall, while the ring leader
stood by his side, addressing them as my
friends, and promising them that the draft
should be stoppcdl But he counted with
out his host. The draft was not stoned,
thoughts enforcement required 25OG0 troops
to be withdrawn from the army at the very
time they were most needed to confront the
enemy in the field.
In 1864 he presided over the Democratic
Convention at Chicago, and with Val
landigham, concoc;ed the famous resolution
declaring the war failure and demanding
the Immediate cessation of hostilitieS. Such
is the record, and such, during the mortal
struggle of the nation for its existence, were
the speeches and sentiments of the indvid-
ual whom the copperheads and rebels, pro-
pose, if possible, to make the next President
OF the L. States. His whole career demon
strates that he is acompound of bland plau-
slbliity, dexterous cunning, smiling selfish
ness, and incoueeivably infamous treachery.
The candidate for Vice President, Frank
T. Blair, jr., is renegade Republican, who
left our party for the party's good, because
the Baltimore Convention repudiated 'sthe
family, and demanded the removal of
Montgomery Blair from the position of
Postmaster General He has been all things