The Portland daily press., 1868-07-10
Murrah for seymour mai isiai,.

Hurrah for seymour and Eii.ir!
Not that we intend to support then'-iaf
from it; but because their friends are so good
as to place the Republican cause full tour
months before the election beyond any posi-
bility of disaster.
Chase has rolled in the dirt for naught. The
prize for which with cur-like eagerness he
Spoke" and defled his judicial ermine with
mud trife dirtier than anything previously
imagined, has been given to another. All
Chase takes by his endorsement of repudia-
ton and revolution, and his recantatiou of all
he had ever said or thought of equal justice
and national honor is four votes from Massa-
chusetts!
Ifit had been in the power of the Republican
Convention at Chicago to influence il some
mysterious way the New York Convention to
make such nominations and frame such resO-
lutions as should insure the election of the
Republican nominees, the programme could
not have been different from that which has
just been carried out in New York by the vol
untary action of the Democracy. 1t is laugh
able, now that it is all over, to reflect upon the
shreWdneSs with which the New York Conven-
ton aoaS to haze been conducted. All the an
cient denominations for which the Democrats
have been again and again repudiated by the
people with ever increasing contempt and in
dgnation, were to be ostensibly ignored. In
stead of this iudicous course, the Democrats
have given us platform which embodies IN
te,asJfed Coppeyheaatsn aoth reputation and
Teooletion Saper-ddded.
After framing the platform it was still
fhOnOht thau xunul6 Of 1-a
tions that would command the full strength OF
their oaon party. But how can anybody sup
port Sey mour who abides by the platform?
On financial questions Seymour not only does
not stand on that remarkable structure, but
does not stand anywhere near it. The PEN
dletouians certainly can carry into the contest
very little of zeal and vigor. While Seymour
must thus loose strength with the radical"
wing of his party-that is the party of repudi-
alton aud robbery-there is no compensation
gained by reason of the adherence of the War
Democrat faction. The Soldiers and Sailors
Convention declared for Hancock. These gen.
tlemen are literally slapped in the face and
told that they must support Seymour. Sey-
mour!-the man whose factious, nay treason
able. opposition to the measures taken by the
administration to suppress the Rebellion was
more disastrous to the Union cause than that
of any other individual in the United States
as we have the authority of Lincoln himself
for saying. He is the same man-we tell an
old story, but one that the cost TO them in
blood and treas ure will never ali ow the Amer
ican people TO forget who encouraged and ad-
dressed as CHS friends" the New York rioters
who on the fourth of July, 1868, abetted the
Rebel army tha Meade, Howard and the
Union soldiers held at bay at Gettysburg.
Ii is difficult to say whether this candidate
of the Democracy is most infamous or most
unfortunate. Tn addition to his black war rec
ord his conduct with reference TO the Demo-
cratic nomination has been utterly inconsist-
ent with the presumption that he has the or
dinary instincts of gentleman or a Christian.
Like Caesar he repeatedly thrust aside the
proffered crown, bnt like that classic ind-
vidual he meant to have it all the while
Only three days ago, when his opportunity for
sizing it had not yet come, he said in open
Convention, cat first my inclinatons and'now
my honor forbids me TO accept the nomination
But yesterday, when at length his friends de-
cided that the farce of supporting Church
need no longer be persisted in and nominated
the coy, reluctant Mr.. Seymour, he instantly
accepted SO much for nfamy. 1t admits OF
no palliation unless we conclude that he is
really the victim of Il misfortune which has
lately been made the subjects of newspaper
paragraphs-the taint of hereditary insanity.
The nomination of Blair is unexpectedly
good-for the Republicans. We published his
letter to the Missouri delegation the other day
Jesse d. Bright's letter to jeff Davis. Our
readers are not likely to have forgotten it,
Frank says-and so does the Democratic plat.
form-that the reconstruction acts of Congress
are null and void, and he proposes to upset
the free State governments established in pur-
suance of them, negro suffrage and all. This
is very pretty declaration of war, for moth
ing in the world is surer than that if the bal
lot is ever wrested from the hand of the
Southern freedman it will be after war
bloodier and longer than the first Rebellion.
The Democratic platform and nominations
make the political situation perfectly plain
Seymour, Blair, reputation and revolution,
will command the votes of those who never
bolt the Democratic ticket and of none be-
sides. The party lines will be drawn so strict
ly as to place thousands who are attached but
feebly to the Democratic organization on the
side of Grant, Colfax, impartial justice and
the maintenance of the national honor. .