The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1868-08-06

GOV. Savmonrs Loyalty

! The friends of Gov Seymour since his
nomination for the Presidency, have set
about the attempt to prove his loyalty
Republicans willingly accept The issue,
and incontrovertible evidence is being
brought forth from different quarters,
showing that Slr. Seymour has no claims
to record of loyalty during the war of
the rebellion. We take from the New
York Tribune, a few of the charges that
journal brings againstGoy.Se ymour,w which
! 1t says no responsible Democrat will
deny.
eve charge that Horatio Seymour, at
/ the Tweddle Hall Convention of Jan. 81,
1861, furiously assailed the Republicans
in Congress- for proposing to resist Seces-
sion and Disunion by force, saying: :
"Let as see If successful Ooerc5olo By the
North IS less revolutionary than successful
Secession By the South"
eve charge that Gov Seymour, few
weeks after that Convention, being in our
City and meeting here Judge Charles H.
Ruggles, asked him Judge, have you
read the Confederate Constitution = 4
1 have and it is preferable to the Federal
Constitution. Now, why not avoid all
trouble by ourselves adopting the Con-
federate Constitutions" that is by super
ceding the Federal by the Confederate
Government, kicking ont Lincoln, and
making Davis our President.
eve charge that, when the Republicans,
then majority of at least fifty thousand
in n Y, proposed to ignore party
altogether in 1851 and unite the whole
people of our State on ticket selected
from both parties, and standing upon the
simple platform of a vigorous prosecution
of the War for the Union, Horatio Sey-
mour and his friends rejected the proffer,
insisting upon party ticket and a party
platform surcharged with hostility to
those on whom the Nation had deVolved
the duty of defending its existence.
What is the answer to this?
"We charge that Horatio Seymour pub
licly said, soon after the issue of Lincoln's
first Proclamation of Freedom, that, if the
Union could only be maintained by
abolishing Slavery then the Union ought
to be given up.
"We charge that Horatio Seymour,
being elected Governor of our State, gave
but cold, reluctant, hesitating, grudg ing,
caviling support to the Federal authori-
ties, then struggling to avert the dis
ruption of the Union so that President
Lincoln was constrained to say to his
brother, who was at the White House on
business, "Please remind your brother, the
| Governor, that if he is ever President of
the United States there must be such a
country left to preside over
owe charge that, when it became neces-
sary to resort to Drafting to replenish the
National armies, Gov. Seymour threw his
influence against that resort; and in APP
pealing to the President to suspend its
enforcement menacingly said: iH1
| cit is believed by at least one half the peo-
Iple OF the loyal States that the Consumption
act, which they are called upon to obey be
cause it is on the statue-book, is in itself a
violation OF the supreme constitutional law
do not dwell on what / believe
would be the consequences of violent, harsh
policy, before the constitutlouality of the act
Is tested. You can scan the future as well al
|. Ihe temper Of The people today goa can
readily learn.
Does any man on earth believe that the
man who thus demanded of the President
a suspension of the draft till its consti-
nationality could be tested in the Courts,
really wished the rebellion put down by
the strong arm A few days before, he
had said to the rioters assembled in City
Hall Park:
81 assure you my fellow-citizens, that am
| here to show you a test of my friendship
| [Cheers. | wish to inform you that I have
sent my Adjutant- General to Washington tn
confer with the authorities there, and to have
this draft suspended and stopped" Vocif-
erous eheers.l