Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1868-08-14
Daniel S. Dickinson on HOratlo Seymour.

THE following is an extract from the
speech of Daniel S. Dickinson, delivered
at the great ratification meeting held at
Cooper Institute, in the city of New York,
October &, 1862. AS Mr.. Dickenson is
lifelong Democrat and in a position to be
perfectly posted on Mr.. Seymour's record,
the picture he draws may be especially re-
freshing just now to those Conservative
soldiers" who, at their late Convention in
New York, committed themselves to the
support of the Democratic nominee for the
Presid, ncy:
"Whcn the most atrocious conspiracy
which ever desecrated earth found devcl-
opment in an assault upon our national
flag at Sumter, and in efforts to massacre
a hall-starved garrison placed there in
time of profound peace, according to uni
form usage, for no other oflense than as
serting the supremacy of their country's
Constitution, and giving to the breeze, as
embematical thereof, the glorious stars
and stripes of their fathers; when the
brave volunteers, who were hurrylng to
the defense of our nations capital to save
it from mob rule and rebellion and con-
ilagration, were bleeding by traitorOus
hands; when strong men trembled when
women wept, and children instinctivcly,
all communication between the loyal
States and the capital was cut off by re-
bellous forces; when the President elect
of the United States had then recently
reached the seat of government, where
duty called him, by circuitous
and an unusual route. and in dis
guise, to escape the dagger of theassassin,
and when our land was filled with excite
ment, and CONSERVATION and alarm-when
shrieked the timid and stood still the
brave and the confding masses looked
about to see who were the men for the
crisis, among the citizens of the Empire
State, who had borne part in public af
fairs, and were naturally looked up to in
such a crisis, he, (Horatio Seymour) hied
himself away upon the double-quick in
the opposite direction [laughterl, and for
nearly half year hid himself among the
lakes and rivers and romantic woodlands
and inland towns of Wisconsin and his
tongue was as silent on the subject of de-
nouncing the rebellion as those of the
murdered volunteers, whose ghosts
walked unrevenged amongst us Sensa-
ton. There we may suppose he basked
and balanced, and watched and waited
and turned and twisted, Laughter, until
autumn, when a small knot of defunct,
OCNDNldlC anu ACSDlCdDlt DOllll-
clans, who had for years hung upon the
subsistence department of the Democratic
party in this State, came to his relief by
entering the field. Laughter They bor-
rowcd without leave the honored name of
Dmocracy, under which to perpetrate their
covert treason, as the hypOcrite
80 Stole the livery of the Court OF Heaven
ToscrVe the devil in
"Their disgraceful and dsloyal record
stands out as the doings of men too stolid
in political depravity to be gifted with
ordinary instincts, and too regardless of
the popular will to be mindful of shame !;
and the defeat they experienced at the
hands of the people, should serve as a
warning to trlmmers and traitors, and
parricides and ingrates, through all future
time.
This movement drew the secluded one
from his hiding place. and he came forth,
with all the courage of him who, in CON
ilict with his wife, being driven Under the
bed, while remaining thus esconced, de-
clared that whether she consented or not,
he would look out through knot-hole in
the clap-boards, so long as he had the
spirit of man LGreat and repeated
laughter and applause. He entered the
political canvass, and on the 2Sth of Oct,
1861, few days before the election, made
u speech, the burden of which was an
apology for the rebellion, and a condem-
nation of the administration for having
meted out the rigOr of martial law to those
in arms against the Government. Though
abounding with tlimsy DISCUSSES and So
phistical generalities, it contained one
point worthy Of not only notice, but of
the soverest apprehension, and here it is /;
go If it is true that slavery must be abol-
ished to save this Union, then the people
of the South should be allowed to with
draw themselves from that Government
which cannot give them the protection
guaranteed by its terms
WHAT Place this glorious Union
this heritage Of human hope-thls asylum
for the worlds weary pilgrim m-this refuge
for the oppressed of the earth, in the
scale of being beneath the black and
bloated and bloody, the corrupt and the
corrupting-the stultifed and the stultiS-
ing institution OF slavery No! Sooner
than see this Union severed, let not only
the institution perish whenever and
wherever il can be found, but let the hab
itations that have known it perish with it,
and be known no more forever. Tire
mendous and long-continued applause
That's So That's the talk Three
cheers And yet this returning fugitive
nom patriotism proclaimed as his creed,
Ia effect, II not in terms, that if either
slavery or the Union must be DESTROYED, it
must be the Union! And the name of
this man is uoratio Seymour" Sensa.
ton
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