The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1868-07-15

.r,5oa D. Ds.yot. Rax

The political management by which
Horatto Seymour Was made the Oemo.
cratic candidate for President IS one OF
the most extraordinary pieces Of impu-
dencs and audacity that the Democrat
lie party has recently experienced II
must have been rich and Tacy DIVER
sion to hear that man five minutes De-
fore he knew thai he was going 10 Se
nominated, and when he saw that t-nles
game of The New York politicians was
BEING nlayed To a successfuI compile
ton, delare before God that he Woun
NOT be candidate, and that ike I9s
VouuR statesman from Ohio he Wouln
tread the rugged path Of selt'sacElne!
How smoothly he spoke Of ana now
bIandly he smiled upon the statesman
from Ohio. ditto from Pennsylvania,
ditto from Indiana, to whom he and
his Tammany braves had allowed three
mortal days in which 20 cut each oth-
ers' throats, while he blessing their
corpes. takes the HsTagn for which
they hercely fought. The NeWgate
calendar, or Dickens novels contain
nothing SO neat in the way of dedber-
ate Ianehable, keen-bEained villatny
as the Honorable Horatio Seymour has
perpetrated in his own behalf, with a
smooth face, a prayer TO 6eaFens
and an indispensable chuekIe. But We
leave this performance 10 be dealt with
byIthe deluded and chagrined friends OF
stark, smothered by the New York
Convention under the management OF
as nild-mannered man as ever sent
tied ship.
Horatio Seymour is the greatest hyp-
ocrite of the present day. HIS heart Is
fRIEe. He has no faith in principle, no
honesty of purpose. Every step he eT-
er took has measured his own selfish
Advancement. His words are mere
verbal tricks that serve to excuse, de-
fend or commend himself. He was a
haIf.hearted seceesionist at the out
break of the war. He was complain,
ing, irritable governor who hated anu
abused the soldiers, but who did not
dare TO use his official power to carry
New York ont of the Union, or actually
forbid its volunteers from marching TO
the relief of their comrades. HIS record
is one of constant muFmur against Inc
national government, OF sneers at the
yalor ofonr soldiers, OF covert attack
upon the national credit. HIS course
during the political history OF this
Democratic nomination Is the key and
elucidatiou of his character. He has
not been what he has pretended to be.
His abnegation and protestattons were
made for edect, with the intent of ex-
citing sympathy. and admiration for
eagerly intent to see their dying strug-i
giles, and his triumphant march over
their bodies. So during the war, he
was one OF the worst enemies of the
North, because he had the art to con-
ceal with some exceptions, the depth
of his enmity towards the Union cause.
During the dark days of 1881, and the
gloomy summer of 1863, when New
York was clouded by the rioters with
the smoke OF burning houses, and
with that OF Lees can
non, the real sentiments of the mans
soul came grumolIng to the surface In
his declaration, that secession was law
FIJI, that the rioters were his friends,
and that the Union soldiers were inca
pable of defeating the Re bells.
More than this, he is, according to
his own confession, intellectually as
well as morally deceased; and he fears
that the excitement OF the coming cam
paign, and of the subsequent duties of
the Office should he be elected, will
bring upon him the hereditary faint
which will destroy his reason. he will
be rendered unfit TO discharge the du-
ties of the Executive office, and its re-
sponsibility will fall upon his suboTdi-
nate. This will be Francis P. Blair,
JT. This person, now only the wreck
and remnant of a man, ia the victim of
an appetite for liquor which within the
last few years has rendered him almost
incapable of acting nationally or talk
Ing coherently. He has been put in
nomination as the candidate of the reck-
less, violent, and riotous element of the
party. His recent letter, which was a
bid TOR the nomination, pledges him to
use force 10 bring the Southern States
back into a condition of Democratic
lawlessness and anarchy. Seymour's
predicted physical disqualification may
serve his turn. II not, the party that
has found its advantage in the death Of
Harrison, Taylor, and Lincoln, and
would have found 1t in the poisoning of
James Buchanan, are not likely to hesi-
tate If the accession of the Vice Presi-
dent will be the occasion for strict ODE
dience to the behests of that portion of
the party who swear by the Euklux
Khan, and want another war. Blair is
miniature OF Andrew Johnson. He il
a renegade from his party; will prob
ably be unable to intelligently take the
inauguration oath; will be defiant, ma
lignant, obstinate, and revolutionary.
He is a Blair; and to be a,Blair is to be
entirely selfish, sullen, revengeful, I'M
scrupulous, and desperate. Seymour
and Blairi The Democrats have nomi-
mated their ticket, now let them elect it!
Before November next, candidates and
Convention Will repent the folly OF this
weeks work.