New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1868-07-20

yided with new and untried commander, had
countered Lees dashing advance, and was
covering Washington and Baltimore while fol-
lowing the invader into Pennsylvania. Such
were the circumstances Of unprecedented gloom
and peril under which Horatio Seymour
then Governor of our State, prepared and
brought to this City carefully written
Grafton wherein he nowhere recognizes the
Rebel government and armies as public and
formidable enemies, whose confidently expected
and speedy triumph involved our National
downfall and ruin, but. from beginning to end
arraigped President Lincoln and his Administa-
ton as the great malefactOrs of the age-the
chef sources of National evil and peril. Here
is a part of his carefully studied and most en-
venomed assault on them:
"a fow years ago. stood before this community to
warn them Of the dangers OF sectional stre but our
fears were laughed at At later day. when the clouds
OF overriding our country, we lmpored those III
told by that great and statesman Burke that there
never yet was % revolution that might not nave bceh
prevented by compromise opportuncly and graciousy
made lGreat npplause.I our prayers were uhheeaed
And, when tho contest was opened wo Invoked those
who had tho conduct Of affairs not to uhderfate the
power OF tho adversarynot to underrato the courage
and resources and endurance OF our own sister STATES
This warning was treated as sympathy with treason
You have the results Of these UNDECIDED warnings and
unheeded prayers; they have stained our sou WIN
OF homes and to-day they have brought our country
TO the very verge OF destruction. Once more | come
before you 20 offer again earnest prayer and beg you
this by Of the bioOdcst that has ever
ravagod the face Of the EARTH but we turn our faces To
our own loyal states how it thcre You find the com
munity divided into political parties strongly arrayed,
and using with regard 10 each other terms OF reproach
and defiance. 1t said by those who support more par
ticularly the Administration. that we, who der honest
the line OF duty are men OF reasonable pur.
poses and enemies to our country lueaI he ,to,
look upon tins Administration hostile TO their
rights and liberties. They look upon their oppo-
their most franchises need not call your atien
ton TO tho tone OF tho press nor to tho tone oil pubic
feeling TO show you how. at this moment parties are
thus oKaspcrated and stand in defiant attitude to each
other few years ago We were tSld tnat see r
country; but you have soon the sad and bloody
are that this irritation this feeling which Is growing
midst, shall not also pon into civil troubles that
shall carry the evils Of war INTO our own homes. .
Upon point all agreed and that Is this: Until
Until we have united harmonious North we can have
no benofcent peace How shall gam harmony How
shall the unity OF all be Obainedi 10 IL To bo cOercedt
appeal to YOU my Republican friends. when you say to
that the nations life and existence hang upon hsr-
moy and concord here II yourselves your serious
moments bceyo that this be produced by selling
PERSONS by infringing upon rights 10y insulting
our homes and by deprying usof those cherished prln-
always sworn allegiance" Great applause
Having thus grossly misrepresented and
DETAINED those who were trying to save the
Union from the conspirators in tho Free States
who secretly cloakod their treason and did
not disguise their sympathy with the Rebel
cause, Gov. Seymour turned upon the Repub-
licans, and thus addressed them:
1--WE oniy ask that you shall give 10 that which you
claim for yourselves, and that which every freeman and
every man who respects himself Will have, freedom Ot
speech the right TO exercise all the franchises conferred
by tho Constitution upon American citizens lGreat
Can you safely deny thesei Will you not
tnmpe upon your own rights II YOU refuse TO Lsteht
you create revolution when you that your per
may be righuly seized, your properly cOhhscated
yOr oioH INTEREST," 70 as great PERI as mdt rlh "hch
gou threaten usf Remeo'bor nis; that he 1ioofy ard
be proclaimed by MOB ds yell as by government
lApPlaaoeI ,o., ,os.os q, Commemorative. ,.bo .,
battle for time honored principles OF government amid
contumey and abuse are the only barriers
that stand between this Government and s own destruc
tioa II we should acqulesce IN the doctrine th9 IN
times of constitutions are suspended and laws have
very ig io} M viTinc and We would be bronght down
10 the level of rebellion itself having existence only
by virtue OF material power When mon accept deSpot-
ISM Mey may choice 10 rh0 hdt dcspot shall BE-
The struggle then VIII not be- shall we have consttu
ona hbertyi But having accepted tho doctrine that
lie Constitution has lost iis force ery instinct Of PER
s"o0I 1ubIion ersrU ipsiici of personal security ,r
edd men pH themselves under The protection 0f udt
potoer whieh they suppose most competent to guard her
persons.
Who can fail to see here the seed openly
sown whence sprung or baleful harvest of
riot, arson, rapine and murder, eight to ten
days afterwardf
But Gov. Seymour was not content with
holding up to repro6ation Inc President, the
Administration, and the party which sustained
them, as the guilty authors of our National
woes and perils. He exulted over our National
disasters and disappointments as follows:
"when accepted the invitation TO speak, with Others,
affVs lad
burg the opening Of the Mississippi the probable capture
Of the Confederate Capital, and the exhaustion OF the
Rebellion BY common consent. all parties had fixed
upon the day when the results Of the campaign should
be known. 10 mark out that line OF policy which they
moment Of expected victory, there came the midnight
cry for help from Pennsylvania to save It's despGed
Of this great commercial metropolis the ships VI your
burned 10 the waters edge
- This was uttered on the 4th of July--the
very day of the downfall of Vicksburg"-the
day wherein Lee relinquished to the Army of
the Potomac the hard-fought field of Gettys-
burg, and commenced his final retreat from
the soil of the loyal States. Gov. Seymour
had, of course, written it some days before.
But would no not have been wise enough to
suppress it, had he read The TRIBUNE OF that
wherein his attention must have been
arrested by these special dispatches:
Special Dispatch 10 The y. Y Trbun,
HANOVER, friday, July ), lotj-lne Dlost
OF has taken place our men never stood up 40
heroicaly. To-day the most awful OF all The loss
sides has been tremendous We have LOnRstreet
prisoner sure. left the battlefield At g o'clock, and
reached here by relay OF horses We had the best OF the
ght today aud the General says II Couch arrivesto
night the victory Ia beyond chance. Alas III
Special Dispatch TO The n. y. Tribune
MoUNI CLARE, Friday, July 3, 1863, via Warrington.
The tight ragged furiousy TIL 10 O'Clock last night. We
took Gettysburg. occupying twohrds Of the HELD the
Rebels the other third Our forces opened on about 1000
Rebels. who covered the field this morning az daylight,
plagng dead. The Rebels hastily rctreated. The
lighting was the most terrific OF the The loss
both sides is heavy Gen Sickles wounded about
o'clock in the right leg which vas subsequently ampu.
tated. He is doing well.
We must devote one more article TO the 10y |
Of uornti. LIZ will harlly imneach