Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1868-08-07
A Soldier on Seymour.

N. l., on wednesday evening, July 10, |
was Lieut. Gov, Stewart L. Woodford, of
New York. brave and gallant soldier, |
Some Democrats present tried to hiss him
tio Seymour in the following eloquent and |
truthful language
"And now would that / could Justly |
close these words without reference to |
Horatio Seymour. Hlsses.l But fidelity |
alike to history and 70 MY old comrades in
the army, living aud dead, compel that
should speak of one passage in his public
history. make no attack upon Governor
Seymour as man. Most courteous and
gentle in his manners, cultured In mind
and persuasive in eloquence, his private
character is without spot or blemish. But
his official acts are proper subjects of criti |
ciSm. On the Fourth of July, 1863, when |
Governor of the State, he stood at the |
Academy Of Music in New York, and In
most elaborate address apologized alike
for slavery, the South and the rebellion.
He had. no word Of cheer for the patient.
man who was bearing the nations sorrow
in the Capital. Applause.l He had no
word of encouragement for our gallant
soldiers who that very hour were Crap
pling with Lee in life and death struggle
among the hills of Pennsylvania nothing
but illy.concealed sympathy with treason.
[ You are right Thank God, at the same
hour Meade gave the lie TO his eloquent
sophistry as he hurled Lee back in terrible
defeat from Cemetery Hill and Round
Top at Gettysburg; and Grants cannon
made strange echo TO his cowardly but
concealed appeals for compromise and sur
render as Vicksburg fell and Pemberton's
host cast down their flags in defeat. APP
plause,1 A few short days passed, and on
July 10, of the same year, the terrible draft
riots broke out in New York city. Now
donot charge that Seymour did not seek
to quell the riot. But do charge that
those riots were the natural, logical, and
almost necessary results of his speeches,
his teachings, and his public official acts.
1t was the logic of his polished brain
rooted and growing in the passion of the
mob. And then when the storm had
gathered, he addressed these maddened,
brutalized rioters as his friends, and be-
sought their patience by the plea that he
had sent his Adiutant General to Washing
ton to beg that the draft might be sus-
pended. When the tidings Of these riots
and of Seymour's conduct and speech
reached me with my regiment, l was
toiling along dusty road of Maryland
Applause and Kisses in pursuit of the
retreatinT rebels. Painting under the ter
rible heat, some falling and even dying by
the wayside, our men were still pressing
on. The loyal arms had been victorious
at Gettysburg. We were weary, but still
we could see the victory drawing nigh.
Like thunder from clear sky fell the It'd
ings Of this cowardly uprising at our
own home against the Government and
the flag. Strong men wept with shame
and rage. Firm lips closed in frmer
wrath rs they whispered the news down
the ranks, and muskets were gripped with
a vengeful feeling such as we had not
known before in skirmish and battle.
Could we have filed that day into Broad
way there would have been bloody reck-
oning, and short work would have been
made of his Excellency's especial friends.
[Applause We had left home to fight
your battles, and we felt that you were
bound to tax yourselves, if needs be, to
your last dollar to pension our widows, to
succor our wounded and to feed our little
ones We were there just as much for
your sake as for our own, and we felt that
when our ranks grew thin we had right
TO reinforcements that you were bound
in honor to send your young men, your
strong men, even if your old men and boys
had to work your factories and the women
had to till your fields. We were terribly
In earnest. We were fighting rebels. We
meant to stand up to our work, and we
very solemnly intended that you should
stand squarely up to yours Applause.
And how we cheered the soldiers who
were sent from our midst TO enforce the
law and uphold the honor of our flag
against the Northern mob You can now
understand how we soldiers feel toward
his Excellecy, Horatio Seymour In the
hour of our sorrow and WEAKNESS he had
no encouragement for us, no faith in our
courage and no faith in the final victory.
Now, in our triumph, when the dag streams
out ON every breeze, and all our land is one
again, we have no need for thee Horatio
Seymour. [Applause.] Let Southern
rebels shout thy praise let the burners
of orphan asylums, and the deserter
and the skulker from the draft twine
laurels for thy brow we will stand by
the old flag all battle SCARED, but glorious
in victory, while we follow the great
captain Of our armies, our own Ulysses
Grant. Applause. At the battle of Look
out Mountain, as, following the line of fire,
our surgeons climbed up the hilly steep,
they met four soldiers coming down and
carrying in a blanket a shapeless mass.
Laying their burden tenderly down, they
asked the doctor to look at their wounded
color Sergeant. His shoulder and forearm
had been torn away by shell. The sur
geon knelt, and putting the hair back from
his manly brow, asked, My brave fellow,
where were you hitg His eye unclosed
for moment as he family answered, AL
most at the top mo, no, my good man
whereabouts are you woundedY Again,
his dying eye opened, again his pale lips
moved, as he whispered, Il was almost at
the top, sir, bearing the flag, when the
shell struck me. One moment more and
should have been clear up He gave one
gasp, and his brave spirit was gone for
ever, And so, dear friends, is 1t with us
to-day. We arc almost at the top. In
faith and love we have carried the dear
old flag for four long years of struggle
until now We are above the clouds, fighting
as Joe Hooker fought up in the clear sun
light of absolute justice and right. Ap-
plauso.l Only once more close up the
ranks Only once more press up the
mountain slope, and we shall plant our
dear old flag clear up on the mountain top
of final victory for liberty and the rights
Of men. Load and continued applause. =
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