Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1868-08-12
The Radical Policy Reviewed
and Denounced.

The following is the letter as corrected
in full, of Gov. Seymour, accepting the
nomination of the National Democratic
Convention for President:
| q UTICA, n. y, August 4, lSJS.
Gen. G. W. Morgan and others, Committee
etc:
Gentleman: When in the city of New
! York, on the IIth of July, in the pres
! ence of vast multitude, on behalf of
! the National Democratic Convention,
you rendered to me its unanimous nOmi-
nation as their candidate for the office of
| President Of the United States, stated
l had no words " adequate TO express
my gratitude for the good will and kind
! ness which that body had shown TO me
It's nomination was unsoUght and unex-
/ pected. 1t was my am bition to take an
/ active part-from which l am now ex-
cluded-in the great struggle going Ou
for the restoration Of good government,
OF peace and prosperity TO our country.
But have been caught up by the over
whelming tide which is bearing us on 70,
a great political change, and l find my
self unable to resist It's pressure. You
have also given me a copy OF The resOiu-
tiOn5 put forth by the Convention, show
ing its position upon all the great ques-
tiOns which now agitate the country.
AS the presiding officer of that COnven-
ton, l am familiar with their scope and
import. As one of its members, l am "A
party TO their terms. They are ia accord
with my views, and l stand upon them
in the contest upon which we are now
entering, and / shall strive TO carry them
out in future, wherever I may be placed,
il political or private life"
| fbnD GfafEd that I would nanH Won
these words of acceptance in letter, as
is the customary form. see no reason,
upon rehsctiOn, TO change or qualify the
terms of my approval of the resolutions
of the Convention. l have DELAYED the.
mere formal act of communicating to
you in writing what / thus publicly said,
Tor the purpose OF seeing what light the
action of Congress would throw upon
the interests Of the country. It's acts
since the adjournment of the Conveu.
ton show an alarm lest change OF po-
liticsl power will give to the people WHIST
they ought to hsve-a clear statement Of
what has been done with the money
drawn from them during the past eight
years. Thoughtful men feel that there
have been wrongs in the financial man
agement which have bsen kept from the
public knOwledge. The Congressional
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military power, which is 10 be brought
10 bear directly upon the elections in
many States, but il also holds itself in
perpetual session, with the syOwed pUT-
pose OF making such laws as 1t shall see
Mt, in view OF the elections which will
take place within 8 few weeks. L did
not, therefore, adjourn, buJ took e recess
to meet again, il its partisan interests
should demand its reasseu1biing. Never
before in the history of our country has
Congress thus taken q menacing attitude
toward its electors. Under its influence,
some of the States organized by its
agents are proposing to deprive the peO-
pie OF the right to vote for Presidential
electors, and the first bold steps are taken
TO destroy the rights of suffrage. Ii is
not strange, therefore, that thoughtful
men see IN such action the proof that
there is, with those who shape the policy
of the Republican party, motives
stronger and deeper than the mere wish
TO hold political power-that there is a
Or, Gd of some exposure, which drives
then on to acts SO desperate and so i'm
polite. Many OF the ablest leaders and
journals Q! the Republican party have
openly deplored the violence of Congress
siOnsl action, and its tendency to keep
up discord in cur country. The great
interests Of our Union demand peace,
order, and return to those industrial
pursuits without which we cannot main
tain the faith or honor OF our Govern
ment. The minds of business men are
perplexed by uncertainties. The hours
Of toll OF our labOreTs are heightened by
the cost of living; made by the direct
and indirect eXactiOns of Government.
Our people are harrassed by the heavy
and frequent demands of the tax
gRtherer. ..-
Without distinction of party there is a
strong feeling in favor of that line of ac-
ton which shall restore order and conf
dence, and shall lift Off the burdens
which now hinder and vex the industry
of the country. Yet st this moment
those in power have thrown into the
Senate chamber and Congressional hall
new elements OF discOrd and violence.
Men have been admitted as representa-
tives of some of the Southern States
with the declaration upon their lips that
they cannot live in the States they claim /
to represent, without military protec- |
ton. These men are to make laws for |
the North, as well as the South. These |
men who, few days since, were seeking |
as suppliants that Congress would give /
them power within their respective |
States, are to-day the masters and con-
trollers of the action of those bodies. |
Entering them with minds filed with /
p&ssions, their first demands have been |
that Congress shall look upon the States |
from which they came as in conditions |
Of civil war; that the majority of their |
populations, embracing their intelli- |
gence, shall be treated as public enc |
mics; that military forces shall be kept |
up at the cost of the people OF the North, /
and that there shall be no peace and |
order at the South, save that which is |
made by arbitrary power.
Every intelligent man knows that |
these men owe their seats in Congress to |
the disorder in the South. Every man |
knows that they not only owe their |
present positions to disorder, but that |
every motive spTinging from the love of |
power, Of gain, OF q desire for vengeance, |
prompts them to keep the South in an
archy. While that exists they are inde- |
pendent of the will Or wishes of their |
felloW-citizens. While confusion reigns |
they are the dispensers Of the profits and |
the honors which grow out Of govern |
ment of mere force. These men are now |
placed in positions where they can not |
only urge their views of policy, but where |
they can enforce them. When others |
shall be admitted in this manner from /
the remaining Southern States, although |
they will have in truth no constituents, /
they will have more power in the Senate |
than thu fnaiOritV Of the DeOple of this I