New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1868-09-04
Comments bu The Tribune.

r,r Comments by Tie Tribune.
Mr.. Seymour is greatly mistaken if he really
supposes that the Republicans wish to make
this a personal canvass They oppose his cleo
ton not on personal. but emphatically on poilt-
zeal grounds--because he is the confederate and
chief of the authors of the late Shareholders
Rebellion, and because his election restores
them to the high places which they deserted
to plunge the country into the bloody abyss oil
Civil War.
Nor is it at all true that we seek to dodge
"the Financial issues or object TO having him
and Ills satellites "push the Debt and Taxation
"upon public attention. They could not please
us better. Those isSlies, that Debt and Taxa
ton, are among our strong reasons for keeping
Howell Cobb & Co. out OF power They had
the Government wholly in their hands-they
conspired to throw it away by dividing
and dsorganizing the Democratic party at
Charleston eight years ago. and thus bring
ing the Republicans into power They dad
this, not that they hated the Republicans less,
but that they loved Disunion more. They tell
us now that they loved the old Union ana
Constitution, but their acts contradict their
professions. They had the old Union, with
very moderate Debt incurred in the Mexican
War, and light Taxes Howell Cobb, rs Blu
chanan's Secretary of the Treasury, paid some
fifteen per cent. premium ON part OF
this Dobt, which lie Cancelled in order
to leave the Treasury empty when he
ran away to engage in the Rebel
lion, after borrowing money TO meet pressing
demands at tl0eIpe per cent He thus dcranGed
the Finances so as to leave III neither money
nor credit, while his fellow conspirators in
Buchanans Cabinet disnantled the forts dis
persed the fleets, and gave the command of the
bulk of our little army to q confederate
who betrayed TT into tho nntvar NJ the
Rebellion Thus was our Government
stripped, bound and phndered. Joy Dem
ocratic traitors, in order that 1T might
he easily overthrown: and thus was tho Re
bellon enabled to triumph over our distracted
efforts till confronted By the stern resolve and
slowly gathered resources of Ulysses >. Grant.
The Debt Is One Thousand Millions more to-
day than it would have been If Buchanah's
chief eounselols had not shamefully, treach-
crously abused their official stations 10 destroy
the Union whose sworn servants they were,
from whose Treasury they took good care to be
fully paid. ID 80 ...,-
Nor were they alone. While the Government
in Buchanan's trembling hands, was drifting to
wreck, Hoatio Seymour and his friends were
holding conventions III the North to strengthen
the hands and cheer the hearts Of the bOlder
traitors at the South. Seymour, in the Demo.
cratic Convention at Tweddle Hall, Jan. 81,
1851, abused the Republicans without stint for
not surrendering OF discretion to the traitors;
but lao had not the softest word of
rebuke for those who were then tearing the
Union TO pieces, The Rebel chiefs having de-
camped from the Cabinet and from Congress to
push on the Rebellion at home, Seymour de-
clared that Cali virtue, patriotism, and intelh-
"gence seem TO have fed from our National
Capital though there were two or three of
the milder type of Shareholders still left there.
His entire speech was devoted to exalt-
ing the strength and resources of the South,
and showing that the North could not possibly
overcome her. "The question is simply this,p
said Seymour, "Shall We have compromise
"atter the War, or compromise piihout Warp
but we did Mt have either. "Let us see,p
said he, eff successful Coercion by the
North is less revolutionary than success
"ful Secession by the South $50 we
did And lie virtually - declared the
Rebels in the right, by assuming that they
must know best what their own safety de-
handed. "To assume" said he "that our
"brethern in fifteen States lack the capacity
"to understand. and the ability to protect,
"their own interests, is to assume that our
Government Is failure, and ought to be
"overturned"-w it is MT, no thanks to
Seymour, Cobb g. Co. ......... ....
His bolder manlier friend and supporter,
James S. Thayer, (whom Slavery converted
from Wing into Democrat with Rebel pro-