New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1868-08-04
APPEAL
To the Republicans Of The Empire state,
Fop Grant AND COLFAX.

People of the United States will elect Presl-
dent and Vice President for four years ensuing
and House of Representatives for the ALlst
Congress. Our State is, moreover, to choose
Governor and other State Officers, with an AS
sembly which, with our present Senate, is to
elect a u. S. Senator for six years from the
4th of March next
We need say no more of the Importance of
the struggle before you. You know that your
candidate for President is that citizen soldier
who led the Western forces of the Union by
Fort Donelson, Pittsburg Landing, Port Gibson,
Brandon, Jackson, Champion Hills, and the Big
Black, to the capture of Vicksburg; who, being
then transferred to Chattanooga drove Bragg's
army in rout and panic from its barely access
ibe eyrie on Mission Ridge; and, being again
transferred to the Potomac, set his face reso-
lutely toward Richmond and Lees army, and
held them steadily in view till both were cap
tured and the Rebellion utterly crushed out
You know that his opponent is that Horatio
Seymour who has been your deadliest, most
insidious, most calumnieus foe, from the day
when New-YOrk first, by the nearly unanimous
vote of her representatives in Congress of both
parties, declared her infexible hostility to any
| further extension of Slavery under our National
flag, down to this hour. He supported the Ne
braska bill and the LecOmpton infamy. He
did his utmost, but in vain, to put the vote of
our State against Fremont and against Lincoln.
Thrice defeated by you as a candidate
! for Governor, he was last elected through
the absence of thousands of you in the
! field where your country was saved /;
and his success sent your gallant and noble
Wadsworth to his fate near the spot where
StOnewall Jackson first called on his fellow
Rebels, to cheer the last election of Horatio Sey-
mour as their triumph. He is the man who
addressed the Draft Rioters, orphan asylum
burners and negro-killers of the great En-
porium as his friends" and was exultingly
recognized by them as their chief. There is
not to-day an impenitent, implacable Rebel in
the land who does not glory in supporting him,
and in his heart echo Vances boast that all
they lost when defeated by Grant, they will
regain when they triumph with Seymour.
The candidate for Yice-President, you also
know Schuyler COlfax is a native of your
State and she may well be proud of her son.
From poverty, obscurity and Orphanage, he has
steadily won his way, while yet in the prime
of life, to the third place in our Government,
which lie is soon to exchange for the second
Seven times elected to the House from district
previously represented by political adversary,
he has been thrice chosen its Speaker, and has
discharged the arduous and critical duties OF
that exalted station with an ability, dignity and
siduity, rarely equaled and never excelled.
Never accused of wrong or suspected or
vice, having achieved eminence without exct-
ing envy, and risen to power without having
made one personal enemy, his career is a sign
of promise, beacon Of hope, to every portion
less American youth, and his popularity is
bounded only by the wide circle within which
he is known.
His competitor is Gen. Francis p Blair, jr.,
who was likewise, while professed Republican
and Major General in service, candidate
for Speaker, but with no better success than
now awaits him. Gen. Blair secured his present
nomination by publicly proposing, in case OF
his partys success next November, the over
throw by Military force of the loyal State
Governments now established in most of the
States lately in rebellion. This proposal so
delighted the Rebel Congressman and Generals
convened in Tammany Hall that every dictate
of prudence and sagacty was defed, and
his nomination rushed through on a whirl-
wind of acclamations 1t was seconded by
Forrest, the butcher of Fort Pillow, as that of
Seymour had been by Vallandigham, the martyr
of Ohio--the only man who ever yet achieved
the distinction of being beaten 100000 votes in
q warmly contested State election.
Fellow citizens the platforms of the two
parties are before you. They differ vitality on
an issue of Good Faith against Reputation.
The Seymour Platform demands that the loyal
Blacks of the South shall be put under the feet
of the Rebel Whites, so that the latter may
take vengeance on the former for guiding and
pioneering the armies of the Union through
the swamps and forests of Dixie, and for swell
ing the ranks of those armies by at least one
hundred thousand muskets. The Grant and
Colfax platform expressly recognizes the duty
devolved on the restored Union of shielding
the humblest and most exposed class of its de-
tenders from Rebel malice, infiamed by the
spectacle of negro loyalty. The Blacks were
freed in order to save our country from Dis
union. They have been enfranchised to save
1t from vengeful Rebel domination. The Dem
ocratic party proposes their dsfranehsement
by usurpation and force. 1t proposes to assume
that they were never duly enfranchised, and
thereupon support their ate,,masters ia stamp
ing out the existing State Governments and
restoring the old Rebel domination under the
cry of "a White Mans Government" This is
naked revolutions rebellion within the Union
to achieve substantially the ends recently sought
through rebellion against the Union. The Rebel
az Goyernor of North Carolina has well said