New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1868-10-26
AT BUFFALO.

been a dead failure. Mr.. Seymour is to
genteel man to descend into the brutal
ties with which Mr.. Blair fires the hearts {
his auditors; he tries to observe the decor
cies OF life; and in this respect deserve
commentator. But, when his argument
J are absurd or sophistical his decer
manner is only added weakness and tn
result, from the stump oratorical point {
view, is lamentably disastrous.
Mr.. Seymour sets out from the cheese
watts and watermelons of Deerfeld to lea
torlorn hope. His party are to all in
tents and purposes beaten, but an effor
must be made, and he makes it. Their
could net be more striking confession o
weakness than that which result
from the fact that, while Gran
quietly smokes his cigar at Galena
bis antagonist should feel obliged to foregt
the comforts of home, forget the etiquette
which has generally restrained the Presi
dental candidate aud take the stump il
proper person.
And what has Mr.. Seymour to say for him,
self and mis- party? Nothing. He has no
noble-historical recollections TO recall; he
has no high aspirations to kindle. The Ian
guage OF humanity, of liberty of patriotism
the dialect of modern Christian civilization
| which displays its reverence for God by the
honor it pays to manhood wherever seen is
not found upon his lips. 1t could have NO
place there since it has none in the plat
form of the Tammany Convention.
There are three points in his speech
which are, perhaps, worthy ofnotice.
He alludes to the gentlemen who have
been sent to the United States Senate from
the reconstructed States as ''vagrant men,
who gained wealth and official position by
to the passions Of the public
and keeping alive disorder The
statement is a feebly- forcible misre-
presentation. 1t might do well enough
for the New Orleans Times, a jour
nal which, being chiefly owned by Massa-
chusetts Yankee and edited by an immi- |
grant from Nova Scotia, is in the habit of |
in filings at carpet-baggers but |
IS an utterance from would-be President |
I will hardly pass muster. The vagrant |
men in question are mostly ex-oGieers of
he United States army who, finding them
elves here, resumed their business or pro-
essions in the South, in the belief that the |
south was part of the United States.
some of them have invested capital, others
lave invested brain and work. If they
lad come from Ireland or Germany the
most of them would have been entitled by
aw to naturalization and its consequent
Olitieal rights. All Of them are firm
riends of the Union and the flag. 1t is
ertain that Mr.. Seymour has never been a
vagrant" of this kind No patriotism
,ver led him into the army of the United
states no spirit of enterprise ever led him
oward the South.
A second point is made by Seymour in
alling reconstruction failure, and citing
ne disorders of the Democracy at the South
S proof, which is very much as if one
Mould call some splendid palace of trade,
Ike the Moresque Building on Camp street,
failure, and then proceed to prove it by
MASKING the show-windows. By this style
logic you can prove the very govern
ent of the Almighty a failure" He is
l-wise, He is all-powerful, yet see how
en- defy his laws On the same principle
lristianity is complete failure. 1t took
me four hundred years to 30 establish it
at man could safely profess its truths.
) disciples. to quote the favorite phrase of .
.ymour, 'stirred up disorder" in plenty.
nd even now, see how small hold it has
! the realities of human life.
The Government of England has been a +
allure dozen times on the same prin- +
Pile. And we adj remember how COM !;
etely Governor Seymouris administration :
1868 was 'failHre;" how disorders, :
impaired with which those at the South /;
e small indeed, ragged in New York, and \
fed everything except the army of the y
lited States. Would Governor Seymour h
We relished proposition to "dispersen y
] government at that time because it was 4
liged to call on the United States for !,
iistance against the combined scoundrel- .
q of New York? Are the ten command Z
nts a failure because By permission of !,
evidence and Mr.. johnson a Whisky
ng exists? ri
In the third place Mr.. Seymour touches a
htly upon the Troublesome Blair ques- Il
n. u
It is really the great question of the can :
IS. But for the rebuke administered by :,
people to Blair, Mr.. Seymour would ],
have lowered his personal dignity by !,
ing the stump. Yet he lodges the real !,
mt with friskiness that does credit to Z
years. He has never heard Of the !,
oadhead letter, "God bless you" and :,
refore does not allude to 1t, but so far
bis memory serves him, the Republicans :,
ave declared that the Democratic nom
es are ready TO overturn the recon- :,
uchon laws by force, and this declara-
n be derides. Aud why shouldn't the =
publieans so declared The declaration
5 first made by one Of those anomineesP
isslf, Mr.. F. P. Blair If Blair was OF
INK or crazy when he wrote the Broad M
n letter, IL the convention who nomin- G.