The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1868-08-06


make it the arbiter in the struggle; but that
would be unfortunate, however right legally
or morally.
The Montgomery (Ala.) advertiser proposes
that the two parties "shall agree that the
Southern States shall not participate" in the
election. The proposition is impracticable,
and to the South unjust. But the idea on
which it rests is not undeserving of attention
as atIording reasons for conducting the contest
with the smallest possible dependence upon
the Southern States. The possession of a Re-
publican majority, irrespective of the South,
is for many reasons desirable, and it rests with
the Mort th to make it possible.
Address Of the Republican State Commit
tee-GOvernOr Seymour.
From the ". Y. World.
An address, Enthusiastically by the style from
the pen of Horace Greeley, is printed in the
editorial columns of the Irjbane and signed
with the names of the Republican State Com
mittee. This address to the Republican voters
of the State is a rehash OF stale Tribune edi-
torials with Tribune seasoning, and as it pre-
sents no new point, fact, or argument, 1t
merits no attention from the Democratic press.
We nevertheless extract its railing TRADE
against Governor Seymour, because in
composition of this kind meant to be copied
into all the Republican papers of the State,
made against our candidate with any sem
blance of truth
You know that his opponent Is that Horatio
Seymour who has been your deadlteSt, most
insidlous, most calumntous foe, from the day
when New York first. by the nearly unanimous
vote of her representatives In Congress OF b0Jn
parties, declared her inflextble 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 Lincoln. Thrice
defeated by you as candidate for Governor,
he was at last elected through the absence OF
thousands of you in the field where your coun-
try was saved; and his success sent your gall ant
where Stonewall Jackson frst called on his
fellow Rebels to cheer the last election of Ho
| ratio Seymour as their triumph. He Is the man
who addressed the draft rioters, orphan asylum
burners, aud negro killers of the great empo-
| rum as his friends, and was exultlDgly recog-
nized by Them as their chief. There Is not to
day an impenitent, implacable Rebel in the
| and in his heart echo Vance's boast that all
| they lost when defeated by Grant they Will
| regain when they triumph with Seymour"
All that this string of accusations amounts
to is, that Governor Seymour has been, from
first to last, consistent, strenuous opponent
of the Republican party. He is no turncoat,
like General Grant. Up to the time of Presi-
dent Johnson's Western tour, and for some
| time afterwards, the politics of General Grant
were the same as those of Governor Seymour.
Grant too, supported the Nebraska bill and
the Lecompton infamy." Grant, too, was
opposed to Fremont and to the first election OF
Lincoln. Governor Seymour's record on the
political questions which preceded the war is
more conspicuous, because his superior
talents for civil affairs gave him so
much higher standing than ex-Captain
Grant; but each, according to the
measure of his ability and influence,
resisted the fanaticism Of the Republican
party. If anti-negro politics up to the year
1867 be reason why Seymour should not be
elected President, it is equally a reason
and the rest would be glad of the election Of
Seymour, they would also have had no OBJ
lection to Grant, if Grant had continued tC
hold the same liberal sentiments he enter.
tanned when he made his noted ''White
washing report soon after the rapture be-
tween the President and Congress. Scarcely
six menths have elapsed since the Iriban,
was almost daily declaring that it would az
soon have Democrat for President as Grant
elected by the Republicans with such
politics as he had up to that time avowed
Such being General Grants political record
the Republican address really lays the lash
on his back, when it arraigns Governor Sey
mour for record of the very same kind
If all men are to be soourged with whip o.
scorpions who opposed Fremont in 1886 ano
Lincoln in 1860, the writer of the address viii
uIlN0 d BlodG many ueCpuglSo Ous VI biAO uO
publican party, and Grant among the rest. II
is a signal proof of the difficulty of finding
charges against Governor Seymour wheI
nearly every thrust made at him is stab al
General Grant through his sides. -..
Allowance being made for their unequal
ability and political standing, Governor Sey
mour and General Grant do not differ eXcep
that one is a consistent Democrat, and the
other recent renegade. Grant has bartereC
his principles for the hope of otlice he never
became Republican until the political syreni
began TO sing in his ears that communion
with that party would bring him to the White
House. The very charges brought agains
Governor Seymour by his enemies eXonerat'
him from all suspicion of making merchandise
of his principles. The perfect consistency o
his record is thes chief point made agains
him. He continues to be what General Gran
was until the gilded bait of the Presidenc.
was flung into his jaws by the radical ang
lers. If Governor Seymour, like so man.
tacile and Venal politicians, had mad
the war an excuse for deserting his principles
there was no degree of popularity nor an.
position which he might not easily hav
gained. Mr.. Lincoln himself stood ready t
support him for the succession, But Governo
Seymour was proof against all such allure
ments. In the politics of the last ten year
he has preferred the losing to the winning side
and the writer of the address is so wanting i
magnaDimity as to make this self-sacrihcin
bteadiness to principle q topic OF reproach
. He tells the ReDublicgng how MANY time