The Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1865-1870, 1868-08-14
HORATIO SEYMOUR.

man. we can understand, UlaSet
and warped and fana,icai and intoleran
a. We are, how man can be gentee
and courtly and of refined department
and still belong to the Democratic party
Aaron Burr was e gentleman although
he did murder Alexander Hamilton in a
duel and conspire against the peace and
integrity of his native land. We even
reckon that JohE Wilkes Booth passei
for gentlemanly person among bis AS
sociates and We have the evidence Of
those amiable chroniclers, the Southern
editors, tina, Jefferson Davis is :" a
Christian gentleman" We reckon thai
the Devil himself has too much good
taste to be boor or backyard but
We believe it to be for the best interests
OF the country that neither he nor Sey-
mour nor any of his followers should
add an injury to the insult which the
Republic has received at Andrew Johu-
sons hands by succeeding him in the
Presi dental Office. The fact Is, it is
because Seymour possesses the polish to
talk sedition and treason in a polite and
plausible Way that he is to be treated as
arowerfu! and dangerous enemy eff the
country. 1t weuld be injustice to SO
nice q gentleman as Mr.. Seymour to
charge him with telling wiifal lies
(although the Tribune has made it ap-
pear that the urbaae Horatis INDUCED.
not long since, in Que of bis speeches.
in some very broad mistatements con
corning the public expenditures and
not to be outdone in politeness by the
nominee of tie Democracy, We are
constrained to give him credit for utter
ing his convictions when, iu January,
1861, at the Tweddle Hail Convention
at Albany, be delivered speech from
which the following ia an extract:
We are advised By the Conservative States
of Virginia and Kentucky that, if force is to
be used, 1t must be exerted against the united |
South. 1t weuld be an act of folly and mad |
ness, in catering upon this contest, to under /
rate our opponents, and thus subject our |
selves to the disgrace of defeat in al ing.u-
xious warfare. / t is also see if successful |
coercion BY the North is less revolutionary |
than successful secession bv the South. Shall |
we prevent revolution by being foremost in |
overthrowlng the principles of eus Govern
ment, and all that niakes it valuable to our
people, and distinguishes it among the Ia
tons Of the earth?
This speech was uttered, be it re-
while Buchanan was yet
President and more than a month before
Mr.. Lincoln's Inauguration. Mr.. Sey-
mour had many hard words for tie Re-
publicans but not single unkind ex-
preston toward the Rebels. We find
him uttering the sentiment that success
fol coercion by the North would be no
less revolutionary than secession by the
South. This reminds one of the rebel
'alk that used to assail loyal ears about
he time when Sumter was attacked. Ill
Is also part Of Mr.. Seymour's record
hat two months after his Tweddle Hall I
'peech he stated as his opinion that the
best way out Of our troubles was for
View York to adopt the Montgomery
Ton stitotio1 aud seek admission into I
he Southern Cenfedaracy. Condemn
ng Lincoln's Emancipation Proclama- !
ion, he declared in September, 1862
bat if the course contemplated by that Z
were necessary to save
he Union. it had better participating f
iavery above the National life. When,
n the same year, he was told of Wads- d
'orth g nomination he perpetrated the .
IKE: He will be strong candidate. u
'ur soldiers run ueU tAis year." As the l
riblne says, commenting upon this 81
q d'sspsit Of :Le geaUenaaly 3
CRATIC: n
Owing to the absence Of one hundred and "
enty-tve Thousand of our bravest and best W
the seat of war, Of whom not less than IL