Bedford inquirer. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1857-1884, 1868-07-31
DANIEL s. DICKINSON ON HORA-
ITO SEYMOUR,

DANIEL S. DICKINSON ON noRA-
ITO SEYMOUR.
The following isan extract from the speech
of Daniel S. Dickinson, delivered at the
great ratification meeting held at the Coo
per Institute 10 the city of New York, Dc.
tober 8, 1862 As NJ. Dickinson was a life
long Democrat, and in position to be per-
fectly posted on Mr. Seymour 5 record, the
picture he draws may be especially refresh
ingjust now to those Conservative soldier"
who at their late Convention in New York,
committed themselves so unreservedly to
the support of the Democratic nominee for
the Presidency:
When the most atrocious conspiracy
which ever deseerated earth found develop
ment in an assault upon our National flag
at Sumter, and in efforts to massacre a half
starved garrison placed there in time Of
profound peace, according to uniform usage
for no other offence than asserting the su-
premacy of their country's Constitution, and
giving to the breeze, as emblematical thereof
the glorious Stars and Stripes of their faith
ers-when the brave volunteers who were
hurrying to the defence of our nation 5
Capital, to save it from mob rule and rebel
lion, and confagratiou, were bleeding by
traitorous hands-when strong men trem-
bled; when women wert, and children
instinctiyely clung closer to the maternal
| bosom-When all communication between
the loyal States and the Capital was cut off
elect of the United States had then recently
reached the seat of Government, where duty
called him by circuitous and an unusual
route, and in disguise, to escape the dagger
of the assassin, and when our land was filed
with excitement, CONSERVATION aud alarm
when "shrieked the timid and stood still
the brave, and the confding masseslooked
about to see who were the men forthe crisis,
among the citizens of the Empire State,
who had borne part in public affairs, and
were naturally looked up to as exemplars in
such crisis, he (Horatio SEYMOUR hied
himself away upon the double quick in the
opposite direction laughterl and for nearly
half year hid himself among the lakes and
rivers and romantic woodlands and inland
towns Of Wisconsin; and his tongue was as
silent on the subject of denouncing the re-
bellion as those Of the murdered volunteers,
whose ghosts walked unrevenged amongst
us. " Sensation. There we may suppos-
ed he basked and balanced, and watched
and waited, and turned and twisted laugh
teri, until autumn, when a small knot Of de-
fuuct, defeated, desperate and despicable
politicians, who had for years hung upon
the subsistence department Of the Demo
cratic party in this State, came to his relief
by entering the field. Laughter They
borrowed without leave the honored name
of Democracy, under which to perpetrate
| their covert treason, as the hypocrite.
.'StoIe. the livery Of the Court of Heaven
Their disgraceful and disloyal record stands
out as the doings of men too stolid in politi
cal deprayity to be gifted with ordinary in
stincts, and too regardless Of the popular
will to be mindful of shame; and the defeat
they experienced at the hands of the people
should serve as warning to trimmers and
traitors and parricides and ingrates, through
all future time.
This movement drew the secluded one
from his hiding place, and he came forth,
with all the courage of him who, in a
conflict with his wife, being driven under
the bed, while remaining thus enseonced,
declared, that whether she consented or not
he would look out through knot-hole in
the clap boards, so long as he had the spirit
ofa man! [Great and repeated laughter
and applause He entered the political
canvass, and on the 2Sth October, 1861, a
few days before the election, made speech,
the burden Of which was an apology for the
rebellion. and condemnation Of the Ad-
ministration for having meted out the rigor
of martial Law to those in arms against the
Government, Though abounding with
flinsy disguises and sophistieal generalities,
it contained one point worthy Of mot only no
tice, but of the seyerest apprehension, and
here it is:
"Ifit is true that slavery must be abolish
ed to save this Union, then the people of
the South should be allowed to withdraw
themselves from that Government which
cannot give them the protection guaranteed
by its terms. -
What Place this glorious Union-this
heritage of human hope-this asylum Tor
the world weary pigrim-this refuge for
the oppressed of the earth, in the scale of
being beneath the black and bloated and
blooly-the corrupt and corrupting-the
stultifed and stultifying institution Of
slavery Nol Sooner than see this Union
severed, let not only the institution perish
whenever and wherever it can be found, but
let the habitations that have known it perish
with it and be known no more forever.
Tremendous and long continued applause.
That's So" That's the talk. Three
cheers. And yet this returning fugitive
from patriotism proelaims as his creed, in
effect if not in terms, that if either slavery
or the Union must be destroyed, it should
be the Union! And the name of this man
is Horatio Seymour. Sensation.
Miafellangplls.