The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1868-09-01

I money 10 ~ R0y
could produce in our country and
make at home had we adequate home
| protection
They tried to make the issue against
the debt, not openly, not with a view
to cause a " harmony of interests,
but insidiously attempted to produce
tionalism aud discomfort, and thus
shake public credit and destroy pub
lic faith. Quickly the keen and saga
cious rebels of the Preston stripe were
on the alert to aid in this object
Anything to prevent tranquility and
settlement Of our sectional Difficult
ties. Quickly. too, the bitter and
disappointed Vallandigham rushed
into the strife. and all seemed to indi
cate the overthrow of all conservative
Influences although the great majOra
ty of the Convention was Conserva-
tive and wished to conserve every
thing, and thus commend itself to the
But the Conservative influences
proved too strong, and led by Seymour
(who affected holy horror" of the
Pendleton movement and its nefari-
Gus objects,) they were repressed.
Seymour, with patronizing airs then
became par ecceiieace the leader of
those opposed to PeOdleton, thereby
getting into the confidence of Con-
servative men to stab them to the
heart, and leave them PROSTATE aud
bleeding at the end, as will be OBJ
served when we follow this unScrup-
ulous schemer to the last scenes
and fiDd him praising Pendleton and
shaking the hands Of his congratula-
tors, the chiefs Of the whisky ring,
the Prestons and Vallandighams, and
gloatiDg over the triumph they had
gained by duplIcity, bad faith, and
huckstering.
Here endeth the first chapter of
that wonderful Convention = that
CORY slaughter house, in which, at its
closing, the chief exeeutioner, Sey-
mour. stands, sardonicaliy grinning.
receiving the congratulations of his
instruments who had aided him in the
tragic scene, waving his long dagger,
dripping with the blood of his trust
ing victims, every one of whom he
had smiled upon, and drawn back
into a hidden recess, professedly to
whisper words of friendly aid and ad-
vice, and then, with an apparently
friendly arm around them, stabbed
them in the dark. s4g
CHAPTER II-Pendleton damned
the true men of the party, the real
representatives of conservatism. who
desired tranqility. who loug to be by
statesman rallied. But their pro-
gress was slow. Their headway was
often checked by fckle winds and
warning currents never before observ-
ed in that latitude by the Oldest
mariners, and threatened by rocks
and shoals previously unknown to the
most experienced pilots of the party.
Bad omens were constantly flying in
the political sky and hovered about
them. they knew not why or whence,
but caused the oft and ominous shak-
ing of the head and look of solicitude
between those who supposed . all was
fair." Little did they know that Sey-
mour was the Jonah till the fpal de-
noument, supposing that he was with
them; that his declinings were in good
faith; that his anxious and troubled
countenauce aud nervous manner was
patriotism and solicitude for the best
interests of the party; and that his
activity was to hafmonize upon Hen
dricks, the man whom all the great
and good, the conservative and patri-
otic, had supposed would be their
leader, with Hancock. the brave and
chivalrous soldier, as Vice President.
They would not believe, though often
warned. that Seymour could in turn
be plotting their destruc ion.
Did he dol Some things are as
strong in proof as holy writ" and
that he did plan for their destruction
can any one doubt2 Do those most
interested doubt it2 Party dominion,
party dcsrOtism, aud party pride may
cause the wounded and their friends
to remain silent till after November;
but when the ides of that fatal month
to them are passed, and the wIDtry
blasts shall drive TO the freside the
thousands who will discuss the past,
then the name of Seymour will be
connected with mahy curse for lgno-
be conriuct toward the patriotic men
who, in the great city of his 5 ate, as
sembled beneath the scOrching sun of
July to set up the standard Of victory
instead of going there to toll and
sweat In order to gain the empty hon.
or of giving him the compliment of
nomination. They will then tell their
disappointed listeners how the sound
of the cannon previously charged to
announce him as the chosen) fell and
ling red upon their ears as the signal
of defeat.
Pendleton out of the way, Hen
bricks advanced in the contest, Pack
er aud Parker abandoned johnson
was merely tossed from hand to hand
as plaything. With Hendricks,
there also was diversion to Hancock
and his native State, to secure him a
! place second on the ticket. resolved to
give him the compliment OF the vote.
Then New York went, for Hen
bricks, apparently in good faith,
certainly IN good faith on the
part of Church aud his immedi-
ate -friends,awhO seemed as much sur
prised at the final result as any. Dur
ing the whole progress of the New
York Convention was seldom wit
messed such duplicify, hypocrisy and
treachery as shown by Seymour. He
smiled on and stabbed all other can
didates by turns. Horrifed by the
repudiationists and inf 4tionists, un-
der the lead of the ambitious
Pendleton, he then, in his last
speech before the Convention,
closed by complimenting 2endleton
as the young and growing statesman
with a glorious prospective in the
West" and trading with his friends,
ru~hing int1 their arms, going for
Hendricks, and then deserting him at
the moment when he would chad the
ballot being taken then been an
nounced) have been the nominee
After being for Hendricks until his
! friends had victory within their grasp,
he then wanted the thirty three votes
of New York to be cast for Chase in
order to produce chaos, out OF which
| he could rise.