Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1868-07-17
from the n. Y. Tribune.
HOTasio Seymour.

II the U8EocrdIlO OOHH8HElOu uaO
been intent on selecting tnat candidate
for President least likely TO win Repub-
lican votes and most certain TO arouse
and intensity Republican opposition,
| il could not have hit the mark more
exactly. Horatio Seymour has been
the deadliest most impl8eable enemy
/ tbrouzhout. OF the ideas which triumph
ed in the abolition Of Slavery and dis
cOmfiture Of the Rebellion. He was an
open advocate and champion Of that
Nebraska bill whereby Slavery shame
| lessly repudiated n solemn compact
whereof she had reaped the fun adVan-
| tage, and strove 70 Wrest froIo Free l1l-
claimed for q V&luaDle consideration IN
hand. For the victims IN Kansas OF
Border Rufdan arson, outrage ana muir
/ der, he had never a word Of cheer OF
sympathy he was for Buchanan
/ against Fremont when this State gave
the Pathfinder plurality of g. .0OO; He 3e
was for anybody against LAncoln IN
1850, when New York gave the latter
a cleaE majority of 5O, ,00o. Mr.. Lincoln
/ being elected, ne insisted that the Re
| pubicans should give up their cardinal
| principle Of No ExtentiOD OfSlafe Ter
ritory, or be held accountable for the
| Rebellion that the slaveholdeFsr would
otherwise initiate. He attended the
TWeddle Hall Convention, in Albany,
| Jan. 81. 1851 and there-because the
Republicans In s Congress kept quiet,
and did not ask pardon Of the Slave
Power for having elected Pres1qent-
assaiIed them thus abusiVely: g Z
'tWhat spectacle do we present to-daY2
Already six States have Withdrawn
from this COnfedeEacy. ReYOlutiOn has
actually begun. The term Secession
divests it of none Of its terrOrs, nor do
arguments to prove Secession inoonsist-
enk with oEr ConEtituti ton stay its pro-
grsss Or nastfRate ifs aegilaI All yir-
tue. iyatriOtisEII. and iI tsll i&shce, seem
to have fed from our National Capitol;
it has been we'll lilzened TO the cOnfia-
grafton of an asylu m for madmen-
some look On th idiodic imbeetlity J
soma IA BuIlan silence and some seat
ter the irebrands which consume the
FABRIC above. and bring upon all COM
mon destr1c4on. ls there One revolt
ing aspect IN this scene which has not
its parallel at the Capitol of your count
try9 Do you see there the senseleB INA"
beCility, the gaFrulOus idiOcy, the mad
petty personal passions and party puF-
poses, while the glory. the honor and
the safety of the country are all forgot
1--WE are advised by the Conservative
States Of VIM ginia and Kentucky that,
if force is to be used It must be exerted
against the united South. It would be
an act of folly and madness, in enter
ing upon this contest, to underrate our
opponents. and thus subject ourselves
TO the disgrace Of ~ aefeat in an IN
Successful coercion by the North is. less
revolutionary than successful Secession
by the South. Shall we prevent revo-
luton by being foremost in overthrow
ing the principles of our government,
and all that makes it valuable to our
people, and distinguishes il among the
NJ nffO dtF 4 tsr5lls frlJ
Gov. Seymour proceeded to demon
strate, after his fashion, that the South
was so strong, so earnest, so united
that she could never be put down, anC
that we had no question to decide but
this !:
"Shan we compromise after war? or COM
promise s0fthOlst war ?''-
which, you see, wasn't the real question
at all, at all.
A few weeks la5er Mr.. Seymour,
meeting Judge Charles H. Ruggies,
asked him: "Judge, have you read
the Confederate Montgomery C0nsti-
tuition? have and It IS
better. than ours (the Federal). Then
why not" he continued, 'Obviate all
difficulty, by simply adopting that [Con-
Federated Constitution ?''-that is to
say, by giving up the Union, joining
the Southern COnfederacy, and thus
making every State a Slave State, and
I
more. Such is the man, and such the
| ideas which have directed his political
course. Naturally, he kept on railing
more and more tiereely as President
Lincoln was constrained to strike di-
! reCtly at Slavery, the core and main
/ spring of the Rebellion, each blow at
the hideOus ''institutiOn" evoking his
decided, vigorous protest. When. at
| length Grants long pause before Vicks-
4 burg, and HOoker'5 failure at Chancel-
I~,,-g Il
determined advance into Pennsylvania, /,
the hopes of the COpperheads seemed on
the very brink of realization, HoratiO
Seymour, then Governor of the State,
came hither to deliver to his cronies a
Fourth of July OratiOn, wherein he ex-
! ulted over their Frightening prospects
thus openly
''When accepted the invitation to
speak, with others, at this meeting, we
were promised the downfall of Vicks-
1 burg, the opening of the Mississi ppi,
| the probable capture of the Confederate
| Capital, and the exhaustion Of the Re
| belliOn. BY common consent, all par
ties had fixed upon the day when the
results of the campaign should be
known, to mark out that line OF policy
which they felt that our country should
| pursue. But, in the moment OF expec.
ted victory, there came the midnight
cry for help from Pennsylvania to save
its despOiled fields from the invading
! foe; and, almost within sight of this
/ great commercial metropolis, the ships
of your merchants were burned to the
waCer's edge.''
Had he but read The Tribune of thai
morning, instead of trusting to The
World and The Hearald, he would have
learned that Gen. Lee had been defea-
ted at Gettysburg the day before and
was now in full retreat; while a few
days brought tidings that Gen. Grant
was marching inJO NicksburK at that
kmOment, and that Pembertun and his
900 men had surrendered and were
prisoners of war. Gardner surrendered
Port Hudson to Banks on receiving
news of the fall of Vicksburg. Bul
j SeymOur-thus badly informed, and
suppOsing Lee lord paramount in Penn.
sylvania-went ON pouring hot shot in
to the "Lincoln despotisIn'' from the
North, as he supposed his manlier con.
federate, Lee, was still doing from the
South. Here is part of his arraing-
ment, every paragraph whereof would
have ELECTED applauding shouts from
every Rebel in Dixie, had they beer