The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1868-08-20
Mr.. Seyin0ur's Calumnies.

Mr.. Seym0ur's Calumnies.
The New York Tribune truthfully says
that this country has never till now wit
messed the indecent spectacle Of candi-
date for its highest trust assailing the
party opposed to him with eeery form of ac-
rlmonlous and un Just reproach, and even
stoop by mean insinuation, to misrepre-
sent and traduce his illustrious competi-
tor. IF every voter could read and would
carefully considerthe letters of acceptance
of Grant and Seymour respectively, it
could hardly need farther argument as
to their fitness respectively, for Presi-
dent. In all that Grant has ever written,
there is nothing harsh, acid, abusive.
In all that Seymour has written on polit-
ical toptics, there is very little that is moi
abusive Of his political opponents. The
man is quite aware that, if History shall
honor those who crushed the Rebellion
and Slavery, it must draw very unfai
tering portrait Of Horatio Seymour He
is impelled to libel US as the only means
ofjustifying himself
An ingenious person who is unfamil-
lar with Seymour in the past, on perus-
ing his elaborate defamation Of the Re
publicans embodied in his letter of accep-
lance, would inevitably conclude that he
had some ne1c ground of assault upon
the Republieans-that we had recently
done something to provoke this effusion
Of gall. But no-seVen years and half
ago, when he could accuse us of moth
ing but electing the man of our choice
for President, and not getting down on
our knees to ask pardon of the Slave
Power for having dared to Go So he raw
ed against us, In the Tweddle Hail Con-
Tention, as follows;
What a spectacle do we present to-
day. Already six States have Withdrawn
from this cofedeIacy Revolution has actu-
ally begun. The term secession divests
it of none of its terrors, nor do arguments
to prove secession inconsistent with our
Constitution stay It's progress OF mitigate
its evils. All virtue, patriotism, and in
telligence, seem to have fed from our ma
tional Capital; it has been well hkend to
a confiagration of an asylum for malmen
some look on with idiotic imbeciIity
some III sullen silence aud some scatter
irebrands which consume the fabr C
above them, and bring upon all u
common destruction. is there one
revolving aspect in this scene which
has not its parallel at the Capital
of your country Do you see there the
senseless imbecility, the garrulous idiocy
the madened rage displayed with regard
to petty personal passions and party pur-
poses, while the glory, the honor, and
the safety OF country are all forgotten
The same perVading fanatlclsm has
brought evil upon the Institutions Of our
land Our churches are torn asundel
and desecrated to partisan purposes.
The wrongs of our local legislation, the
growing burdens Of debt an taxation, the
gradual destruction Of the African in the
free States, which is marked by each re
curing census, are all due to the neglect
of our own duties, caused by a complete
absorption of the public mind by 4 sense
less, unrea onIug tanaticism. &c, a..
From the man who could thus yitup-
crate US for merely resolyig that Slavery
should not be extended, what could you
expect when we had oYerthrown andabol
ished it? IF he hated and lampooned u:
in 81, would he not naturally execrat,
and defame us in 1882
In January, 1861, we had merely chos
en- Abraham Lincoln next President o
the United States. We had enacted nj
law, originated no policy, and were pc
where in power. Slavery had said to us
Agree before you inaugurate your Pres
ident to hand over half the Federal ter
ritories to Slavery forever, or the Unior
is no more - We could not do wha
was asked of US without directly, expires
ly repudiating themaih principle WHEREOF
we had just been accorded triumph
We were required to betray those VIII,
had trusted us or submit TO a dissolution
of the Union. Horatio Seymour second
the demand of the shareholders, 70
whom he had no word Of rebuke IN thes
terms
But the Republicans complain that
having won victory, we ask them {
surrender its fruits. We do not wisl
them to give up any political al
vantage. We urge measures Whlcl
are demanded by the honor ans
safety of our Union Can il be that the
are less concerned than we are
Will they admit that they have interest
antagonistic to those of the the Who'll
,f-l, IL
ritiees when they do that which is requr
ed by the common welfare.
We submit that to be hated and ma
hgned by such man is enduring honor
We might have won his plaudits simpl,
by being false
"A leading Democrat of Port Jervis