Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1868-08-29
Daniel S. Dickenson on Horatio .Sey.
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Daniel S. Dickinson on Horatio .Sey-
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The following is an extract from speech OF
Daniel S. Dickinson, delivered at the ratitica-
ton meeting held at Cooper Institute, in the
City of new York, Oct. S,-iS62. As Mr.. Dick
enson was a lifelong Democrat and in posi-
ton to be perfectly posted on Mr. Seymour's
record, the picture he draws may be especially
refreshing jusF now, to the Conservative SOL
diers" 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 atrocions conspiracy
which desecrated earth found develop
ment in an assault upon our national
flag at Sumpter, and in efforts to massa-
ere halt-starved garrison placed there
in time of profound peace, according to
uniform usage, for no other offence than
asserting the supremacy OF their eoun-
try's Constitution, and giving to the
breeze, as mathematical thereof, the G 10
rious stars and stripes of. their fathers
when the brave. volunteers who were
hurrying to the defence of our nations
Capital, to save it from mob rule, and re-
bellien, and confiagration, were bleeding
by traitorous hands-when strong men
trembled, when women wept, and chill
dren instinctively clung closer to the
maternal bosom-when all communica-
tion with the loyal States and the capi-
tai was cut off by the rebellious forces
when the President elect of the United
States had then recently reached the
seat OF government, where duty called
him by u circuitous and an unr sual route
and in disguise, to escape the dagger of
the assassin, and when our land was fill
ed with excitement, and CONSERVATION,
and alarm-when 'shrieked the timid
and stood still the brave" and the conf
ding masses looked about to see who
were the men for the crisis, among the
citizens ef the Empire State, who had
borne part in public affairs, and were
naturally looked up to as examples in
such a crisis, he (Horatio Seymour) hied
himself away upon the double-quick, i'll
the opposite direction, laughter and,
for nearly halt a year, hid himself among
the lakes and rivers and romantic wood
lands and inland towns of Wisconsin !;
and his tongue was as silent on the sub
ject- of denouncing the rebellion as those
murdered volunteers, whose ghosts
walked unreyenged among u.s." SEN
sation. There We may suppose he
basked, and balanced, and watched, and
waited and turned, and twisted, laugh
tnrI nnfIll ,r.ha,, l.,,,f
of defunct, defeated desperate aud despi-
cable politicians who had for years hung
upon the subsistence department of the
Democratic party of this State, came to
his relief by entering the field. Laugh
ter. They borrowed without leave the
name of democracy, under hich to per-
petuate their covert treason, as the hyp-
ocriIe
stole the livery of the court of Heaven
To Serve The devil in.
Their disgraceful and loyal record
stands out as the doings of men too
stolid in political depravity to be gifted
with ordinary intsincts, and too regard
less of the popular will to be mindful of
of shame and the defeat they expert
enced at the hands of the people should
serve as warning to trimmers, and
traitors, and parricides, and ingrates,
through all future time. This move
ment drew the secluded one from his
hiding place, and he came forth with all
the courage of him, who in conflict with
his wife, being driven under the bed,
and while remaining thus enseonsed, de-
clared whether she consented or not, he
would look out through knot hole in
the clap-boards so long as he had the
spirit OF a man Great and repeated
laughter and applause. lie entered on
the political canvass, and on the 2Sth OF
October, 1861, few days before the
election, made speech, the burden of
which was an apology for the rebellion
and a condemnation of the administra
ton for having meted out the rigors of
martial law to those in arms against
the Government. Though Astounding in
flimsy disguises and sophistical general
generalites, 1t contained one point wor-
thy, not only of notice, but of the Sc
verest apprehension: eff it is true that
slavery must be abolished to save this
Union, then the people of the South
should be allowed to withdraw them
selves from that Government which can
not give them the protection guaranteed
by its TERMS" What! place this glor-
Gus Union-this heritage of human hope
this asylum for the worlds weary
pilgrim-this refuge for the oppressed of
the earth-in the scale of being beneath
the black, and bloated, and bloody, the
corrupt and corrupting, the stultifed
and stultifying institution of slavery ?
No Sooner than see this Union sew
cred, let not only the institution perish
whenever and wherever it can be found.
but let the inhabitants that have known
it perish with it, and be known no more
forever Tremendous and long contin-
ued applause. "That's So" "That's
the taak-p Three eheersl And yet
this returning fugitive from patriotism
proclaims as his creed in effect, if not