Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1868-07-29

named them Midway Islands. and called
the harbor, which is an excellent one for
vessels drawing less than eighteen feet of
water, Welles harbor. The islands are
formed of coral reefs, give good water,
are over fifty feet in elevation at the
higheat point, and partially covered with
shrubs and coarse grass. The Paci &c
Mail Steamship Company will probably
use them for a coali1g station.
DANIEL s. DICKINSON ON HORAT1o
SEYMOUR.
The following is an extract from the
speech of the late Hon Daniel S. Dickin-
son, delivered at the great ratification
meeting held at the Cooper Institute, in
the city of New York, October 8, 1862 !.
As Mr.. Dickinson was lifelong Demo.
crat, in position to be perfectly posted
on Mr. Seymour's record, the picture he
draws may be especially refreshing just
now to those conservative soldiers" who,
at the late convention in New York, COM
mitted themselves so unreservedly to the
support of the Democratic nominee for the
Presidency: -92a2 U.s. .at5I ~
''When the most atrocious conspiracy
which ever desecrated earth found devel-
opment in an assault upon our national
flag at Sumptcr, and in efforts TO massacre
half starved garrison, placed there in
time of profound peace, according to uni
form usage, for no other ofeuse than as
serting the supremacy of their country's
Constitution, and giving TO the5breeze, as
emblematical thereof, the glorious Stars
and Stripes Of their fathers-when the
brave volunteers who were hurrying to the
defense of our nations capital, to save it
| from mob rule and rebellion, and confia.
grafton, were bleeding by traitorous hands
! when strong men trembled, when
women wept and children instinctively
chung closer to the maternal bosom-when
all communication between the loyal States
and the capital was cut off by rebellioas
forces-when the President elect of the
United States had then recently reached
the seat Of Government, where duty called
him, by circutious and an unusual route,
and 10 disguise, to escape the danger of
| The assassin, and when our land was filled
with excitement and CONSERVATION and
alarm-when 'shrieked the timid and
stood still the brave,' and the confding
masses looked about to see who were the
men of the crisis, among the citizens of
the Empire State, who had borne part
10 public affai rs, and were naturally looked
up to as examples in such crisis, he
| (Hortio Seymour hied himself away upon
the double quick in the opposite direction
daughter, aud 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 rebellion
as those Of the murdered volunteers, whose
"ghosts walked unreyenged among us"
| ESensation.] There we may suppose he
basked and balanced, and watched and
waited, and turned and twisted Tlaug hter1,
until autumn, when small knot of de-
funct, bela.ed, desperate, and despicable
politicians, who had for years hung upon
the substance department of the Demo
cratic party in this State, came to his re-
lief by entering the field. Laughter
They borrowed without leave the honored
name Of Democracy, under which to per-
petrate their covert treason, Us the hyp-
ocrite. ua@ a4s s1..a-eg5 al#s 1s
s'stole the livery of the court of heaven
To serve the devil in" p. -s.E. ... .e.
Their disgraceful and disloyal record
stands out as the doings of men too stolid
in political deprayity to be gifted with or
binary instincts, 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 paricides and
ingrates, through all future time.
This movement drew the secluded one
from his ,hiding::pIace. and he came forth,
with all the courage of him who, in con-
fict with his wife, being driven under the
bed, while remaining thus ensconsed, de-
clared, that whether she consented, or not,
be would look out through a knot. hole in
! the clap boards, SO long as he had the
spirit of a man [Great and repeated
laughter and applause. He entered the
political canvass. and on the 2Sth October
| 1861, few days before the election, made
a speech, the burden Of which was an
apology for the rebellion, and condemna-
ton Of the Administration for having
melted out the rigor of martial law to those
in arms against the Government. Though
Astounding with dimsy disguise and So
phistical generalitias, it contained one
point worthy of not only notice, but of the
severest apprehension, and here It's:
"If it is true that slavery must be abol-
ished to save this Union, then the people
of the South should be allowed to with
draw themselves from that Government
which can not give them the protection
guarante d by its terms"
What! Place this glorious Union-this
heritage of human hope-th 8 asylum for
the worlds weary pilgrim-this refuge for
| the onpressed of earth. In the scale of being