Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1868-07-21
Brick Pomeroy--His views on Seymour
and Blair.

- ~1toNA"eA Poa hoNiHE tHC idT&cbG
circulation OF any Democratic news
paper, it is of much interest to know
what it thinks of the Democratic
candidates.
HIS VIEW OF HoRATIo SEYMOUR.
"We notice that Governor Sew
mour made a speech in New York ci>
ty on the 10Th of June, in which, the
telegraph says he proceeded to reit-
crate his views formerly expressed
on the financial question" What
those views are, as contained in his
Albany speech, our readers are fully
informed-precisely those affirmed
by the Jacobins at their Chicago
Convention-gold for bondholders,
rags for the people.
sit is we'll known that Governor
Seymour is opposed to touching the
financial qucstion-wants to leave it
to stand as it is, all in favor OF the
bondholders, and against the people
gold, and no taxes TO pay for the
latter.
with characteristic sophistry, he
fifteen years from this time" There>
fore he says its present discussion is
useless-it is not an practical guess
| ton
"Of the fearful consequences of
following Governor Seymour's advice
we have heretofore expressed our
views, and we now repeat them, on
the eve of the event which is to de-
termine the destiny Of the American
people.
Pomeroy then adds:
What have the Blairs in common
with the Democratic party? Old
Blair has been virulently working
against it, and doing it all the harm
in his power, for more than twenty
years, and during all this time-elu>
bracing the whole Of their political
lives-the young Blairs have been
ready and active co-workers with
their father in feeding his hate and
ministering to his thirst of vengeance
against the Democratic party.
"They all contributed, to the ex>
tent of their ability, to widen the
gulf and increase the bitterness be-
tween the North and South, which
led TO the late tremendous convul'
sions. They were in every move
ment for the promotion. Of sectional
division and hostility, from the Free
Soul detection, under the Van Bur>
ems in l846-7-S, instigated and en-
, gineered by old Blair until the cleo
ton of Lincoln, and the Inauguration
of abolition diabolsm in the Capitol
Of the Union.
zone of the young Blairs, MEM
Der Of Lincoln's Cabinet, the other,
one OF his military tools-the civil,
ian damning himself forever, as a
public man, and placing an impassi-
bic barrier between himself and all
true Democratic fellowship, by bold
violation Of law, an audacions def
ance Of the Constitution in excluding
from the mails all Democratic papers
(which conspicuously differed in opin-
ion from the policy and measures of
the Lincoln Administration, and
when respectfully asked by the par>
ties aggrieved why, and by what au-
thority, such action was taken
against them, insolently answered,
as would petulent boy, when ques
toned why he had been guilty OF
certain misconduct, ~ did it because
, | had a mind tol'-and the military
member of the Blair family, making
his first demonstration in the field by
leading his regiment of brutal ruff
, ans against the unarmed populace OF
St. Louis, unfortunately shooting
down in the crowded streets, men,
} women and children, numbering by
!; wholesale an unoffending population,
and committing deed OF cruelty
blacker and more objectionable than
any Of " hich the infamous Suwar-
row was ever guilty, and, in contrast
with which the acts of women~whip-
ping Haynau, whom the sturdy and
Indignant brewers of London SO mer-
cilessly hooted and pelted appear de
cent and human.
And this too, he did-"becquSe he
had mind to"
"And who does not remember that
fine piece of political strategy-that
charmingly puro and honorable bit
of maneuvering between Lincoln and
young Frank Blair, during the wal,
when the latter, while holding o
Generals commission in the army,
got himself elected to Congress from
st. Louis.
Crank wanted to get into the
) House and be Speaker. If he could ;
MT be Speaker he wanted to remain
General. But he could not be a
member of the House and General
both at the same time.
''This had to be managed in some
way. So Frank and brother Mont
! gomery, and Lincoln, and old m an
Blair, got together to devise some
way of getting along with it.
"The result was eminently credit
able to the purity and ingenuity of
the parties concerned, and demon
strated that the Blair family will
/ not voluntarily give mp good thing
that they have in possession without
making sure of something better in
exchange. So it was arranged that
Frank should resign his Generals
commission and Lincoln should ac>
cept it, but not confer it upon any
any one else, until it was seen wheth
er or not Frank got the Speak ership
and ifhe did not he was to have his
commission back.
Sand SO it was carried out. Frank
did not become Speaker, and was
reinstated in the army, furnishing an
eminent example of the purity and
patriotism that prevailed in those
days, and for which the Blair family
has always been so distinguished.
| Thus were these young Blairs
the ready tools and co>workers Of
Lincoln and the Jacobine party dur
ing the whole process of the des>
truction of the grand fabric of free