Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1868-07-31
Devoted to the Interests Of the People.
DODGEVIILE. WISCONSIN FRIDAY, JULY 81 1868.

favorable to Chase, an astute observer
asked, care you quite sure of it?" He,
evidently, was not, and ne laughed at the
excessive greenness of the Herald in sup
posing that Mr.. Seymour would seriously
withdraw in favor of the Chief Justice.
"There is no compromise between right
and wrong" said another Democrat; ii
we suppose the Republicans to be right,
we ought not to nominate candidate; ii
we are right, we ought to nominate one OF
our own representative men, and not a
radical Republican of yesterday"
The Convention agreed with this gentle
man, and we have truly representative
man of the party, which, by its unscrupu-
lous devotion to the extension and perpe-
tuity ofhuman slavery, plunged the coun-
try into war; which insisted that the re-
bellion was successful until it was wholly
defeated, and which now claims that, as
the country would not be destroyed, it
shall be disgraced. Of this kind of patri-
otism and craftsmanship Horatio Seymour
is a proper representative. When the war
was imminent, and the rebel Senators were
seeding and all was doubt and darkness
and confusion, Horatio Seymour justified
them, and cast the whole responbility of
their crime upon those who, believing that
liberty was better national policy than
slavery, had lawfully declared that slavery
should not be extended upon the national
domain. When the war began, this pro
phetic statesman announced that it would
develop the resources of the South and
prove ruinous to the North. When it
became clear that it was question be-
tween slavery and the Union, Mr.
Seymour insisted that the Union must
be surrendered rather than slavery.
When the agony of the war was EXTREMIST
Mr. Seymour, then Governor, came to the
city of New York, and in public speech
derided the patriotic hopes of the coun-
try, and instigated a mob against the
Government then engaged in drafting
men. He presided at the Convention
which urged surrender to the rebellion.
Rejected by the people as Governor, he
appeared at Democratic. Conventions af-
ter the final victory of Grant and the
Union army to denounce the party that
had sustained the war, and to instill in
the public mind the idea that the war
debt was wicked creation of the Repub-
lican party, and that the taxation was the
result of Republican misrule and not OF
the rebellion No word of encourage
ment to loyal men in the field fighting
for their country-no syllable of sym
pathy with four millions of human beings
held in the most hopeless slavery by his
countrymen-no declaration Of any great.
generous, humane principle of public and
national action, has ever fallen from the
lips of this man, trained from his youth
to politics and to public speaking. A
plausible politician, an unscrupulous
partisan, the obsequious servant of the
only aristocratic class in the country, the
flatterer of the laboring man, and the
stigmatizer of labor, Mr.. Seymour is the
fit candidate of party which, in its
prime, sought to make of the American
Republica vast slave empire and in its
decadence, still inspired by the spirit OF
slavery, seeks to perpetuate class hatreds,
and to govern the country unjustly.--
Harper's Weekly.