Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1868-08-14
Daniel 5. Dickinson on HoratIo Seymour

Daniel S. Dickinson on HoratIO Seymour.
THE following is an extract from the
speech of Daniel S. Dickinson, delivered
at the great ratification meeting nelo at
Cooper Institute, in the city of New YORK,
October 8, 1862. AS Mr.. Dickinson is
lifelong Democrat and in position to be
perfectly posted on Mr.. ,Seymour's record,
the picture he draws may be especially re-
freshing just now to those CONSERVATIVE
soldiers" who, at their late Convention IN
New York, committed themselves 10 tne
support of the Democratic nominee Ior Inc
Presidency:
"When the most atrocious conspiracy
which ever desecrated earth found devel,
opment in an assault upon our nationai
flag at Sumter, and in efforts to massacre
a half-staryed garrison placed there In
time OF profound peace, according TO uni
form usage, for no other otfense IMAM as
serting the supremacy OF their country s
Constitution, and giving to the breeze, as
mathematical thereof, the glorious stars
and stripes of their fathers; when the
brave volunteers, who were hurrylng TO
the defense of our nations capital to save
it from mob rule and rebellion and con-
fagration, were bleeding by traltorous
hands; when strong men trembled when
women wept, and children fnstlnctlveiy,
chung closer to the maternal bosom when
all communication between the loyal
States and the capital was cut OH by re-
bellious forces; when the Presldent-elect
of the United States had then recently
reached the seat of government, where
duty called him, by clrcultous
and an unusual route. and in dis
guise, to escape the dagger OF the assassin,
and when our land was filled with excite
ment, and CONSERVATION and alarm-when
shrieked the timid and stood still the
brave and the confiding masses looked
about to see who were the men for the
crisis, among the citizens of the Empire
State, who had borne a part in public al
fairs, and were naturally looked up to in
such crisis, he, (Horatio Seymour) hied
himself away upon the double-quick in
the opposite direction laughter, and 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 de-
nouncing the rebellion as those OF the
murdered volunteers, whose ghosts
walked unrevenged amongst u.s. lSensa-
ton. There we may suppose he basked
and balanced, and watched and waited,
and turned and twisted, laughter, until
autumn, when small knot of defunct,
defeated, desperate and despicable politi-
clans, who had for years hung upon the
subsistence department of the Democratic
party in this State, came to his relief by
entering the field. Laughter They Dor
rowed without leave the honored name OF
Dmocracy, under which to perpetrate their
covert treason, as the hypocrite
"'Stole the livery Of the Court of Heaven
To serve the devil in
"Their disgraceful and disloyal record
stands out as the doings of men too stolid
in political depravity to be gifted with
| ordinary 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 a
warning to trimmers and traitors, and
PARTICLES and ingrates, through all future
| time.
"This movement drew the secluded one
| from his hiding place, and he came forth,
with all the courage of him who, in a con-
| f1ict with his wife, being driven under the
bed, while remaining thus esconced, de-
clared that whether she consented or not,
he would look out through a knot-hole in
the clap-boards, so long as he had the
spirit of man! Great and repeated
laughter and applause.] He entered the
| political canvass, and on the 2Sth of Oct,
| 1861, a few days before the election, made
speech, the burden of which was an
apology for the rebellion, and cOndem-
nation of the administration for having
meted out the rigor of martial law to those
in arms against the Government. Though
Astounding with fiimsy DISCUSSES and So
phistical generalities, it contained one
| point worthy of not only notice, but OF
the severest apprehension, and here it is
elf 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 cannot give them the protection
guaranteed by its terms
| "What! Place this glorious Union
| this heritage of human hope-thIs asylum
for the worlds weary pill grim this refuge
| for the oppressed Of the earth, in the
| scale of being beneath the black and
bloated and bloody, the corrupt and the
| corrupting-the stultified and the stultify
| ing institution of slavery! No! Sooner
than see this Union severed, let not only
the institution perish whenever and
wherever it can be found, but let the hab
| itations that have known it perish with it,
and be known; no more forever. Tire
| mendous and long-continued applause
That's so.' That's the talk Three
cheers And yet this returning fugitive
from patriotism proclaimed as his creed
| in effect, if not in terms, that if either
slavery or the Union must be destroyed, il
| must be the Union! And the name Of
this man is Horatio Seymour.a [Sensa
toni