New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1868-07-10

Had he but read The tribune OF that
morning, instead of trusting to The World and
The Herald he would have learned that Gen.
Lee had been defeated at Gettysburg the day
before and was now in full retreat; wmle
few days brought tidings that Gen. Grant was
marching into Yicksburg at that moment and
that Pemberton and his 10000 men mad sur
rendered and were prisoners of war. Gardner
surrendered Port Hudson to Banks on recelv-
ing news of the fall of Vicksburg. But Sey-
mour-thus badly informed, and supposing Lee
lord paramount in Pennsylvania-went on pour
ing hot shot into the Lincoln despotlsm
from the North, as he supposed his manlier
confederate, Lee, was still doing from the
South. Here is part of his arrangement,
every paragraph whereof would have elected
applauding shouts from every Rebel In Dixie,
had they been present to hear him:
"A few years ago. we stood before this community TO
warn them OF the dangers Of sectional strife nut our
fears laughed at AT later day wnen 'e oIouGs
OF Oyerhung our country, we lmploIeu sn1Se III
told by that great orator and statesman Burke hat there
never yet a revolution that might not nave peen
made ICreat applausel Our prayers were UNDECIDED.
And. when the contest was opened we lnVoheu tnoso
who had the conduct OF affairs not to undera te
OF the adYersarynOt to underrate the courage ana re-
sources and endurance OF our own sister states ms
have the results OF these unheeded warnings ana un
needed prayers; they have stained our son WIN WIN
blood; they have carried mourning lhlo
thousands homes; and to-day they have brought our
country the very verge OF destruction once NOR
come before YOU offer again earnest prayer ana peg
YOU TO listen to warning. Our country is not only az
this time by Of the bloodest wars That mas ever
GnT Swa I oya nsa States t6ee You d
muny divided INTO political ac ber erms o repTSac
and defiance 1t said by those who support more par
" all them
line OF duty. men OF treasonable purposes ana
t the other hand, the Democratic organization
70 their rights and liberties They look upon their oppo
nents as men who would do them wrong in regard to
their sacred franchises need not call your atte
ton 20 the tone Of the press to the tone OF public
feeling 10 show you how at this moment, parties are
thus exasperated and stand IN defiant attitudes 70 eae
other. A few years ago. We were t0ld that secuohal
strife waged in words like these, would do no harm 70
country; but you have seen the sad ana 1iVoIg
results Let us be admonshed now In Time, anu luko
care that this irritation this feeling which Is growing up
III midst, shall not also rpen into cNii trOupes ~
shall carry the evils OF war into our own homes .,
Upon one point all agreed, and that Is TINS: Uh
we have united North can have no successiuI war
Until we have united harmonious North we can naIe
no benehcent peace. How shall gain harmony low
shall unity OF all be obtained Is to be cOerced
us that the nations life and existence hang upon mar
ony and concord here II YOU yourselves III your serious
moments believe that this is to bo produced Dy setn
our persons. by infringing upon our rights 10y insulting
our homes and by depnvng us Of those cherished P
cpies which fathers fought ana 10 whch we nave
always sworn allegiance" tGreat appauseI
After some variations on this theme, he con-
tinued his appeal to Republicans III these
words:
ave only ask that you shall give to us that which you
claim for yourselves and that which every freeman aud
every man who respects himself will have freedom Of
speech right Ia exercise all the franchises conferred
a1panscl Can you safely deny rs these Will YOU not
tramplc upon your rights II you refuse To listen
sons may be ghtfuly seized your property conscacd,
your homes entered you mol exposing y0iTsclrcs,
o tbreaten usf Re,nemJer MS: that ne bloody. and
reasonable and revolutionary doctrine OF Pubhc necessity
can be proclaimed byG MOB as ioeH as 6y a government
To-day the great masses Of Conservatives who SIN
battle for time honored principles Of government, amid
denuncatiOn conumey and abuse are the only barriers
that stand between this Government and It's own destruc
ton. II should acquiesce In the doctrine That III
times OF war constitutions suspended, and laws have
lost their force then should accept doctrine that the
power has lost its virtue. and would be brought down
TO the level Of rebellion ITSELF having existence only
by virtue OF material power. When men accept desot
ism they may have choice 10 who the despot shall be-
The struggle then viii not be. shall We nave consltu
tIOnal bortyi But, having accepted the doctrine mat
the Constitution lost It's force every instinct OF per
sonal ambition. every instinct OF personal security WI
lead put themselves under the protection OF ihh
power winch they suppose most competent to guard
their persons"
Such was the /" fire in the rear which,
though opened too late to avail Lee in Penn
sylvania, served to stir up the great Rebellion
in this City, whereby so many houses were
u,
wolves. hanged and burned when caught, and
the Colored Orphan Asylum pillaged and
burned to the ground. 1t was body of those
Rebel rioters, fresh from the sack OF The
TRIBUNE office. which they fired and
would have burned but for the prompt
interpositon of the Police, that he ad-
dressed as friends" and begged to desist
from their work while he should send to
Washington and get the draft (Which was their
pretexD postponed or ayerted. Not one indig-
nant IemOnstrance, not one earnest threat, not
one word evincng displeasuTe, did he address
to the miscreants whose dens were then glutted
with plumber as their hands were red with
murder.
The next Autumn. Seymour procured re-
nomination for Governor by his characters
tic dodge of affecting to decline, and stumped
the State as an advocate of his own election
and that of Mcclellan and Pendleton. Every
where, 1--WE appeal to the thousands who heard
him. he insisted that no progress had been
made toward putting down tie Rebellion
Though Grant held Richmond by the throat,
and Sherman had taken Atlanta, while the
Mississippi ran free from the Ohio to the
Gulf)-that the credit of the Rebel Govern
ment in Europe was better than that of the
Union-and that our National Debt al
ready nearly equaled the value OF all the prop
erty in the country, rendering real estate value
less and industry fruitless. We appeal to those
who heard him to sustain our assertion that
every one of his carefully rounded and daily
reiterated paragraphs would have elected the
enthusiastic shouts of any Rebel army, as his
nomination in Tammany was hailed with the
frantic, stentoran reclamation of the thousand
Rebel Congressman, Generals, Colonies, &c,
there assembled, which have by this time
heen ecloed in every Rebel cOnclaye from the