The Union flag. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1865-187?, 1868-07-17

oe'ng ldentihed with the service Of the na-
non at large. Seymour never held a patioo-
al gtheS bis whole public lie being identi,
hea with the politics of dis State. Grants
pu6hc record is summed up in the single
fact thai he saved the county in tue great
est crises to which it was ever subjected
His part in subduing the Rebellion eopld
nave been performed by DO other persoa, and
II Is not too much "a say that withou, hin
'ht Rebellion never would have been sub.
dued' OF seymour we can,Oniy say that he
AIDED not by a feathers weight to preserve
the udion. These contrasting facts are the
gtst OF the claims of the two men on their
respective parties for the nOminatioa to The
Presidency,
Horatio Seymour was born in PompeY, On
Ondaga eoaniy, n. Y, in 1911, and is now in
the 57th year Of his age.
Frank P. Blair, Jr, is selected as the Dem-
%oerstic candidate for the yice-Presidtpcy, to
balance Seymour upon the same principle
T. A
that our forefsthers in carrying their grain
to mill, having put the grain into uue eud Of
a sack, found it necessary, TO keep it from
sliding Of, to put a stone into the other.
seymour, with his peace record is the grain,
and Blair, with his war record, is the stone.
Seymour represents the North East, and
Blair the South West Seymour represents
the men who didn't fight, and Blair repre-.
sents the men who fought, bit was sorry for
it, Not to leave the figure Incomplete, the
ass that carries the sack is the Democratic
party. Frank P, Blair, Jr,, has a record
much more national and conspicuous than
Seymour. Mr.. BLAIR, ST., as the founder OF
the Blair dynasty, the editor Of The Globe,
aud Il staunch and valued supporter Of Gen.
Jackson, and subsequently an organizer Of
the Republican party and supporter Of Ere
mont, was Que of the most sagJcious politi-
cal managers the country has ever known.
Frank P Blair, Jr, was born at Lexington,
Ky, Feb. 10, 1921, was educated at Prince
ton College, n. j., aud removing to-SL Louis,
the profession Of the law. Enter
ing upon political life, be became a leader Of
the Free Labor or Emancipation party Of
Missouri. BE served in the Mexican war. Ia
lS4s be sustained Van Buren, and the Free
Soil party, opposing the extension Of Sla-
very into the Territories, aud adv eating its
Abolition in Missouri. In 1852 he was elee-i
ted from ST. Louis County to the Legislature
OF Missouri as,an Abolitiouist, reelected in
1854, returned to Congress in lS5C, edited
The Missouri Democrat, Il Radical Republican
paper, and continued in Congress until the
of the Rebellion. Entering the ar
my in 1861, as Colonel Of Volunteers. he was
soon after appointed a Brigdadier-G General BY
President Lincoln. He divided his services
Congress and the army to the great
OF bis present political associates,
who tried hard TO heye him either deprived
his seat in Congress or of his commission
in the army.
In 1855 he was appointed by President
Collector Of Customs for the part of
St. Louis. Toward the latter days Of Presl-
lent Lincoln's administration the Blair fam
ly fell into d%istavor with the Republican
party, who, at their Convention in Baltimore,
requested the remova! Of Montgomery Blair
rom toe Cabiuet. since then Frank p.
Blair and the rest Of the family have ranked
Is Conservatives or " soured Radicals, aud
importers Of reconstruction on the Rebel
basis. Mr.. Blair now turns up as a make
The grist which the Democratic
'arty is carrying to.the mill is not Blair
'ut Seymour.