Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1868-07-31
Dickinson on Seymour.

and whose unlinching democracy Wa
M only equalled by his noble patriotisi
!; during the war. Our readers will doub
Is less remember also that during that tim
a we published most of his speeches whic
were not only able and logical in behal
Of the right, but were noble specimen
Of eloquence and of the English Ian
;, guagc. When the war first broke out
. Horatio Seymour, instead of taking tn,
I active and cordial patriotic stand of hi.
brother democrats like Mr.. Dickinson
stood sullcn and looked on in dumb ST
> lence, and when he finally broke this ST.
lence, by declaring that if either the
Union or slavery must go under he pre-
ferred it should be the Union, Mr.. Dick
inson rebuked this utterance with great
severity in speech which is as appropos
now as if it had been made since the
nominations of Seymour and Blair. Thus
spoke the Hon. Mr.. Dickinson at Cooper
Institute in the city of New York, Oct.
8, 1862:
When the most atrocious conspiracy
which ever desecrated earth found deyel-
opment in an assault upon our half
starved garrison placed there in time
of profound peace according to uniform
usage, for no other ofense than asserting
the supremacy of their country's consti-
tuition, and giving to the breeze, as en-
blcmatical thereof, the glorious Stars and
Stripes of their fathers-when the brave
volunteers who were hurrying to the de-
Tense Of our nations capital TO save if
from mob rule, and rebellion, and confa-
grafton, were bleeding by traitorous
hands-when strong men trembled. when
women wept, and children instinctively
chung closer to the maternal BOSOM
when all communication between the low
al states and the capital was cut off by
rebelliOus forces-when the President
elect of the United States had then re-
Gently reached the seat Of government,
where duty called him, by a circuitous
md an unusual route, and in disguise, to
sscapc the dagger of the assassin. and
when our land was filled with excitement
md CONSERVATION, and alarm-wbcn
shrleked the timid and stood still the
'rave," and the eonfding masses looked |
bout to see who were the men for the
rlsis, among the citizens of the Empire
'tate, who had borne part in public af-
airs, and were naturally looked up to as
in such csisis, he (Horatio
eymour) hied himself away upon the
ouble-quick in the opposite direction
laughterl and for nearly half year
I'd himself among the lakes and rivers
nd romantic woodlands and inland towns
Wisconsin; and his tongue was as ST.
mt on the subject Of denouncing the re-
eiilon as those of the murdered volun-
'ers' whose GHOSTS walked unavenged
mongst u.s." [Sensation.1 There we Il
ay suppose he basked and balanced, !
I'd watched and waited, and turned and
listed [laughterb until autumn, when a
all knot Of defunet, defeated, desper-
;, and despicable politicians, who had
years hung upon the subsistence de- T
rtment of the democratic party of this 4
ate, came to his relief by entering the h
Id. | Laughter They borrowed with .,
leave the honored name of democro- :,
under which to perpetuate their COW Il
treason, as the hypocrite ~
NJ stole to.9 the livery, of the Court of Heaven "
10 serve the devil in" ''''H d
Their disgraceful and disloyal record NJ
'ndS out as the doings of men too stolid d.
political depravity to be gifted with Or Vi
nary instincts, and too regardless of the &C
puiar will to be mindful of shame and w
defeat they experienced at the hands oC
the people should serve as warpino ex
trlmmers and traitors and parricides re
mgrates through all future time I'll
is movement drew the secluded ono wi
m his hiding-place, and he came forth th
II all the courage of him who, in con- We
with his wife, being driven under the Tn
|, and while remaining thus ensconsed WI
lared that whether she consented or va.
he would look ont through knot. mel
IN the clapboards so long Ms bo bod ,lo
spirit OF man [Great and repeotod tio
5hter and applause]. He entered On ool
political canvass, and on the 28tb of ,.;o
ober, 1861, few days before the cleo. nsI
made speech, the burden of which ro;
an apology for the rebellion and al
formation of the administration for e.;o
ng meted out the rigor of mart;oi ~
10 those IN arms against the govern Init
t. Though Astounding with fimsv TOW,
uses and sophistical generalities It don
''ihed the point worthy not only of reel
r. but OF the severest apprehension Won
here it is: :" If it is true tina. slavery ILL.,
be abolished to save this Union orio
the people of the south shopld no
'ed to withdraw themselves from A
government ,rb,,L land