The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1871-12-01
FROM the Detroit Post.
Thc fOfip Of DtsEORrsiH.

coalcd, find them ont. Very often, un-
,apny devices coiuc hone IT, plague
their inventors. And when this doe.
occur, the instructive popular Judgment
is apt to say without much pause Tor
rehection--ans. indeed, there is but
little need for it -" served them right.
We confess to share in this feeling as
we witness moiety Of this rude sort Of
Justice, delt out through rank injustice,
to some Of Inc Democratic leaders IN
New York. Such man as Horatio
Seymour is now beaten with the very
means they have complacently used in
times past for the utter overthrow OF
Republicans. We entirely sympathise
with the manly and independent stand
which these gentlemen have taken in
recent events, although their course has
been as much matter of imperious
political necessity as of their own choos-
ing on any moral grounds. But, never
theless, there seems sort of grim humor
in tic fact that the wholesale repeating
and ballot-box stuf6ng Of New York
Democrats have been finally turned
upon such a man az Gov. Seymour,wth
equally as fatal effect as when employed
against bis political opponents.
John I. Hoffman took his seat rs
Governor Of Sew York COX the iitsJ
time in January, 1860 lie never was
elected to that high position by honest
votes III November of the preceding
year. lie never could have had u seem
ing majority but for the reporters aud
suffers of New York No one knew
that fact more perfectly than John /
Hoffman himself, unless it may have
been Horatio Seymour and Samuel J.
Tilden. But their party could profit
by the enormous and wicked fraud, and
hence there vas not only no rem0ns
trance, hut there was chuckliug acqul
cscenec. Republicans were poEerlcss
40 prevent the crime and equally unable
to secure the righting Of their wrongs
after il was committed. And so for
two years the gubernatorial Office OF the
great Empire State was filed hy II
usurper. It William NJ. Tweed is
guilty of the gravest misdemeanors--
and nobody d9ubt> il, always excepting
The Dt5roit Free Ire>s-Goy. Hoffman
has pro6ted iu more ways than one by
his tascality. And as far as polisical
action gees, &c have Seymour aud Til
den.
These leaders are not fools They
are as shrewd and keen as amy men in
New York. Thay have known all the
time that these enormous election frauds
were being perpretratcd. They have
known that they were systematized and
perfected from year to year, and that
they bound the intelligent and honest
electors of that great State hand and
foot, and delivered its political power
over to the Democratic party to do with
it what it would. Republican journals
were loud in their condemnation of
such monstrous and wicked state of
things. They pointed out the frauds
and proved them beyond ali possibility
of cavil. they demand Justice fairly
implored it. Seymour, Tilden Il Co..
heard all, saw all, knew all. But with
a complaceDt smile they went their
way. Those laughed who won, for these
frauds gave Seymour the electoral vote
of his State and put Hoffman in tn
Executive chair.
And now the same evil machinery is
turned against the guilty leaders who
never sought to prevent such Hagrant
wrongs, but were content to profit by
them. Horatio Seymour has been over
wheimed by the same corrupt and
sweeping tide. Could it be wondered
at if our regrets were somewhat modi-
fed at the spectacle of such men drink
ing of the same cup which they have
been free to press to other lips.
We frankly confess our hearty regret
that they have been overbornc, aud VIC
trust that Gov. Seymour may make
such showing as shall entitle him to
admission to the seat out of which he
has been cheated. But we also hope
that the impressive lesson taught by
/ these facts may be needed by men of
all parties, and not alone by those di-
rectly and personally affected. Honesty
is the best policy So proclaim New
| York and the Democratic party in their
, deplorable condition to-day. Dishones-
ty has been winked at, tolerated, and
finally courted, until great city is
writhipp in the tolls of robbers and n
great party is shipwrecked. Had the
leaders in each been simply honest, this
had never been. Had they cried aloud
and spared not when occasion demanded
it, ungracious though the task might
have been, they would have been infn.
itcly better off than they now find
themselves. Let public men aud par.
ties everywhere take notice. Like causes
will certainly produce like effects. In
tegrity-personal, political aud official
lis the fret aud imperative demand OF