New-York tribune., 1876-09-01
A T1T1T PJTNDER.

For eight years the State of New-YOrk has
remembered great crime without oppor-
tunity to avenge it. The hour has come, and
the man. Once more, i'll spite of intelligent
leaders, the chronic wrOng-headedness and
Bourbonism of the Democratic masses force
old issues into prominence, for, as If IN de-
fiance, they put up as their candidate Horatio
Seymour, the friend" of rioters and candidate
of repudiators for whose sake the State of
New-Yorl was robbed of its electoral vote
eight years ago. In the darkest hours of the
war, when Peace Democracy was plotting and
triumphing in many Northern States,
Horatlo Seymour was made Governor of
New York by that party. The draft riots
followed. "Let me assure you that am your
" friend. You have been my friends. | have
" sent my Acknowledgement to Washington
"to confer with authorities there, and to
"have this draft suspended and stopped"
Such was the speech of the Governor TO the
rioters, and hands red with cruel murders
were uplifted then with yells for Seymour,
and have never failed to cast at least one vote
for him at every opportunity since. Already
he was the political friend of the rioters;
from that day to this he has been
their idol. We all remember what those
riots meant; treason as well as rapine
and massacre. In reality, Newly ork
was in the hands of rebel army, and the
duty of loyal Governor was to sweep the
streets with grapeshot. But Gov. SeymSlr
found "friendsn before him, and promised
that the draft should be stopped and this of
all men living, is the chosen favorite OF the
Democratic party in 1876. Yet there are men
+Io1 no oil will al
buried Year after year this same Democratic
party digs up its foulest crimes and thusts
them before the people for yindication. But
it implores the world to say nothing of its
past, and to let bygones be bygones.
Eight years ago, a convention presided over
by Mr.. Seymour adopted platform demand
ing payment" of the fye-twenty bonds in
deprecated paper, and taxation of Government
bonds in violation of the compact with public
creditors. Had that party prevailed, does any
man suppose that United States 4l2 per cent
bonds would now command par in gold? Of
such q party, Mr.. Seymour was made the can
didate, and in accepting he said of the resolu-
tions:
AS the presiding officer OF that convention, am
familiar with their scope and import of its mcn
bcrs am q party 10 their terms. They are In accord
with views, and stand upon them IN t3c contest
upon which we are entering, and shall strive TO
carry them out in future wherever may be placed in
public private life.
With this emphatic adoption of the repu-
dating demands of the party as his own, MIR.
Seymour appealed to the country. In spite OF
the infamous frauds by which the vote of his
own State was stolen for him he was defeated.
Eight years later, New-York being the battle
ground of the Presidential contest, shrewd
leaders have tried to make the Democratic
party seem here to be the party of honest
money and public faith. But in spite Of them
the party rushes back to HOratiO Seymour.
When his party digs up from his interment
the candidate of Vallandgham and repuda-
ton, what else can it mean but TO force
its most odious doctrines upon the coun-
tTyi The spirit of treason made Mr.. Sey-
mour Governor in 1862. Wholesale fraud
robbed this State of its electoral vote for him in
1868. Over 10000 fraudulent votes were re-
turned for him in this city. Only in the four
wards which Mr.. Greeley selected for illustra-
ton in bis famous letter to Mr. Tilden, the
Fourth, Sixth Seventh, and Fourteenth more
fraudulent votes were returned for Mr.. Sey-
mour than his entire majority in the State.
From those wards POOL votes were returned
for Seymour and only 3.l65 against hIm. and