Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1886-02-16
STILL ANOTHER.
Ex-Gov. Horatio Seymour, Once the
Leader Of the Democracy,
Passes Away.

UTICA, N. Y, Feb. 12.-Ex-Gov.
seymour died at 10 o'clock tonight
It the residence of his sister, Mrs. !
Roscoe Conkling. lie began to fail
perceptibly at A o'clock this after
noon. Shortly afterward, he rallied
little, but soon relapsed into total
Inconsistencies. During his illness,
he experienced little if any physical
suffering, and to-day he was wholly
without pain. Mrs. Seymour, who
is very i'll, sat with her husband dur
ing the afternoon. Most of the time
the Ex-Governor rested peacefully,
and his condition could only be dis
-tinguished from natural sleep by the
ashen pallor of his countcnance and
his labored breathing.
AT $50 he was sinking rapidly /;
his pulse could scarcely be counted,
and the respiration was more and
more difficult, lie expired without
a struggle, and as peacefully as if
falling asleep.
The beginning of Gov. Seymours
physical ailments dated from a sun
stroke which befell him in the sum-
mer of 1876, while he was at work on
the roads ofhis town as Pathmaster
an Office which he was wont to say he
had asked for. The immediate cause
of his death was cerebral etiusion, the
usual process of death in old age.
AS yet no arrangements have been
made for the funeral.
Horatio Seymour was born i'll
Onondaga county, N. " May 81,
1910, and was therefore nearly 76
years old at the time of his death.
When he vase years of age, his pa
rents removed to Utica. He was
educated at the academies Of Oxford
and Geneva, N. Y, and Partridge's
military school, MiddIetown, Conn.,,
studied law and was admitted to the
bar in 1882. The death of his father
devolved upon him the settlement OF
a large estate, and withdrew him
from the practice of his profession.
From 1888 to 1889 he served on the
military staff of Gov. Marcy. In
1871 he was elected TO the State AS
sembly as a Democrat, was reelected
three times, and in 1S45 was chosen
Speaker. In 1850 he was nominated
for Governor, and was defeated by
Washington Hunt, the Wing candi-
date, by a plurality of 262 votes; but
in 1852 he was elected Governor over
the same competitor by a plurality
of 22,596 votes. lie was renominated
in 1854. The prohibition question
entered largely into the canvass
which was further complicated by
the Know nothing issue and the anti
slavery agitation growing out of the
repeal of the Missouri compromise
There were four candidates, ant
Myron II. Clark, Wing and Prohibi
ZIONIST, was elected by plurality o
300 votes over Gov. Seymour. II
1862 Mr.. Seymour was again elected
Governor over Gen. Wadsworth by
majority of 1882 votes. During hi
term Gov. Seymour commissions
more than 1900 officers in the vol
unteer service of the United States
In August, 1864, he presided over tn
Democratic National Convention a
Chicago, which nominated Gen. Nc
Clellan for the Presidency. lie ais
presided over the convention of 1S6S
held in New York. The leadin
, candidates for the nomination wer
George Ii. Pendleton, Andrew John
son, Thos. A. Hendricks and Gel
| Hancock. Gov. Seymour had pos
, lively declined to permit the use
his name as a candidate; but on I'll
- twenty-second ballot the Ohio del,
cation cast their united vote for hin
Wisconsin seconded the nomlnatio
# and the convention went wild wit
% enthusiasm. Amid the cheers whiC
Is followed, every State changed i
!. vote to Seymour, who was declare
i the unanimous choice of the convc
= ton against his protests.
&c Gen. Francis P. Blair, Jr., W
is nominated for Vice President. !
,e the election Seymour and Blair l
ceived 2,703,600 votes, against SOL
1888 votes for Grant and Colfax. Sin
us that time he has persistently refus
n to take any active part in politi
~ although his counsel has been CO
or stantly sought and given as to t
ID affairs of his party. His last yet
h. have been passed on an extensive a
,e- well-cultivated farm near Utica.
ds was President of the National Dali
ro mans Association, and also of
Prison Association Of the Unit
States.
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