Year: 1868

The two great political parties OF


the Union have put their respective


candidates for the Presidency in


nomination, and go before the coun-
TRY for their votes. The Republi-
cans, in nominating the wise, saga


cious, prudent, magnanimous, de-


termined and patriotic General who


put down the rebellion, challenged
| lDemocra to "match nim.'' That
party has accepted the challenge and
has named Horatio Seymour as the


match for General Grant. 1t is fair


and proper, then, that we should
compare the two men, their charac-
ter and their services, with each


other. And the standard of Patri-
otism and public service by which
the public sentiment of the country
twill try and test men during the pres


ent generation will be their labor
for the cause of Union and freedom
during the struggle over them. And
this is a fair test. For were it not


for the salvation, of the Union and


the triumph Of freedom, we should


have been left without q President,


without country, without any field


for craftsmanship, on the sure road


to anarchy and ruin. The men who


did most to. crush the rebellion,


therefore, deserve most of the ma
tion,s gratitude. .e-3.-


Tried by this test, which candidate
is the most meritorious What
Grant has done for the Union every
citizen of the United States, almost
every citizen of every civilized coun-
try in the World, knows right we'll


His career, beginning so humbly and


ending in such magnificent elevation
is complete and unbroken series of
brilliant service in the cause of the
nation. How at the very outbreak
of the war he rendered his services
in a modest and humble position, to
the government; how he went out
from the Adjutant Generals office
at Springfield, ILL.,, to take command
ofa regiment; how he won his grade
of Brigadier General; how in that
office he gave US the first substantial
victory OF. the war in the capture of
Fort Donelson how he marched
from one triumph to another until
the whole Missippi Valley was re-
stored to our flag, and the American
people with one accord recognized
Grant as the great General who was
to save them how, rising to the su-
preme command of our armies, he
prosecuted the grandest, most per
sistent and successful compaign in
history, which ended in the capture
of Richmond and the overthrow of
the rebellion-all this is part of the
worlds history, and part of every
American citizens's gratful remem-
brance. His services since the war
closed, though less brilliant and es-
sential, have shown even higher
qualities of fmind and disposition.
His moderation and wisdom, yet
firmness and justice, displayed in his
treatment of the subjected rebels;
his firm adherence to the cause Of
the country and of freedom his
magnificent executive Qualities, dis
played while holding the Office of
Secretary Of War, pro tenn, alike
make him q statesman, as well quail
lied to adorn the executive office as
to lead armies to victory, while his
entire civil career has been marked
by cander, modesty and Difference
20 the popular will which will make
him the best of Presidents in a Re
public like ours. 5 1..-t.. ~
= n comparison with this record,
what do we find in the history of
Horatio Seymour to entitle him to
the gratitude and the suffrages of
loyal American citizens His pub
lie and official career is limited to two
terms service as Governor of the
State of New York. He never served
the country in diplomatic or Con
gressional position. He did no ser
vice in the army Or in giving support
to the army. Of his first guberna-
torial service we have no record. 1t
is blank, filled up with the details
and pettinesses Of official life, but
with nothing in it worth remember
ing His second administration was
at a period when proper labor and
loyalty might have given him the
Immortality Of honor and gratitude
accorded to Andrew and Curtin,
Morton and Brough Taking office
as the close of 1862, upon the plat
form of a vigorous prosecution
of the war, and holding it during the
years 1S63and 1864, when the strug-
gle for the life of the nation was at
its bitteEest, Horatio Seymour chief
magistrats ofthe Empire State of the
Union, had power to. do more for
the Union cause than almost any
other man save Lincoln and Grant.


But instead of this, does not every
one know that the whole moral pow
er of his administration and his per.
sonal influence and intellect were ex-
erted to encourage the enemy, to
discourage our army and people and
to secure the triumph of a party
which declared the wal a failure By
his messages to the legislature, by
his speeches throughout the state,
by his babble about the impossible
ity Of success, by his attacks upon
the government for it's action in be-
half of the Union, by his persistent
and laborious effort to thwart the
government in its endeavor to raise
troops for the support. of the Union
by his instigation of and neglect to
suppress the New York riots, by all
the shameful and fearful history of
his administration. he has proved his
infidelity to our government, and his.
thorough sympathy with the cause of
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