Year: 1868

Hon. F. p. BJair, JF.:'


SIR: tits an old maxim that a gooC


beginning makes a bad ending. Thi.


has certainly proven true in your case
/ Before the late terrible war had fairly


opened upon the country its scenes O
! horror and devastation, you sunffeC
! treason as did Jobs horse the battle
afar off. Now you seem unable tC


smell it, though its vOtaTies are pass
! ing by YOU in one long, dark line tC
/ perform at the ballOt-bOX what they
/ could not accomplish in the field, the
| last solemn rites over the Union. AS
! a general thing the Federal soldiers
| will vote on the side of the Union, and
! it is fearful to realize that the rebels
are coming up to the polls to UOte ds
| then fou0Ht-for themselves, i.e., on
| theirown side. If Governor Seymour
should be elected and fail to carry out
/ their views and policy, how long Go


YOU suppose it would be before he
I would be put out of the way to make
room for gOu? Do you think that
men who tried to overthrow the gov
ernment and killed one President, to
accomplish their purpose, would hesi-
I y
/ have s1Ieh a certain representative OF


their principles as yourself? | write
these words, General, for no idle puF-
pose. We live in bloody and revOlu-
| tionary times, and there is no way we
can Judge of the future so accurately
as by the uast. There is many a Booth
left among the guilty cOnspiritOrs
against the nations life. 1t would be
| folly to talk Of their being


but one. No great rebellion or FevO-
Iution was ever satisfied with a single
victim. One after another is dis
matched. as occasion may demand ;
and if Seymour should fail to be eX-
tremelv radical-fail to follow Hamp-
ton and Valandigham and their ilk,
and should not dienaturalIy, he would
hardly be permitted to survive long.


Then Won would be the President /;
and what sort Of a President do YOU
think YOU would make? I ask YOU
this question, General, and would like


to know YOUR opinion. ] ask it also
oftbe country, and would like to know
of The lOval, patriotic masses what
fbev think of it. Do they think they
had better run the risk of
having YOU for President? Do they
think that risk is slight or great? In
the event Of the election Of Seymour
and Blair" it is not a debatable point
that it would be great-Us5Y great
and if the people fail to act in view OF
that fact, they are blind to their vital
interest. 1t is time to give the alarm
when the rebels are maTshaled in a
body TO fight the battle over, except on
a different field. I do not charge that
their system Of warfare begets assas-
sins. and is cruel and vindictive. FROM
the finer sensibiHties of the heart be-
inc bIunted by the institution of sla-
very. The Staying OF the surrendered
nrisoners at Fort Pillow, by Forrest,
who was a member OF the New York
convention, was nothing but a private
and Infamous Assassination.


want you, sir, to make q note of
the following facts, and may they
bs7rn down to the very core of your
heart. that you may have some ava
kening sense Of your shame, and the
danger you are aiding TO preeipitate
uDon the country:


First. That there is scarcely a score
of men in the whole South who en-
gagged in the war against the govern
ment that is not for Seymour and
Blair"


Second. That there Is not a man in
the South who adhered to the Union
during the war that is not for ''Grant
and COlfax-n


Third. That there is not a news
paper in the South which sustained
the rebellion that is not sustaining
seymour and Blair.U


Fourth. That there is not a man in