Year: 1868

ernment securities were firm. Gold closed at 149 a
149}s, with q downward tendency.


Revolutionary Future with the Democratic


Seymour's Denial.


Mr.. Seymour has accepted the democratic
nomination again by formal letter. His let
ter was scarcely necessary, as he accepted
the nomination personally before; but it may
be that as he declined 1t great many times
he intends to accept an equal number. An
unnecessary letter would be foolish thing
from almost any other candidate; but Cover
nor Seymour is one Of the few who may be
safely trusted with pens and paper, for his
thoughts are so attenuated, 50 vague, dim and
impalpable by the time they are written down
that acres of them would not furnish SEN
tence that could be used with effect either for
or against him. If Seymours letter faithfully
presents the operations of his brain, that must
be the least positive and effective organ that
was ever encased in the Uranium Of a man of
respectable position.


There is but one point in his letter that
touches an important fact of the present can
vass. Mr.. Seymour has evidently seen the
harm that the Southern fre-eaters have done
to the democracy. He has felt that their
revolutionary declarations were alarming the
people, and, in view of this, frightened
for the cause, he ventures some SEN
tences intended to reassure US. And what
is the reinsurance he gives2 He only tells
us that revolution cannot follow democratic
victory, merely because the democracy cannot
get all the power Of the nation into their
hands at one election. "The election Of a
democratic Executive and majority of demo-
cratic members to the House of Representa-
tives would not give to that party organization
the power to make sudden or violent
changes" There Is to be no revolution, there
fore, because the Senate stands in the way.
Not that Wade Hampton, Toombs and the rest
are wrong In reviving the old ante-war style
Of Southern harangue; not that the demo-
cratic leaders North and South do not pant
to tear up and destroy the whole present
organization and retrace the steps we have
taken towards peace; but merely that the
democrats can at most elect only President
and House Of Representatives and with these
can do so little harm that the people need not
be pushed by fear Of the result to act against
guished gentleman has to give In favor of his
party. This looks very much as If the demo-
cratic trainers, frightened at the way Northern
sentiment takes recent democratic speeches,
had put Seymour to correct all that by some
smooth sentences in his letter, expecting con-
Hdently that he could erase from the public
mind all the impression made by the Southern
ire-eaters. But this Is the most laundering
correction we ever saw.


From the candidates own uttcrance, there
fore, We are assured that the limit to the
democratic disposition to make Sudden and
violent changes will be the power that party
possesses. We know what that limit is for
we have lamentable experience that party
possessing two branches of the government
will not be stayed in its extravagance by the
opposition Of the third branch. The demo-
Gratis, II the case arise, will End way to do
without the Senate, as the republicans found Q
way to practically thrust the President aside.
The people, therefore, must not rely upon the
Senate in venturing to trust the democrats for
q change. They mean nothing less than an
absolute change Of everything that q party
can lay hands on, and Q change conceived in
the most violent and anti-national spirit and
the lame denial of their candidate strengthens
the evidence Of this. Bad enough these past
years with the radical faction, we should fare
infinitely worse In the hands Of the democratic
faction, and our only chance is the election
Of Grant, and the hope that he will put down
all the factions and give grand assertion Of
the law.