Elephant folio broadside, printed in seven columns. 18" x 27". Some old folds and crimps, several fox marks. Good+. Seymour's speech is rare as a broadside. A prominent Democrat in the 1850's and 1860's, he had been New York's governor during the early 1850's, would become so again in 1862, and was the Democrats' candidate for President in 1868. Before the War he was a Doughface: a northern Democrat willing, even eager, to compromise with his southern brethren on the issue of Slavery. During the War he was a Copperhead. Seymour was a vocal foe of President Lincoln. He supported "the Union as it was," i.e., with slavery. Speaking nearly a year before Lincoln issued his Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation, he asserts, "I deny that slavery is the cause of this war. If it is true that Slavery must be abolished to save this Union, then the people of the South should be allowed to withdraw from that Government, which cannot give them the protection guaranteed by its terms." Though Seymour denounced "ambitious men at the South who desire a separate confederacy," he blamed more the "ultra and violent men" who fanatically seek the immediate abolition of slavery. OCLC 64445550 [1- Williams College] as of February 2024 ["Also issued as an 8-page pamphlet"]. Not in Bartlett, LCP, Sabin, or the online AAS site. Seller Inventory # 35295

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Title: SPEECH OF HON. HORATIO SEYMOUR! AT THE ...

Publisher: Utica Observer- Extra, Utica

Publication Date: 1861

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