enant-Governor, Lyman Tremaine of Albany; Canal Commissioner,
Oliver Ladue of Herkimer; Prison Inspector, Andreas Willman of New
York; Clerk of Appeals, Charles Hughes of Washington.]

Parke Godwin of Queens, from the committee on resolutions, presented
the platform. Among other issues it urged the most vigorous
prosecution of the war; hailed, with the profoundest satisfaction, the
emancipation proclamation; and expressed pride in the knowledge that
the Republic's only enemies "are the savages of the West, the rebels
of the South, their sympathisers and supporters of the North, and the
despots of Europe."

The campaign opened with unexampled bitterness. Seymour's convention
speech inflamed the Republican party, and its press, recalling his
address at the Peace convention in January, 1861, seemed to uncork its
pent-up indignation. The _Tribune_ pronounced him a "consummate
demagogue," "radically dishonest," and the author of sentiments that
"will be read throughout the rebel States with unalloyed delight,"
since "their whole drift tends to encourage treason and paralyse the
arm of those who strike for the Union."[840] It disclosed Seymour's
intimate relations with "Vallandigham and the school of Democrats who
do not disguise their sympathy with traitors nor their hostility to
war," and predicted "that, if elected, Jeff Davis will regard his
success as a triumph."[841] Odious comparisons also became frequent.
Wadsworth at Bull Run was contrasted with Seymour's prediction that
the Union's foes could not be subdued.[842] Seymour's supporters, it
was said, believed in recognising the independence of the South, or in
a restored Union with slavery conserved, while Wadsworth's champions
thought rebellion a wicked and wanton conspiracy against human
liberty, to be crushed by the most effective measures.[843] Raymond
declared that "every vote given for Wadsworth is a vote for loyalty,
and every vote given for Seymour is a vote for treason."[844]

[Footnote 840: New York _Tribune_, September 17, 1862.]

[Footnote 841: New York _Tribune_, Oct. 8, 1862.]

[Footnote 842: _Ibid._, Oct. 9.]

[Footnote 843: _Ibid._, Oct. 24.]

[Footnote 844: New York _Herald_, Oct. 9, 1862.]

To these thrusts the Democratic press replied with no less acrimony,
speaking of Wadsworth as "a malignant, abolition disorganiser," whose
service in the field was "very brief," whose command in Washington was
"behind fortifications," and whose capacity wa