He courageously admitted that a majority of the people and both branches of Congress sustained the policy of the President, but such a policy, he declared, subordinating the laws, the courts, and the people themselves to military power, destroyed the rights of States and abrogated cherished principles of government.
Here, Seymour acknowledges the support for the President's policies while warning against the dangers of military power.
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People were getting tired of bold action without achievement in the field, and every opponent of the Administration became a threnodist.
If Clinton was the Hampden of the colonial period, Robert Yates could well be called its Pym.
Indeed, he went a step farther in the way of irreconciliation, preferring Hoffman and Tammany, he said, to "the reckless, red-radicalism which rules the present Congress....
Of imposing appearance, he looked like a man formed to rule.
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