The National cyclopædia of American biography : being the history of the United States as illustrated in the lives of the founders, builders, and defenders of the republic, and of the men and women who are doing the work and moulding the thought of the present time, edited by distinguished biographers, selected from each state, revised and approved by the most eminent historians, scholars, and statesmen of the day . in-terest of William L. Marcy for president. In thesame year he was again nominated by the democratsfor the governorship of the state of ^Sew York,against his old competitor, Washi
The National cyclopædia of American biography : being the history of the United States as illustrated in the lives of the founders, builders, and defenders of the republic, and of the men and women who are doing the work and moulding the thought of the present time, edited by distinguished biographers, selected from each state, revised and approved by the most eminent historians, scholars, and statesmen of the day . in-terest of William L. Marcy for president. In thesame year he was again nominated by the democratsfor the governorship of the state of ^Sew York,against his old competitor, Washington Hunt, whomhe this time defeated by a majority of 22,906. Theadministration of Gov. Seymour was eminently suc-cessful, although it occurred at a period of generalparty disturbance. The temperance agitators wereparticularly active, and the legislature passed a pro-hibitory law, which was vetoed by Gov. Seymour.]\Ieanwhile the repeal of the Missouri compromisehad thoroughly shaken the democratic party of theNorth, while the whig party was abandoned by itsleaders and was already making way for the repub-lican party of the future. All of these discordantand even dangerous elements had to be encounteredin the course of Gov. Seymours administration andwere met with the courage and fidelity of a states-man and a patriot. In 1854 Gov. Seymour was re-Bominated, there being four tickets in the field. HeIII.— was defeated by Myron H. Clark, the whig andtemperance candidate, by a plurality of 309 votes ina grand total of 469,481. In 1856 Gov. Seymourwent to Cincinnati as a delegate to the democraticnational convention, and gave his support to Bu-chanan and Breckenridge in the succeeding cam-paign. His views on the conditions and elements ofthe existing political situation were deemed to be ofso much importance that he was requested to givepublic expression to them. Accordingly, at Spring-field, Mass., on July 4, 1856, before an assemblagenumbering many thousands, he delivered an
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