. Appleton's cyclopaedia of American biography . ceed with the construction of theBlack river and Genesee valley canals, and heshowed thorough confidence in the development oftrade with the west. He was once more elected tothe assembly in the autumn of 1844, and waschosen speaker in the legislature of 1845. In 1850he became the candidate of the Democratic partyfor governor, as a man acceptable to all its factions;but he was defeated by the Whig candidate, Wash-ington Hunt, by a majority of 262, though San-ford E. Church, his associate on the Democraticticket, was elected lieutenant-governor. I
. Appleton's cyclopaedia of American biography . ceed with the construction of theBlack river and Genesee valley canals, and heshowed thorough confidence in the development oftrade with the west. He was once more elected tothe assembly in the autumn of 1844, and waschosen speaker in the legislature of 1845. In 1850he became the candidate of the Democratic partyfor governor, as a man acceptable to all its factions;but he was defeated by the Whig candidate, Wash-ington Hunt, by a majority of 262, though San-ford E. Church, his associate on the Democraticticket, was elected lieutenant-governor. In 1852lir was a delegate to the Democratic national con-vention at Baltimore, and did all in his power tohave the vote of the New York delegation castwholly for William L. Marcy, but failed. Thesame year he was again nominated as the Demo-cratic candidate for governor, and was elected bya majority of over his former competitor,Washington Hunt. During his term there was astrong temperance movement in the state, and the 476 SEYMOUR SEYMOUR. legislature passed a prohibitory law, which vetoed, declaring its provisions to he un-constitutional, and denying its good policy. Inisr,4 he was renominated for the governorship,and received 156,495 votes, to 156,804 cast forMyron H. Clark, the Whig and temperance candi-date. 132,282 for Daniel Ullman. the • Know-Noth-ing candidate, and 33,500 for Greene C. Bron-son, the candidate of the Hard-shell Democrats. The vetoed lawwas again passedby the legislature,approved by , and after-ward declared un-i-iinstitutional bythe court of ap-peals. In 1856Mr. Seymour wasa delegate to theDemocratic na-tional conventionat Cincinnati, andhe supported theDemocratic can-didates, Buchan-an and Breckin-ridge, actively inthe presidentialcanvass of thatyear. In a speech delivered at Springfield. Mass., 4 July, 1856, he setforth the political principles that he had previous-ly followed and afterward adhered to. It givesthe key to hi
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