Excerpt from Public Record: Including Speeches, Messages, Proclamations, Official Correspondence, and Other Public Utterances of Horatio Seymour, From the Campaign of 1856 to the Present Time; With an Appendix

IN presenting this compilation of the public expressions of Grover: nor Seymour during the past twelve years, the editors desire to say that it has been made as complete and accurate as circumstances would permit. No effort nor expense has been spared in this direc tion; yet, as the value of the work to those for whom it was prepared, editors and public speakers, required that it should be issued as early as possible, it is quite probable that omissions may have occurred. Still, nothing essential to a full and fair understanding of Governor Seymour's views on the various questions which have occupied the public mind during the period covered by this publication is wanting. So far as could be, the matter has been arranged chronologically. Where omissions have occurred in the chronological arrangement, the omitted matter, so far as discovered, has been supplied in an Appen 'dix, to which attention is directed. Every speech, letter, proclama tion, or order is printed in full. Messages to the State Legislature alone have been abridged, and in these only allusions to matters pecu liarly local in their nature have been omitted. N othing original has been incorporated into the body of the work beyond the headings and brief syllabus prefixed to the speeches, proclamations, etc., intended as a guide to the reader. In preparing this work, gentlemen of op posite political sentiment have been employed, so that no'objection might be urged against its perfect fairness.

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