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Governor Horatio Seymour Autograph, Former Governor of New York, 1863, Arrest Proclamation to Extrad

Currency:USD Category:Collectibles / Autographs Start Price:80.00 USD Estimated At:150.00 - 300.00 USD
Governor Horatio Seymour Autograph, Former Governor of New York, 1863, Arrest Proclamation to Extrad
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This item SOLD at 2023 Feb 28 @ 16:26UTC-5 : EST/CDT
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New York, 1863. Horatio Seymour signature on a contract to the Governor of Wisconsin - Edward Salomon. The document refers to crime of larceny and the perpetrator fled to Wisconsin. Horatio Seymour (May 31, 1810 Ð February 12, 1886) was an American politician. He served as Governor of New York from 1853 to 1854 and from 1863 to 1864. He was the Democratic Party nominee for president in the 1868 presidential election, won by Republican and General Ulysses S. Grant. Seymour's second term proved to be even more tumultuous than his first one. As governor of the largest state in the union from 1863 to 1864, Seymour was one of the most prominent Democratic opponents of the President. He opposed the Lincoln administration's institution of the military draft in 1863 on constitutional grounds, an act which led many to question his support for the war. He also opposed a bill giving votes to the soldiers on legal grounds, vetoing the bill when it reached his desk. While not opposed to the goal he preferred to establish voting provisions through a constitutional amendment that was working its way simultaneously through the state legislature; nonetheless, his veto was portrayed by opponents as hostility to the soldiers. His decision to pay the state's foreign creditors using gold rather than greenbacks alienated "easy money" supporters, while his veto of a bill granting traction rights on Broadway in Manhattan earned him the opposition of Tammany Hall. Finally, his efforts to conciliate the rioters during the New York Draft Riots of July 1863 was used against him by the Republicans, who accused him of treason and support for the Confederacy. The growing accumulation of problems steadily eroded Seymour's position as governor. In what was regarded as a rebuke of his policies, Republicans swept the 1863 midterm elections, winning all of the major offices and taking control of the State Assembly. In the state elections the following year, Seymour himself was defeated for reelection in a close race by Republican Reuben Fenton.