The Sun.
London, England, 1868-11-13 00:00:00

pensation. The produce dealer takes his enormous inte-
rest of the farmers that raise produce. This unwise distri-
bution of currency lies at the foundation of much ill-
feeling against the bondholders. There are other great
wrongs to which I will briefly allude. We say that
taxation should be equal upon every species of pro-
perty according to its real value. The Republicans say
so too. They declare in their fourth resolution that it is
duo to the labour of the nation that taxation should be
equalized. With this declaration upon their lips, will
they tell us why they make it unequal ? Why, for four
years, they have allowed this conceded injustice to remain
upon their statute books ? They charge upon us that we
are in favour of repudiation. Have those who make this
charge frankly said how they intend to deal with the
public creditor ? We have said that when the agreement
was that he should be paid in gold he should have it, and
when the contract did not so define, he should be paid in
money as good as that which we use for the sacred pur-
poses of paying our pensions or rewarding the toil of the
labourer. We have sought to place the claim of the pub-
lic creditor among the sacred things of the nation's faith.
We have tried to sustain the policy of economy, which
should make his debt sure, and a wisdom which should
place the nation's credit so high in the annals of the world
that the public pensioner, and he who toils for the public
good in the workshop or field, should all bo paid in cur-
rency made good by a wise conduct of public affairs." Go-
vernor Seymour went on to say that if the Democratic
party succeeded in this election it could of itself not make
or amend the laws. It would only be able to hold the
vio'out leaders of the Republican party in check. It
could do no revolutionary acts. So far as actual
power is concerned, the Democratic President would
stand in the same position held by Andrew Johnson
His vigorous nature, his bold and resolute defence of con-
stitutional rights, his able assertions of the true principles
of government, have not saved him even from the violence
of these opposed to him; much less has ho been able to
inaugurate any invasive measures or any acts calculated
to disturb the public peace. Our hope is in the election
to put into the executive offices those who could stay the
tide of corruption ; those who could save from further in-
juries the system of constitutional government ; those who
could protect our people from legislative wrong. We feel,
too, that our success would be a rebuke by the American
people of the measures that have been condemned as
strongly by many leading Republicans and Republican
presses as by ourselves. If the candidates on our ticket
should be elected, and if they should prove capable, honest,
and true to their trusts, at another election the people of
the United States could go further and make a Democratic
House of Representatives. In time the character of the
Senate could be changed, and 1 believe the day is at hand
when the judgments and votes of the American people
will restore again to power that time-honoured party under
whose influences our country was made great and pros-
perous. None of these changes could be made violently.
None could endanger the public peace; but they would all
tend to promote the welfare and prosperity of these United
States.

General Blair does his best to neutralize what
Seymour achieves. He has been traversing Illinois
and blundering along in his attempts to explain
away sayings and writings which will not admit of
explanation. His Brodhead letter sticks to him like
an arrow well planted in a buffalo, of which the
poor wounded brute endeavours in vain to rid itself.
He predicted at St. Louis that if Grant were elected
he would " never leave the 'White House alive."
He did not mean that he would be assassinated,
although it looked uncommonly like it. What he
intended to convey was that Grant, like still water,
was very deep, that he would grasp the power en;
trusted to him and never surrender it ; in other
words, he -would erect himself into an Emperor, and
never leave his palace till he was carried in state to
the tomb. Every one screams at poor Frank, and
all he has got by his nomination is a great deal of
bullying and the credit of having wrecked the
party. Even at St. Louis, where he lives, they
have refused to register him as a voter on the
ground of disloyalty. Senator Henderson spoke at
St. Louis on the 21st October, advocating a modi-
fication of the tariff, the withdrawal of the military
from the South, and the payment of Bonds in
greenbacks. He defended his Impeachment vote,
and said he would vote for Grant—very inconsis-
tently, as we think, with his programme. Indeed,
if the Democrats should be successful in electing the
State Legislature of Missouri, some predict that
Henderson will be the rival of Frank Blair for
U.S. Senator.