The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1867-10-17
NEW YORK DEMOCRATIC
STATE CONVENTION
Speech of Governor seymour.

he said:
We can not, if We would, escape from
confronting the problems of the day
Neither safety, honor, nor patriotism will
suffer us to stand dumb or inactive in this
dark hour of danger. We have put down
rebellion and now We are struggling with
revolution.
The first is sectional, the lsst is univer-
sal. The first sought to divide the coun-
try, the last threatens to destroy it, Mr.
Seymour alluded to the charges against the
President and charges against each other
BY members of the House of Representa-
tives. Even the Senate has purstted this
policy-revolutionary in its tendency; in
its blindness it il striking suicidal blows
against its own existence. Colorado to-
day balances four millions Of people in
New York. 1t vas admitted to gain two
7otes in the strugge with the Executive
But bolder act is in view twenty SEN
ators are to be admitted from ten States
lately in rebellion, not as Representatives
of white people nor of the blacks. but be-
cause they hold the views of majority of
the Senators, aud are sent to Washington
by their agents.
If this revolution is begun, it must 60
on to its logical, just end. 1t must not
roll on the nerks of the majority OF the
American people and stop there; but num-
bers must be represented, not rotten bor-
oul hs or sham States. We implore
Senators not to begin this revolution. Be
ganzation is at war with impartial suffrage
and impartial representation. If you con-
tinue your usurpation, the country may
not be content with driving you back
within constitutional limits.
1t may 20 further, and, acting upon the
doctrines you assert, it may crush you out,
and make another Senate, based, in truth,
on manhood suffrage. The country needs
peace, but if you will have revolution it
can not stop at any chalk lines you may
mark out New York, Pennsylvania, Ken
lucky, Tennessee, Illil ois, Indiana, Wis
cousin, Ohio, Missouri, Minnesota and
Michigan, with a majority Of the people,
of which are now virtually disfranchised
in your body, and controlled by the Rep
rescntatives of a quarter of our population,
if the government is to be re-shaped, will
have their full rights.
They are not suffering merely from the
oretical wrongs. The destruction of the
carrying trade of New York; and the over
taxation of the Northwest, shows how un-
equal distribution of power makes unequa!
business. During the war of the rebellion
We put the exertion of the Senatorial
power upon the weak head Of the enrolling
bureau in fixing the quotas of the States
While their purposes were to save their
) own constituents from the sacrifices of war
by SO doing they threw upon other States
the cost Of life and blood. In New York
this grew into abuse SO fragrant that even
partisan passions could not be blind to the
outrage But the northwestern States
suffered the most severely from this I'M US
tice. l have the official proof that, while
the average quotas In the Congressional
districts in Massachusetts, and New IIamp.
shire were 2,167,
In Illinois they were. 4.004
In Indiana they were. j, PAS
In Wisconsin they were. j, Il.
In Michigan they were. re..............3, 3,047
We ask the people of New England If
it is not time for them to stop the stupid
malice of their Senators to put a stop to
the teaching that New England Senatorial
power is in violation Of natural rights
We suffer in New York by the present
constitutional law, but we seek peace We
wish to uphold the constitutional powers
of all the States. We remember the glori.
Gus part they bore in the Revolutionary
contest. If time has changed their com.
parative population, we do not wish to strip
them of any political power. We implore
them not to teach doctrines which must,
in their ends, be destructful to them and
hurtful to the peace Of the country
What is the social condition of the coun-
try? l shall speak only of the situation
of the north. 1t is not possible to tasten
the Republican party to any standpoint as
to the condition Of the southern people -
They are in or out of the Union, as parti,
san purposes demand They must carry
} constitutional amendments, but they are
. pun shed if they vote. They must do their
; political duties, but are held to be criminal
if they take part in pubic affairs. The
southern people have to deal with political
problems more bewldering than the theo-
logical dogmas which are set forth in the
verse:
"You can and you can't
You will and you won't:
You'll be damned if you do.
And you'll be damned if you don't
The social state Of our country is alarm
ing. The public mind is startled with un-
usual violence and murder throughout our
land. Men, and women too. Kill those
who have done theL, no wrong. Lie and
property have become unsafe. Our people
learned to do these things from those who
should have taught reverence for the laws.
The seeds which were sown when men
were imprisoned, mobbcd, or murdered be-
cause they honestly differed from the par
ty in power, are now springing up in an
abundance Of crime, which plaques and
curses those who were actors in violence
or consenting witnesses to outrage upon
their neighbors. If, when an unworthy
secretary Of State boasted to the represen
tativcs of kingly power that American lib