New-York tribune., 1868-06-27
EXPENDITURE AND TAXATION


slander it, is very natural He was an ally and
favorite of that Slave Power which that party
has tumbled into ruin. lie was Governor of
our State, elected by $4,000 majority, with the
Presidency in prospect when that party was
called into being by popular Indignation and
alarm at the reputation of lthe Missouri Com
pact, and he was thereby Ousted from office,
with his prospects vailed in eclipse Having
again achieved the Governorship i'll '62, through
the absence of so many gallant spirits at the
front he was again turned out OF 1t when our
volunteers in the field were allowed to vote IN
1864 Nothing is more natural, therefore, than
his envenomed implacabe hatred to tho party
which insisted on preserving the Union, even
at the cost of fighting for It, when he urged
that it was our true policy to join the Southern
Confederacy, accept its Constitution, It's Gov
ernment, and its Policy; thus making slavery
universally and irrevocably thcsfundamental law
of our entire country.
When the Confederates passed their Ordl-
nances of Secession, abandoned their seats III
Congress, declaring the Union forever broken
and began to seize the forts custom-houses,
armories, and treasure of the Union, Gov Sey-
mour met and harangued his friends III Con
vention at Albany, Jan. 81, 1861 lie had not
one word of rcproach for those who were
c-o-Iv making war on the Union; while the
Republicans who, having no power in the EX-
ecutive, Judiciary, or Senate, and barely half
the House, were quietly waiting developments,
he assaed as follows:
'A virtue, patriotism, and intelligence, seem to have
fled from National Capitol; IL has heen Wel nkched
the cOnagraon of an asylum for madmen some look
with diotic imbeciity others IN sulle silence ana
some scatter the firchrands which consume the fabric
above them, and bring upon all common
Is there one reyong aspect OF ths SeSnc e yo @ nor
there the sonseles mhecy' the gaIInlos iovS @
maddened rage displayed with regard % 70 d g, hr honor
and the safety Of the country b6bt M owl uon aI e
sS@s RsgysG9s of @ ia9aaafl'& &c. &c. &C.
These railing accusations strike the key
note of this mans whole career. Through
out the War; and even while the Rebel armies
were advancing in triumph into Pennsylvania,
he spoke and wrote as though the cOuntry's
enemies were not the leaders of those armies,
but Abraham Lincoln and those who sustained
him in the War for the Union. His speech to
his friends engaged in numbering negroes,
burning houses, and mobbing this Office, in
July, 1858, was in the same vein. And when
rs Governor and candidate for reelection, he
canvasscd our State in October, 1864 he every
where asserted and argued that
l. No progress had been made toward put
ting down the Rebellion;
. The credit of the Confcderacy in the
money market of Europe stood higher than
that of the Union;
g. Our Public Debt was already so vast, and
was augmcntng at so fearful ratio, that,
should Mr. Lincoln bc reelected, 1t would
practically confscate all the property in the
country. balancing rents by taxes.
Happily, the People had more sagacity with
less crcdulity, more patriotism with less avarice,
than he SUPPOSED. In spite of his assertions
that the War would never end while the Re
publicans were in power, they reelected Lin
coin, defeated his traducer and thus declared
that they would fight it ont on this line;'
and soon their patient trustiul devotion was
crowned with n magnificent triumph, whereby
Slavery aud Disuuion were forever prostnted.
Gov Seymour is again on the stump mis-
representing and dcfaming the Republicans.
There is 40 dishonest dodge to which he will
not resort to do them injury. For instance:
he knows that the President is their deadly,
implacable foe; yet he per istenty assumes
them responsible for every expenditure of the
Government The Secretary OF the Navy hates
the Republicans with true renegade mallgnlty;
his vy-yard and other patronage is constant
ly cxcrted to the utmost in behalf of the DEM
ocratc ticket; yet his expenditures are charged
by Seymour to the Republicans, Last Deem
her. he asked Congress for over Thirty Millions
for the Naval service of the ensuing fiscal year;
Congress cut him down about half; yet Sey-
mour gives us no credit but assumes that we
are spending, or trying to spend, the old sum
In business, this would be called villainy
what else is it in politics!
In his Bridgeport speech, he rOundly asserted
that we were spending One Hundred AMI flity
Millions Der annum on the Army TO keep the
South in subjection. We branded this false
hood; and he now reduces the amount by
Twenty-Five Millions. The falsehood is miti
gated by that amount, but it is still blistering
falschood. The aggregate of estimates and
appropriations for the War Department in
cludes large sums for River and HarbOr I'm
provements, Fortifcations, Ordnance, &c" &c,
which are no part of the current cost of
maintaining our Army. We are trying to get
the exact figures; but, in their absence. we state
with confidence that, though we had Vide
spread Indian hostilities on the Plains (wherc
each soldier costs as much as three do in the
South,) the actual cost of our Military Service
during the fiscal year just closing was consid-
erably less than One Hundred Millions; and
we include herein every dime that was spent
by the Freedmens Bureau-neaily or quite as
much of it to feed Whites as Blacks. And
that Bureau will be rapidly closed ont, now
that the States are nearly all reconstructed,
-Gov. Seymour asserts that bv reason of