Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1868-08-21
Texts for Pendletonls Apostles.

!
The La Crosse Democrat, (Briel
Pomeroy's paper,) which boasts the
largest weekly circulation of any Dem,
ocratie paper in the Union, contained
the following in its issue of June 2
1868:
We have been particularly impress
1 ed, since reading the Jacobin platform
| adopted at Chicago, with its almost
| exact accordance, touching the fnan-
/ ces, the national credit, and taxation,
with Gov. Seymour's views, as express
ed in his celebrated speech at the New
York Bondholder's Convention, last
winter. Scan the two, and compare
them carefully, and you viii find
scarcely a shade of difference. How
true it is that the friends of the bond
holders, in either party, think alike,
feel alike. and act alike With them
the interest of their masters, the bond
lords, are paramount to all others
What a beautiful tiS q0e should Be IN
50ere a0e to adopt Cor. Seymour UieaOs,
red6fT8stRg GR substance the .JGcObin
platform apon the financial question =
How grandly we would rally the mass
es What ringing appeals We would
make to the ploWholders What q
splendid campaign it would be, with no
issue that would touch the real inter
ests of the people, arouse enthusiasm,
fire the popular heart, and consolidate,
strengthen, inspire with confidence,
gladden. with assurance of victory, the
Democratic legions Out upon the
thought ! Spurn all such suggestions
Treat as enemies all who would coun-
sci such suicidal policy Away with
the insidious advice of those who
would delude, betray and ruin Us 1t
is false to Democrats 1t is treason to
the country It is death to liberty
Let the people bel0Grei Politicians,
beware
Seymour himself, in his speech to
the Democratic "Bondholder's Con-
vention, of New York, above refer
red to, said
"WHY Is THE BoNDHoLDER WRONG
ED BY THE TAINTED CREDIT OF THE
GOVERNMENT, so THAT HE CANNOT
SELL HIS BOND FOR AS MUCH BY ONE
THIRD AS THE CITIZEN OF GREAT
BRITAIN GETS FOR THE BONDS OF HIS
GOVERNMENT, WHICH BEARS A Low
ER INTEREST and why is his claim
made Odious In the eyes of the people
by the fact that his interest is paid in
specie, while they are compelled to
take debased paper? It is clear to ev-
cry thoughtful man that public safety
and honor will not admit of our hav-
ing two kinds of currency for any
length of time. We must have a uni
form currency for all classes. There
Is bat one question to be settled
Shall our currency be uniformly good
or uniformly bad? Are we to force
the bondholder to take bad money ?"
Says the New York World, the Ma
tional organ of the Democracy, in it's
comments on the Democratic platform:
1t IS inconceiUa5Ie IN Itself, and IN
consistent a0itb the platform, that the
old, bard-nsoney Democratic party /
should promise q atnifoTn1 currency of
bad money. The one currency means /
sound currency currency equivalent |
to coin, and at all times exchangeable |
for it. One currency of deprecated /
greenbacks would be Inconsistent with /
the payment in coin of that part of the |
public obligations which is aeknOWl- /
edged by the platform to be due in 1
coin; inconsistent with the collection
Of the revenue from imports In gold; |
Inconsistent with the idea that We are |
ever to return to specie payments.
On the 23d of July Hon, s. s. Cox.
formerly Democratic Representative /
from the Columbus District, and now
, New York politician, made speech /
in Brooklyn in which he gave his in
of the term lawful mon
~ as used In the third resolution of /
The Democratic platform. In speak
ing of the National debt, he says:
It should be paid by an extension
over fair period of time, according /
10 the letter and spirit Of the laws un-
der which it was contracted" This is
the Republican platform. IWould Gas
5he Democratic platform says) pay 1t
70 Democratic memory, means some
hing that chinbs; and as that part of
the debt about which there is SO much
useless logomaohy in Congress, and
such lucid equiVOcatiOn, In both plat /
forms, is not likely to mature for some
ime-I would not anticipate. Ger
-ainly for its payment as for other
/ would never issue another
4O4AdE VI 4TI6u66udDl6s u6DaucnlD&s
elastic greenback currency. Moving
IN toward gold and silver as the stan
lard of all values, and in the interest
IF labor commerce, we should do, as
doratio Seymour proposed in his
speech of 11th of March last, demand
/ policy of peace, order and economy,
md by gaining that, lift mp the natl
)nal credit, help the taxpayer, and do
ustice to the bondholder, and thus
make our currency as good as sterling
coin" Thus I 51ouEd haze one c1rre7l-
y for all. and that currency that of the
(soalsfifllkinr