The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1868-07-14

(Deml
Our eloquent aud popular ex-G0v-
ernor HoratiO Seymour, made an oc-
casion. on the evening OF the 10Th
ultimo. at the meeting of some Demo
cratic Club, to deliver a speech at the
Cooper Institute. 1t was heralded,
beforehand, as an argument that
was to crush the financial plan o Mr.
Pendlcten-the only man talked of
seriously for President who processes
to have any plan for saving the credit
Of the country, and Also getting rid
of the debt. In former speech, OK
Governor Seymour relegated to a re-
mote day the freeing of the people of
the iRtolerable load of taxation and
debt. His present speech is IN the
same vein, and does not refute, but
ignores Mr.. Pendleton's plan of pay
ing Of the debt, honestly and truly,
within few years, without, meantime,
disturbing the value of the present
greenback currency. I'm
Tho difference seems to be that Mr.
Seymour wants TO Increase the debt
by making payable in gold value
what was promised only in green
backs, at existing value. Pcndleton
wants to pay the greenback debt in
greenbacks, in order that we may,
altogether, get back to our constitu-
tionaI urrency-gold aud silver. The
huge debt once paid off, it is easy to
come back to specie. On Mr.. Sey-
mour's plan OF trusting to getting
honest men into all the offices,
and then looking about to see how to
get out or the scrape-all the while
paying the bondholders In gold-we
do not see any issue from our entan-
clement.
We have that kind of personal re-
gard for Mr.. Seymour that every gen.
tleman must have who has ever met
him outside Of politics. But we must
say, In this last speech, he has not
done justice to himself. He was the
advocate of a cause that cannot be
plead before the people. The only
attorneys of the bondholders, in the
coming Convention, must be fellows
with pocket books fat with green
backsl Mr.. Seymour, with all his
eloquenee, is out of place In such a
cause. We are we'll informed that,
outside of few professional elaquers,
the speech was received with a GOODNESS
that Dir. Seymour has not met for
many day, IN the city of New York
And the reason Is plain. The peO-
pie are fully convinced Of the iniqui
ties that are Astounding They do not
need to be convinced that those now
in power are corrupt and rogues
What they want to know is, whom TO
trust and why? It is not enough to
say: Turn out these bad men, and
put us in pOwer!" The people-so
often betrayed-are disposed to ask !:
What do you propose TO dO?" 1t
is enough to say TO them: " We will
economize. The Black Republicans
atChicago have promised the same.
1t is certainly unfortunate for Gov.
Seymour that he makes this mere
change of men without regard to def
initely asserted principles. the thing
required. The Democratic rule is to
= let no more be heard of confidence
in menl" But Mr.. Seymour says, as
the keynote of his whole speech:
The question Is, how can we set
this great majority in the field, so ar
raycd that they can drive out of place
the disciplined and desperate horde
Of Office-hoiders who now misgovern
our country2 This is the only prob
lem to be settled"
That is not decent question at
all. The great majority spoken of
are the "outsp' They want to get
inR' That may be good for. candi-
dates that want to get In. But there
is no principle in it! In other words
it is the avowal Of the most unscru-
pulous partisan Ofhce-see kers. Such,
of course, was never Mr. Seymour's
meaning, but we feel obliged to ex-
press our conviction that he-is off
of his proper high toned ground, and
seems to b. scrambling for life
IN the fquagmire Of a most corrupt
phase Of political chicanery. Certainly,
after all that we have gone through,
and eli we have seen, Democrats
trusted in responsible positions do
cOnaiviag at Violations Of all our
rights, VIC are not prepared to say
that " the on'y problem to be settled
Is to get then once moro into place.
No, sir! We want you to toe the
mark We want you 10 show that
you understand Democratic principles
as something more than a negation oil
misunderstanding moro than {
loud hue and cry on other people who
have been corrupt We want the
avowal of positive and lining princi
pie as your programme.
Mr.. SeymOurfs confidential friends
have aided the idea that this speech
of MS was to explode Mr. Pendle
tons financial plan. The speech /
devoted to the discussion of finance
except few harmless pyrotechnics il
the way of showing up tho notoriou
Tasealities OF the present exeeutlv
and legislative Black Republican ad
ministration. We have, heretofore
published many speeches of Mr.. Sey
mouT for their merits. This one w
publish as the very best show tina
can be made for the bondholde:
against the peoplel
Mr.. SeymouF's honesty eempels hin
to acknowledge that the war and III
Black Republican rascality has di
vided the country into debtor an,
creditor States" That means tina
the debt created by the war is i'm
posed as a debt on the Western
States, and the advantages gotten on
of the war are held by the Easter
States. But, except that Mr.. Sey
mour has ceased to travel over thi
State Of New York, as he use
to do, he would know that i
the agricultural parts of Ne'
York State the people are {
one sentiment with the people of tn
West. So are the people of Ne
Hampshire and Maine. In shor
Mr.. Seymour clients are the moneye
few interested in bonds; and tn
working multitude, whom the bond
holders are trying to bambo0zle an
to cheat, will be obliged to look Yves
for the. advocate of their rights. Fc
Mr.. Seymour out of regard to his eli
--'- ents, the bondholders, while acknow
ADDING fhe WrouO of tbiS ,,par,,.J - :