The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1868-10-28
Gov. ssym0ur's speech at Buffalo.
BuFFALo. Oct. %.

the hour for speaking the rink was
with full 5000 people. Only
two days were given for preparations,
and yet brilliant torchlight process
Of 1000 or 5000 people, in uniform,
the speaker, to the rink, not
a 1.-THE of which could gain entrance.
Hon. James Humphreys, Chair
man Of the meeting, called the as
sembly to order at 81 o'clock, when
Gov. Seymour delivered an eloquent, |
impressive and stirring address,
saying: v.. -.-
In the first words uttered by the |
Convention they congrat- |
ulated the country on their scheme of !
reconstruction. The last words ut
tered by their speakers and presses
declare that atreconstruction is failure;
that the South is still in a condition
of rebellion; that its social disorder
demands the presence of great armies,
and that the first duty of Congress,
when it meets, will be to turn recon-
structed Georgia out of the Union
again,
AT the outset of this canvass the
Republican party asked to be contin-
ued in power, that it had been gov
erning wisely and well. After three
months of discussion of their recon-
struction and financial policy, it is
found that order has not been restored
at the South, and that the burdens of
debt have not been lighuened nor the
evils of oppressive taxation have not
been lifted off the laboring industry of
the country.
Driven from their first grounds,
they now try to hold power by MAX
ing the people believe not that they
have done well, but that the Demo
cratic party would do worse if they
came into power. To prove this they
assert that the success of the Demo-
| cratic ticket will involve the country
again in civil war.
| Conceding that nothing short of this
| could be worse than Radical rule,
| they declare that the Democratic
nominees are ready to overturn their
| legislation by force. To make the
| charge still more dramatic, I am to
be sent to my final account by the
hands of my political supporters, and
then General Blair is to trample be-
meath his feet the reconstruction laws
as ruthlessly as General Meade now
stamps them out by his military or
OCI5 WIFI ILS VI Gll0 1Gdu-
ical party. If General Blair should
reach the Presidential chair, how
would the case stand? He would be
confronted by Republican Senate, by
a House of Representative full OF
Generals, by the United States army
fianked by the Leaguers and the
Grand Army of the Republic, under
the command OF their own candidate
for the Presidency, whom they de-
clare to be the first captain of the age
and yet we are graVely told that
standing alone, shackled by Congress
sional restraints, he can crush out al
opposing power and plunge the coun-
try into civil war!
If this is true then General Blair il
either the most vigorous man that
has lived in the history OF the world
or Republican Senators, members O
Congress and commanders of arnie!
are the most imbeciIe men WhoeYel
disgraced public positions.
This absurd fear of civil war is mo-
, the fear in the minds of Republican
leaders. They fear that the public
mind, now turned to the financial anC
} political policy Of the Republicans, i
) reaching conclusions which will sWeeI
: them from power. Therefore the1
seek to change the issues. We ar
: admonished that it is a dangerou
, thing. to change just on the eve of
l battle,
= Gov. Seymour then proceeded in
3 lengthy argument to show why tn
reconstruction policy had been a fail
ure, because they had neglected alik
to secure the material prosperity O
both the white man and the negro
The first act in the scheme of recon
| GfrnRfinT0 n1t q TO0nnSfrn11cS fa-
of cents per pound upon the cottol
raised by the labor of negroes upol
the plantations of whites. He shoWet
cOnclusively that this policy was un
wise, selfish and VindictiVe. This ia.
, was simply imposed that Easter
> manufacturer might buy cotton for
= price cents less than it was worth i
the markets of the world. Its impC
, sition was urged upon the Congress
+ men of the Western States, who vote
against the interests of their constitU
f ents on The ground that it was
: penalty upon the South.
y No fair minded, thoughtful Reput
I lican will look over this action an
; not confess that the policy of his part
: has not been unWise and hurtful.
. Gov. Seymour then discussed g
; length the injustice of the unequs
r distribution of currency to the Ma
: tional Banks. He showed that Will
: the State of Massachusetts. wit
n l, 100, 900 population, had 1000, ,O0O
II the State of Illinois, with twice tha
. population, had only $9,000,0O0 Th
people of the North Atlantic State
n held about two thirds of all the GU
q rency, while the great agriculture
y States of the West had propOrtionabl
less than their due share.
. There is great wrong done here &
. the very basis of business prospect
When the western dealer in prOduC
" goes to the bankers of Chicago or otl
q er commercial countries of the ives
n and offers draft on an eastern cit
e to get currency to buy the wheat, bee
"a pork, or wool, of the western farme
J. he is charged a monstrous interes
r. and when he objects he is told th'
the banker can do no better; that
n has no currency of his own that til
whole value of currency authorize
y by Congress has been taken up in I'll
4 Eastern States that he must go ca
% to borrow the currency must pay IL
terest for its use, and that he mu
4 charge that interest and another il
h tereBt for his own compensation. TT
n produce dealer takes this enormol
q interest out of the farmer that raist
n | the produce. InlS unWlS0 OlSLf1Dl
= ton OF the currency lies at the found
ia alton of much Of the ill-feeling again
"a the bondholders. There are otht
great wrongs to which I will brief
, aIlude. We say that taxation shoul
3 be equal upon every species OF pro
% erty, according to its real valu
# The Republicans say so too. The
20 declare in their fourth resolution tn;
q it is due to the labor of the natio
If that taxation should be equalizet
" With this declaration upon their lii
q will they tell US why they make
y unequal? Will they tell us why, ft
=. four years they have allowed this col
n ceded injustice to remain upon the
= statute books? They charge upon l
n that we are in favor Of repudiatiol
4 Have those who make this chars
i frankly said how they intend to de
/ with the public creditor? We hay
If said when the agreement was that l
h should be paid in gold he should hay
i it, and when the contract did not
N define he should be paid in money