Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1868-10-14

tid IN fbe Southern Conieneracy' NJ
he outset the citizens Of Richmond went
% malket with their money in their vest
pockets aud brought back their di"ner IN
their baskets in the end they tok their
money in their baskets and tsok home
their dinners in their vest pockets Make
our money good by an honest and wise
course, and when this is done it will 10
worth twenty Eve por cent. more than it's
now. which will be equal TO an increase
of one quarter in the amOpnt Of currency"
AFTER THE CoNvENTioN.
The Convention having practically de-
cided to repudiatc our debt, or in MIR.
SeymOui's Language, to debase our cur
rency and render it worthless BY paying
our bonds in greenbacks. he turned q
short corner and declares his approval sf
the platform. 80.
Tue UNION AS IT WAS.
"Mr. Seymour is for the restoration Of
The States pure and simple under the Con-
stitution, and, Of coulse, for the discon-
tinuancc of the Freeaman's Bureau, the
withdrawal OF troops, the self government
of each State ty is own citizens, and un-
der such q rule Of suffrage as It's own SCI.
arate sovereignty shall prescribe he
styles the uprising Of the South rebel
| lou, but he is in favcr Of restoring tie
stutus quo ante Jeilum. In tie same con-
nertlon appears the most useful sentence
of the letter. He considers himself .
party to the platform. which il, IN his
opinion, in the nature Of contract with
the people That Platform. Us our read
ers understand, treats all the steps Of ths
30 called reconstruction, by the multitu.
liuous acts Of Congress as revolutionary,
aud not simply unconstitutional - Cn-
cinnat: Eest a1ud South.
LETTER TO TIE MILITARY AuruoErrIEs
JusrIFYING Mesa.
The day Meade whipped the rebels al
at Gettysburg, seymour was thus talking
treason in New York Our armies were
in sore need Of reinforcements. and draft
had beeu ordered. Volunteering failed
tte ell she requirements ef the service
The draft was matter OF necessity
Horatio Seymour said:
I'VE ouly ask that you shall give to U
that which you claim for yourselves. au'
that which every freeman and every mai
who respects himself will have, freedom
OF speech, the right to exercise all th
rights conferred by the Constitution upol
American citizens (Grcat applause Cal
yon safely deny us these Will you nc
srample upon your own rights if yOn re
fuse to listen +? Do you not create rcvolu
! ton when YOU say that your persons mo
be rightfully seized, your property cen
fscated, your homes entered Are 20
J not exposing yourselves. your own inter
ests, to as great peril as that with whic
you threaten us? Remember this, this
the bloody. and treascnablc, and revolt
tionary doctrine Of public necessity ca
D be proclaimed by mob as we'll as By
Government. Applause
: when men accept despotism, they ma
have a choice as to who that dcspot sha
: be. The struggle then will not be, sha
y we have Constitutional liberty? But, ha'
C ing accepted the doctrine that the Col
# stitution has lost its force, every insin
e Of personal ambition, every instinct Of pc
G sonal security, will lead men to put then
+ selves under thu protection OF that pow
+ which they suppose most competent
d guard their persons.
&c MORE REBEL SYMPATHY
e In the fall of 1862. q Trienpial Epi
II copal Convention was held in Triui
&c Church, New York Murray Hoffms
d DR.. Vinton and others moved and q
'e yocated patriotic rcsolulions and {
t. eloquent DR.. Goodwin delivered an e
es hsustive speech on the sui ject, in viii
II. he earnestly pressed their adoption. I
a. next day the subject came up again, t
s. question being on Judge Carpenters
Id New Jersey resolution, calling on t
OF Bishop for form of prayer in reiati
IT, to the wicked rebellion now prevailing
T. t..e land, for the safety of our count
d and the success of our armies. Hora
In Seymour took the aOor aud made 10
H. speech in opposition "He was oppo'
's- to pronouncing an opinion against
Vs. Southern Brethren The measure seen
g to him like the Pope's bull against
en- comet. He begged them to pause bef
ne coudemning the absent, condemn
thousands and hundreds of thousands
brcthereI. not man Of whom was th
by to speak for himself"
all - CLAMoRIyG FOR Victory.
nd On the 4th of July, 1868. Mr.. Ssym
the made q speech 10 New York. "A pat
by would have taken the occasion as OIL,