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

Tor them What We demand Tor ourselves
the full recognition Of the rights Of the
States.
But if the Administration cannot save
the Union. we can Mr.. Lincoln values
many thing above the Union we put it
first of all. He thinks a proclamation
worth more than peace; we think the
blood of our people more precious than
the edicts Of the President There are
no hipdrauces in our pathway to Union
and peace. :"
TnE UNION CANNOT Bs SAVED
Second Plank of the National Demo
cratic Platform of 1861
Resolved, That this Convention does
explicitly declare, as the sense Of the Am
egican People, that after four years Of
failure to restore the Union by the expe.
rimont of war, during which, under the
pretensc Of a military necessity Of war
power higher than the Constitution. The
Constitution itself has been disregsrded
in every part and public liberty and pri-
yste right alike trodden down and the
material prosperity Of the country essen.
TALLY impaired; justice. humanity, aid
the public welfare demand that immediate
efforts be made for cessation Of hosIil-
tiles with view to an ultimate conven-
lion of all the States, or other pc 'ceab ble
means to end that at the earliest practi
cable moment peace may be restored on
the basis of the Federal Union of all the
States.
Mr.. Seymour cordially endorses tho n.
Y Platform which endorses Blairs treason
and promises the overthrow of the recon
structed State governments and all the re.
construction laws Of Congress- and rspu-
dates our bonds The Montgomery Ala.
News thus defines Horatio Scymours
position:
"Tbe Democratic party put Mr.. Sey-
mour on the same ticket with Blair after
the latter wrote his celebrated letter, and
We have never heard that any Of the par
ties to the ccpartncrship have ever fallen
out about it. On !he contrary, they have
not only fallen out about it, hut they
' have all fallen in about it, and the couu
try is initiating their example. Our cor
respondent may rest assured that under
Seymour and Blair with or without plat
. form or letter, the cob houses Of recon
struction, to use the language Of Millart
Fillmore, must give way to Democrats
= structures That's all abou. it"
Ok THE GREENBAcKs BEFORE Tng CoSVEN
On the Goth of June, only ten days be
fore the Copperhcad and rebel Convention
IN Now York. Mr. Seymour made a speecl
in the Cooper Institute upon the wicked
Eess and folly of the greenbsck-Pendle
system. in which he said:
1.-The amount in savings banks. in thi
. State alone, is at least $l40, 900. .00C
This shows that there must be at less
$500 100000 of money thus deposited i
all the States. The average of the depoi
its 10 1867, in the State Of New iorl
: was $27O. The number Of deposiOrs i
= the State Of New York is about five hur
=" dred thousand (487,479.) and in the cit
" they number more than one third Of tb
" population, This will make the uumbt
: of dopositors in the Union more than or
million eight hundred thousand. In ii
State of Connecticut, in 1865. one qua
- . ter Of its population had deposits in sa'
~ ings banks. 1t is not usual for men
IL small property to insure their lives. IT
" number of policies given out by all Il
life insurance companies arc about fo'
= hundred and fifty thousand, and Il
= amount of insurance about ono thousar
~ two hundred and Fifty millions III
u money invested is held as sacred trus
u as it is fund laid aside for their famili
" when the insured die. All Of the fun
~ Of savings bank and life insurance col
'" panies are not put in Government bond
but they hold an amount which wou
cripple or ruin them If the bonds are n
~ ~ paid. or If they are paid in dcbased pap'
~ IL we add the trusts for willows and {
w phans, we find that two million FIVE hu
dred thousand persons arc interested
III Government bonds who are not capitals
~ and who are compulsory owners, at pr
'ee ent prices under the operation Of our la'
'"s There is fear that this state Of thin
~ will make clashing of interest betwe
60 the labor Of the East and the labor Of
" West. .f"N'f
'S' ..
ace ;,
ov. "lf we make our paper money good
harsh s. stem Of contraction, we sh
m. cripple the energies Of the country
make bankruptcy and ruin, If. on
-es. other hand we debase the currency