New-York tribune., 1868-08-28


army had been hurled back from the glorious field of
Gettysburg Yicksburg had surrendered TO Grant and
Port Hudson 10 Banks aud the waters Of the Missis
siDp 10 the saa reflected the stars of the national
flag bOastfully proclaimed that tho gore of Lin
coins hated minions wet the streets that the Gov
ernment Is covering and that the days AS well
as the soldiers of the Federal Army are numbered
The Republican Administration had not only to Gre
ate armies and nayies but 10 perform the far more
dCult task Of providing the vast resources to sus-
tain conflict SO gigantic. 1t established internal
revenue systems revised the revenue laws, and es
tabshed q national banking system. The Republi-
cans may have committed some mistakes in the
details Of their financial policy, but the success
OF that policy IS the marvel OF men the woIld over
financial men in the old world and ia the now.
Democrats have caTped at il, criticised IT, mlsappre
hended 1t aud misrepresented IT, Many Oh theh pre-,
dcted that the bonds Of the Goyernment would
never be redeemed. refused TO purchase them them
selves advise their friends TO do So ana are pre-
senting now fitting sequel to their early ana peIsls
tent opposition, by their seeming anxiety ana efforts
to prove their ill-Omened predictions true. HOratlo
Seymour has it authOritatiyely announced that hs
does not own and never has owned one Of the bonds
of the Government lie Is known 10 Do n@h Oh
largo wealth. and to have Inherited q fortune
During years of the war the country owed hundreds
of millions to the army II eOuld not pay. Inc heroes
Of Gettysburg and Vicksburg had gone months Wlth-
ont payment; often the Government was IN debt i've
and six months, and sometimes more 70 our soldiers
Brave men received and read 10 their comrades
around their camD-tires, letters from ther wives
begging for money to keep themselves and their chill
dren from want. Men, who faced shot ana shell ih
the field were unnamed and wept like children IN
their tents over lotteTs received from their homes
because Of this poverty of the National treasury
Was il not then patriotic to loan money 10 Jne
Government to feed and clOthe the cOuntrys defend
ers and keep their wives and children from want as
il was To confront that countTys enemies the field
of battle9 Patriotic men, and women, t0o IN all the
conditions Of life loaned money to the Government
often 10 their own inconvenience and disadvantage
10 support and pay those who were bleeding and
diving i'm its defense. And yet the Democratic party
has become 50 demOralized by blind, unreasoning
parzaRShip, that Horati0 Seymour us cahdlIate Ior
the Presidency so strengthen himself with the men
of his party who would impair the credit and repua-
ate the obligations # the Government incurred Tor
its salvation, has it authortauYely announces that
he has not now, and never had, single DOhd, thOQgh
given for a purpose so sacred and 10 avert peril so
extreme. When hundreds of thousands Of our bravo
soldiers were unpaid for months, leaving, OF course
their wives aHd children to great inconvenience, II
not TO absolute aud eNtrome suffering often to be re-
lieved by the hand of charity, because the Govern
Hent could not borrow money 10 meet these most
imporiOus claims he, though aboundIng IN wealth OF
his own and the almOner of that of others. had
not a dollar for those heroic men fighting his
battles nor for their starving families. suffering
for tho same great cause This announcement OF
lIorauo Seymour. that he did not lend his money to
the Government IN thC hour OF IFS extreme need Is a
cowardly and uupatTiOtc aYOwal, which should
bring him not the surages and hOnos OF the peo-
ple but their blasting rebukos and witheung scOrn.
The "kuights of the Golden Circle" the Sons OF
Liberty the holders Of the bonds Of the Confederate
lfOycTuugu the men, North ana SOuth, Nhs, Ia lht
language OF a son of Maryland, would not pay the
boudholders because the money was loaned for the
wicked purpose OF fighting our Southern brethren,
may anulaud this bOdstlul announcement: but the
patriotic men, and the whose wives and children
were the victims of his unpdtIOtlc action, viii ap-
plaud him never. When the Legal Tender act was
pending in the House Of Representatives, Pendeton,
now uIcknamed young GT6enOaCk5,' declared tnat
these legal tender notes would go out to the country
with the mark OF Cam upon them;' that they would
be "wandGrers and yagabOnds In the land;' and
wherever they wandered they would carry bank
ruptcy aud reputation. Evils are indeed inscpara-
bic from paper money. But the benefits 10 the Cuun-
Try of that Legal Tender act during the war can
never b. OYerestimated PcndlCtOn, who led in Op-
times of dire neceSSity-he who deemed green
backsD wanderers and YagabOnds,D with the mark
of CAIN upon them-aSSumes the championship now
of system 50 modified, that his prediction, thar
they would lead to bankruptcy and reputation may
be- realized. For many years the business interests
Of the people, the necessities OF the Government an
the future deN NolOpment and power OF tue nation re-
CURED the union OF the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans
by n national railway across the continent. The
slave masters, ever greedy Of power and ever jealous
OF the growing and commanding. commercial and
manufacturing aScendanCY of the free States, arrest
ed every practicable measure for the construction of
that great highway. But IN the midst of tho blood
freedom, culture and development, began the con-
struCtiOn Of that great work thin few months
will be completed this grandest national achieve
ment of modern times. The traveller, from our own
or other lands who wends his way across the cOnti-
nent with its vast stretches Of plain and desert its
meagre wateT-COuTseS and wild and broken mountain
ranges threads its narrow raYnes. leaps its gorges
scales pIerces its gddy nights. with frOwning
preciplces on the one hand and yawning chasms on
tho other, until, accomplishing the marvellous jour
neY, he descends tho yerdant slopes of the Pacific
and reaches the Golden Cate of San Francisco,
VII realize. as, as never ever before the truth OF
nDwned than war; aud greatfully accord To the Re
publican party the glory Of this grand achievement
For many years the tOiling millions demanded that
the public domain should be withheld from the hard
grasp of tho speculator and granted. in limited guam
titles 10 actual settlers. This demand, of land for
the andless. OF small farms titled by men standing
thelrO acres was made in the interests of free
dom, culture doyelOpomemt and Christian ciyillza-
tlOn lt tho idea OF the arm against the Plan
tatiOn-Of free labor against slave abOrof the pc
rrnnal yerdure of Liberty against the blight and
mdew OF slavery. The slave masters Of the great
plantations, the accepted leaders of the Democracy,
stcTnly opposed tO the policy of small farms
aud land for the landleSs" as they were TO free
sol' for free labor The Republican party coming
into power the representative of this policy of free
soil for free abOrof the farm aginsL the plantation
of land for tho andless-consecrated all the public
domain 10 Freedom. and, by legislative enactmeutS,
set apart more than a thousand million of acres rs
hOmesteads for actual settlers. To the Republican
party are the landleSs tOerS of Our country indebted
for this benehclent systemthls splendid Inheritance
for themselves and their posterity Judge the Re-
publican party, during It's years of power, by
It's geeds test Il by its defence and protection Of the
nation against the most gigantic conspiracy of ancient
or modern times by its deveopement OF the nations
power and the advancement of its material interests,
and It stands on higher plane than that of any pO
litical organization on the globe. But grander far
than the raising of armies and the creation 0fnayles
than marches sieges or battles on land or wave,
was the far-reachlng, comprehensive, and crowning
deed of Emancipation. That huge, hdeous and hOr-
rid systom of human bondage in Christian America,
upheld by the aggregated interest Of 00O0OOOO0 in
the flesh and blood brain and soul of man, hedged
about by the accumulated passions and preiudIces,
prdes and ambitions of seven generations intrenched
within the social political and ecclesiastical orga-
nizatiOns aud affiliations of life, was shiyered 10
atoms by the blows, sturdy and persistent Of the Re-
publican party. by series of executive and legis-
latye acts IL broke the chains and lifted from the
depths of chattehOOd up TO the SUBMITS of manhood
four aud half millions of bongs made in the image
Ia l.fNAT