Elizabeth daily monitor., 1868-10-12
THE NEEDS OF THE CANVASS.


with intent to secure the election of
Grant and Colfax AS veteran cam
vasser, L venture to submit to my young
er brethren some hints bearing on the
conduct of the canvass.
/. Earnestness is indispensable.
Though men be amused, they are not
convinced by any but speakers of pro-
found, intelligent convictions. No
stream can rise higher than its foun
tain and no man ever yet made last
ing converts to cause that he had not
thoroughly at heart.
IL Precision of Statement is most
desirable Loose, reckless statements,
even though substantially true, are in
effective. A speaker who makes one
incorrect assertion thereby destroys the
force of others that are exactly true.
III. The Finances are a special OBJ
ject of Democratic assault and distor-
ton. They are habitually exaggera-
ting the amount of the National Debt,
the annual cost of supporting the Gov
eminent, and the burdens of Federal
Taxation. They can be most effective
ly met at every point by speakers IA
miliar with our recent financial history,
and especially with Secretary McCul-
loch's last Annual Report, Commission
er Welle's letter to Allison, and Mr. At
kinson's Worcester speech. The facts
that the Debt is at least Two Hundred
Millions less than it was three years
ago that the Internal Taxes have mean
time been reduced by more than fifty
per cent that vast amounts have new
ertheless been paid out for War Boun-
ties, State Claims, War Damages, ETC.,
etc. and that the Annual Expenditures
have steadily and rapidly decreased
from the hour in which the Rebel ar
mics surrendered, until they were less
than Two Hundred and Thirty Millions
in the last fiscal year, whereof at least
Eighty Millions were paid for Muster
ing-out Bounties and other forms of
National Debt, leaving the current cost
of the Government less than One Hun
dred Millions in coin, which will be
largely reduced in the year which com
menced with July last-such facts will
do more to secure votes to Grant and
Colfax than the clearest demonstration
that the Reconstruction Acts are wise,
timely and just,
". The Greenback dodge of paying
a debt on interest by forcing the credi-
tor to take instead dishonored prom
Use, not drawing interest, may be venti-
lated with great profit. Every con-
science bears instructive testimony that
this is a naked fraud. And, while the
world is full of knaves, few of them
are so reckless, so brazen, as to choose
to stand forth public advocates of ex-
posed, palpable knaves.
V. The fact that every Greenback
was, by the expressed term of the LIE
gal Tender Act, made fundable at the
holders option in Five-Twenties,
whereof the interest was expressly
payable in coin, and that all the revenue
from imports was to be collected in coin,
and was set apart to pay the interest
aforesaid and at least one per cent. per
annum of the principal of the National
Debt, expose the Greenback swindle OF
Pendleton and Co, to the reprobatton
and scorn of every honest mind. Push
those facts right into public eyes, and
the revolt against the meditated fraud
will be signal and eficacious.
V. The Rebel Chiefs have done an
excellent work for us. Their prema-
ture yell of exultation and vengeance,
when they ratified Seymour aud Blair's
nomination, and supposed it certain to
succeed, has already given many votes
to Grant and Colfax. The speeches of
Howell Cobb, Wade Hampton, Toombs,
Vance, etc, directly after Seymour's
Triumph tn Tammany Hall, are yet
unknown to a large section of the vo-
ters. Let them be read and under
stood, and the votes of loyal men for
the Democratic ticket will be fewer
than they have ever yet been. The
outlaws have since been schooled to
"roar you as gently as 'twere a nightin-
gale" but their early speeches are on
record. and cannot be blotted out. Let
them be everywhere pressed upon pub
lie attention-