Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1868-07-10
Nh. ssymour's Speech.


The case is fatally weak" said an
eminent counsel to the attorney who
had retained him. ':Then abuse the
other side. replied the ready -witted
attorney. u
Mr.. Horatio Seymour, in his speech
last evening at Cooper Institute, did
that and no more, He was painfully
conscious of having weak case to boil
ster up but he did his best to conceal
his difficulties By abusing the other
side.
First, he bswail the national debt
and the paper currency, which he calls
the results of the war. Now these
evils are certainly fruits of the war !;
but when q speaker can see nothing
but these evils, when he can see none
of the great and benefcent results of
the war, the maintenance of the
Union, the vindication of the laws,
the suppression of q rebellion utterly
without excuse, the liberation of four
millions of people from slavery, and
the re establishment of law, order, and
freedom of speech in a large section
of the countTy-When he is blind to
all our great gains; and knows only
how to magnify our losses, we may
well ask with what side his sympathies
were during the momentous struggle
which every speech of Mr.. Seymour,s,
since 1861, has endeavored to belittle.
Next, he promises to point out
remedy for the evils which he has de-
picted. What is his remedy We
look with eagerness for some profound
and statesmanlike suggestion, for some
policy which shall, as he promises, re-
lieve us of the burdens which he has
done his best to magnify. What, then,
is Mr.. Seymour's policy? How would
he bring back happiness, ease, con-
tentment, cheap goods, sufficient
wages BE would not contract the
make people poorer he would not.
only stimulate speculation. What
money good by an honest and wise
course, and when this is done, it will
be worth % per cent. more than it is
now, which will be equal to an increase
of one-quarteF in the amount of cur
rehcy. Business will be strengthened.
industry viii be ENCOURAGED, prices
will be regular, and men will then dare
to go on with useful enterprises"
Mr.. Seymour reminds us of the
French dramatic author, who asked a
wit what he should do to make his
farce successful DO ?" said the wit,
nothing is easier just cram it with
Witticisms crowd it with fun that is
all you have to do, and you win
achieve the most remarkable success
of the age" just as wise and just as
satisfactory is Mr.. Seymour's grand
panacea for deprecated currency
j ust make it as good as gold, that is
all you have to do" he exclaims, and
looks triumphantly down upon his ad-
miring but puzzled audience.
Finally, Mr.. Seymour reproaches
the Republicans for extravaganza
This makes people smile who remem-
Der the corruption, the waste, and Gx-
travagance of the administrations of
Buchanan and Pierce; who remember
the Floyd jobs, the Mormon war job,
the Fort Smelling job, the Indian bond
robberies the worse than empty
treasury, and the ruined credit which
democratic administration handed
over to Mr. Lincoln.
"Our credit is deprecated, cries
Mr.. Seymour, and points to the Re-
publicans; but they may we'll answer
him that Buchanan administration, a
democratic one, before the, war, had
SO mismanaged our finances that Mr..
Buchanan had to pay twelve per cent,
in gold, in order to obtain even a
small sum.
twill not do for a democratic speak
er to speak of corruption and mis-
management. The country has not
forgotten that the administrations of
Pierce and Buchanan were made scam
dalous by the most barefaced and
| fagitious corruptions it does not for
get that New York city, which gives
an enormous democratic majority. and
is ruled entirely by democrats, has the
most Wasteful. extravagant and cor
lrupt government on this continent. It
does not forget that under the mis-
management of Mr.. johnson, a Pres
ident who has gone over to the demo
Gratis, and who has made his whole ad-
ministration Democratic, the public
service has become so demoralized that
scarcely. a tenth of the revenue is col
lected, and whisky thieves make mil
lions, while honest men are ground
down by taxes.
| Mr.. Seymour will do we'll to stick to
his panacea; it is not prudent for him
talk of corruption and extravaganza
N 7. Post