Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1868-07-15
Extract from Gov. ssymour's speech.

l0nged. we extenu tne rlkht manu- oi ivho"hnP
and hail all such cooperating with us as
friends and brothers.
Extract from Gov. seymour's Speech.
The following is an extract from Gov.
Seymour's late mastery and compre-
hensive speech at New York, in which,
with patriot heart, he urged reform,
justice and obedience to the Constitution: {:
But the Republican party at Chicago
pledge itself by its nominations and
resolutions to keep up its negro policy.
1t is impossible to give untutored Afri-
cans at the South uncontrolled power
over the Government, the property aud
laws of the people of, ten States, by ex-
cluding white votes, without military des'
potism. You cannot give to three mil
lions of negroes more Senators than are
allowed to fifteen millions of white men
living in New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio,
Illinois, Indiana, Wisconsin, Iowa, Ken
lucky, Missouri and Michigan, without
keeping up great standing armies.
Without general amnesty, and the
restoration of the suffrage to all whites
in the South, great standing army must
be permanent institution. In order TO
curse the South with military despotism,
negro rule and disorganized labor and
industry, they cursed the farmers OF the
North with taxation, the mechanics
with more hours of toll, the
laborers and pensioners with debased
paper, the merchant with shifting
standard, and the public creditor with
dishonored and tainted national faith.
Are these classes to turn and see how
each can push the burdens upon each
other, or are they to make common
cause and do away with the curses of q
bad government ? If the Republican
policy prevails, this struggle must begin.
Either the laborer or the capitalist must
20 down. Both cannot live under it, and
men must choose between. If, on the
other hand, the policy of selfish ambi-
ton and sectional hate is put down, our
country will start up on o new course of
prosperity, and all classes will reap in
common the fruits of good government
The next election will turn upon this
question, "Can the Congressional party
succeed in their efforts to excite and
array the industrial and moneyed inte-
rest against each other, or will these
unite and turn out the authors of the
mischief under which they are all suffer
ing. The only bepe of our opponents is
dscord, where there should be harmony
and concert Of action. In our State, at
the last election, we appealed to oil
classes to help US save Now York from
mis-government, and all came up to the
rescue, and we made a change OF 10000
Let us appeal again to all classes of inte-
rests throughout the Union let US go
before the people with these facts and we
will make change which will sweep the
wrong doers from their places.
The Judiciary would still be trampled
under foot, the Executive would still be
manacled so that it could not punish
crime nor protect innocence. But strike
down the Congressional policy and all
will be set right. Since the war closed
in 1865, the Government has spent for
its expenses, in addition to payments on
principal or interest Of the public debt,
the sum of more than 81, 900, 600, 600. OF
this sum there has been spent nearly
$500, ,000, 900 on the army and navy, and
for military purposes. This is nearly
one third of the nationalde This was
spent in the time of peace.
II is because we spent it upon the negro
policy, the military despotism and other
abuses of government, that our credit is
SO low. The world saw we were
violating our faith with the public cred
itors and the Taxpayers alike, when the
money was used for the partisan purposes
of keeping the South out of the Union un-
til.sham governments could be manutac'
tured by military violence and Congress
sional action. The world not only saw the
monstrous diversion of the money, wrung
from the people by taxation, but it also
saw that it made, through long series
of years, still greater annual expenses
unavoidable. When the entire control
of the Southern States is given over, un'
checked by the intelligence of the white
race, to untutored negroes, whom the
people of the North have said we're untt
10 be voters, when the unfortunate Afri-
cans, drunk with unusual power, and
goaded on by bad and designing men,
shall make life and property unsafe, and
shall shock and disgust the world with
outrages, we shall be forced to raise and
pay still greater armies. Up to this
time the South has had at least an intel
ligent tyranny in military officers.
Every man who is not blinded by hate
or bigotry, looks forward with horror to
the condition of the South under negro
domination
We have cursed the taxpayer, the la
borer, the pensioner, the public creditor,
for the sake Of cursing the people Of the
South with military despotism and negro
domination. Every one must see If we
maid OF oue-6fih Of our debt, had kept
down the cost Of Government, had given
peace TO our Union, had built up industry
and good order in the South, not one Of
the evils which now afflict US could have
existed. Oar whole condition would
have been changed. We see that the
War Department this year spent $l28,-
s5s. 466. when the year before 1t spent
about S95, 900, 900. The longer We have
peace The more the army costs. How Is
this7 Well, II costs great deal to keep
soldiers aud Freedmen's Bureau agents,
and 10 feed and cloihe negroes at the
South. But Why do you do IN Let the
negroes support themselves as We do
You make the laborer at the North work
70 feed and clotke these idle Africans
True, bat By 20 doing We get their votes,
and they viii send cur travelling AGENTS
10 Congress; We shall get twenty Sena-
tors IN this way, While . msjorify