The Tiffin weekly tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1859-1868, 1868-09-03
HOratiO Seymour Not a Bondhold


The Hon. Henry Wilson, in one of
tho most e!oqu ent and telling speech
es delivered during the campaign at
Bangor, Me-, on the 9th Of August,
thus arraigns the Democratic nomi-
nee for Presidents
IoratiO Seymour has IL authori.
tttively announced that he docs not
own and never has owned one of the
bonds OF the Government. lie is
known to be man Of large wealth,
and TO have Inherited fortune. Du.
ring the years Of the war tho coun.
try owed hundreds Of millions to the
army it could not pay. The heroes
Of Gettysburg aud Vicksburg had
gone months without payment and
often the Government was in debt
FIVE anu six months, and sometimes
more, to our Sc ldiefs. Brave men re.
ceived and read to their comrades, a.
round their camp fires, letters from
their wives, begging for money to
Keep themselves and children irv;n
want Men, who faced shot and shell
IN the Held, were unnamed and wept
like children in their tents over let
ters received from their homes, be-
cause of this poverty of the National
Treasury. Was it not then as pat
riotie to loan money to the Govern
ment to feed and cothe the country's
defenders, and keep their wives and
children from want, as it was to con.
front the country's enemies on the
field Of battle2 Patriotic men, aud
women, too, in all the conditions of
life, loaned money to the Govern.
ment, ofteu to their own inconveni.
ence and disadvantage, to support and
pay those who were bleeding and
dying in its defense. And vet the
Democratic party has become so de
moralized by blind, uureasouiug par
tisanship, that Horat;o Seymour, its
candidate for the. Presidency, to
strengthen himself with the men Of
his party, who would impair the cred
IT aud ropudiate the organizations of
the Government Incurred for its sal
walton, has it authorntivcly announc
ed that he has not now, aud never
had a single bond, though given for
a purpose so saored and to avert
peril so extreme. When hundreds of
thousands OF our brave soldiers we're
unpaid for mouths, leaving, Of course
their wives aud children 10 Great In,
convenience, If not to absolute and
extreme suffrage, often TO be relieved
BY tho hand of charity, because the
Government could not borrow money
to meet these most imporious claims,
he, though abounding in wealth Of
his own aud the almoner of that of
others, had not a dollar for these he
roic men Fighting his battles nor for
their starving families, suffering for
the Same great cause. This announce.
mont Of lloratio Seymour, that he
did not lend his money to the Gov.
ernment in the hour of its extreme
need, is cowardly and unpatriotic
avowal, which'should bring to him,
not the suifrages and houors Of the
people, but their blasting rebukes
and withoring scorn. The "Knights
of the Golden Circle" the "Sons of
Liberty" the holders of the bonds of
the Confederate Government, the
men, North and South. who, in the
language Of son of Maryland,
"would not pay the bondholdcrs be
cause tho money was loaned for the
wicked purpose off shting our South
ern brethren" may applaud this
boastful announcement but the pat
riotic men, aud the mon whose wives
aud children wore the victims of his
unpatriotic action, will applaud him
never