North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1868-07-22
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Below is an extract from the able
speech of Hon. Thos. a. Hendricks, Sen
ator from Indiana. Next week we will
publish the speech in full; want of space
forbidding it now. He eulogizes General
Blair and pledges Indiana for the equal
tax ticket. This portion of Hendricks
speech is only a taste to the full document
which will disturb the appetite Of the
RAIDS after II next issue.
The Convention at New York has ex-
pressed its views on a platform which in
no section can be misunderstood. The
man that runs may read and understand.
The p~lainest as well as the most learned
will interpret alike. 1t declares our views
and our purposes SO distinctly and EN-
phatically that the people are not and
cannot be m;sled. The contrast between
the two platforms struck me with great
force as l listened to the Senator from
New Jersey (Mr. Frelinghuysen) some
minutes since as he read one of the Sec
tons of the Chicago platform, declaring
that the public dett must be paid in &C.
o ldance with the letter and spirit of the
law AuG uOSo Vuot "Suu Nuy WI
league would say, l have no doubt, that
it means n thing, and the Senator from
New Jersey would claim that it means
another, a very different thing. Many
Senators claim that the spirit of the law
is that the bonds shall all be paid in gold,
while other Senators, eminent aud clear
headed, say that it means they shall be
paid in ~greenbacks if Congress chooses to
pay them. The resolution of the Demo-
cratic Convention is as follows:
Payment of the public debt of the United
States as rapidly as practicable; all moneys
drawn from the people by taxation except
so much as is requisite for the the neces.
sites of the Government, economically adj
ministercd, being honestly applied to such
payment; and where the obligations Of the
Government do not expressly state upon
their face, or the law under which they
were issued does not provide that they
shall be paid in coin, they ought in right
and in justice be paid in the lawful money
of the United States"
The resolutions declare that unless the
obligation issued by the government, OF
the law authorizing its issue, expressly
provides that it is to be paid in gold, il
may be paid in lawful money. The law
authorizing the issue of the tive.twenties
provided for a lawful money and declared
treasury notes, with the legal tender
clause, to be lawful money, and neithc,
the law nor the obligation provides that
these bonds shall be paid in gold. Gov.
ernor Seymour stands upon this platform,
and Isclaim that the platform explains it.
self, and standing upon the platform his
position is not and nno be misunder
stood. / had thought of reading one O,
two other of the resolutions adopted a
Chicago, to show that at New York posi-
tons were assumed plainly, distinctly and
directly, SO that the people could not be
misled by anything that was there said
But, sir, as it would likely take more time
than am able to occupy this morning, ]
will not go further in that direction.
With a platform explicit and direct up
on all the great questions that now attract
the public attention, it only remains to
inquire who are the men that stand upon
it. l need not in addressing either the
Senate or the country occupy much time
in speaking of Governor Seymour. lie
has been long known to the country as
one of her first statesmen-a ripe scholar
and profound thinker in times and in
positions Of great difficulty he has done
the State much service. He has filled
positions the highest in the country, ex.
cept that to which he has been nominated
and to which, in my judgement, he will be
elected. A statesman cool in thought and
efficient in action, he will command the
confidence of the country. l know thai
criticisms have been made upon his con
duct during the war. l am glad that il
requires bat a sentence to answer all crit
icisms. So efficient was he as the Exccu
tive of the great State of New York in the
raising of troops, and especially in the aid
he gave to the government about the time
of the battle of Gettysburg, that Mr.. Lin
coin returned to him in the most earnest
and emphatic manner his thanks.