New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1868-08-04

and their less honest Northern allies OF course
hate those who lent our Government the money
indispensably required to arm, equip, feed,
clotbe. and pay, the volunteer armies that
fought to preserve the life OF the Republic
The dodge of paying the bonds in Greenbacks,
and not paving the Greenbacks at all, is con-
genial to their natures. 1t gratifies at once
their knavery their avarice, and their disloy-
alty. They punish, to their OwR profit those
who furnished the "sinews of war; for their
overthrow. Up to the hour wherein that plat
form was reported, Horatio Seymour had spoken
and written as though intexibly opposed TO
this sneaking plan of reputation. Yet the
platform proclaims that the great bulk OF our
National Debt is payable, and should be
ouickly paid, in lawful money"-that is, in
paper promises that VIGOROUSLY are not full
filed and. should our adversaries achieve
mower. never will be. And, the moment this
doctrine was announced, Rebel We'd with Cop
perbead in shouting its instant and unanimous
ratification. Thenceforth, it was and is canon
of the Democratic creed-in New-York as well
as in Ohio-that the bondholders are to be
paid off in Greenbacks and the Greenbacks
left unpaid Every pensioners pittance, every
savings bank depositOr's hard-earned' scanty
provision against an evil day, dwindles to non
entity if this policy of reputation and rascallty
shall be suffered to triumph.
The mpoicy of this crime fully parallels Its
knavery Our country owes great Debt,
which is part of the cost of her salvation. She
has right to pay off her present creditors In
stantly or presently so fast rs she can borrow
of Others the means. If any will lend her at
four per cent the money wherewth to redeem
her Five-Twenties now drawing six per cent,
she can save by this single operation the
means of soon paying off every dollar she
owes. We object to all schemes of paying in
Greenbacks not only that they are dishonest,
but that they are ruinOus. She is now paying
six per cent on Millions of Fiye-Twenties past
due which she would be replacing as they
mature by four per cents. but for wide
spread fear of total or partial reputation.
The whole nation thus suffers for the wrong
doing of some of her people. 1t is vital that
she should rebuke all assailants of her good
faith by procaimng in thunder-tones her deter
mination to pay her every Debt according to the
letter and spirit of her obligation.
The Grant Republican platform proclaims
that the Public Faith pledged to the Nations
creditors must be sacrcdly maintained, adding
in words that should be inscribed in letters
of gold over every mantel;
"THAT THE BEST POLICY TO DIMINISH OUR
BURDEN OF DEBT IS TO so IMPROVE OUR CREDIT
THAT CAPITALISTS WILL SEEK TO LOAN US MON.
PAY. AND MUST CONTINUE TO PAY so LONG AS
REPUTATION, PARTIAL OR TOTAL, OPEN OR
COVERT, Is THREATENED OR SUSPECTED"
WHO does not say Amen to this noble SEN
a "a 1noa
not will doubtless vote for Seymour and Blair.
Fellow citizens, your adversares boast of their
overwhelming triumph over you last Fall, and
talk of their Fifty Thousand Majority as though
all men did not know better. They poled for
their highest candidate last Fall exactly ll,765
votes more than they gave Horatio Seymour in
1864, when you beat him with Gov. Fenton by
1928 majority. They made this seeming gain by
means of wholesale frauds in Naturalization
and the most infamous double, treble and
quadruple voting in the City of New-York,
whereby they made that City give nearly Sixty
Thousand majority against you, while your vote,
through apathy, was everywhere allowed to
fall off Tens of thousands of you were scat
tered far and wide on the day of our last
election; as many were kept away from
the polls, in the wild belief that n Demo
cratic triumph might conduce to public econo-
my and legislative purity. After the expert
ence of last Winter, you are not likely to repeat
that blunder
Republicans of New-York your adversaries
cannot beat you, but you can beat yourselves.
Apathy, dissenson, neglect of your political
duties, may once more produce result as
untoward and shameful as those of 1857, 1862
and 1867. You cannot, we are confident, pre-
vent the election of Grant and Colfax; but you
may supinely cOnnive at the defeat of your
excellent State ticket send COpperhead to
the u. s. Senate, and hostile delegation to
embarrass the new Administration in the House.
You cannot, we trust overthrow that patriotic
party which abolished Slavery and put down
the Rebellion; but you can divest your State
of all weight in its councils, all rightful author
fly in shaping the destinies of the Republic.
But no-you will not, you must not do this !!
You will organize and put forth your full
strength in the struggle before us. You will
poll the legal vote that in heart is with you,
and battle the wholesale frauds whereby your
adversaries expect to defeat you. We entreat
you to organize forthwith aiGraht Club in every
township and ward wherein none already ex-
lists, and report its existence and the names of
its President and Secretary to the central or
ganization of your respective counties and to
the Secretary of this COMMITTEE. Having
thus organized, proceed at once to make care
full canvass of your respective townships and
wards, and report the result, 80 that we may
be able at an early day to gladden. the hearts
and invgorate the energies of your compatriots
far and near with the joyous assurance that
New-York in this, as in every great crisis of
our country's history, still proudly keeps step
to the music of Union.
We are your fellow citizens,
HAMILTON HARRIS,