The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1868-11-02

his face and talked TO the farn,ar.
about the low price ef corn md fIou,
at Pittsburg; he aalked al ant tbe
wages for labor atPhiladelnhia Ue
I got at smaller point, because he neYt
talked about the Secretary of War
i Laughter He said in his Readinc
speech that the War Department has
| had great many war vessels al
though he always thought this was the
business of the Navy Department
and would like to know how much
money was paid for the vessels and
who got the money. Ladies and gen
tlemen, you know that the President
OF the United States is Commander
1n-Chief of the Army and Navy YOU
know that the man who would com
mand your army and navy ought at
least to have a knowledge of the
duties of the different departments of
the Government. He was as ignorant
as Seymour In everything I Iaughter1:
and now, behold !! Seymour declares
he always Thought the hiring |
OF transports belongs 20 the NAVY |
Department. Behold the ignorance |
of this mani mqta fl .eIsT
Wade Hampton. or Forrest or
Preston, or any man 10 the rel bel srny 1
would blush with shame to hear his I
candidate say he thought the hiring
or charterIng of. transports belong to
the navy ELaughter.1 tits the busi
ness of the War Department.. Tt is
the business of the Quartermaster. as
an officer of the Government. who has
the moving of troops under his CON
troll to move them either by railroad.
stages, wagons, steamboats, or ships.
One hundred were chartered nv +
Meade to move his army, and behold
Id. Seymour, within about Eve days of
of the Pres ideuttal election. declaring
that he would be the next Com
mandefiu-Chief of the army and
navy, and always supposed it to be the
business. Of Gideon Welles to trans
port the army. laugh ter I How
great is the fgnofanee of this man In Z
the relations of affairs, and yes this J
man his party would elect as the next !
tommander-in-Oh Chief. [haughter.
lie said further he would like to .
know how much was paid for vessels L
md who got the money. That Il a G
,oint. [Laughter; He wants to $
Know who has the cheese. Renewed n
aughter. He processes to be lathe
most protound ignorance upon the
ubject. Now, ladies' and gentlemen
nd fellow-cltizans, would you believe
hat this man, this very man, has had Z
n account OF this money expended
Or the purchase Of the trans sports-
heir chartsE their Subsistence -he |
las really the most accurate informa-
ion on that point. Apd yet, although "
Ie knows the fzures and who receiE- ~
d the money, as well as the purposes q,
Or which the same was expended, II
q charges the Republican party with d
avlng spent all and charges them s
nth extravaganza. Ii
Mr.. Stanton then dWelt at length f.
pom the Often quoted dispatches sent II
rom himself TO Governor Seymour le
bout the time the rebels were inVad- ql
lg the State of Pennsylvania, thank q
1g him for his prompt sending on of m
roops, and asserted that these dis. n,
ltches amounted TO nothing; that &c
he very fact I at they were to Sey- es
lour alone should be sufficient to III
emoVe all their significance. La
eply to question put by Governor h;
cd, of OHIO, about that time ia re- ht
Ition to the sending of dispatches, ca
skiing why they had not also been II
snt TO other and loyal Governors, "
VI soieIy to'sOOppefhead 20 OoVernor, an
was answered that they did not
eed them. Seymour depends for his
'yaity upon these dispatches 7
nenating from Secretary Stan u
N, and yet is constantly, IN to
is speeches censuring the Secretary, 1t
no, on that poirt at least, has proven 81
is best friend. That Seymour was tn
My compelled by circumstances to pr
apply the tfoeps he sent and that he
as not in hearty and loyal accord n
ith the Government when he did 30,
made manifest by his being at the
cad of the draft riots in New Y ork =.
ity, only few days before -