The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1868-10-30
Gd2 Intel l6er.
SEYMOUR ANSWERED.
POWERFUL SPEECHBY SENATOR
MORTON.
Unhappy Condition Of the Demo-
cratic Candidate for President.
IND1A1lAPoL1s, oct. 97.

ply TO the speeches of Governor Sey-
mour:
Fellow CITIZENSHIP. Seymour pre-.
sents the novel and painful spectacle of
a candidate for the Presidency, the
highest office in thegift of a free people.
going about like q common StumpoFE
ator, lecturing for himself and assaiIfng
the character and positions of his on
ponents. Two years ago Mr.. johnson
swung around the circle for the osten-
sible purpose of laying thecorner stone
of a monument to the lRmented Doug
las, in Chicago. Mr.. Seymour is max
ing his swing, not for any such profess
ed; purpose, but as We believe, is really
laying the corner stone of the tomb OF
the Democratic party. The result ofthe
late elections in Pennsylvania, Ohio
and Indiana has called him fourth
from his rural retreatin New Z ork, and
he is making a last and desperate effort
to retrieve the fallen fortune of a decay-.
ed, disloyal and dishonored party. The.
great object which he seems to have in
view in all the speeches which he has.
made since he started on his tour is to
array the Western against the Eastern
States /; to excite the people of the
Northwest to hostility toward the peo-.
pie of what he calls the Northern At
lantic States" New Yorker as he is
Eastern man as he Is, he does not hes
itate to SANDER his section, and the peo-
pie of his own State; to represent them.
as the enemies-commeroia finan-i
cially and cially-oG1hep eopleo of the
Northwestern States. The people of
New York, to whom he owes his Of
fetal dignities and all that he is, are
represented by him as Expressing the.
people of the Northwestern States, ex-
torting from them, robbing and plumb
ering them at every point.
For many years the politicians of
the South labored to excite their people
against the North, and their iabors
finally resulted in the rebellion. For
years it has been the policy of the DEM
ocrtic party, of Indiana and other North
western States to -denounee New Eng
land, and to arouse the prejudices and
feelings OF our people against the peo-
pie OF that portion of our country.
This was the staple of Democratic argu-
ment throughout the war, and the lead
ing men of that party in Indiana, hint
ed broadly at a Northwestern Confeder-
acy, and that New England should be
cleft out In the cold" And now we have
an Eastern pol tctan, candidate for
Office, endeavoring by every means in
hislpower TO excite the people of the
Northwest against the people even OF
his own State.
Among the charges which he brings
against the government, is one that the
national debt is sectional in its charac-
several States according totheir popp-
latiofi, bnt that most of the money was
borrowed from the Eastern States. II
| is hard to refrain from calling this COM
plaint absurd, just as il Congress
/ could borrowsmoneyi nthe Stateswhen
| the people had little or none to lend,
/ and refuse to borrow money in other
4 States where they had plenty OF 1t 10
i lend! He says that by this improper
method of borrowing money chiefly in
the Eastern States, the States have been
i divided into creditor and debtor States
the Eastern States being the creditors
| and the Western States being the debt
4 ors. This phrase he almost employed
lin his Cooper Institute speech of the
10Th of June last, and it has now pass
i ed into quotation, although there Is
i absolutely no meaing in IL. Inc Eas-
l tern States did not lend their money to
i the Western States, bnt to the govern
i meut: it is trne, the Western States are
4 liable to help pay the debt, but so are
i the Eastern States, and they Will help
Il to- nay the debt in very much the pro-
4 portion, in.which they lent their money
Il In his speeches at Buffalo and Ghica-
II go, the fret financial grievance he COM
| planned OF was that Congress had levied
i an export tax of cents per pound on
A raw cotton. He said this not only OPP
II pressed the planter, but chiefly the ne
II gro 1aborers, with whom he seems 70
4 have fallen in love, He declares TINS
LAX as being enormous in its character;
]. levied for Vindiclive purposes, and as
/. being the reason why reconstructlon
II has not taken place IN the south.
II On-ttifs subject Mr.. seymour ID NOT
4 we'll informed. The taxileVied on col
/, ton was mot 9 cents per pound, but
4 cents per pound. The tax was not a u
!, expressly prohibited by the Constttu-
i ton from levying an export tax Wnloh
II Mr.. Seymour seems to have fOrgoleH;
Y ON the contrary, the tax was Levied
4 upon all the cotton produced IN lh y
II con ntry without regard TO Whether II
! ;SSas az portedE to foreign countries Tor
u mannIscture. or kept in this country
4 It was levied at time when the gov
4 nrIIent WIS compelled to. tax every
i thing. and to draw revenue from every
l, possible source, and wasrepeaiea NEAR si :
81 " a wear ago, as soon5a the time NAG
j come when taxation could be reduced
Il The most extraordinary statement
81 which he makes, 1t appears that IL wa
! instigated by the Eastern manniae
turers, Iquote his Language; say !
j was a selfish act, because ~ VIZ ,1SactnI
: the interest of the Eastern man nIact u
rers. already wealthy from the fruits O
the var. Protected by enormous tarlnS
! this tax of six cents per pound on a.
: GOTTEN exported, WAS merely lnposss
4 SO that he might buy It for Price ,.n , 81.
: cents less tnHn Ii was WSAs
I,ets of the world.D % 49,,
The manufacturers were, OF an ot LIs
,t,a cIaas in the North who were esPe
cIallyf interested against the lit2ss ~. = :
r ia7nntito be supposed that the g esitt :
!. Il - Ia Il cents per pound TO the COST
y sSs raw material, which they manulac
K t..Sa5 into Goods. On the contrary IN
,eonle of! the manufacturing SaIe
vsrs anxious to have the tax repea1IIe s
cd avery Representative from rom Wv e't
Enalsnd Voted for the repeal. HIS com
nIaint against the Eastern mah !ns. ",
Ters. that they insttgated TINS ~ az ~
cotton, is quite as Iogtcai as Ina t,sa "a -,
o,oif that uuarreled with the lam 1I
y sSich was drinking In the stream De
n ioIH because he mnddied the water y
b rat he could not use IL. But MI. Sey
monr is determined to prove Inat -! ~
, ,1sorieao of the Eastern states are VI
d p.ssls.sssS,rs al the West and South, ant
Il bspca his remarkable statement:
q Another financial outrage which ma
: taon i,erpetrated by the Radlcal PaEiJ
: 4 y he alleges, was driving out the vi ~
o,iation OF the State and local pans :
nv heavy taxation during me l VIZ, ~ :
e n5ake room for the ctrcuIation " ~. "
national bank and legal tetlie ~ -
}. This was a war measure upon me Pa .t
1.La'governmeut, and one OF aosoluL
U s,sacsssitv. The government had 70 nav
the money to carry on the war, 10 y pa !;
3 the army and navy; to purcnase 81 = I
niles for them, and to meet e1P ~ ~
( turaa which were necessaf " rt ~ =.
= ss,s-ed The notes Of the local pank
oonId not be used by the governneII
for that purpose. They wersat par I OH !
=, thaiT- immediate localities even ~.
{ time or peace. In 1850 the notes ot ~ ~