The Ebensburg Alleghanian. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1865-1871, 1868-09-17

Crank Blair proposes to dramatize the
reconstruction acts in way that would
plague the inventors 'smartly. We hope
that the reins of Government will be pla-
ced in the hands of men who will have the
nerve to undo, at any hazard, the wrong
that has been done"
These are but samples of the manner in
which the Democratic candidates and plat
form are received at the South The
Blair letter is the keynote to the cam
paign. 1t furnishes the rule for the con-
struction of the platform. Every other
issue is merged in the one fact that the
reorganized State governments must be
destroyed This done, and the rebel
readers placed in control, all else becomes
easy The national debt may be repudia-
ted or the rebel debt assumed at pleasure.
AS claimed by the rebel orators, the
| election of Seymour and Blair is to be the
triumph of the "lost cause;" it is to gain
by the ballot all they lost by the bullet.
| Governor Wise, of Virginia, in recent
speech, declared that he admitted the loss
of slavery, but adhered to the right of Sc
cession, which would yet triumph.
| FINANCE AND THE PUBLIC DEBT.
| On this subject the Democratic plat
form presents the following:
! HIhtrd. Payment of the public debt OF
the United States as rapidly as practica-
BILE; all moneys drawn from the people by
taxation, except so much as is requisite for
the necessities of the Government, eco
nomically administered, being honestly
applied to such payment, and where the
obligations of the Government do not ex-
pressly 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 justice be paid in
the lawful money of the United States.
''Fourth Equal taxation of every species
of property according to its real value, in
Guiding Government bonds and other pub
lie securities.
Fifth. One currency for the Govern
ment and the people, the laborer and the
offce-holder, the pensioner and the soldier,
the producer and the bondholder'
This is understood by the followers of
the party to mean gold, greenbacks, or re-
pudiation, to suit the locality.
The Nashville Union and Dispatch, a
Democratic sheet, says:
seThe Democratic platform provides that
where the obligations of the Government
do not expressly state upon their face, OF
the law under which they were issued
does not provide that they shall be paid in
coin, they ought in right and justice to be
paid in the lawful money of the United
States When this was reported to the
convention, it was greeted with 'thunders
of applause The Democratic party is
therefore, pledged to pay the fve-twenty
bonds of the United States in green.
backs. The party is also pledged by the
, platform to 'one currency for the Govern
ment and the people, the laborer and the
office-holder, the pensioner and the soldier
the producer and the bondholder.' There
is no equivocation or doubt about the
position of the Democratic party on the
greenback question. The convention ha:
oonIo fully up 10 The requirements of the
Democrats and Conservatives of Tennessee
and the West on this issue And Govern
or Seymour has planted himself fairly an6
squarely on this plank of the platform
Whatever position he may have previously
, assumed, he is now pledged to the payment
| of the United States bonds, known as five
twenties, in greenbaeks, and he will hon
estly and faithfully adhere to that position
He has never been known to falsify his
pledges
A Democratic orator in neighborine
city recently declared that the platform
meant and was intended to mean absolute
reputation That the debt having been
contracted in the prosecution of an uncon-
stitutional war, was itself unconstitutional
and void, and could not be legally paid.
Any practical man will see that the
greenback and reputation schemes are
substantially the same. To force the pay
ment of the bonds by flooding the country
with irredeemable paper is, so far as the
people are concerned, equivalent to unqual-
flied repudiation-
1t would postpone the resumption Of
coin payments indefinitely, disturb values
destroy confidence, and end in final repu-
diation whereas the whole difficulty may
be avoided BY bringing greenbacks to the
gold standard when it will not matter
whether. the bonds are paid in. gold or
greenbacks,. To keep the public faith is
to restore the industries and business of
the country to prosperity, give stability to
values, employment to labor, and to pro-
mote economy in public and private af-
1 fairs.
| The sixth plank of the Democratic plat
! form calls for the reduction of the army
the discontinuance, of the Freedmen's Bu-
i reau, and reform in the tax laws These
i demands have already been anticipated by
Republican legislation, but not without OPP
position from the Democrats in Congress
1t further demands that the currency be
made good, but does not suggest how this
is to be done. 1t is therefore inferred
that it is to be done by an issue of green
backs to nav the fiye-fwenty bonds.