The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1868-07-11
THE NEW YORK. CONVENTION.


| kJOHtuucu.)
On Monday Gov. Seymour was appointed
permanent president of the convention, and
made Il speech which was a most searching
arraignment of the radical party, and most
successful yndication Of the democracy -
SPEECH OF GOV. SEYMOUR.
Mr. Seymour proceeded to the platform
amid great cheering and loud, continued ap.
| plauee, and said
| "Gcntumen Of the Convention:
thank you for the Aouoryou have done
in making me your presiding oihcer.--
| Cheers. This Convention is made up OF a
large number Of delegates from. all parts OF
our broad land. TO u great degree we are
strangers to each other and view the subjects
which agitate our country from different
staudpouts. We cannot at once learn each
others mode Of thought, or grasp all the
facts which bear upon the minds Of others !;
yet our session must be brief, aud we are
forced to act without delay upon questions
of an exciting character, and Of deep import
to our country therefore, to maintain order,
to restrain all exhibition Of passion, and to
drive ont of our midst all unkind suspicious
is at this time great duty. Cheers |
rely upon your sense of this duty, and not
upon my own ability, to sustain me in this
station in which ! am placed by your kind
Partially.
MEN never met under greater responsible.
tiles than those which weigh upon us. APP
plause 1t is not mere party triumph we
seek. We are trying to save our country
from the dangers which overhang it. We
wish to lift oil the perplexities and the shack
les which, in the shape Of bad laws and
crushing taxation, now paralyAe the BUSH
ness and labor Of our land. Loud cheer.
ing.
ave hope, too, that we can give prospect.
~ and happiness to those sections of our
country which suffer SO deeply to-day, in
their homes, and in all the fields of their in.
dustry from the unhappy events of the last
eight years. ! trust that our actions will
show that we are governed by earnest pur-
poses to help all classes of our citizens
| Avoiding harsh inVectiyes against men, we
should keep the public mind fixed upon the
| questions which must now be met and solv.
ed. (Checrs,) Let US leave the past to the
calm judgment of the future, and confront
the perils Of the day. (Cheers.) We are
|
tons put forth by the late republican con.
vention. ! aver there Is not in this body
| one man who has it in his heart to excite so
much of angry feeling against the rcpubli.
can party a5 must be stirred up in the minds
Of those who read these declarations in the
| light OF recent events and in view of the con-
ditiou Of cur country.
AIN the first place, they congratulate the
people rs man ofbusness, burthen.
ed taxpayer, the laborer, whose hours of
toll are heightened out by the growing costs
Of the uecessaries of life,-upon the success
Of that reconstruction policy which has
brought all these evils upon them by the
cost OF Its military despotlsm, and the cor
rRption of its bureau agencies. In one reso-
luton they denounce all forms OF repuda.
| tion Us q national crime. Then why did
they put upon the statute books
Of the nation the laws which invite
the citizens who borrow coin. to force
their creditors to take debased
paper, and thus wrong him ont of a large
share of his claim, in violation Of the most
solemn compact loud cheering. If re,
| Puo@tion is national crime, it is a crime
10 lnctN@ the citizens Of this country thus to
reePudlatc their individual promises Ap.
! pIause Was it not crime TO force credi-
tors OF this and other states TO take n cur.
fehcy, at times worth no more than 40 cents
On inc collar, IN Prepayment for the sterling
CON they gave, to build roads and canals
winch yield such ample returns of wealth
and prosperity. IApplsuse. Again, thew
say It IS due to the lsborers Of the nation
that taxation should be equalized, Then
why dld they make taxation unequal? Be.
yopd the injustice of making one class of