Wyoming democrat. [volume] (Tunkhannock, Wyoming Co., Pa.) 1867-1940, 1868-07-15
SPEECH ofHoRAT1o SEYMOUR.

give the following synopsis from his ad-
dress which is we'll worth perusal:
He said in every part of our land are
proofs of widespread change in political
feeling, while the ablest Republicans refuse
TO 90 on with party which tramples on
the Judiciary, usurps power, and is unset
Ting all ideas of political morality, and un-
hinging all the business machinery of the
land. We are laboring under some en-
barrassments from the great volume of the
change in our favor. Those who are rally
ing around the standard of Constitutional
rights have hitheIfore held conflicting
views with regard to the events of the
the past eight years. aud the question now
is, how can we set this great majority in
the field so arrayed that they can drive
out OF place the disciplined and desperates
hords of office holders who now misgovern
our country This is the only problem
to be settled. The American people are
disguised with the conduct of the Congress
sional party. Can we mark out a policy
which will unite the majority to our stem
dard This can only be done by thought
same time we must be out spoken and
must confront all the questions which per-
plex US. Men look forward with hope
and fear to the action Of the National Con-
vention on the Fourth of July. 1t shall
not speak of candidates. Let the claims
of each one be considered in a kind and
courteous spirit, and let us take care that
no personal partisanship shall draw US
aside from our duty to our country. We
should support with hearty zeal every up
holder OF Constitutional rights. tits upon
discord in our ranks that our opponents
build their hopes. Let this hope be
crushed by our action. 1t will in the pres
ent state of our country be an unholy
thing to go into the July Convention with
any purpose which will not have in view
the rescue of our Government from the
men which now have it 10 their hand.
Mr.. Seymour then proceeded to reiter-
ate bis views formerly expressed on the
financial question, opposing both contrac-
ton and unwise issues, and urging the res
toration of tie National credit tainted
by the wastefulness and profieacy of the
party in power He contended that five
hundred millions of money of the
thousand millions of money spent by the
Government since the surrender of Lee
could have been devoted to the payment
of the rational debt, carrying by the proof
OF good faith the national credit to the
highest point, while new bonds at a lower
rate Of interest, would have reduced our
taxes and brought our currency to the
value of specie.
Gov. Seymour said that the Republican
party at Chicago pledged itself to keep up
its negro policy and said it is impossible
to give unlutored Africans at the South,
uncontrolled power over the government,
the property, and laws of the people of
ten States, by excluding white votes, with
out military despotism. You cannot give
three millions of negroes more Senators
than are allowed to fifteen millions of
white men living in New York, Penn,
Ohio, Illinois, Indiana, Wisconsin,, Iowa,
Kentucky, Missouri, and Michigan, with
out keeping up great standing armies.-
Without general amnesty and the restor-
alton of suffrage to all the whites in the
South, great standing army must be n
permanent institution. He proceeded to
argue in favor of general amnesty, and
the restoration of suffrage to all whites in
the South, which would obyia,e the neces-
sity of keeping up military despotism to
feed idle negroes, to break down the Judi
ciary to shackle the Executive, and to de-
stroy all Constitutional rights.
He closed as follows: have said moth
ing in behalf of or against the views of any
one who is spoken of as a candidate for
the Presidency on the Democratic side.-
| have only said that each one agrees to
and is in favor Of No man has been
named who is not in favor of reducing the
expenses ard then making our paper as
good as gold. No man has been named
who is not in favor of using the. money
drawn from the tax payers to pay the
public debt. No man has been named
who is not in favor of general amnesty
to the people of the South. No man has
been named who is not an up-holder Of
Constitutional rights. No man has been
named by the Democratic party whose
election would not help the tax payer, the
Iaborer. and the bond-holder.
On the other hand the candidates Of
the Republican party are pledged to their
policy, which has sunk the value Of our
currency more than eight per cent. in the
past two years. The discount upon our
paper money was twenty per cent. in
April, 1868. 1t is about twenty-nine at
present. 1t will continue to 90 down un-
der the same policy. As it sinks it will
increase taxes, it will curse all labor and
bushes, it will endanger still more the
public creditor the greater the premium
on gold, the harder it becomes to paw
specie to the bond-holder and his claims
becomes more odious. What claim have
the Republicans upon our soldiers 3
They take away from him one-quarter
of his pension by paying him in false mon
ey, which is worth less than IS cents on
the dollar. A wise and honest admins
tration would have made it worth its face
in gold. What right have they to call on
the mechanic and lahorer? They have
heightened out the hours of their toll to
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