Des Arc weekly citizen., 1868-09-29
Who Made The War Debt.

AdAiuS U ecutehce ITOm Teccut lette from MT. Seymour to personal friend, il which he says that the Republicans (Radicals) are trying to dodge the fnan oial issues, and that it is the duty O Democratic canvassers to push the deb and taxation upon public attention, thu New York Tribune makes it text upor which to air afresh some of its stereo typed preversions of the origin of the pub lie debt and grievous taxation under which the country suffers.
 As matter of course, its first assertion is, that the Democratic party caused the civil war; and to sustain this, it beats fol the ten thousand time, the chaff about the aggressions of the pro-slavery Democracy and the imbecility and ill-concealed treachery of the Buchanan administration as the remote and immediate provocation of the conflict out of which grew the debt Mir. Seymour himself comes in for attack as an ally with the Democratic party in piling up the mountain of debt.
 To refute the sophispry which seeks to shift the responsibility ofthe TT froA the shoulders of the Abolitid dsusdars against the South, is task upon whi& 1 it were proftless to enter. Hi1tQry Vl note prominently one fact, viz Ihat if . political party in the North had not or. ganized itself with the avowed intention oi abolisling slavery, and il doing so to override the rights of the Southern States and people, and the Neral Constitution which gave them r akrantce, there would have been no war hd no debt. The pre-. sent Radical parl made all the conditions of the war. It vited it. It encouraged it. It provokl i.. For twenty five years it presisteotly labored to bring il about. Argume pEptestation, appeal threat repeated promises, and the final offer of the CIT enden compromise could not change tS6ar purpose or deter them in the least from driving the South. ern people to arms This we say is his tory. It has passed above the range oi party discussion at the present time, and cannot be altered by the the bald asser. tions of the Tribune and its associates Tho fact that rns;stonea cov,a from, ope side after it was deliberately and calcu. latingly provoked by tho other, does not fix the guilt of consequences upon the first party. So the world and posterity will judge.
 The Tri6ane's criticism upon Gov. Seymour's noble and patriotic course in the winter of 1S60-61, in endeavoring to rcpress the rising tide which soon launch. ed the country into war and debt, itself sustains the charge that the Republican leaders were deaf to the appeals for com. promise, and bayed with voices still for wor." A quotation is given from Gov. Seymour's celebrated Tweddle Hallspeech, in which, after urging that the Peace Conference, then in session, should not adjourn without presenting to the country some scheme of pacifcation, he said "The question is simply this-Shall we have compromise after war, or com promise without war" The Republican section of the Peace Conference shouted back, "No compromise to avert war" and war came, and debt came, and taxation still comes. And they are not satisfied with all this train of evils. They will not have compromise after war. The same party, yet in possession ofthc government is more exacting, intolerant and oppressive than before The South, by the force oi numbers, was coerced into peace, and yei Radicalism will abate nothing of its de. mands. Having conquered, it seeks tc humiliate and degrade. Its measures fol this purpose continue to increase the debt and add to the taxes. The miscalled Re- publican party is primarily responsible for the war and the debt, and its successor, the Radical party, is following in its foot steps.
 Gov. Seymour was wise in his advise It is the duty of the Democracy to arraigr the authors of the debt which lays mort gage of ten per cent, on the property and producing resources of the people for ar Indefinite period, and hold them responsi l hla hafnra tax-nnnressAd nannle -IInioY