The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1868-09-21


is whether the bonds shall be converted
into Them. But Gen. Blair tells us this
SAL nonsense; that there - but one
issue in this contest, and thatit Is idle
TO talk of greenbacks, gold, the public
faith or the public credit. Even "
greenbacks did not have to be paid,
how can they pay a bond calling for
money in anything but money. They
tell you greenbuGks are NOT ''laHfut
money" Did not they all vote against
their issue on the ground that they
were. Unconstitutional 2i.au Tnrn Ito.
dleton called the greenbauk "vaga-
bond with the marx of Cain on it," and
as members of Congress- they would
have to vote for greenbacks II they are
to get enough OF them to pay this debt.
They would have TO vote. therefore for
what they sayis unconstitutional after
taking an oath TO support the Constttu-
ton OF the United States. Tho whole
thing is utterly absurd as showed you
before. 1t is but swapping of Promi-
ses 20 pay and making present debt
out OF that which has fifteen years TO
run. Besides they pledge themselves in
theIrSplatform to pay the debt only In
Lawful money and to get the money by
taxation. F1- ge9gL p sszf ~
But these questions of greenbacks
and taxes are really not in issue, be-
cause the election of Mr.. Seymour could
not enable them to issue a solitary
greenback. Mr.. Seymour would be an
executive officer and Mr.. Blair nothing
in the-world but the presiding officer
over the Senate of the United States as
Vice President. He is merely there to
step into Mr.. Seymour's shoes in the
event of Mr.. -Seymour's- death. The
issuing of greenbacks is legislative
act and belongs to the Legislative de-
partment of the Government, and can
he I,rV lNr r.
Blair says in the Broadhead letter-fa-
miliar, Ipresume TO you ALL shall not
read it, but state. IL substantially, and
state II no stronger than 1t is-that II is
nonsense to talk about greenbReks. In
other words, the man who talks about
greenbacks for bonds at this time is u
fool. He says, more, that the election
of their ticket amounts TO nothing ifthe
President elect is TO go on and enforce
the law. That is the substance of il.
The election of any man as President
by the Democratic party amounts to
nothing if ne is to obey his oath, which
is to preserve, protect and defend the
Constitution and see the laws faithfully
executed. That is the meaning. know
Mr.. Blair does not put It exactly in that
light, but he says you get nothing by
eleCling a Democratic Presidentif he is
to enforce the reconstruction acts of
Congress; and even If You do elect him
and elect a Democratic majority of the
House of Representatives, IL will do
you no practical good, because the
complexion of the Senate ofthe United
States is fixed for more than four years
and you can have no legislation with
out the concurrence of that Senate.
Remember that, my Democratic friends.
To the man who is the friend of the
South 1 now appeal, rebel though he
may have been, honest then, honest
now, hope, in support ofthe Constitu-
ton and the Union OF his country;
have you any sympathy for your
friends in the South2 Do you desire
that they snail be restored to peace and
that the industrial interests and re-
sources OF that country may prosper Z
II you do, will you hasten the period
when that long-wished for time shall
arrive by keeping up for four years
longer the same strife that has been
going on for the last three years be-
tween President johnson and the Sen
ate of the United States. Applause
Mark you, nothing more can be accom-
plished by the election of MIR. Seymour
than that, unless you do what General
Blair tells you you should do and 1t is
folly not to do; and that is to use the
military power of the Government OF
the United States to trample in the dust
the enactments OF Congress and over
throw the Governments created by
them.
Now that is the Issue. In plain Lam
guage, you are asked todeclare through
the bnllot-box thas the military power
of this country shall be used as against
congressional enaCtments, against what
Is now, to-day, acknowledged law, and
that, too, when the constitutionality OF
these enactments is to be determined,
probably before Mr., Seymour could be
inauguTated. The New York Con-
vention assumed TO themselves the
right 10 declare what the Constitution
OF the United States says, only the Su-
preme Court of the United States may
declare the laws OF Congress unconsti-
tutional. They declare in their platform
that this legislation, these laws, are
unconstitutional null and void;" and
Gen. Blair tells them they make moth
ing by electIDg a President who will
not trample those laws in the dust, not.
witbstandiDg It is a part of his duty to
see they are faithfully executed. He
tells them unless the President they
elect will use the military power of the
country to enable him to do this, they
can make nothing by electIDg Presi-
dent, because the political complexion
of the Senate remains the same during
his entire term, and no legislation can
be had without the consent and con-
currence of that Senate.
| Now, my fellow citizens, do you be-
ieve If MIR. Seymour should be elect
ed President, and should refuse TO ex-
ecute the laws enacted by Congress
laws to which this Vice Presidential
| candidate refers-and should use the
military power of the country to "com-
! pei the Senate" and aid him In tramp
ling those laws in the dust, it would
not produce a bloodier war than that
from which we have just emerged
put the question to you, can IL be done
without war? Will the lRW-abiding
people of the United Stntes-the men
who sacrificed hundreds of thousands
of lives, who have expended billions OF
money, who are now paying burden
some taxes in order to. reduce the debt,
and keep down the Interest, which was
contracted for the purpose OF maintain
ing law and order, consent that a man
should fill the Executive chair or this
country who would use their military
power as against the laws OF Congress
| with fmpunify2 Is IL not war? Could
it be any hing but war 2 81 6
1t il. nothing else in the world but
| going backythirty -Odd years on the part
of this rebel Democracy. In1S32 South
Carolina declared the tariff was uncon-
stitutfonal, juEt as strongly as this Con
lvention -atssNew<York declared these
laws of Congress unconstitutional
South Carolina in q sovereign capacity,
Through a Convention chosen by her
people, declared she would nulIify the
tariff laws, that they should not be ex-
ecuted in her territory. That day a
man was President who kept this rebel
element of the Democratic party in the
| background while he lived-the man
who said "the Federal Union must and
shall be preserved. Andrew jackson
| Capplausel issued a proclamation warn
ing the nullifiers. he did more. He
did not pnt II in the shape of a procla-