The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1868-11-02
NO CONDITION BUT UNCONDITIONAL
SURRENDER.

no passions. We wish for fraternal
relationship with the people of the
South. We demand for them what
we demand for ourselves-the full re-
cognitiop of the rights of States
But If the Administration can not
save the Union, we can. Mr.. LIN
coin values many things above the
Union: we put it first of all. he
thinks a proclamation worth more
than peace; we think the blood of our
people more precious than the edicts
of the President. There are no hin
ORANGES in pathway to Union and
Peace"
THE UNION CAN % BE SAVED.
"This administration can not now
save the Union if it would. 1t has
by its proclamation, by vindictive
legislation, by displays of hate and
passion, placed obstacles In its own
pathway which it ear not overcome,
and has hampered its own freedom of
action by unconstitutional acts
HE VOTES THE WAR A FAILURE.
Resotved, That this Convention
does explicitly declare, as the sense
of the American people, that after
| four years of failure to restore the
Union by the experiment of war.
during which. under the p~retence of
a val power higher than the Consti-
| tuition. the Constitution itself has
been d~isregarded in every part, and
| public liberty and private right alike
trodden down, and the material pros
perity of the country essentially i'm
| paired: Justice, humanity, liberty, and
| the public welfare demand that i'm
mediate efforts be made for a cessa-
| ton of hostilities with a view to an
| ultimate Convention of all the States,
or other peaceable means, to the end
that at the earliest practicable mo-
ment peace may be restored on the
basis of the Federal Union of the
States.
SEYMOUR AND THE NEW YORK CON
VENTION ENDORSE BLAIR.
The New York Copperhead Con-
vention, which did not contain a loyal
| delegate from the South, nor one who
had not takon an active part against
! the Government, gave General Hamp-
ton, the bitterest rebel of them all.
unconditional authority to place any
plank in the platform the South might
| demand; and be placed there this en-
dorsement Of Blair's threat of civil
war, which the Convention approved
by exclamation:
ResolUed, That we regard the Re-
construction Acts $50 called) of Con-
gress as usurpatiOns, and uneOnstltu-
tional, revolutionary and void"
Seymour's letter of acceptance
says;
tions adopted by the Convention, and
most cordially concur in every prin-
ciple and sentiment they advance"
SEYMOUR PLEDGED TO REVOLUTION
Mr.. Seymour cordially endorses the
New York platform, which endorse:
Blair's treason, and promises the
overthrow of the reconstructed State
Governments and all the reconstruc
ton laws of Congress, and r~epudiates
our bonds. The Montgomery Gala,
Neus thus defines Mr.. SeymOur's pc
sition:
THE Democratic party put Mr.
Seymour on the same ticket with
General Blair after the latter wrote
his celebrated letter, aud we have
never heard that any of the parties to
the co partnership have eve fallen
out about it.. On the contrary, they
have not only not fallen out about it,
but they have all fallen in about, and
the country is initiating their exam
pie. Our correspondent may rest as
sured that under Seymour and Blair,
with or without platform or letter,
the cob-houses of rebellion to use
the language OF Willard Fillmore,
must give way to Democratic struc-
lures That's all about it."
ON THE GREENBACKs BEFORE THE
CONVENTION.
On the 26th of June, only ten days
before the CopperhNa6 and Rebel
Convention in New York, Mr.. Sey-
Anour made a speech in the Cooper
Institute Upon the wickedness and
folly of the greenback Pendleton
system, in which he said:
THE amount In savings banks, in
this State alone, is $140,00 900. This
shows that there must be at least
$500, 900, 900 of rloney thus deposited
in all the States. The average Of the
deposits in 1867, 10 the State of New
York, was 1910. The number of de-
positors in the State of New York is
about five hundred thousand (487,-
479,) and in the city they number
more than one third of the popula-
ton. This will make the number OF
depositors in the Union more than
one million eight hundred thousand.
In the State of Connecticut, in 1865,
one. quarter of its population had de-
posts In savings banks. 1t is not
usual for men of small property to
insure their lives. The number of
policies given out by all the life
insurance companies are about
four hundred and fifty thousand,
and the amount of insurance
about one thousand two hundred and
fifty millions. The money invested is
held as a sacred trust, as it is a fund
laid ide for their families, when the
insured die. All of the funds of saw
ings bank and life insurance COM
panies are not put in Government
bonds, but they hold an amount which
would cripple or ruin them, if the
bonds are paid in debased paper. III
we add the trust for widows and or
phans, we ind that two million five
hundred thousand persons are inter-
ested In Government bonds who are
uOb CAPITALISTS duU VIM are cOupuI
sorry owners at present prices under
the operations of our laws. There is
a fear that this state of things will
make a clashing of interest between
the labor of the East and the labor of
the West.
IF we make our paper money good
by a harsh system of contraction, we
shall cripple the energies of the coun-
try and make bankruptcy and ruin.
If, on the other hand, we debase the
currency by unwise issues, we shall