New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1868-07-15

the United states have not seen it IT, 1t there. No
word that could CRATE harshy on Rebels ear no Wo,d
In this cOuntrynOt one in all that platform now es us
TCk at the way the I've s % ur need 9 for Secunay
ava men came TO me and SAID Is IL sac 10 eha ohhy t
is right to lend and you had better do it, Some men
were afraid the Government would pay out an immense
quantity OF their plasters-InOre than il could redeem
and they would only receive ten cents on the doa OH
their loans said 10 every one NO We snail resume
specie payments Immediately after the pressure Oh sg
war Is over. We shall pay you every COLLAR. lAppause
30 sad salmon 2. Chase so SAID MT Fese9ueni SO sau
Mr. McCulloch Every dollar that you lend the Govern
nent shall surely be paid in fair equivalent OF hVer
dollars. lAppause We may not pay you tomorrow
but you shall be paid" Here parallel case; 1oo eau
the Pacific Railway asking FOR the loan OF greenbacks OF
national Bank notes, anything called money anu tIeS
VIII pay interest gold every year ana the principal
in gold at the end OF 30 years That is their offer SUP
pose they were to turn around AFTER hey nad R9 an VI
the money they wanted and said well you did not
give us gold, will give YOU geenbacks worth
% or 30 cents on the dollar" Honest men would
call that viany. That is Reputation. Now, just IN
that way the Democratic platform does. Every DEBT
which not expressly specified to be paid In coin will be
my Judgment was not Horatlo SeymOurs tfor he has
spoken contrary to that it the Pendeton plank OF
the platform. The PendletOn forced IN their plank
although they did not force in their candidate Laugh
teri PAY the debt in greenJacks" they say. Take In
Sy 6e debt Sf IN nO FT sS
never was able pay debt by paving out another
good MANY debts. but never could pay them in that
way Neither would IT be right for the Government to
take away mans gold interest bearing bond and subs
TUE stead anything Of less value How do you sup
pose this Government could go on 1t shonld indulge
I'm such practices thatl What would be our credit
I'm foreign money markets l believe the American
people willing to pay their debt principal and inter
est to the last farthng according to the spirit as well MS
the letter OF the bond Applause In the last war with
Great Britain the Government borrowed money at u
per cent IN the notes OF suspended banks and yet
when II to pay that debt paid IN coin or It's equiv
aent If YOU the debt, that Is taking the money out
II trying 10 get the debt in the most easy way TO
be PAID that the people should have easiest would
H.fa 1.I.th frI ~
If the bond is made naXabe IL pays much more debt
draws much less interest there is prOprey In tax
ing TO- only by issuing IL ntaXabe and then taxing II is
there any advantage ana OF cOulSe Wouu pea fraud
rejoice TO belong to that party which says that hon
esiy according To the spirit well the letter Of the
act. shall surely be maintained know that Is the best
course. One man said To me. DO you think this debt
have begged men day after day. month after month and
year after year. 10 put every dollar they could into the
this stock would surely be paid oil at maturity IN gold or
its equivalent" lCheersl.
Just word now upon reconstruction. II is claimed
by opponents that the very hour tie Rebels laid
down their arms when they could not hold them any
they became possessed OF all the rights ana priy
leges they ever had, and were entitled TO seats IN
West Point Their idea was that they, who bad
been fighting against US In the late terrible war,
should take their places in Congress and vote out o
power the men who had conquered them ne World
over IN Ncw-NOrk reioiced and SAID, You Repubcans
must 20 out Immediately the Union Is reconstructed
there will be fourteen States rgans. you" That is 20 say
the Rebels who had been beaten In the game OF dividing
Union come back and govern the Union, and
punish us who had resisted tne Dtelklng up OF
the Union loud applauseJ We SAID surely mat cannot
got up the Convention that framed the constitution OF
the United States and moved this amendment Article
" Whenever States shall confederate 20 break up the
Union, shall raise 100000 soldiers ana snail nght Tue
Union the dest extremity for four bloody years and
shall be finally broken down, their armies sub
ycrted, and their whole territory oyerrun, they
shall, upon the instant they surrender-eyery Rebel
who went out-be entitled to come back into
Congress, and govern the country precisely as tVugn
they had never been out In such case az thht now
many would they have gotf There were some ugly
opponents of the Federal CONSTITUTION th9,c Dut 40 nor
believe they would have had one vote. IL you HAD pro.
posed In simple words what they cay Is the meaning OF
the Constitution, every man would nave voted "
down. believe II was the right and
the duty Of Congress TO prescribe Just and
asonahe terms how those States which have destroyed
themselves by Rebellion should be reconstructed and
should come renovated and drentArallcd INTO the Fed
cral Congress and into Federal power That u simple
justice The men who sustained Andrew johnson can
not deny H. for month after month they telegraphed 10
one another "You must abolish Slavery you must re-
pudae your Rebel debt you must do this0r lh or can
not recognize you. Your Government wiz be no govern
meut unless you do these things Wy0u tel me where
le got the power make those requirementsf can Toll
you where Congress acquired the power OF inAkg oe
sir Douglas went 20 Congress the Winter when the 10
compton bill came up Well me called upon siI
douglas" inquired the President. How are We 10 get
Constitution" 10 which Mr. Douglas replied II do not
that you III have any trouble 9ocause ,no ,
Territories but do not soo that II says hytLng ABOUT
a. pr'.tdeut ualuug new States or governing Terri
Island case confers The power Congress To recognize
isu ~ Ta There decided by ChiefJ1sce fancy that
Congress must determine on the admission VI states can
control the Territories ana the ADMISSION VI -
and that decision Is binding on the courts ahd Tue GOV
eminent Of the United states. Mr Seward, IA rtpy
10 the Southern states, when they askcu, or
President. II We do so aud So VIII our deiegaes Do va
ittsd 10 Congrcssi" stated by telegraph, Ihat II Tor
Congress % settle and not for us Now congress came
up aud has said Just this Your states went OUT OF the
Union for the purpose Of perpeuating slavery We shall
abolish slavery aud you shall agree that your ieproSeh
nton shall be based upon that population MhGa you ad
g...ga aF aEg n ".
MIA says that Chinese are not men, ana WIN not let
them be represented. Congress replies: " You
and not for another" II south Carolina says that ne
roes are not men, Congress says the same thing you
do not count them you shall not count them as the OASIS
az mower; you shall not make one white man IN south
Carolina equal TO two aud hall white men IN ne"
fobuson rejected with the conditions OF Con
gress They were not required TO let IN the black
an old let them vote and they would not let them
vote they should not count them AGAINST us congress
scrihc new conditions and we call upon all loyal
men not leading and conspicuous Rebels to reconstruct
States have been reconstructed, and admitted beside
Tennessee All have been admitted excepting three
CnnstitutlOn by means Of the terrorism which
they have exercised over the black popu-
lation for they have threatened to starye them
n thew vote the Constitution, They have carried the
STATE by their power their lands, and their wealth
Vt ~ Won like Won will come in by and by when you
ascertain that you not to make anything by this
cOuuting.' You Will ma thcy VIII urhhI
is elected that will not be worth their whe 10 stay out
any longer lCheers Here IL virginia gong 10 vote IN
few days and II she will ratfy her own Constitution
made by her own people her representatives can come
into Congress and take their seats. Now, Is this
not fair We claim this, not by way OF punishment or
revenge not by way OF disqualification put supply that
the loyal people OF those states even lhouRn tney De
black shall have a voice in the Government, as Wen as
Rebels who are hostile TO the Government Applause
claim that whereas II would be INFAMOUS W iupuu,ale
the debt of the Government to the creditors OF the GOV
ernment II would be equally Infamous TO reduce the
debt of the country TO tho man, plaek or
white who sought 10 the country, lCheers
We do believe that loyal men, Andrew johnson SAID
before he turned traitor himself loud cheersl Dlack or
white should govern America. Great applause'l L
think what he said right and true; Wish WHAT nc
aid was equally so. Laughter ana appiause.I lhcso
arc the foundations OF platform. We nave leaders
onrcannt aud emhndY ihem. We have cnnuldates