Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1868-08-27
NEW SERIES--V0L. 8, NO. 6.

immensely reducing the volume
somewhere near the standard of taxa
tion--or requiring il 10 be redeemed
on demand in gold at the Treasury Of
the United States. But neither OF
these is now practicable. What then
Necessarily we have two currencies
for the present-gold and greenbacks
dollar in coin equal TO hundred
ccnts, and dollar in legal tender, re-
presenting variously from fifty cents
to seventy. And now, hard money
man as / am, odious as a deprecated,
irredeemable government paper forced
upon the people, is to me, / meet the
issue squarely. If you have gold en-
ough for all, let us all hare gold. But
If not, and there must be paper for
somoytssn paper tor@ail and In the
language of the New York Democratic
platform, Zone currency for the Gov
ernment and the people, the laborer
and the office-holder, the pensioner
and the soldier, the producer and the
bond-holder;" and whosoever would
have gold, let him buy it in the market
at its value in currency. And let us
have no petty quibbling about the
phrase "lawful money" In the plat
form it is the antithes;s Of "coin, and
in the entire Legislation of Congress
upon the subject for six years it means
the legal tender "greenback" currency
of the country. Redeem, then, in this
lawful money-lawful to the plow-
bolder and lawful to the bond d-holder-
as "rapidly as practicable" all obliga-
tions of the Government not expressly
upon their face, or by law, made pay
able in coin. Abolish forthwith your
National banking system; take up
the bonds which they hold, save
twenty millions of interest to the tax
payers, and, instead of redeeming
three hundred millions Of National
currency with greenbacks, issue like
amount of greenbacks to supply their
place. Here is no imitation; nor is
there any, the smallest hazard, of
having "too much money" even of
"lawful money" in the country. With
the disappearance, too, Of the present
National banking monopoly, we shall
secure again old-fashioncd specie-pay-
ing banks, whose credit shall depend
on their solvency, and whose promise
to-pay is redeemable, not in another
promise TO pay, but in gold and silver,
the constitutional money Of the land.
CONCLUSION
/ have now, my Democratic friends,
finished what / had to say upon the
political issues and situation to-day.
One word further upon another sub
ject, and have done.
You hear from every quarter, through
the Republican press, the alarm that
it is the purpose Of the Democratic
party to rcinaugurate revolution and
civil war. Let no man be in the least
concerned. Unquestionably it is the
fixed purpose Of three millions of Dem
ocratic voters, with all tho intensity
which can fire the hearts Of men born
frcemen and scorning to die slaves, if
we shall fairly, constitutionally and
legally elect President, TO see that
he is inaugurated at every hazard.
II is our right, and our duty, too, as
also It is the duty and right of the
Republican party, if they SHAH legally,
constitutionally and fairly elect Gen
eral Grant. But no man meditates
openly or covertly, any thing beyond.
No, gentlemen, it is the Republican
leaders who arc the revolutionists.
II is they who are resolved by all
means apd at every sacrifice of the
rights Of the States, the liberties of
the people, and the peace Of the coun-
try, to perpetuato their power, would
again plunge us into both civil and
social war with all its horrors But
to the ballot, aud not to the bullet, we
now appeal. The people arc wearied
of the Republican party and Of IFS
wrongs and its perfdies, of it's debts
and its tariffs and its taxations, of its
negro governments and military des-
potisms, Of dishonored Constitution
and a broken Union, which four years
of war and three years Of peace under
its conduct and legislation have failed |
TO restore and they demand and will
have a change. And unless every |
sign and omen by which the political |
future may be discerned, shall fail, so
signal and disastrous will be the over
throw Of this party in November, that
they themselves will make haste TO
recognize and hearken 10 the voice of
the people as the voice Of God and
as chastened children in silence will
submit TO the judgment which in mer
cy to themselves, as TO us and TO the
whole country, shall drive them from
the seats of power. No, gentlemen,
no there will be no more civil war
in the land; but the sun at high noon,
shining on the Eastern front Of the,
Capitol on the 4th Of March, 1869, viii |
look down peacefully upon Horatio |
Seymour, President of the United
States.
Mr.. Vallandigham was loudly cheer.
cd at the conclusion Of his speech.
Josh Billings says: | hav noticed
that those persons who hav the keencst
sense ov misery, hav also the brightest