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GREAT EXCITEMENT
On SreoSn stiikft, Ci.iuariKt.n.
i Discussion of the Political Issues.
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'.r. Vnllnmliclinm, on return
i, to Dnyton, Ohio, from tlio Now
rt Convention, wiip. c-nllftl upon by
; Democratic neighbors to give an
lint of the doiiif,'H of thut body,
proceeded m follows :
n a dolegato to tho recent Fresi
I Convention, I report to you,
SMmocrstio friends, officially to
t, the results of its luborsj and
e to consider, also, briefly, and
lit rhetoric, tho political gitua
nnd proppecU.
DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATES.
i originally a member of that
:-ntion, but called on to aid in its
rations after its soHHions had be-
, : wrought with fidelity and earn
to secure t'lat object which,
' principle, seemed nearest tho
of tho Democracy of Ohio for
t, six months the nomination
. George H. Pendleton. We
ecauso of reasons not necessary
per now to consider. Bat in
the labors of the Convention
ot have terminated more in
rice with tho wishes and pur-
true patriota and Democrat,
r for the country. For I'rcsi-
have nominated Uoratio Sey
v;v, ixn eloquent orator, an able und
: i.-nced statesman, an accomtilisb-
i 'lemnn, sober and righteous in
fMuurgod, cutliolio be lino of the
nutn of the strictest tiecuniarv
'iiiloi;;-,!, the candidate of no "ring"
or liivd jn, and one who will neither
JiiruM U steal, nor permit theft in oth
vrn,' And this, after the" larcenous
cxpenenco of the past seven ycurs,
which huve mocked and dwarfed the
gigantic peculations and corruptions
of vcri itoman or English history,
and wherein, as in periods of physical
epidemics, every phase and spccios of
jiuuiie crime ana onence speedily n
euiiuid tbeTorm and type of rqbbery
or Vm 'X, is high, exulted eulogy upon
any cuiididate and gives promiso of a,
return to boncster times. Kominatod,
tti my personal knowledge, against his
wiii ti'd without a pledge or promise
to any one, npon any suhjoct, he is
under r,-s obligation of any sort, other
limn Unit which binds the patriot and
ten tie :nnn. And if he be "insane," as
hu!e creatures with false, malicious
tongid-s insinuate, I would that the
nnm i;mthod were in the madness of
nil other public men.
Fur V ice President we have nomina
tod lira. Frank P. Blair a civilian
und a m ! Jit'r, bold in the cabinet and
bravo in tho field ; ready to take all
jtirit nn J ncccsKury responsibilities;
fikiilu l in adapting means to ends,
and i ,'i!it in executing his purposes;
libcTk; .Mid tolerant of the opinions of
otlurn, und in the very midst of the
furor ( i the late civil war, capable, as
1 wi i! know, of discerning and conce
ding ti,e, highest patriotism of motive
in th"w who differed widest from him.
fii''i ure the candidates put in nom-
iiwitir, ; und in view of thoir eupurior
exct lii in ies and qualifications, I may
ptr'uy uy to you that voting for them
is tho highest exercise of true, genuine
"manhood suffrage;" and, moreover,
that i:i my deliberate judgment and
eviction, this ticket is a win
';tt, and will receive a decided
" of the entire electoral col-'
i n without reckoning upon a
te from the States lately oom
i:o ''Confederate Government."
I. PUBLICAN CANDIDATES.
As u i!ie candidates, Generul U. S.
Grant uvi Schuyler Colfax, who make
np tin: ii liet of the Eepublicar party,
I have rt"t a word personally of donun
ciuticn (t detraction to utter against
them. J leave that whole stylo, fash
ion ur5 rystem of political warfare to
our enemies, and i pray Heaven to
put it. i:.; o their hearts to devote every
hour of ume and every instrumentality
as to r.uu ner, through tho rross and
upon li e hustings, to it in its widest,
amplest wope, and foulest, fnlit, b:t
teiT'i, ir.aHgnity. And I pray further
Ihi-A n,e u-uraml the things of the war
mny r.. '.o up the sole subject of their
tjiet i !i i, their documents and appeals
every i. v to the people, leaving to us
ns li.-. v , -i last summer and tail in
Otiio,tif' exclusive discusnion,in every
form, of (Treat livinir Questions of
.
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Executive officer of a great .Repub
lic, to restoro peace and prosporitj
through the arts of statesmanship ;
and 1 know Ulysses S. Grant only as
tho symbol of negro supremacy, debt,
hard times, high prices, low wages,
gold without taxation for the bond
holder, rags and taxes for the poople,
and an imperial military despotism
instead .if the simple but beneficent
Federal Republic of our fathers. Uo
yond theso, Goneral Grant represents
nothing except the cold lava of the
burnt out volvano of civil war.
So mucb then, gentlemen, as to can
didates. And notr allow me briefly to con-
si dor some of the primary and lunda
deep v.
Iiini! tit
mf.ji.-ii",
lege, p .'
sin t- v
pos:.,:; :.
policies, between the Republican and
Democratic parties.
1. The aim and purpose of the Re
publican Revolutionary leaders is to
centralise the powers of the General
Government, so as to establish ulti
mately an Imperial Republic; which
in the judgment of the wisest and best
statesmen of America, from the begin
ning, can here be but another name
for a military despotism. To secure
this object they bWan by denying
and usurping the just, Constitutional
reserved rights of the States. Next
they assumed absolute power to exist
in time ol war in the f resident, whom
they designated "the Government;"
and when afterward tbey quarreled
with the Executive, they stripped him
of every accustomed and even very
many ol Lib cleariy Constitutional pre-
rogutives; and Dually sought, by a
gross abuso of the power of impeach
ment, to remove bun from an onioe to
which little remained except the title
and emolument. And when the Su
preme Court stood in their way they
began, by hostile legislation, to cir
cumscribe and cripple its riirhtful
jurisdiction, and to bring it into con
tempt with the people oy bitter and
venomous denunciation of its Chief-Justice.
Upon the other band, the Demo
cratic party insists, in the language
of Jeflcrson, on '-the support of the
State Governments in all their rights
as the most competent administrations
of our domoslio concerns, and tho
surest bulwarks against anti-Republican
tendencies, and tho preservation
of the Generul Government io its
whole Constitutional vigor, as the
sheet-anchor of our peace at homo
and safety abroad."
As to policies or ideas, the two par
ties differ fundamentally iu iliis; the
basis of the present Republican organ
ization is bigotry, hate and revenge.
It tolerates no diffeicnccs of opinion.
It would forever fun and keep alive
the flumes of that civil war which for
four long and weary years scorched
the hearts and desolated the homes of
one-third of tho people of the United
States. It would cherish forever the
hot passions and the bitterness, and
of tho country have been steadily sac
rificed ; and, worse yet, all Constitu
tional limitation altogether disregard
ed. Signally defeated in their efforts
to establish negro snffrage and equali
ty io the .North and West, they have
now impudently in tboir platlorm pro
claimed that here each State shall
rej-n'nto Hnffragu for itself, whilo at
the South the elective franchise shall
be determined by the Congress of the
United States. Acting upon the double
motive of hate and tbe desire to main
tain partisan supremacy, they have
disfranchised a large majority of the
white population of the Southern
Suites, and conferred upon the ne
groes, by act of Congress, the right to
mental differences 4 -prineiples ndpote;- and then at tho point' of the
bsyonet, bave proceeded to establish
seven State Governments, controlled
by negroes or wbi to ad venturers mean
er than they mere sojourners, birds
of passage, and very foul birds at that;
and have gone through the faroe of
admitting them into the Union and
to the right of representation in the
Senate and the House, and a full vote
in the electoral college for President
In this tnannor, gentlemen, they
expeot to control the legislation and
elections of tbe country. And these
ignorant, brutish negroes of South
Carolina and Florida, and other States,
do -now make laws and levy taxes and
create public debt lor tod, white men
of Ohio; and they expect to overrule
your choice for President. Yes, iren-
tlemen, under these Republican Re
construction acts, enforced by an army
for which you pay beavr taxes out of
your beard earnings, half a million of
negroes in ioutb Caiohna, reinforced
by some adventurous white loafers
from tbe North and West, will control
as many electoral votes as a million of
white men in Ohio. Aye, at this pres
ent moment the "Governor" so-called
of that State, electod by negroes, un
der an act of Congress, and through
tbe aid ot your army, is a citixen of
Utiio, having a legal settlement here;
so that it be would become a pauper
and South Carolina is very poor now,
and no longer able to enrich her sa
trapt the proper town authorities in
the county of Henry, in this State,
could be compelled to maintain him
as a public charge. And moreover,
General William Warner, a noble con
frere of his from Ohio, has, I observe,
just been elected a United States Sen
ator from Alabama.
These are the doings of the republi
can party, and if not marvellous in
your eye, they are at least costly to
your pockets. These are a part of the
blessings over which the Chicago plat
form exults, and a continuance, and,
indeed, a multiplication of w hieh they
promise upon the election of General
Ulysses S. Grant.
SANK INJCSTICK Of TBI BECONSTBUO
Tlnjl POLICT.
Xow, gentlemen, suppose for a mo
ment that tbe case were reversed, and
the feuds, and discords which in our that the South had waged a success-
own midst nrrnyed neighbor against
neighbor, and wrought dissension and
strife among those of the same house
hold. It refuses to forget the vile
cpith'jts which found no apology, even
ful war of conquest upon you bore ia
the West, and had compelled, by force
oi arms, ino introduction 01 slavery
hero, and you had surrendered in good
faith, under pledge and promise of all
amid tho fury of a bloody conflict, and other rights within tbe Union under
glibly spits forth from its envenomed j tho Constitution ; and that, when ros
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' rcr else relates to the civil,
ul and the material proepcr
1 wtnntry. These be our top.
i the people, whilo to them
m-plest lioeuso to howl on
- ' Js,Copporheads,Ku Klux,
- nvictod traitors, the life of
si, the glory of the war and
inbjocts of denunciation or
As for my single self, glo
eveiy word BKike, every
every act done, and every
-od by myself in behalf of
. . erly throughout the war,
t now to be provoked, by
. . r denunciation, into a dis
! uny thing tonnocted with
n trial along with all its
; all its Fuffurers before the
nnl of history, and by the
. .heroin hereafter to bo pnv
I am content to abide.
Tallandigham during the
bo a very pretty and tel
ieal conundrum in the
' "loyal" orators ; but it
ires tho Union, maintuins
iiion, upholds liberty, pays
es the debt, slops stealing,
(stress, nor in any other
i tho wants and necessities
Io, or tends to bring thorn
i burdens too grievous to be
itlcmen, I have no word
i denunciation for the Ke-
iimlidat.es. I would not
jot or tittle from the ful
? of military glory to which
Jint may be justly entitled.
syllable to utter as to his
'its. I care not what his
my bave been, by baptism
4 know U'ysses S. Grant
candidate of the revolu
publican party, and the
ve of its principles, its
1 its purposes. We are not
Se ring master of a circus,
iiister of a feast, nor the
he ro3al horses or hounds :
iio Commanding-general of
V) wags war ; but tbe Chief
iips, "rebel sympathizer, butternut,
copperhead and traitor." Professing
a rohgion which is luu tided on eternal
love, it yet builds itself up on immor
tal bate. Invoking mercy and for
giveness from tbe God of heaven, it
denies all pardon or grace to fellow
men on earth.'
Rut do these, our enemies, realise
that they themselves are the very
children of political wrath T Have
they forgotton tho accumulated
wrongs and outrages winch they
neaped upon our heads tbe denunci
ations, the calumnies, the espionage,
the mobbing, tbe arrests, tbe impris
onments, me exile ana the murder
and assassination which we, their fcl
low-citisons, suffered at their hands f
It is wc, too, who have wrongs to for
give or avenge. It is wo who might
shot the gates of mercy npon them,
and demand a fiery and consuming
retribution. Animated by their own
relentless spirit, I, too might well
exclaim :
"A plum npon thvm 1 Whcrefort Rbould I rarer
tbem ?
WoaM rarer kill, w doth U BiutdnUt'l (niaaF
I vnuld invrnt m tHttrr-crffrrhiiiK forum,
A rarnt, a. hreh, and borribl lt hear,
pplivrmi atrnnglj through my tljrd tealh,
M lib full M mu,r tlfltr ol dradlj bale,
At laan-faotd amy ia bi-r liialliwima cavcf
My tonjrne ahrmld ttomliU in mint Mrnwl wonlii;
Mine rvm ihnnid iptrkia ilia the Kum stint;
Mt hair he ftxrd on rnd. Ilka one dialracit i
Ay, Tcrj Joint abuvld rca to earaa aad aa."
But, gentlemen, If such is to be the
spirit of our political controversies for
ever; if there is to bo no truoe to our
passions ; if the past is never to be
forgotten nor forgiven ; if the dead
carcass of civil war, with all its engen
dered griefs and wrongs and hates, is
not sometime to be buried out of sight,
then welcome tho fierce waters of the
deluge in which perished tho ante
diluvian world ; thrice welcome the
fire from heaven which smote and con
sumed Sndom and Gomorrah, so that
in God's Providence a new and a wiser
and a better race, worthier of their
noble heritage, msy repopulate this
North American continent.
THK WAT TO PEACE.
Depend upon it, gentlemen, no party
whose only cementing element is a
sympathy of hatred, can ever bo per
manent in power, or even in existence.
With largo multitudes of men, this
spirit of hate was the controlling mo
tive thronghont the late civil war, and
has continued to govern them at every
step in their efforts at reconstruction.
But with a smaller, yet far more dan
gerous class of politicians, the sole aim
for the las.t three rears has boen
tho perpetuation of Republican role,
through tbe negroes of tbe South. To
this basest of motives and purposes,
the pnblic good and thn pacification
naa no lunuer power to resist, a
Southern. Congress Lad, at the point
of the buyonet, forced constitutions,
govcrti merits and laws on yon against
your will, and that victorious and in
solent South Carolina has sent up here
the meanest and barest of her vaga
bond "Sand Hill" ciliz-ent with carpet
bags in their hands, to represent you,
the once free, white men of Ohio, in
the Senate and Ilouse at the Federal
capital, and to usnrp the places once
filled by tho Morrows, tho McLeans.
the Corwins, the Ewings, tbe Harocro,
the Aliens of this gloiious Common
wealth, what would have been the
emotions of wrath and indignation
which would have burned within your
bosoms 1 And yet to just such indig
uitios are South Carolina and Virginia
and their sister Stales of the "Old
Thirteen," scorched and scarred all
over with the flames of tho war of
1770, subjected, by the false and de
generate sons of the New England
sires, who stood shoulder to shoulder
by them in that grand revolutionary
conflict, which, in blood and suffering,
and with precious treasure, firrt bought
us our liberties.'
"Ah, bat these mm are now rebels
and traitors, and yon, the Democracy,
received them with open arms aud
gushing hearts into your recent Pres
idential Convention." Thank God,
we did, and by none were tbey hailed
with more cordial welcome than by,
tot the bloodless though bloodthirsty
homo loyalists of the war, but by tbe
gallant and noble heroes, tlio Han
cocks, the Franklins, the Ewings, the
lilairs, tho Slocums, and the Steed
mans, who hsd met them in deadly
conflict amid the sulphurous canopy
and shock of battle. We mean to
have pence indeed ; we intend to re
store tho Union in fact ; and to-day
we know thce men only as our friends,
fellow-citiiens and brothers the de
scendants of tbe Washingtons, the
Lees, the Hamptons, the Sumpters,
the Marions, lliePreHtons, thellavnes,
tho Laurens and others, who, si do by
side, stood with tbe Hancocks, the
Adamses, the Starks, the Tutnams,
the Gates, and the Waynes of tbe
North in the heroic Revolutionary
struggle of 70, or with tlioirsons and
grandsons to the latter conflict of
1812, or the Mexican wsr ot 16
Americans all w hose fame is tho pat
rimony of the wholo country. This
is peace ; this is Union ; this alone it
the blessed vision of the seers and
prophets of an age gone by : One Con
stitution, one country, one destiny I
So looch for reconstruction. And
now.gentlemen, a word upon humbler.
yet more practicable and scarce loss
impnrwni snnjects.
TAXATION, TABirr A.Nt) HEVKNUE.
And first to taxation in its double
form as Tariff and internal Revenue.
Tbe sole foundation of tbe right of
Government to appropriate, any part
ot tbe property of the citizen by tax
ation, is the necessity .i supporting
tbe Government in its several depart
ments, working strictly within the line
of their duty; and the only measure
of tbe right is the extent of tbe neces
sity, a reasonable- economy being the
fixed rule by which to terminate that
necessity. Every dollar which the
Government extracts frota the people
beyond this, is sheer downright rob
bery.' Now, a protective tdriif in its
very nature, implies the "vying of a
tat not for tbe uccesmuos of vne Gov
ernment but for tbe benefit of a class.
Levied upon articles of manu
facture, it is money transferred, by
act of Congress, from the pockets of
tbe consumer to tbe bank account of
tbe manufacturer. And this is rob-
bery. Previous to the war and in
Democratic times an average duty of
some fifteen per cent, was laid upon
imports; aud without a dollar of in
ternal revenue collected by the Feder
al Government, the amount received
was ample to pay the then seventy or
- t. . r I : .
eigniy uiiiiiouaoi ciptimiiurm. iigw,
as part of tbe blessing ol Jtepublican
rale, a continuance of wbioh you are
promised under Gon. Grant, these da
ties run from a nominal sum or noth
ing, on raw material, to three hun
dred per cent- on manufactures, aver
aging upon tbe whole list more than
forty-five per cent. And of this, one
half at least aa atieolute gtft by the
Government to tbe manufacturing in
terest a girt taken by robbery from
your pockets. Eleven times baa the
tariff been raised by several acts of
Congress since lbfkl, and we have
now just barely, by tbe adjournment,
escaped another elevation. Ob, the
choice blessings of Republican rule,
which are to be continued and multi
plied under Grant 1
Hut the inequity, and iniquity too,
of the tariff, is greatly aggravated by
the fact that its chief burdens fall up
on usof the West. One-half of tbe pro
ceeds of the tariff go to swell the prof
its of tbe Eastern manufacturer, who
buying our produce ebcap, sells us
wares dear, and tben investing bit
rapidly accumulated wealth in bonds,
purchased with "greenbacks" at sixty
cents on the dollar, escapes taxation,
receives bis interest ia coin, and after
his bonded claim against tbe Govern
ment haw, ia tbe lngiuM.f the Chi
cago platform, been "extended over a
fair period of redemption," like the
English dobt. ho or hit heir ia the
tenth generation, expect to be paid in
gold at tbe rate of one hundred ceuts
to the dollar 1 Oh, the blessings of
Republican rule to be continued under
Grant 1 But the West, Winded during
the war by tbe veil of "loyalty ," at
last is beginning to open ber eyes to
this enormous wrong piled upon her;
and I warn the East, in no sectional
spirit, bat id ail kindntss, yet in sll
earnestneas, that the strong patient
nu-n of loo West, stagrering under
this burdou, are resolves in inexora
ble iMirpoae, to shake it from their
shoulders at every hazard.
I have said that the necessities of
government econoraicaty adminis
tered are tbe limits of its right to tax.
Wherefore, also, it is true that every
dollar stolen from the Treasury, and
every dollar misapplied from the legit
imate purpose of govenment, is so
much robbed from the people. And
yet io the very first year of Republi
can blessings, tbe year of grace, 1 SGI,
wa bad tbe testimony upon the floor
of Congress, of a loading Republican,
that "the Treasury bad wen plunder
ed well nigh in that single year, as
mucb as tbe entire curreil yearly ex
penses of the Government during Mr.
Buchanan's administration." Repub
lican petit larceny was then put into
tbe pulp or embryo; but several years
of rapid and vigorous growth, have
dereloped it now into ttie bone and
griuleof sturdy and ggan tic theft
and robbery. And to-dar the expen
ditures of the Government, legitimate
and larcenous, are nearly five times
as great aa when eight ytara ago, the
power was snatched front the Demo
cratic party, and delivered over to
Republican misrule.
TBE ri BLIC IiEBT.
And now allow me a word as to
the public debt It is a vain thing
to day to inquire how this debt came
to be contracted, or how much of it
was originally necessary and just. It
may have been tbe raostosntial, tbe
most Constitutional, the most right
eous and tbe most wisely and judi
ciously managed that ever a people
incurred ; or it may have been io ev
ery particular just tbe revtree. No
matter. It exists, and must be dealt
with accordingly. Tbe Democratic
and Republicau parties both recogni
sing it, differ widely, radically, in re
gard to it. Tbe idea or notion of tbe
Domocratiu party may be best and
most significantly expressed by a par
aphrase of Dunning s celebrated reso
lution against the royal prerogative,
a hundred years ago, in tbe British
i'srliamcnt that tht PvMic IkU hat
increased, is incrratim), and oxyW to
I diminished. The licpublican plat
form declares that it ought to be "ex
tended ovor a fair period for redemp
tion" a phrase curiously felicitous in
oxprersing infant uncertainty of du
ration. It reminds me of Charles
Jam ee Fox's answer to bis creditors,
who vexed v, iih his long daisy, ironi
cally projioeed that he should execute
to them bis bonds payable on the day
of judgment. "Ah," said be, "just
please make them payable the day af
ter." Upon tbe oilier band, tbe Dem
ocratic platform demands "payment
of the public debt of the Uoi tod States
as rapidly as possible, applying all
money arawn ironi tbe pe.iple by tax
ation, except so much as is requisite
lor tne necessities of government eco
nomically administered, to such pay
ment." The Democratic party mean
that this dobt, with all its burdens and
all its corruptions of every sort, shall
oe paid otr ; and I say to you, gontio-
men, that in my Ann conviction, Re
publican trovcrnment cannot long en
dure here even in form and shadow,
it this huge mountain of debt is to
continue; and that no form of govern
ment could exist pure and incorrupt,
it this debt is to become permanent.
Upon another subject, gentlemen,
tbe policy of the two parties is in
marked contrast. Planting itself up
on the fixed principle of all just gov
eminent, that taxation ought to be
equal, the Democratic party demands
that the bonds and other securities of
the United States shall be taxed tbe
same as other property. The justice
and equality ot tbe proposition are
too plain for elaborate argument.
These bonds and securities bave every
legal element of property in the bands
of their holders except taxation. Why,
tben, tbe exemption ? Tbey now
amount, in various forms, to some 12,
600,000,000, or about ono-fifth of the
entire property of tbe country. And
yet this one-fifth, claiming the special
care aud nurture of the Government,
drawing its interest in gold, and in
the bands, chiefly, of the wealthiest
men, and soon to become exclusively
theirs, pays not a dollar of tax in the
manner or to the extent which it
would pay if it were other property.
To day yourcspitalistowns a hundred
thousand dollars in lands and goods,
and pays taxes, income included ;
State and Federal, accordingly ; thus
bearing bis full proportion of the bur
dens of the community in which he
lives. To-morrow he sells all, and in
vests in Government bonds, receiving
his interest, paid now by other men,
his neighbors in taxes, but Io I himself
pays not a dime in taxation, save the
income tax, deducted virtually and in
paper from the golden interest -srhich
tie receives. And now the en tiro bur
den of taxes, remaining just the same
as yesterday, fall upon tbc of the
community who own no bonds. And
yet the leaders of tbe Republican par
ty, high id position and influence,
bave tbe audacity to tell us that who
ever is for taxing bonds is no better
than a penitentiary convict I Well, be
it so; but there are tbreemillions and
more or white Aiuencan voters in tbe
United States w bo are resolved that.
penitentiary convicts or not, they will
hsve these bonds taxed 1
I come now to tho mode of paying
the public debt, and tbe subject of cur
rency in general.
Gentlemen, 1 am a bard money man.
I always have been. There is no
other real money in tho world ; and
least of all ia irredeemable Govern
ment paper, money in any proper
sense of tbe term. It is not even tbe
representative of money but only of
uovernment credit; and vanes and
must ever vary, with the fluctuations
of that credit. And it is by so much
a gresler evil when a Government
seeks to mako its own paper, its own
credit, its own promisos to pay, a legal
tender for payments and debts. If
the Government wero to issue no
more pnper, or little more than it
wanted for taxes, it need notdelarc it
a legal leuder. If it issue more, and
just io proportion to tbe excess, no
kind or amount of legislation, penal or
otherwise, and no number of legal
tender clauses, can save it from depre
ciation. I voted against the legal
tender act of lSi2. I did not believe
it Constitutional then. I do not be
believe it Constitutional now. More
over I felt assured that it must sooner
or later bring forth iu evil fruit, and
that abundantly. Government paper
could not be mado or kept equal to
coin ; and there is no more mischior
ous agent of financial distress than a
depreciated paper currency. And the
evil it greatly aggravated if there be
two currencies of unequal value. I
concur fully in all that Governor Sey
mour has said upon this particular
subject, and in the purposes of bis re
cent speech as I understand thorn ;
and that was to warn the Democracy
and the people of the United States
not to swing wholly from their anciont
hard money mooring, and become too
deeply enamored of the green goddess
of paper money : to lovo wisely and
not too well ; not to accept tbe ex
tremo medicine of tbe public debt
and currency as their daily bread, I
think the caution was timely and well
bestowed. I am in favor of one cur-
roncy, if practicable, and as soon as
practicable, and that currency gold
and silver. This twenty dollar gold
piece which I hold in my hand Gen.
Schenck intimated lat fill that I stole
it; no matter; it was certainly not
from him ; and moreover let me tell
him that it is not the wages of politi
cal prostitution, nor yet of that sin
which is political death : pardon the
digression thit gold piece is money;
not indeed "lawful money," in the lan
guage of the legal tender act, but Con
stitutional money, and the only mon
ey known to that instrument o
act or Congress, and no number of
pensl provisions could persnade me
that this twenty dollar legal tender is
as good as this twenty dollar gold.
This (the gold) is not the representa
tive or substitute for money ; It doos
not say 'I promise to pay twonty
dollarsj" but "I am twenty dollars,"
Now, gentlemen, I should be very
glad to make this paper money as good
ss gold if I only knew how. 1 re
member io ancient mythology one
MidAS, who besonght the gods for
power to turn everything he touched
into gold ; bat I recollect, also, that in
the sequel of tbe story M idas was writ
ten down an ass. I know, then, of no
immensely reducing tho volume
somcwhero near the standard of taxa
tion or requiring it to bo redeemed
on demand in gold at the Treasury of
tbe United States. But neither of
these is now practicable,. What then ?
Necessarily we have two currencies
lor the present gold and greenbacks;
a dollar in coin equal to a hundred
coots, and a dollar in legal tender, re
presenting variously from fifty cents
to seventy. And now, hard money
man as I am, odious as a depreciated,
irredeemable government papcrorced
upon the people, is to mo, 1 meet tbe
issue squarely, it you bave gold en
otigh for all, Id us all have gold. But
if not, and there must bo -paper for
eomu) then paper-jtr-tH t a4 in toe
language ot tlieXtew 1 ork Democratic
plallorm, "one currency for tbe Gov
ernment and the peoplo, tbo laborer
aud the office-holder, the pensioner
and the soldier, tbe producer and the
bond-holder; and whosoever would
bave gold, let him buy it in tbe market
at its value in currency. And let us
have no petty quibbling about the
phraso "lawful money. In tbe plat
form it is the antithesis of "rain," and
in the entire legislation of Congress
upon tbe subject for six years it means
tbe legal tender "greenback currency
of the country. Redeem, then, in this
lawful money lawful to the plow-
bolder and la wlul to tbe bond-holde
as "rapidly as practicable," all obliga
tions of the Government not expressly
upon tboir face, or by law, made pay
able in coin. Abolish forthwith your
National banking system; take up
tbe bonds which tbey bold, save
twenty millions of interest to tbe tax
payers, and, instead of redeeming
three hundred millions cf National
currency with green b.-.cks, issue a like
amount of greenbacks to supply their
place, iiere is no inflation: nor is
there any, tbe smallest hazard, of
having "too much money," even of
'lawful money, in the country. With
tbe disappearance, too, of the present
National banking monopoly, we shall
secure again old-fashioned specie-pay
ing banks, whose credit shall depend
on tbe ir 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.
co.tCLceing.
I have now, my Democratic friends,
finished what I had to say upon the
political issues and situation to-day.
One word further upon another sub
ject, and 1 have done.
You hear from every qnartcr.throtigh
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 tbo intensity
which can fire the hearts of men born
freemen and scorning to dio slaves, if
we shall fairly, constitutionally and
legally elect a President, to seo that
he is inaugurated at every hazard.
It is our right, and our duty, too, as
also it is tbo duty and right of the
Bepubliean party, if they sbakl legally,
constitutionally and fairly elect Gen
eral Grant. But no man meditates
openly or covertly, any thing beyond.
No, gentlemen, it is tho Republican
leaders who are, the revolutionists.
It is they who are resolved by all
means and at every sacrifice of tho
rights of the States, the liberties of
the peoplo, snd the peace of the coun
try, to perpetuato tbeir power, would
again plunge us into both civil and
social war with all its hoirors. But
to the ballot, and not to the bullet, we
now appeal. The people aro weaned
of the Republican party and of its
wrung and its perfidies, of its debts
and its tariffs and its taxations, of its
negro governments and military des
polisms, of a dishonored Constitution
and a broken Union, which four years
of war and three years of peace under
its conduct and legislation have fuiled
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 Ji&astrous will be the over
throw of this party in November, tbat
they thomseives will make basto to
rocognise and hearken to the voico of
the people as the voice of God ; and
as chastened children in silence will
submit to tho judgment which in mer
cy to themselves, as to us and to the
whole country, shall drive them from
tho seats of power. No, gentlemen,
no; there will be no more civil war
in the land ; but the sun at high noon,
shining on tho Eastern front of the,
Capitol on tbc4lh of March, 1SI, will
look down peacefully upon Horatio
Seymour, President of the United
States.
M r. Yaltandighnm was loudly cheer
ed at the conclnsion of his speech.
Josh Billings says: I hav noticed
that those persons who hav the keenest
sense or misery, hav also the brightest
visions of joy ; but there it sum folks
whom even molasses kandy won't
make happy nor even muskeeters
worry.
I don't think there ix enny more
excuse for keepin a Shsnhigh rooster
than there ia iu keepin a boss that
you've got tew buck up to a second
story window tew put tbecrooper on.
It is atoninhin ho-.v very small
tbey ware their pantilunes in Broad
way ; hut I notice the pantilnnes are
plenty big enufl for tho legs.
When I seo an old mixer In tbe
midst ov bis wealth, I kotisider him
just about as happy as & fly who has
fell iota t. quart bowlov molasses and
kant git out.
The expenses of the war and naval
departments last year were $5,500,000
more than during the first year of tho
war. I his is brants peace establisb-
NEW GOODS AT LOW TEICES.
TIIB ndtnliro.d rMpMtfblly Inrii tti at
I'ftlna of ilia l'Di.li nmllT blr
ilndid aaMirtBl of rrbandin, whlrh thrj
ara o Mllir(
AT VERY LOW PRICES.
Tnelr tUf eomiiU ia part of
Dry Goods of the Best Quality,
Surb aa Prima, Da Lalnra, Alpamsaa , Marino f
ttlgbana,Mailiaf,fhlaabad aid ubloMb
1.) DHIIinjr", Tiekinit, aotloa and
wool Placodi,Satiirett,CulnrH,
Cottonadaa, Ladiaa' Sbawlg,
MoblM A Hooda, Balmoral
and Hoop Fkiru, c,
alto, S (at aamrtment of Men'f Drawara sail
Shlrti, Uau a Capi, Booti Bboaa.
all of which
WILL BE SOLD LOW FOR CA8H
Hardware, Queensware, Glassware,
Groceries and Spices.
N SHORT A GENERAL ASSORTMENT
Ofrrarvtbinr of Ball t kapt I trull ttora, all
CUKAP FOR CASH or appro td aountr? pro-
do.
A. RL. WRIGHT 4 SONS.
Claartald, Not.T , IS7.
SOUETIIIXG JfElVJ
NewStore in Madera
MESSRS. J. FORREST & SOX
TTTOULD rarpartfollj iafora u poblia tha
tbty bra nt opoaad, ia M4DKHA,
Claarftald ooaotv, Pa., an aatira nw atoek of
FALL ASD WINTER GOODS,
Which thty sr praparad to Mil aa ehaap aa tha
ebaapaat.
Tatlr Hack ooniiiti la par of
Dry Goods of the Best Quality,
6aeb aa Alpaceaa, Delantt, Prlata, Mail'ma,
Cuaimaraa, 6atisU, and Flaaaala
Ready - Made Clothing,
Of th bait quality, lock aa CoaU, PaaU, Vattav
OrareoaU, Orarallj, Ekirtt, Collar, A a.
Boots, Shoes and Gaiters,
Aim of th Trj boat Qaaiir,
complete Etock of Groceries.
abort ararjthing atuallj kept la s emintry
tar.
Consumers, Look to Your Interests!
Call and eiamlna oar itoek and prleo befor
parehaainf aliawbara.
LUMBER AND GRAIN
Of all kind Ukaa la aicbangt fat fiodi.
jMr-RaBaoilar th plaoa, Madara, Cloartald
count;, Peaa a.
. P0RREST A 0S.
Ottobar 11. 18C-tf.
REYOLrnox n business
AT tfltWESmVlLLE,
BT
IIARTSOCK & GOODWIN.
118 androignad baYinff tnUrad intooo-part-aaraki.i
ia tbo narcaatila bo.Mna, adopt
lb ii method of Botifrinf tha pablie t:oirallj,
aad tha eitittni of Corwrnirilla and icioit, in
particular, that Biarehaadiia of all kinda will
ha anld hj aa ehaap at th iana onilltr alie-
har In tha county. Wa hat a fall nppl7 or
DRY GOODSi
Coniiiling In part of Dreia Good, Mnillm,
Print of nil ihadaa and itjlrt ,- togeihar with s
fall aitorlmint or
NOTIONS, CLOTHING, HATS Sl CAPS,
Hoou, Knot, Hardware, Queeniware.
Al wall a Tinware. Cedarwar. Willow ware,
booleta and Broomi ; tofrethir with a larra itorh
Oroeiriel j and alwuii a full Hotk of
FLOCB, FISH, SALT, c
la abort, wa keep n fall mpplj of arart thiol
seed in tail market.
W want til ear old rnitnmerf and aj meat
aw oaee a aaa make it eenrenient, to five al
call befor pure! aaing elwwhera.
PASIKL HAHTSOf K.
EDWIN GOODWIN.
Carwtil)e. Fehrnar 1.1, ISM.
Down I
THE
Down 1 1
LAST ARRIVAL
AND OF COrRSS THK CUKATEST I
A Proclamation against High Prices!
Vf TE .vr low opening up lot of tb Wrt an it
M nnft rvrmftbl ttoodi and Warm Tr
oftiTi Id thif market, and al rir that mnirtl
a of th food old dart of ehoap thine. Thv
who l.vk fatih oTon thu point, or deem oar til
fationi ruf aHlaott, fttrd bat
CtffX tr out STORE,
Corner Front and Markrt itiwl.
Wotr Ihry fan am, feel, nrar and know for then
mOtm. To fully vndrn-tand what aftrbrap frooHa,
tbti nun b . Wa do at dm it ncr-ary
to tniimeraia and it finite our itock. It if enough
for to matt that
We have Everything that is Needed
and eonmtnfd in thif market, and at prieoa that
artnnh both old aad young.
dtVatO JOSKPH FHAW A BON.
Groceries at Reduced Prices,
6C0ARS Fu.raritaJ; Granulated. Cnuhtd,
SuciThona.
COFPfcK-Old Oorerantnt Java, Trina Rio,
Hrwitd.
TKAS pan, Inporial, Toanf Hraon D.ank.
MOLASF Lorfrini'i Sjrmp, Extra, Golden,
Ha rhoaao.
CRACK KHSEjrg B I. coil, Wist, Ojiter and
8da erarker.
VINEGAR Whlta Wine and Par CidnrViua
ft at J, I KRAIZER'B.
Hardware.
Horn
FOR BUCKSMTTriS Hon Shoe,
Phail, Nail rod, Filea. Rein.
WA00N MAKER? Thimble Fkeini and Tip
boiea. Fin bolt Vrrneha. Camava bait.
CARP KNTEKS Plaaee, awi, Aaferi, Hatch-
ate. Hemmer. Tlane bite, Pinarei.
BCILDKRS Neil, Loeka. Hinfre, rVrawa,
Poor belle. Bolt, llrher, Saik fatner,
irMBKnMKN Doahle-bitt A tee. Mill Saw.
Crou tut Saw, Rafting Aiee, Drawing
Knie.
CADIS RT MAKKRS Bed erwt, Caelwrt,
Caphaard eatohe, f amlrar knnha, brawar
lorkt.
IIOVBC KSEPCRS Kalveeand Parke, FrM
and Pin, Spoon, Flat Iron, Code Mill,
Clearer.
FARMKR9 Beythea, Rake. Spwdet, Poor',
Forki, Ho, Graia feoopa, al
Ang. ih. Int. J. t. KRATf.KR S.
war oi miKinir ronruorernmrnirav monv. rni wnnis mib mna oi i v.. , , " ' , , , .
J i u . . V ir ti . j t r j i .. ILK BILL, and will on th receipt of twen'r.
ptrcood asgold, xcopt inther by"rMC- Ho aod bit friends enjoy it. lrK.,, mi ,rJ, T .ddm. ti
J
VT hara printed a larf nataSer of tbo now