MPEECH Or
HOX C. L. VALLADICnAM.
Able Discussion of the Political Issues.
Mr. Vallandigham, on his return
home, to Dayton, Ohio, from the Now
York C'onruulion, wu called upon by
bis Democratic neighbors to give an
account of the doings of that body.
He proceoded as follows :
As a delegate to the recent Presi
dential Convention, I report to you,
my Democratic friends, officially to
night, the results of its labors, and
propose to consider, also, briefly, and
without rhetorio, the political situa
tion and prospects.
DKMOCBATIO CANDIDATES.
Not originally a membor of that
Convention, but called on to aid in its
deliberations after its soeuions had be
gun, I wrought with fidelity and earn
outness to occurs that object which,
tiext to principle, soemed nearest the
hearts of tho Democracy of Ohio for
the last six months the nomination
if Mr. George H. Pendleton. We
Vailod because of reasons not necessary
nor proper now to consider. Bat in
all else the labor of the Convention
could not have terminated more In
accordance with the wishes and pur
poses of true patriots and Domocrata,
or better for the country For Presi
dent we have nominated Horatio Sey
mour, an eloquent orator, an able and
experienced statesman, an accomplish
ed gentleman, sober and righteous in
the enlarged, ratbolio bemio of tho
term, a man of the strictest ocuniary
integrity, the candidute of no "ring"
or fuction, and one who will neither
himself steal, nor permit theft in oth
ers. And this, aflor the' larcenous
experience of the post seven ycurs,
which have mocked and dwarfed the
gigantic peculations and corruptions
of even Koinan or English history,
and wherein, as in periods of physical
epidemics, every phage and spccios of
public crime and offence speodily as
turned the Torm and type of robbery
or theft, is high, exulted eulogy upon
any candidute and gives promiso of a
return to honoKtcr times. Nominated,
to my personal knowledge, against his
will and without a pledge or promise
to any one, npon any subject, ho is
under no obligation of any tort, other
limn tliut which binds the patriot and
gentleman. And if he be "insane," as
little creatures with fulse, malicious
tongues insinuate, I would that tho
same method woro in the madnoss of
nil other public men.
For Vice President we have nomina
ted Gen. Frank P. Blair & civilian
uiiJ a soldier, bold in the oabinet and
brave in the field ; ready to take all
jiixt and necossury responsibilities;
skillful in adapting menus to ends,
and prompt in executing It i s purposes;
liberal and tolorant of the opinions of
others, and in the very midst ot the
furor of tlio lute civil war, capable, as
I well know, of discerning and conce
ding tho highest patriotism of motive
in those who ditlureu widest trom him
Such aro the candidates put In nom
imatiun ; and in view of tboir superior
excellencies and qualifications, I may
justly say to you that voting for them
i inv itiftHviib KAcrciso oi true, sc&Mir.c
"manhood suffrage;" and, moreover,
tlmt in my dclibcrnte judgment and
deep conviction, this ticket is a win
ning ticket, and will receive a decided
majority of the entire electoral col
lego, even without reckoning upon a
single vote from the States lately oom
posing the'Confcdcrate Government."
BtrUIU.ICAN CANDIDATES.
As to the candidate, General U. S.
Grant and Schuyler Colfax, who mako
up tho ticket of the Renublicsr nartv.
1 have not a word personally of denun
ciation or detraction to utter against
inom. t leave that wholu style, lash
ion and sj'slom of political wurfure to
our enemies, and 1 pray Ilcaven to
put it into their hearts to devote oven-
honrof lime and every instrumentality
as to manner, through tho press and
upon tho hustings, to it in its widest,
amplest scope and foulest, falsest, b t
terost malignity. And I prny further
that the war and the things of tho war
msy mako up the sole snnject of their
speeches, their dncumonls and appeals
every wbv to the people, leaving to us
as they did last summer and full in
Ohio, the exclusive discussion, in every
form, ot tho great living questions of
to-day Itestorotion, Negro Suprema
cy. Taxation, Tariff, J)obl, Currency,
and whatever else relates to the civil,
the political and the material prosper
ity of the country. These be our top
ics neioro the people, while to them
we give amplest I icon no to howl on
about "Hchols, Copporhoads,Ku Klux,
tmilora. onnviilod traitors, the life of
tho Nation," the glory of the war and
all similar subjects of denunciation or
oi praise, as lor my single sew, gio
rilyir.g in eveiy word sxkcn, every
rote given, overy act done, and every
wrong suffered by myself in behalf of
riclit U liberty throughout tlio war,
i am yet not now to be provoked, by
any taunt or denunciation, into a dis
cussion of any thing connected with
it. It is upon trial along with all its
2"iorj nnl all its suflorcre bdora the
Ann A trlbnnnl of history, and by the
ludgment therein hereafter to bo pro
nounced, 1 am content to abide.
"Where was Vallandigham during the
ar ?" may bo a very pretty anT tel
ling rhetorical conundrum in the
mouths of "loyal" orators ; but it
neither restores the Union, maintains
the Constitution, uphold liberty, pays
taxes, reduces the debt, slops steeling,
alleviulcs distress, nor in any other
way reaches tho wants and necessities
of the people, or tends to bring them
relief from burdens too grievous to be
borne.
Then, gentlemen, I have no word
of perec nal denunciation for the He
publican candidate. 1 would not
detract one jot or tittle from the fill
let measure of military glory to which
Jieneral Urant may bo justly entitled
I ha.-e not a syllable to nttor as to his
personal habits. I care not what his
name is or may have been, by baptism
or usage. 1 know U'jMca 8. Grant
only at tho candidate of the revolu
tionary Republican party, and the
reprenontative of ita principle, its
policies ma its pnrposes. We re not
choosing the ring master of a circus,
"or the magister of a feast, nor the
keeper of the royal borsoe or honnds ;
nor even tho Commanding general of
nr irnnes to wape war ; but the Chief
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Executive officer of great Jtopub
lie, to rostoro poace and prosperity
through the arts of statesmanship;
and 1 know Ulysses S. Grant only as
the symbol of negro supremacy, debt,
bard times, high prices, low wages,
gold without taxation for the bond
holder, rags and taxes for the people,
and an ttnperial military despotism
instead of the simple but beneficent
Federal Ropublio of our fnthors. Be
yond theso, General Grant represents
nothing except the cold lava of the
burnt out volvsno of civil war.
So much then, gentlemen, as to can
didates. And bow allow me briefly to con
sider some of the primary and funda
mental differences in prmaiptee and
policies, between the Republican and
Democratic parties.
1. The aim and purpose of the lie
publican Revolutionary leaders is to
centralize tho powers of the General
Government, so as to establish ulti
mately an Imperial Republic; which
in the judgment of the wisost and best
statesmen of America, from the begin
ning, can hore be but another name
for a military despotism. To secure
this object they began by denying
and usurping the just, Constitutional
reserved rights ot the btates. .Next
they assumed absolute power to exist
in time of war in the President, whom
they designated "the Government;"
and when afterward they quarreled
with tlio Kxocutive, they stripped him
of every accustomed and even Tory
many of hip clearly Constitutional pre
rogatives ; and finally sought, by a
gross abuso of tho powor of impeach
ment, to remove him from an office to
which little remained except the title
and emolument. And when the 8u
prome Court stood in their way tbey
began, by hostile legislation, to cir
cumscribe and cripple its rightful
jurisdiction, and to bring it into con
tempt with the people hy hitler unci
venomous denunciation of Its Chiof
Justice. Upon tho othor hand, tho Demo
cratic party insists, in the language
of Jefferson, on "the support of tho
State Governments in alt their rights
as the most eompotent administrations
of our domostio concerns, and tho
surest bulwarks against anti Republi
can tendencies, and tho preservation
of tho (icnerul Government in its
whole" Constitutional vigor, as tho
sheet unchor of our ponce at homo
and safety abroad.
As to policies or ideas, the two par
ties diffur fundamentally in this) tho
basis ot the present Republican organ
ization is bigotry, halo und revongo.
Ik IoiuI'kLus iju unTei viiuua uf upiititni.
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 homos of
one-third of tho peoplo of thr United
States. It would cherish forever the
hot passions and tho bitterness, and
tho feuds, and discords which in our
own midst arrayed neighbor against
neighbor, and wrought dissension and
strife among those of tho snino house
hold. It refuses to forgot the vile
epithet which found no apology, even
amid tho fury of a bloody conflict, and
glibly spits forth from its envenomed
Hps, "rebel sympathizer, butternut,
copperhead and traitor." Professing
a religion which is founded on eternal
love, it yet builds itself up on immor
tal bnto. Invoking mercy and for
giveness from the God of heaven, it
denies all pardon or grace to fellow
men xn earth.
Rut do these, our enemies, realise
that they themselves are the very
children of political wrath f Have
they forgotlon tho accumulated
wrongs and outrages which they
heaped upon our heads the denunci
ations, tlio calumnies, the espionage,
the mobbing, the arrests, the impris
onments, the exile and the murder
and asssssinution which wo, their fol
low ciliions, suffered at their bands f
It is wo, too, who have wrongs to for
give or avengo. It is we who might
shnt tho gatos of mercy npon them,
and demand a fiery and onnsnming
retribution. Animated by thoir own
relentless spirit, I, too might woll
exclaim i .
"A plRjrw upon Ok I Wheroforo ibriulil t enrop
WoM ntw kill, m iMh Utft nnnilrokoa grata r
I wntil.1 invent M biUor-werYhinjt tertna,
A. enrat, a. hnrah, anil borrililo 0) hror,
Prlivrml Mronjrly through my niad tMlh,
With full a nuuijr sign uf clraylly halo,
A. Mwn-faosd Mivj is hi hioluaniaa envn)
Mr toosne abnnkl atutbk is mine oamaot ttorda
Mis ovoa ahnalft Rp.rkio list tbo bMtoa tit
My Hoir ho linl no end. Ilk on itiatraet I
Ay, or.rj Jolut abusld Mem to oorao and boa,"
But, gentlemen, It such It to be the
spirit of our political controversies for
ever; if there is to bo no truoe to our
isssinn ; if the past Is never to bo
orgotten nor forgiven j if the dead
carcass of civil war, with all It engen
dered grief and wrongs and hatos, is
not sometime lo be buried out of sight,
then wolcomo the fierce water of the
delugo in which perished tho ante
diluvian world ; thriro welcome the
fire from heaven which smote and con
sumed Sodom and Gomorrah, so that
in God's Providence a new and a wiser
and a better race, worthier of their
noble heritage, mny repopulate this
North American conlir.cnt.
TH WAT TO l"KAC.
Depend iiKn it, gcntlcmen.no party
whose only oemetiting element if a
sympathy of hatred, can ever bo per
manent in powor, or ovon in existence.
With largo multitndoa of men, this
spirit of hate was the controlling mo
tive thronghont the lato civil war, and
has continued to govern them at every
step in their efforts at reconstruction.
Hut with a smaller, yet far mora dnn
gerons class of politicians, the sole aim
for the last tnree year has boon
tho perpetuation of Republican rule,
through the negrooaof ihesonlh. To
this baest of motive and purposes,
the pnblic good and the pacification
of the country have been steadily sac
rificed ; and, worse yet, all Constitu
tional limitation altogether disregard
ed. Signally defeated in their effort
to establish negro suffrage and equali
ty in the North and West, they nave
now impudently in thoir platform pro
claimed that bore each State snail
regulate suffrage for Itself, while 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
States, and conferred npon the ne
groes, by act of Congress, the right to
voter and ihen a the -point of the
bayonet, have proceeded to establish
seven Stats Governments, eoutrollud
by negroes or white adventurers mean
er than they mere sojourners, birds
of passage, and Tory foul birds at that;
and have gone through the farce of
admitting them into th Union and
to the right of representation in the
Senate and the Houso, and a full vote
in the electoral college for President.
In this mnnnor, gentlcmon, tbey
exjieot to control tbe legislation and
elections of the country. And these
ignorant, brutish negroes of South
Carolina and Florida, and other States,
do now make laws and levy taxes and
create public dobt tor you, white men
of Ohio ; and they expect to overrulo
yonr choice for President. Yes, gen
tlemen, under these Republican Re
construction acts, enforced by an army
for which yon pay heavy taxes out of
your beard earnings, half a million of
negroes in South Caiolina, reinforcod
by tome advonturon white loafers
from tho North and West, will onntrol
as many electoral votes as a million of
white men in Ohio. Aye, at this pres
ent moment the "Governor" so-culled
of that State, elected by negroes, un
der an act of Congress, and through
the aid ot your army, is a citizen of
Uhto, having a legal settlement here;
so that it he would become a psupor
and South Corolina is very poor now,
and no longer able to enrich tier sa
traps the proper town authorities is
tho county of Honry, in this State,
could be compelled to maintain bim
a a publio charge. And moreover,
General William Warner, a noble con
frere ot bis from Ohio, has, I observe,
just boon elected a United Hlulos Sen
ator from Alabama.
These are the doings of the Republi
can party, and if not marvellous in
yuur eyes, they are at least txMtlj to
your pockets. These aro a part of the
blessings overwhich the Chicago plat
form exults, and a continuance, and,
indeed, a multiplication of which tboy
promise upon the election of General
Ulysses S. Grant.
RANK INJUSTICE Of Till RECONSTRUC
TION roucT.
Now, gentlemen, supposo for a mo
ment that the case were reversed, and
that the South hnd wnged a success
ful war of conquest upon you here in
the West, and had controlled, by forco
of arms, the introduction of slavery
hero, and yon had surrendered in good
faith, under pledge and promise of all
other rights within tho Union under
the C'oiistilutioa ; and that, wbon yon
had no further power to resist, a
Sotithcrn.Congrcss bad, at the point
of the bayonet, forced constitutions,
governments and laws on you against
your will, and that victorious and In
solent South Carolina has sent up here
the meanest and batost of her vaga
bond "Sund Hill" citizens with carpet
bags in their hands, to represent you,
the once free, white men of Ohio, in
the Senate and louse at the Fodcrnl
capital, and to usurp the plsce once
filled by tho Morrows, tho McLean,
the Corwins, the Ewings, the Ilaraors,
tho Allen of this glnhou Common
wealth, whnt would have been the
emotion of wrath and indignation
which would have burned within your
bosoms I And yet to jnst such imlig
nilio are South Carolina and Virginia
and thoir sister Stalos of the "Old
Thirtocn," scorched and scarred all
over with tho flame of tlio war of
1771), subjected, by tho false and de
generate sons of the New England
sires, who eUJ shoulder to shoulder
by them In thut grand revolutionary
conflict, which, in blood and sufforing,
and with precious treasure, first bought
ut our lihertio.
"Ah, but these nun are now robots
nd traitors, andyou, the Democracy,
received them with open arm aud
gushing hearts into your recent Pres
identiar Convention." Thank God,
we did, and by none woro tbey hailed
with more cordial woloome than by,
not tho bloodless though bloodthirsty
home loyalists of the war, but by the
gallant and noble heroes, tho Han
cocks, the Franklins, the Ewings, tho
Hlairs, tho Slocums, and the Stood
mans, who had met them in deadly
conflict amid the sulphurous canopy
and shock of battle We mean to
have peace Indeed ; we intend to re
store tho Union in fact ; and to-day
wo know these men only as our friends,
fellow-citizons and brothers the do
scondanLs of the Washingtons, tho
Lees, the Hamptons, the Sumptora,
tho Marions, thoPreslons, the llaynes,
tlio Laurens and others, who, siuo by
side, stood with the Hancock, the
Adamses, the Starks, the Putnams,
the Gutes, and the Waynes of the
North in the heroic Rcvolutionarv
strnggle of '70, or with thoir tons and
grandsons in the Utter court. l of
ltil2,or the Mexican war of 146
Americans all whose fame is tho pat
rimony of the whole country, 'f hi
is pence ; this is Union ; this alone is
the blessed vision of tho seers and
prophets of an age gone by : One Con
stitution, one country, one destiny 1
So much for reconstruction. And
now. gentlemen, award upon humbler,
yet more practicable ana scarce loss
important anhjecW.
TAXATION, TARirt AND -HXV1NDK.
And first to taxation in its double
form as Tariff and Internal Revenue.
The sole foundation of Hie right of
uovornmonl to appropriate any part
ot tbe property ot the ctizen by tax
ation, it the necessity of supporting
the Government in ita several depart
mcnts, working strictly within the line
of their duty ; and the only measure
ot the right is the extent ot the neces
sity, a reasonable economy being the
fixed rule by which to terminate that
nocossity. .every dollar which the
Government extracts from the people
beyond this, is sheer uWnright rob
bery. Now, a protective tariff in its
very nature, implies the 'ovying of a
tax not tor the necessities of the Gov
ernment but for the benefit of a class.
Levied upon article of manu
facture, it is monoy transferred, by
act of Congress, from tbe pockets of
the consumer to the bank account of
the manufacturer. And this ia rob
bery. Previcna 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 rooeivod
wo ample to pay the then seventy or
eighty millions of expenditures. Jow,
as part of tbo blessings of Republican
rule, a continuance of wbiob yon are
promised under Gon. Grant, theso du
ties run from a nominal sum or noth
ing, on raw material, to three hun
dred per cent, on manufactures, aver
aging upon the whole list more than
forty-five per cent. And of this, one
half at least an absolute gift by the
Government to tbe manufacturing in
teresta gift taken by robbery from
your pockets. Kloven times has the
tariff boen raised by several acts of
Congress since lnnu, and we have
now jUBt barely, by tbe adjournment,
escaped another elevation. Oh, tho
choice blessing of Republican rule,
which are to be continued and multi
plied under Grant 1
Rut the inequity, and iniquity too,
of the tariff, is greatly aggravated by
tbe fact that its chief burdens fall up
on usof tho West. Oiie-halfof tbepro
cceds of the tariff go to swell the prof
its of tbo Eastern manufuoluror, who
buying our produce cheap, sella us
waros dear, and thon invosting his
rapidly accumulated wealth in bonds,
purchased with "greenbacks" at sixty
cents on the dollar, escapes taxation,
reoeivos his interest in coin, and after
hia bonded claim against tbe Govern
ment Iim, ia the laitfrnftjes-of the Chi
cago platform, beon "extended over a
fair period of redemption," like the
English dobt. he or hit heir in the
tenth generation, expect to be paid in
gold at the rate of ont hundred cents
to the dollar 1 Oh, tho blussingt of
Republican rule to bo coatinuod under
Grant 1 Rut the West, blindod during
the war by the veil of "loyalty," at
last ia beginning to open her eyes to
this onoruion wrong piled upon her ;
and I warn the East, in no sectional
spirit, but iu all kindniss, yet in all
earnestness, that the strong patient
nu'n of tbo West, staggering under
tbit burdtiu, are resolves' in inexora
blo purpose, to shake It from their
shoulders at every haxurd.
1 have said that the necessities of
government economically adminis
tered are the limits of its right to tax.
W herefbro, also, it is true that evory
dollar stolon from tho T.-easury, and
every dollar misapplied from tlio legit
imate purpose of gnvertment, it so
much robbed from the people. And
yet in the very first yes rot Republi
can blessings, the year of grace, Ixtil,
we had the testimony upon the floor
of Congress, of a leading Republican,
that "the Treasury had boon plunder
ed well nigh in that aitgle yonr, as
much as the entire curroit yearly ex
panse of the Government during Mr.
Buchanan's administration." liepub
lioan petit larceny was tken put into
the pulp or embryo; but several years
of rapid and vigorous growth, havo
developed it now into oie bone and
grizzle of sturdy and jr.ganlio theft
and robbery. And to-dar the expen
ditures of the Goverment, legitimate
and larcenous, are noarly five times
as grcst as when eight years ago, the
power was snatched from tho Demo
cratic party, and delivered ovor to
Republican misrule.
THR PUBLIC DEBT.
And now allow me a word as to
tbe public debt It it a vain thing
to day to inquire how this debt came
to be contracted, or bow much of it
wot originally necessary and just. It
may have been the mostosstnlial, the
most Constitutional, the most right
eous and tho most wisely and judi
ciously managed that ever a people
incurred ; or it may have beon in ev
ery particular just the reverse. No
ruiitier. It exists, and must be dealt
with accordingly. The Democralio
and ltopublicau parlies both recogni
sing it, differ widely, radically, in re
gard to it. The idea or notion of tho
Domocraliu party may be best and
most significantly expressed by a par
aphrase of Dunning' celebrated reso
lution against the royal prerogative,
a hundred years ago, in the British
Parliament that thr. Puhlic DeM httt
increased, it incrrntinq, and ought to
b diminished. Tbe Republican plat
form declare that it ought to be "ex
tended over a fair period for redemp
tion" a phrase curiously felicitous in
expressing infinite uncertainty of ilu
ration. It remind me of Charles
J sine Fox's answer to his creditors,
who vexed with hi long delay, ironi
cally proiiosed that he should execute
lo them his Donas payaoie on me day
of judgment. "Ah," said he, "just
please make them payable the day af
ter." Upon the other band, the Detn-
ocrntio platform demaoda "payment
ot the publio debt ol the v nitod states
as rapidly as possible, applying all
money drawn from the people by tax
REPUBLICAN.
ation, exoopt so much as is requisite
lor the neoessittes or government eco
nomically administered, to such pay
ment." The Democratic party mean
that this debt, with all its burdens and
all its corruptions of every sort, shall
be paid off ; and I eay to you, gentle
men, that in my firm conviction, Re
publican Government cannot long en
dure here even in form and shadow,
if this buge mountain of debt is to
continue; and that no form of govern
ment could exist pure and incorrupt,
if this debt is to become permanent.
Upon another subject, gentlemen,
the policy of the two parties is in
marked contrast. Planting itself np
on the fixed principle of all just gov
ernments, that taxation onght to be
equal, the Democratic parly domands
that the bonds and other securities of
the U nitod States shall be taxed the
same as othor property. The justice
and equality of the proposition are
too plain for elaborate argument.
These bond and securities have every
legal element of property in the bands
of tboir holders except taxation. W hy,
then, tho exemption ? They now
amount, in various forms, to some 12,
0U0,0UU,0Ut), or about ono-fifth of the
entire property of the country. And
yet this oue-fitlh, claiming the special
care and nurture of the Government,
drawing its interest in gold, and in
the hands, chiefly, of the wealthiest
mon, and toon to become exclusively
theirs, pays not a dollar of tux in the
manner or to th extont which it
would pay it it were othor properly.
To day yourcapitalutown a hundred
thousand dollars in lands and goods,
and pay taxes. Income included ;
State and Federal, accordingly ; thut
bearing bis lull proportion ot the bur
dens of the community in which he
lives. To-morrow he sells all, and in
vests in Government bonds, receiving
his intorest, paid now by other men,
his neighbors in tuxes, but lo I himself
pay not a dime in taxation, save the
income tax, deducted virtually and in
pcr from the golden intercut Trlnch
to receives. And now the entire bur
den of taxes, remaining jtiBt the same
as yesterday, full upon those of the
community who own no bonds. And
yet tho leaders of the Republican par
ty, high in position and influence,
have the audacity to tell us that who
ever is for taxing bonds is no better
than a penitentiary convict I Woll. be
it so) but there are throe millions and
more ot whito American voters in tho
United Slalos who are resolved that,
penitentiary convicts or not, they will
have these bonds taxed 1
I come now to tho mode of paying
the publio debt, and the subject of cur
rency In goncral.
Gentlemen, I am a hard monoy man.
I always have been. There is no
other real money in tho world ; and
least ol all is irredeemable liovern
ment paper, monoy in any nropor
sense of the term. It is not even the
representative of money but only of
Government credit; and varies and
must ever vary, with the fluctuations
of that credit- And it is by so much
a greater evil when a Government
seeks to make it own papor, its own
credit, its own promises to pay, a legal
tonder for payments and debts. It
the Govornmont were to issue no
more paper, or little more than it
wanted for taxes, it need notdelaro it
a legal tender. If it issna more, and
just in proportion to the exooss, no
ltind or amount of legislation, penal or
otherwise, and no number of legal
tender clauses, oan save it from depre
dation. I voted against the legal
tender not of 1HH2. I did not believe
it Constitutional then. I do not be-
boliove it Constitutional now. More
over 1 felt assured that it must sooner
or later bring forth it ovil fruit, and
that abundantly. Govornmont paper
oould not be mado or kept equal to
coin ; and there is no more mischiev
ous agent of financial distress than a
depreciated paper currency. And the
evil ia greatly aggravated if there be
two currencies ot unequal value. 1
concur fully in all that Govornor Sey
mour has said upon tin particular
ubjoct, and in the purpose of his re
cent speech as I understand thorn;
and that wo to warn the Democracy
and the people of the United State
not to swing woolly trom thoir anoient
hard money moorings, snd become too
deeply enamored of tho green goddws
of papor money : to lovo wisely and j
not too woll ; not to accept the ex
tromo medicine of the publio debt
and currency as thoir daily bread. I
think the caution was timely and well
bestowed. 1 am in favor of one cur
rency, if practicable, and as soon ss
practicable, and that currency gold
and silver. This twenty dollar gold
pieoe which I hold in my hand Gen.
Schenck intimated last mil that I tolo
it; no matter; it was certainly not
from him ; and moreover let me toll
him that it is not the wages of politi
cal prostitution, nor yet of that sin
which ia political death ; pardon tho
digression this gold pioee is money;
not indeed "Inwful money," in the lan
guage of tho legal tendor act, but Con
stitutional money, and the only mon
ey known to that instrument. No
act of Congrosa, and no number of
pensl provisions could persuade me
that this twenty dollar legal tender is
as good as tins twenty dollar gold.
Thi (the gold) is not the representa
tive or substitute for money; It does
not say "I promise to pay twenty
dollars," hut "I am twenty dollars."
Now, gent lemon, I should be very
glad to make this paper money as good
a gold if I only knew how. 1 re
member in anoient mythology one
Midas, who besought the gods for
power to turn everything he touched
into gold ; bnt 1 recollect, also, that in
the sequel of tbe story H idos was writ
ten down an osa. 1 know, than, of no
way of making your Government pa
per as good as gold, except aitlier by
immensely reducing the volume
somowbore near the standard ot taxa
tion or requiring it to be redeemed
on demand in gold at the Treasury of
the United States. But neither of
these i now practicable. What then ?
Necessarily we have two currencies
for the present gold and greenback;
a dollar in coin equal to a hundred
conts, and a dollar in legal tendor, re
presenting variously from fifty cents
to eevonty. And now, hard money
man as I sm, odious a a depreciated,
irredeemable government paperJoroed
upon tlio people, ia to me, I moot the
issue squarely. If you have gold en
ough for all, fct ut all have gold. But
if not, ond there must bo paper for
smi Men pap?fire-Ht u4 in I be
language of the Now York Democratic
platform, "one currency for the Gov
ernment and the people, the laborer
and the ofiioe-holdor, the pensioner
and tbe soldier, tbe producer and the
bond-holder;" and whosoever would
have gold, let him buy it in tbe market
at its value in currency. And let us
have no petty quibbling about the
phrase "lawful money." In the plat
form it i the antithesis of "coin, and
ia the entire legislation of Congress
upon the subject for six years it means
the legal tondor"greenback" currency
of the country. Redeem, then, in this
lawful money lawful to the plow
bolder and lawful to the bond-holder
aa "rapidly as practicable," all obliga
tions of the Government not expressly
npon thoir fuco, 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
payors, and, instead of redeeming
throe hundred millions of National
currency with greenbacks, issue a like
amount ol greenbacks to supply tboir
place. Here is no inflation; nor is
thoro any, the smallest hazard, of
having "too much monoy," even of
"lawful money," in the country. With
tbe disappearance, too, of the present
National banking monopoly, wo shall
secure again old fashioned specie-paying
banks, whose credit shall depend
on thoir solvency, and whose promise
to pay is redeemable, not in another
promise to pay, but in gold and silver,
the constitutional money of tho land.
CONCLUSION
I havo now, my Democralio friends,
finished what I had to suy upon the
political issues and situation to-day.
Ono word further upon another sub
ject, and 1 have done.
Ion boarlroraovoryqnarur.llirongh
the Republican press, the alarm that
it is the purpose of tho Democratic
parly to reinaugurato revolution and
civil war. Let no man be in the least
concerned. Unquestionably it I tho
fixed purpose ol throe millions of Dem
ocratic voters, with all tbo intensity
which can ore the boartsol mon born
frcemon and scorning to dio tlavos, if
we shall fairly, constitutionally and
legally elect a President, to see that
he is inaugurated at every hazard.
It is our right, and our duty, too, as
also it is tho duty and right of tho
Republican party, if they shnM legally,
constitutionally and fairly elect Gen
eral Grant But no man meditates
openly or covorlly, any thing beyond.
liu, gooucmen, it is vuo jiepuuucan
leader who nro the revolutionists.
It is they who are resolved by all
means and at ovory sacrifice of tho
rights of the Slates, the liberties of
tlio peoplo, and tho peace ot tho coun
try, to perpotiiato their power, would
again plunge us into both civil and
social war with all its horrors. But
to the ballot, and not to tbe bullet, we
now nppeal. The peoplo are wearied
of the Republican party and of its
wrongs and its perfidies, of its debts
and its tariffs and its taxation, of its
negro government and military des
potisms, of a dishonored Constitution
and a brokan Union, which four years
of war and three years of peace undor
its conduct and legislation have lulled
to restore ; and they demand and will
have a change. And nnloss every
sign and onion hy winch tho political
future may be discerned, shall fail, to
signal and disastrous will bo the over
throw of this party in November, that
tboy thomselves will mnko hasto to
recognize and hearken lo the voioo of
the peoplo as the voice of God ; and
as chastened children in silence will
submit to tho jmlgmont which in mr
cy to themselves, as to us and to tho
hole country, shall drive them trom
tho eats of power. No, gentlemen,
no; there will ho no more civil wnr
in tho land ; hut tho sun at high noon,
shining on the Eastern front of the.
Cnnitol on tho 4lh of March, lSli!, will
look down peacefully upon Horatio
Seymour, President of tho United
States.
Mr Vallandigham was loudly cheer
ed at the conoltisinn of his speech.
Josh Billies sayt: I hav noticed
that those persons who hav the keenest
sense ov misery, hav also the brightest
visions ot joy ; but there is sum ioiks
whom even molasses kandy won't
make happy nor evon muskeeters
worry.
I don't think there ia enny more
excuse for keepin a Sbsnhigh rooster
than thore ia in keepiu a boss that
yon'vo got lew buck up to a second
story window tew put the crooper on.
It is astonishin how very small
they ware thoir pantilunos In Broad
way ; hut I notice the panlilnnes are
plenty big court tor tho legs.
When I soo an old mizor In tbe
midst ov hi wealth, I konsider him
j just about aa happy as a Ay who has
tell inta t. quart bowl or molasses and
kant git out.
The expenses of the war and naval
departments Inst year were $f,500,000
mora than during the first year oftho
war. I his is brant nan n-.ul.sb
mont. Grant want this kind of
"peace.
ti j 1 . , !,
HUU "i- is ""lof'j
gry ffiootljj, tBwrtrirt, fit.
GREAT EXCITEMENT
On Sr.coND street, Clearfield.
NET GOODS AT LOW PEICES,
rpilB nanlfoaJ fooMtfglly Inrlto lbs at
I trotion of tho BoMio oenrrollr to thalr
aplmdld oa.orlm.nl ofaorobudiao, whleh tw
art aosr tolling
AT VERT LOW PRICES.
Tboir itoek eontiatt la port of
Dry Goods of the Best Quality,
Snob is Prlntt, Do Uinta, Alpooou, Marino
uingooma,jnoailBt,(Moalios nad BBbiooeh
ad,) Drilling., TiobiOKa, sotlot ni
wool Flnooel,8ttttrclts,Calmrta,
Cnttcsndaa. Lodioa' Bhowla,
Nahiaa S Rooda, Balmoral
Snd Hoop Pklrti, Ac,
Alio, S not urortmtnt of Man'a Draoart Slit
sntru, Hnla A Copa, BooU Sbooa.
til of tabid)
Witt BB SOtD LOW FOR CASH
Hardware, Qneensware, Glassware,
Groceries: and Spices,
N SHORT A GENERAL ASSORTMENT
Ofavorrtblnir aa anil koptln s retail atom, alt
CUEAP fOHOASH or ooprorad oouotr; pro-
A. ft. WRIGHT 4 SONS.
Cl.ort.ld, Nor.t , 1SS7.
gOttETlIIXCi SEW!
New"Store in Madera
MESSRS. J. FORREST & SOtf
WOULD riprlfatlj Inform tb publio that
th- hftv Jutt opad, m MA.UKHA,
Clearft.l-l tovntv, P., as entire m 1.00k of
FALL AND WINTER GOODS,
Which Uuj trt propM-oA to mU u olMtp M th
enosput.
Tbtfr itok eoitiiito In part 0
Dry Goods of (he Best Quality,
Buck m AlpacttM, Deluti Prtatt, UailiBi
Ctvulm.rtt, SfttiBOU, ud FluntU
Ready - Made Clothing,
Of tit bit quality, inch m Coati, Panta, VmU;
OvtreoaU, OvoralU, Shirt, Crilarf. A.
Boots, Shoes aud Gaiters
Ato ol tba Ti7 brt Quality,
A complete stock of Groceries.
Ia abort varytbing aaual.7 ktpt ia a a an u try
atort.
Consumers, Look to Your Interests!
Call and tiamlna our atook mi price bafora
porebaaing aliawhar.
LUMBER AND GRAIN
Of all klnda takan la axobang for good.
r-RcnUr tb plaet, Madara, Clearild
eovntyi Pena'a.
I. T0RRK6T A 80S.
Oetobor II, l7-tf.
A REYOLITIOX IX BISIXESS
AT CUIIWKHBVII I.E.
BT
IIARTSOCK & GOODWIN.
TUH andi'raignad baring ntrd Into eft-part
narabl,) in th marcantila bninj, adopt
tbia naihod of notifying the public gaDorally,
and tba eiliifoi of Curweimille and vicinity in
particular, that aaernhaedtn of all kinda will
bo aold hy aa aa oh tap aa th lama qualii? lta
whara la tba county. W bat a full aupply of
DRY GOODS
Conalttlng la part of Droaa Oooda, Muilin.
Print of all aharfoi aad atyUr ; together wltk a
fall atfortnent or
NOTIONS, CLOTHING, HATS & CAPS,
Roota, ft hoc a. Hardware, Quectiawara.
A wall a Tinware, Cedarware, Wiltowware,
Buokat and Broom 1 together with a larr stock
of tiroaarla and always a lull aloek of
FLOUR, FISH, SALT, ko.
fa abort, wa keen a fall wpply of Terytblog
UMxi ia thil market.
W want all ear old matomarf aad a want
aaw oaa aa oan make It convenient, lo glo ua
a call before pure! aeing eleewbare.
DANIRI, HAHTROCK.
KDW1N rtOODWIN.
CnrwoafTllle. Pehrna. ? IS, IBM.
Down ! Down II
THE LAST ARRIVAL
AND OF COTJR8S THK CliKATEHTI
A Proclamation against High Prices I
"r are aow opening op a let of the tot and
winet aenftM 0hmU and Wane ever
ofiVred ia this market, and at priw that i-roilcd
oaa of the pood old dayn of chap thing!. Thni)
who tank nun upm tbia punt, or deem our alle
gation! uporfluova, ad bat
C.f.I AT Ol lt 8TOHE,
Corner front and Market street.
Where thfT fun ton, ffl, hear and know for thnm
etTf. To fully unil.TDtand what atbvap txit,
this muet be dono. W ilo aot drcm it neoerrarr
to em.mcrei and itemise our stuck. It it enougb
for to state that
We have Everything that is Needed
and fMinxiimMl In this market, and at priewe that
aMntmh both old and y nni;.
d47U JOhM'll MIAW FJS.
Groceries at Reduced Prices.
6110 ABS PoWerlied, Granulated, Omrhed,
HtiffarhonM.
OOFPKK Old Ooreraaieat Jar, Prian Rie,
Koefled.
TK A ft Japan, Imperial, Toting Hreoa, BlaHt.
MULASFH Loverihg'a Syrup, KxUa, tioldea.
rhoaae.
C&ACKKHH Rg Blwait, Win, Oyster tod
ttftde eraraers.
VINBOAR Whit Win aad Par Cid-.r Vie,
gar at J, P. KKAIZBR'S,
Hardware.
FOR BLACKFMTTne Roree Bhoea, Horr-a
6ko Nail, Nail rod, Pile, Bap.
WAHON MAKERS Tbimbl Phetna and Te
ex'iee. Fine twite reneh. t'amace oelt.
CARPKNTKRH Planoe, "awe, Augera, 11 neb-
eta. flammra. Plan hits, Panares.
BUI tDKK NaUe, Look. Hinges, for,
poor Ml, flftlU, Itatehw. ftner.
LrMHKllMKN DoaMa-bitl Ales, Mill Raws,
Crosa cut saw, Kaftiag Axes, Drawing
Knit ft,
CAHINRT MAKKRS Bed errew. Oartvr.
Capboard eatake, Varairar knobs, 1 rawer
locks.
HOUR KKKPVR9 Knives end Porks, PWAt
and Pipe, Spoon, Flat Iron! Coffet MilU,
riaTre.
FARM KKS Rcythee, Bakes, Spade. ftbotYt,
Porks, Hoot, UralB feoop, at
Aag. tb, I. J. P. KRATKKB'8.
J I'BTIC KM' ( OK8TA HI.I JI WwC
Wfj her printed a larf aamber of tba mw
Irr,n n Wl rw'p w -- -
f grtcaa, nan aepy any aaaiwaa.