The New York Herald Newspaper, September 1, 1868, Page 4

i a a ca ca animal aS f POLITICAL. THE CAMPAIGN IN NEW YORK. Speech of Sanford E. Church in Schuyler County. Pronunciamiento of Big Mike Connolly. Enthusiastic Democratic Barbecue in Poik County, Georgia. BOB TOOMBS ON THE RAMPAGE Grand Radical Powwow in Sumter, South Carolina. THE CAMPAIGN IN NEW YORK. A Statesmaniike View of the Field=Speech of Sanford E, Church, - Sanford FE. Church addressed the democracy of Schuyler coun in the town of Watkins, on the evening of the 27th August. He said:— A RPLROSPECT—A CHANGE DEMANDED, PRESIDENT in the out AND FoLLOW CrTizeNs—I am f this evening, to crave your Tindulgence. 1 I orning my bed, Where confined ss for (Wo or three days, fore, not iu the best possible rh ge to ) bjects which you was unwilling to of my democratic friends ich as I have been , 1 therefore, with self, took the cars < o'elook, and ‘by riding until i here and am highly _ many citizens present f sing and consider. and vital q tions which (Cheers.) Fellow ong the rich or the rned or unlearned, nge of adminis nearly since the ved Union has not rywhere paralyzed. mate reward, the are unequal and op- nt pervades every class I have cone here ountry. of appealing to your alent prevails, to show nis aga the administration of the i founded, and that the people y just in desiring @ change. 1 wish to-night to address you in shall not be offensive to our republican 4s those who desire the restoration t, economy in the administration d to put an end to the corruption om the highest to the lowest through- in the land. APPEAL TO THE REPUBLICANS, I feel the imore free in addressing my republican nds for the reason that there 18 uo question now nvoived in [his contest which induced any American citizen Lo join ther arly or heretofore to favor You joie » republican party for the purpose of preventing the extension of ‘slavery. You did not"seek to break down the institution of A the respective States, It wa s very that the repub! Very is abolished, ‘That The extension of slavery, T feel the to "ess Tepublicans because the lead- wanized and formed that party have the men to whom you looked when y republican pariy became disgusted ed alarmed at the strides which have been taken towards revolution cespotism, and have for- sed to Support it. ' And I shall ask y republican fr ‘© abandon that use It in ged in revolutionizing this and oppressiug the people to an extent | tu the history of the etvilized world, & YOWERS OF THB GOVEKNMENT—DIVISION OF AUTHORITY, us look for a moment to the nt. In this fast age of ral ritement, coruption and demoralization of every acter the people hot much disposed to sit own and study the principles of their government. uey scem to have forgotten the men who reared beautiful fabric for the proiection of the miluons wio were to live and enjoy its blessings, us look back for a moment to tue origin of our govern- ment, What wag the leading tdea? It was that inaukind were governed too much. The framers of iis government looked abroad into the nations of id and found that the mos ve “hewers of wood and dz tof the few; that the fe utrelied the gc servile position. a prevent the ¢ pariy wus fouaded, Now question ty out of the way. f course, cannot be longer talked avout. iis, telegraphs, country swarming with public. officers, eat oat the substance of the people, They found the gov- ernment huterfering in every business, every trade, every occupation; pu olicers supei- nding every vocation” which the people saw fit to uter into. Those who framed government determined not to follow the exai- ple of the governments of the Old World. They NEW YORK HERALD, TUESDAY, SEPTEM vernment, and by thetr majority have overridden veto of the Pi not esident. Hai usury the powers of the ‘Executive? Is it not Said that They have taken from the Executive the powers conferred upon him by the constitution of the United States and which have been exercised by every Pre- sident from Washington to the present-time? Tue; have taken away all his power and ronage—all power to appoimt public officers—a power which the government, and without the exercise of which I undertake to say this government cannot be honestly administered. Why, look at it for a single moment. See the vast, complicated financial machinery cast over this country, involvin; immense amounts of money; yet the President, by the action of Congress, 13 prohintied from removing the most im- portant public omicer connected with the collec- tion and disbursement of the finances of the country. Take the most notorious oficial thief, who has stoien the people’s money, robbed them of their hard earni and the President has no power toremove him. If he attempts to do so and the cul- pet claims to be an adherent to the radical party and is extreme measures he is sure to be ref Cheers.) Not only that—the constitution of the | United States, in express terms, makes the President of the United States the Commander-in-Chief of the Army and Navy. Have they not taken that power from hima? Do you not know that by act of cuogrees the President of the United States is prohibited from issuing an order to the smallest subordinate oficer ofthe army unless such order passes through the General of the Army, with his approbation; and tue huniltating spectacle Is prenen tod ofa President of the United States, made by the constitution the Com- mander-in-Chief of the Army and Navy, being unable to issue the most insignificant order to the lowest inilitary ollcer without the approbation of and pass- ing through the hands of his subordinate. But this is Dot ali; they have not only taken the Executive power, but they have invaded the judie: I every free government the judiciary ts rey the bulwark of liberty. When public oficers faii to perform their duties and infringe upon the rights of the people the citizen falis back upon the judiciary, ed to be independent of oficial in- fluence of any kind or character Whatever. WHAT HAS CONGRESS DONE? But what has this Congress done? They have passed a series of acts which are notoriously uncon- suitntional, and then they passed an act prohiviting tue Supreme Court from reviewing their work. The very powers which our fathers conferred upon the Supreme Court this Congress has, by an act of its owa, prohibited it from exercising. Was I not, then, correct in saying that they have violated every prin. ciple, to which | have referred, upon which the gov- ent was founded, by usurping the power of the ve and the judiciary? is ita wonder," then, ple are discontented? Is it singular that you find complaints made on every Land against the ad- minisiration of public affairs? Let us go one step further. And here agaiv 1 desire to address my re- publican friends. Let us recall for a moment the history of Congress with reference to the restoration o/ the Union for the Just four years, and see how you have been led along, step by siep, by these bad men, until you have ap: proached the very precipice over which they ask you in this campaign to plunge, taking your country, with all its liberties, with yoo, When the war was over and Mr, Lincoln diva, he had reconstructed two States by proclamation—Arkansas and Loul- siana. He reconstructed them upon what was culled the ‘one-tenth principle’—that ig, if one- tenth of the people of any siate of the South would form @ State government he promised to protect them in the enjoyment of such a State government. Arkansas and Louisiana did that. They called con- ventions, adopted constitutions, submicted them to the people, and they were ratified. They elected State officers, members of Congress and Senators, and sent them to Washington, All of this was done before Mr, Lincoln’s death, and under his superin- tendence. When he died he left unissued a procia- mation for reorganizing North Carolina. When An- drew Joluson came in he took the identical pro- clamation prepared by Mr. Lincoln for North Carolina aud issned it for the organization of not only North Carolina and Arkansas, but for all the other uure- stored States. Under that proclamation ali of those States proceeded to organize State governments. They abolished slavery by constitutional provision. ‘They recognized the federal debt by constitutional provision. They repudiated the Confederate debt; In fapt, did everything which at that time was re- quired of them—organized their State governments, elected members of Congress and the Senate under that organization, and sent them to Washington. Now, my republican friends, I ask you whether you did not ‘support that policy of Andrew Johnson at the time it wes inaugurated, and fora year aiter- wards? Did not the great mass of the republican party (for these bad men had not then the control of it3 Organization) approve and support the policy of Andrew Johnson ta restoring those States’ Let us look back now to the fail of 1865. APPROVAL OF PRESIDENT JOHNSON. Mr. Johnson came into power in the spring of 1885. In the fail of 1565 tue Republican State Convention of the State of New York passed @ resolution ex- pressing approval of the policy of Mr. Johnson in restoring those States in the manner he did, and they went to the people. The democratic party did the same thing and the republican party, throng their presses and public speakers, declared they were better frends of the policy of Mr. Johnson than the democratic party, and they went to the peopie and beat us on the iasue that they were. They not only ask you to repudiate that policy und to curse Andrew Johuson every morning, noon and night, but, as 1 will show you presently, they insiat on your approv- ing measures Which are not only unconstitutional, but which, if persisted in, must revolutionize our femme and every principie upon which it is founded, The Southern people, when they were beaten, latd down their arms and proposed to come back into the Union in good faith, We wanted them a If we did not why did we fight? Why was it that we sacrificed half a million of the lives of our young mep and untold millions of treasure? If we did not want those peo- ple back why did do that? What was the argument we used to the young men to enlist in the service of their country during the rebcilion ? Ji 13 uot 80 long ago but that you may remember+ ARGUMENTS FOR ENLISTMENT, Yon probably attended war meetings and heard the speeches. I attended a great many myself, and made many addresses in favor of furnishing men and money to carry on the war. When Congress declared, ‘by almost a unanimous vote, that this war should be fought to restore the Union, and when the rebellion was put down the rights of the States should remain unimpaired—when Mr. Lin- cola proclaimed that in his proclamation; when all the republican presses said so, and theif speak- ers said so and came to me and said, “Our country is in danger; now we ask you to unite with us in utting down this rebellion, and the rights of the Were Wise aud woseilis men—I think the wisest men who ever studied the science of jan government; and they were as uuselish as they were wise. They cid hol make a goverament for mere personal benefit. They kad wo Utied novuity, They had no class to hich they gave exclusive’ privileges, but they con- ted 4 government which should result in the 4 to the greatest number. And now, the pringiples of that government? Tioee priueiples may be summed up in these propo- sitlons:—That no poiver should be conferred upon the government except such as ls necessary to protect iverty and property; that Wien the government tectod the ile, the property aud tie liberty of € citizen, M4 duties Were performed, and in every spect the people should be jeft free to pursue course, in their own Way, without in- or hindrance, These pri ples were all lin the State governi is. The people of tue respective States conferred only upon the State governments the power to protect a8 a general proposition lie, liverty and property. Butit became pocessary to create & general government, What Kind of powers did oy confer upon it? Not general uuljmited powers, by Any means, but specific and limited, waich are defned in the congtitution of the United States. ‘They declared that the general gov- ernment should have certain specific powers and no other. Why, consider for ove single moment, Where does the power of protection to your life, your liberty aud your property rest? Ifa nan enters your house to-night aud steals your property, if he assaults you upon the public highway or tilegally confines ‘and restrains you of your liberty, where do you resort to for protection? Not to the general government at Washington, All the power conferred upon that overnment 18 Bot suificient to redress either one of he wrongs to which I have referred. A simple tres- pass committed upon your property cannot be re- dressed by all the powers possessed by the general Thmen They have uo power over v subject, You resort to the power of the State government—to that vast amount of reserved power which the State and the people never gave up to the general government. And so cautious were our forefatiers, those wise weu who formed the government, to guard against usur- pa'fon on the part of the general government, that they divided il¢ several powers into three depart- meitée—namely, the executive, legislative and judi- cal. If the Legislative Department exceeded its powers it could be checked by the Executive, and bo, Wf the latter exceeded its powers it could be checked by the Legisiative Department, and If there Were & confict a# to the power of eltuer to do an act the Judicial tie the disp. thus to make @ bar niows goverim Now our government has | therefore been called one oi checks and balances. It @ governmett wherein the power conferred cannot be exercised by any one department, and it was intended to ve so, that one department should not usurp powers not conferred, and the other department couil cueck aud thus con trol them, J desire ayain to address my republican friends, 1 do hot now accuse the repwolican party of the charge wiiel I am about tom vecause tie masses of that party, like the Whoe masses of the ple, Were perfectly sincere and honest PRINCIOL VIOLATBY BY THR KRIL ANS, The great mass of the people have no “inan election except to have good government. If any body ever gets rich out of public of and very | few become wealthy out of pubic oMce honestiy—it is not the masses of ie people. They vesire Wo vor and I give cre iit to the repubiicais as weil as to‘ democrats—they desire to vote so that our go ment will be perpetuated as it was made; ¢o th slali have @ government that wil not oppress ant rob the people, but administer tis aia economical, sufe and sound prin ganization of the republican part by @ few extreme, bad inen, Wao action in Congies# and its ory the country, aud ate intending, | ny ment, tyuverthrow every free principie pou whicu the government was found Now, Fave said sometinng to you fa regard to the prineip’ upon Ww »° government {9 founded, aud J further assert these vollares Who have eeized the orgamzation of tie republics They tas par haye violated every one of tucu. @osolute coutrul of tle legisiative powers of tae ” Rtates shall remain unimpaired’—TI believed them and went in and helped, The great body of the democratic party responded to that appeal, and every battle fleld attests the sacrifices it made, Democrats went themselves, their sons and broth- ers, opened their cofers and poured out their treas- ure like water. What was the argument we used to the young men to enlist? Was not this the argu- ment? That the Southern States had no power to se- cede from this Union; that when they entered the Union under the constitution it was a perpetual con- tract, and all other acts tending to secede from the Union were void, aud, therefore, the United States jovernment had not only the right, but it was ite uty to put down the rebellion and keep those States in the Union, (Prolonged cheers.) Was not that the argument?, Certainly it was. I attended these meetings With men of every political party—with abolitionists, republicans, ministers of the goa- pel—with everybody, and never on any occasion did Jhear a single “Sige or len contradic. tory to that to which I have just referred. CHANGE IN THE RADICAL POLICY. Why, without that argument, do you suppose our men would h rallied as they did? In Schuyler county, if you had preached the doctrine that those radical leaders are now insisting, and have been in- sisting for the last two years, tuat these States were out of the Union, couid you have raised one single man? There was no justification for this war, except that these Statea were in the Union, and had no power to get out, Now, wiiat is the doctrine of the radical leaders—I do not gay of the republican party, because, as I said before, the masses mean to be hon- est—what is the docrine of the radical leaders? It is that those States are not only out of the Unton, but never can get back into the Union except upon the terms they have prescribed. They assume the same round adopted by the Confederate Gereramens, Fey are upon the same platform with Jeff. Davis & Oo. for f that Rooting for four fears, and if these men hold the reins till next April they will have accomplished the same thing, making yt years that the Union has | been kept apart by the Thai heresy that the States were out of the Unton, STATES NEVER OUT OF TDE UNION, They never were out of the Union. There wag an armed rebellion there, but the States as such existed. When the armed rebellion Was put down they occu- Poy places in the Union precteety the game as when he war began. It was the resolution passed by the republican party in Congress, it was the doctrine prociatmed by @ republican President, by all the re- publican press and speakers, and yet, my republican friends, ft are asked to tura a somersauit, to change over, to belie ali your professions and say that the doctrine which Je Davis & Co, declared for four years was the true one. RADICAL LEADERS ARRAIGNED, Now I know (hat daring tus period it was given out by Sumner or Thad Stevens that these States were out of the Union and that Congress had the Power Lo exeret e Ruy species of oppression over them that 1 Baw know that was given out, but the masses of the republican party aban- doned the doctrine, A larger number of re- | publeans have said to me—! do not know j} exaetiy how many, bat ft siould think hun. | dreus—“if the republican party ever adopt that [ will abandon them. It was given out, 1 say, by | these i that these States we and that they should ve re re out of the Union uced to territories and aubjugated: that t hould be made to comply | with certain onero xdilions whieh they meant to impose uporr them; and sometimes 1b Was Whispered that military governors would be put over t This was repudiated by every honest repubil- can | met 2He SOUT WHS au xious to come inte ie Union TUB INTPRESTS OF THE SOUTH IDENTICAL WITH THR UstoN eral Ort, of South Caroling, aid to me, “How 1h people betleve tis sito the Union? Cniea than any o opie int ewe ha inpow aived, Our been destroyed; we need protection, h in the American nton, oul lesit is our Lulerest (o come mo ion and i Y and maintata tt, ain s have been be en ta tae rebellion,” This wee thew imterest aust their desire, The every President has exercised since the formation of | r years, Davis kept the Union Spart by | ‘of Lue case, a pony rkabie Spectacie after the war. | Ktow It was said at the North that there would be bands of men roaming through the country “who would carry a 8) les ar for years afte | ended. But not of this eae Poetry kind returued lo peacel UTsUIts; ave ti fight; they abandoned the doctrine of ascosacd aint slavery without a word. ‘hey gave up the Conie | rate debt, and expect to come mto the Union. 1 say | it was as peaceful and quiet there as in a@ny part of the country, aud most remarkably 80 When we con- sider the great war which haa been carried on for four years, MENDACITY OF THE RADICAL PRESS, Now I know you are told in the public. press ever day, in such papers as the 7rivune, and rs Which copy from it, that the Southern people are behaving badly, and that theso things were necessary, and ali this kind of argument, tor the purpose of satisfying your consciences to support these men. Now | ere to introduce to you @ Witness upon this sub- t whom you will have no right to disbelieve—a Witness who spoke of the transactions before any of these saree governments were organized at the South, He is a witness whom I think you are bound to believe. Now, I will read his testimouy first. GENERAL GRANT ON THE STAND, Mr. Church then read from the report of Generai Grant as to the condition of the Southern States, Who testifled as to thelr peaceful coudition, aud their willingness to enter in into the Union, There ts the evidence furnished by this witness, and now i willtell you who the witness is—Ulysses 3. Grant—who went through the Southern States at the Tequest of the government for the very purpose of ascertaining whether the people of those States de- sired in good faith to revurn to the Union, Here ts his own unqualified evidence that they did. Here is his unqualified statement that they desired to do everything that the government required of them not humiliating to them as citizens; that when that was pointed out they would do it in good faith, and expressing their regret that there was not more coin- mingling between the citizens of the North and tie Souti, and especially those in authority. Now, there are one or two things about that evidence. Biter General Grant was grossly deceived, or else that is true. If be was grossiy deceived, he ts clearly unfit to be President. (Applause and ‘laughier.) And if itis true he ought not to be Presideat. But wiat does Congress do now? CONGRESSIONAL ACTION ON GRANT'S TESTIMONY, After tlis evidence furnished by General Grant, together with ali the other testimony which coincides with it, wuat do they do? After tae Southern States had oranized State governments, elected members of Congress and Senators, and seat them on to Washi- fagton, and asked admission and full restoration to their rights as States, what does Congress do? stead of granting it they organized tive military governments over those States. Did you ever slop to think what a military government was? Do you not know that it 1s the most despotic of any government ever imvented by the wit or the wickedness of man? Do you not know that it places life, liberty and property under the control and disposition of a commanding ofiicer, who tuke a citizen and shut him up without any | reasou, with no complaint, with no indictment agains(him for anything? He can take his property aud dispose of it aud there is no redress. You have no trial, no jury, none of those rights which protect You in tis county of Schuyler, Wien your property, liberty or rights are invaded 'in any way, however insignificant, have the power to remove any onicer in any one of those States, and without reason or law the whole governinent of those States is in the hands of this military authority, American citi- zens, where did this Congress derive the power to do that? Js it in the constitution? (Shouts of “No, no.) Weall know that it is not. Was it nota usurpation, clear and unqualified? (Cries of “Yes, Yes.”) Wiiy, certainly it was, A CHEERFUL WORD FOR THAD STEVENS, Even Thad Stevens, the leader of that party, who had more to do, perhaps, with the prssage of these military acts than any other man, admitted that they were all outside of the constitution, By the in- scratable decree of Divine Providence Thad Stevens bas been removed from this world and gone to another and | hope a better one. (A Voice—‘and I hope not.”) But there was one redeeming feature about him, While he was @ leader in the Revolu- tion, While he was @ malicious fanatic who would see our government torn down and the liberties of the people buried under it without a twinge of con- science, he had the manhood tu acknowledge It, Let me read to you what he said about those acts. “All agreed that they were acting outside of the constitu- tion.” Now, my republican friends, I ask your con- sideration of that proposition for a momcat, “out- side of the constitution.” We have heard it said in former times that free government was an experl- ment. And what is the experiment? Why, it 1s whether —— will abide by the terins of a written constitution, That is the experiment. If you could go outside of the constitution in one case, you can in every case. If you violate it in one part, you can violate it in every part. If yoa can put South Caro- lina under military law, you can do the same with New York; and do not be too sure that some one combination of States may not be formed, if this precedent 18 to be established by the people, which tonged cheering.) Now, again Ifsay that there is pep ms from the people of this Donny by way of taxation more than tue whole net ive in- dustry of the counuy. I mean exact west Oat. that ‘there is move drawa from the people of | country by way of taxation than the whole net pro- ductive industry of the country. What is the net productive interest of acountry? Of course must live; they must eat, drink and wear; they | must support their cuildren, occupy dwelling hous:s and use a great deai of property and money for living und the education of their families, After you have taken all that out (ttough people of course may and olen do pay more than they ought). after you have deducied ail that the balance is te productive indastry of the country. I do not mean when a man bets $100 on a horse race that that amount is any part of the productive industry of the country, be- cause that only changes hands from one to another, Where a mad raises a crop of wheat by toli, labor and skill, takes the tall oak from the mountain top, cuts it down and works 1t up into auy artiele of ase, or descends iuto the bowels of the earth aud takes the minerals there deposited, or does any act which adds to the wealth of the country, that is productive in- dustry; and [ assert again that the net productive indusury of this country has been for years all ab- sorbed, and more, too, by the taxation which hag been imposed upon the people. Now, the value of ali the property in th@United States before the war Was $1,690,000,000, see some geutleman has stated it at $1,400,000,000, but my recollection is iat according to the census reports it amounted to $1,600,000,009, Property in the Northern States has increased In value; in the Southern States it has dim- iuished; but we will take this valuation for the purpose of determining the productive industry of the country. ‘There are various ways of ascertaining that amount. It is usually estimated that 23, per cent upon the whole value of ali the property is the amount of the productive industry, That ts the usual method of estimating by those who have studied and written upon political economy, That would make $400,- 000,000 a year ag the productive industry of the country, Calculating the property at $1,600,000,000, Now, What amount of taxes has been drawa trom vie people? And here [ shall divide this amount into parts. First, 1 shall inquire what amount hag been drawn from the people which reac! the pub- lic ‘freasury, a8 to which we have oMlcial returns, and there Can be no doubt about it. In 168 it was ¢ 9,000; im 1867 it was $490,000,000, and Mr. Weils, the special Revenue Coinmissioner, as made asi ent in which he says that for tle past year, Iso, ending on the Ist Juiy, there were $46,000,000 of money drawa from the people by way of taxation which actually went into the Treasury. We nave already an amount larger than the whole industcy of the country, But there is another to coustder—namely, how much has be frou the people Which has never reached the puvlie Tieasury at all? Let us inquire into that, HOW THE PEOPLE ARE ROBBED, Upon this sabject Lam obliged to quote from raai- auutuority, because, if | reiled upon my own per- utement, some Of our amiable radical friends say tt Was a coppericadl lie, 1 whiil cite Mr. who is the radical special Revenue Comniis- You may recollect last fali, Jusi on the eve on, Mr. Wels came out with a statement r to a report which I presented to the Con- utional Convention, upon the subject of daances, ount of taxauon, &e. ie has also come out with a subsequent siatement for the purpose of help- ing our radica: friends out of their didleuities. Ac- cording to every legal rule the admission of Mr. Wells inust be taken strictly against his client. Note wit he says:— “The Commissioner in both his previous reports has given it as his opinion, aud adduced facta in sup- port of At, that Not over iilty per cent of te amount of the assessed internal revenue taxes has been re- ceived into the national Treasury." Of course, according to that statement, there must have been from $250,000,000 to $360,000,000 that were assessed upoa the people that never were received into the national ‘tre: Now, what has become of it? In regard to ti from the paige of Mr, Freeman Clarke, a proil- neat leader of the radicals, residing in the city of Rochester, He has been Comptroller of Currency, a member of the Constitutional Convention and Con- gress, and has given to this subject great atteation. He wrote @ letter upon tie subject of flnaance and published it in the Kochester Desmocrat six mouths ago, where he says:— . “It can be clearly demonstrated that frauds and evasions are practiced to such an extent that not much more than half of the amount is collected that should be and would be if the laws were enforced with administrative ability and integrity. The result is that the lowest taxpayers are now paying upon the basis of revenue about $900,000,000 per annum, while not more that half that sum finds its way into the Treasury. Statistics of the manufactures and pro- ductions of the country will prove that if the tax to which they are subject was fairly collected, and the same rule applied to customs duties, the income of a revenue would amount to about the sum named above. ‘There are some facts within our own knowledge which bear upon this point and go to corroborate Mr. Wells and Mr, Clarke. The tax upon whiskey or high wines, as you know, has been $2 a gallon. Now, It is estimated there were 99,000,000 galions of sioner. of an electi in swer will put New York in @ minority and under military law hecessity, THE MILITARY DESPOTISM OF CONGRESS. Who gave tlese men the power to judge of the necessity of putting States under military rule? The constitution itself defines the manner, terms aud times upon which military rule can be exercised in the States, and that can never be exercised in any other manner than that prescribed by the constitu- tion, Necessity! Jt has been the plea of despotism froth the foundation of the worid to the present time. (Cheers.) It ia the plea of the autocrat of Russia for keeping hia iron heel on the necks of the people of Poland. It ts the plea of the Emperor of Austria for oppressing the people of Hungary year after year. It has been the plea of Great Britain for hundreds of years for oppressing the down trodden people of Ireland time out of mind, And yet did you ever know of the adoption of that plea of necessity to bring up these peopie to love the gov- ernment? Take the people of Ireland, scattered all over the world. Find an Irishman anywhere and £ tell you, when you bring the subject to his mind, he is lond in cursing the government of Great Britain, aud will throw up his hat for the independence of Ireland under all circumstances Whatsoever. (Ap- plause.) And so it is everywhere. Mankind have been the same from the foundation of the world until the present time, Military power or oppres- sion of any kind or character has been unabie to alter these opinions of men or to change their dis- likes 1uto likes, their hatred into love. It cannot be done, It ts contrary to the nature ofmen., What else did these revolutionists do? THE RIGHT OF SUFFRAGE A STATE RIGHT. They imposed negro suffrage upon the Southern States. Military government was not sufficient, but they passed an act giving the right of suffrage to all the negroes in the Southern States. I am not now discussing whether the negroes should vote or not. Tbe question is, whether Col has the power to ass an act enfrauchising eight hundred thousand lack men at the South, You know that is ht exercised by every State from the foundation of the | ep tene oom to the present time. It 1s a State right. ‘tts ®@power that has never been conferred upon the general government atall, It is recognized in the constitution of the Umted States as belonging to the State. This very Congress, by one of their innu- merable amendments to the constitution, recognized this right of suffrage a8 a power existing in the several States and not in Congress. When that was proposed, three-quarters of tie republican party, all over the land, sald, “No, they will never do that; they have no right to do that.” Yet they did it, and ask you now to app NO RIGHT TO PLACE THE NEGRO OVER THE WRITE, Tobject to giving the negro supremacy over the white man. He was protected in all his rights of life, liberty and property before. Now he is gtven the right to vote, to rule those ten Southern Stat Did you ever think, my republican friends, that when he ig ruling those ten Southern States he is also ruling the State of New York? There are $00,000 negro votes in these ten Southern states and about 800,000 white votes in the State of New York, 800,000 negro votes can elect twenty Senators to the United States Senate, while 800,000 white men can elect two Sena- tors only to the Senate. Therefore, ten white men in ; New York are about equal to one negro at the South, Now see if you do not by this act place the power in the negroes not only to rule those Southern States, but the Northern States also. Take twenty Senators who in the United States Senate will act in concert and [ tell you they can control tne policy of this government, no matter how bad it may be. They | can control New York ag well as South Carolina, | And these men have done this and ask you republl- caus to follow them, eo you bave throughout | the country repudiated it. What 1s their argument? Why, did you not oppose the rebellion and the copper+ | heads in the war? Oh, yes, we did that. Now we ask you to allow us to overturn the government, and Tob you eve oment We are doing it, (Applause.) | Bat, fellow citizens, iet us fora few moments look to | another subject. | THE CONTEST BETWEEN THR MoNEY THE PEOPLE. Not only have these men revolutionized the free rowr! AND | principles of the governinent, not only hay vey | usurped the executive and judicial powr ree Jong to other departments, not only have t estab: lished @ military despotism and destroyed a free | government in the States of the Union, not only Live (ey passed an act enfranchising the negrocs of the south without any constitutional right, which may result in determining the policy of this whole country for years and years, but all this time they have ‘been accomplishing this they have been | robbing you, your toll and your industry, (Ap | plause.) ‘This is @ contest not only for free govern: } ment directly, but it is @ contest between the | moneyed power and the people: a contest between | those Who pay taxes and those woo do not, between = | those who iabor and those who ure ile, Now I dis. | m in the outset any intention to inpair the just interests of capital. It ts the democratic doctrine to | protect every mterest of the country capital of the country makes unji when it plays the part of extort masses of the people—i tell you te deu but whea tt t exaciiow ner upon the peratic party Wo to its oFtginal principles if it did not Vindteate and champton the rights of the people. | (Tremendous cheers.) Now there are a few propost- tions that | § to lar down, and I shail ¢ rate them only as J may find thine toro so, ford 1 aia wearying your paticnce, goon.) Lwill lay down a fe chailenge auybody here or hi y eon because ti (sa sub, 1 have examined au what Lam talking about. THE TAX QUESTION In the first place 1 « country are taxed to (Loud cries of proposi radict, I know | sively aud unedqtal ¥ y face of tue earth, & poone " only appreciated the extreme inequauty oo tus taxation they would rige Up asone mau vai rascala ayd tiieved Trom power, Tugud and pty whiskey made in 136 or 1867 in the United States. Of course the government ought to have received $130,000,000, but they never did receive an amount to exceed $30,000,000 from that source, leaving a margin Of $160,000,000. We do not realize such large amounts of money. We have been talking about hundreds of millions, and we do not realize it. Yur county 1s only assessed at $5,000,000, 8o that twenty counties like tuls have been ‘swallowed up and appropriated, not for the government, but for private purposes—have been stolen by officials and others on one single article, which the people have vag every year, and this has been done every year for the last three years. This, therefore, goes to corroborate these gentiemen’s statements that doubie the amount of te ted been assessed and collected irom the peopie that never found its way into the Treasury. WILL THR PEOPLE TOLERATE IT? Do you not realize it now, fellow citizens, that all your toii, all your labor, all your skill, and the labor, skill, toil and sweat of the whoie American people of the United States have been taken and absorbed by this government? face of God Is there any other people on the "8 earth who could tolerate this for a sin- Will the nei eat le tolerate it? ‘No, no,” and cheers.) Will the hard-work- ing man, the farmer, the mechanic, the laborer—will any repubiican tolerate it and sustain and approve men who have fastened these odious measures upon ‘us and committed these wy upon the people? (A voice, “Yes, they will.’*) No, Ido not think they will, (Cheers.) Someof them bea Men who want oMce and politicians may do it, but I tell you there are Ranarets of thousands of honest republicans who will not TAXES MEAVIRR THAN NECFSSARY, Now, as to the money which they have received into the Treasury, I say it is a much larger sum than is necessary for that purpose. Our fathers estab- lished the ee not only for a free, but for an economical government. They made it a cheap gov- ernment. ‘They intended that the government should not rob people of their labor. That was the foundation stone, and one of the principles they meant to inaugurate was, that the fruits of lavor should be enjoyed by those who earned them. How do the expenses of government compare now and before the war? The average expenses for ten rears before the war—from 1851 1861—were 17,000,000, Now, for four years since the war was over aud during a time of peace, it has been $460,000,000—eight times as much. The republican pany has expended in eight years—since they have ad charge of this governinent—more than the whole of its expenses for elguty years down to the war. During Mr. Polk’s administration we had war with Mexico, and we had to transport armies and munitions of war to that country. Now, the whole expense of the War De} ment during these four years were only ,000,000, while during the present year and the three or four years past the expenses of the War Department have been about $120,000,000. So that it costs $30,000,000 more for these radical Puritans to ran tae department in a single year in the time of than for four years during @ foreign war under a@ democratic adwinistration. MORE THAN THE TAXES OF GREAT BRITAIN, ‘The government of Great Britain, as you know, 1s one of the first, if not the foremost, governments upon the face of the earth, Its colonies encircie the entire globe. It is an aristgcratic government, with its titled nobility, ite reyal children and innumerabie grandchildren to support and set up, with exces- sively high salaries to all its officers, many retirii with amounts larger than the pay of the President o} the United States, and how does she compare with the expenses of the United States under radical rule? ‘Their property ig valued at double ours, their debt is double ours, yet how do our expenses compare with theirs? They expend for all purposes $289,000,000, Includiiig the interest upon their debt, and we expend $400,000,000, Our government, in time of peace, under radical rule—one formed with a view to economy and cheapness—expends about $100,000,000 more yearly than the expensive aristo- cratic government of Great Britain, Their army of two hundred thousand men, which is four times larger than ours, co#.s less money than ours, And yet you are asked, my fellow republicans, to on and support those men tu this extravagance. you are asked to approve their conduct and weir measures and to perpetuate their power, WILL A CITANGE BR BENKFICIAL? You may say, and | wili consider the remark with very great respect, “it may be as bad if we change the government as it Is now. We have no guarantee there will be any reform.” Now [think you have @ sufficient guarantes, In the first place, you cannot expect the men who have initiated, organized and fastened these odious measures upon you to reform then. They are attached lo them and believe in them. ‘They think their sysici of taxation rightand proper. WHALE THE DEMOCRATS BRLL 1 Now we democrats do not bel in their aystem of taxation. We know they are robbing the tuasses: for the beneft of the few. We want mien who will ly the prunt@-kaife to all these corrupt excres- cen which e@Xist from the head to the tail of ofl jal action throughout the goverument, Besides ait these I can give you auotier consideral 1 is im possible, if a change be of , to Make matters worse. You have everything Ain and NOLIN LO jose by a change, and therefore | titnk we have sme reason to hope thay by» chauge of administration » | THE TAXES U | we might get rid of some of these abuses, AL AND OPPRESSIVE. ot us tuquire a step further in reference to this BER 1, 1868.—TRIPLE SHEET. sary of life, every pound of tea you buy costs you slx wings—that 1® the six siriiliu when oes t the goveruient. Upon every pound’ of tea aid coiiee, upon every necessary of trom fifty to one hun- dred per cent goes to the government, Vhe £vening Journu says that poor men neyer see the tax- therer, No, they do not ace him, but oh! how they fect him. ‘They feel him when they sit round their hearthstone to take their homely meal. Every Sp of tea and coffee, every of ‘sugar, every yard of cotton cloth, every pin, every needle, every match, everything they use, eat or wear, they pay govern- ment an er tax upon. Ths tart tax, which has been roiled up for the benetit of the New Engiand manufacturers until it the enormous sun of $240,000,000 @ year, is paid by the masses, the poor and the middie classes of people through- out the country. The internal revenue tax oper- ates in the same way. It is @ tax upon what we use, buy and wear, These taxes are put on sometimes two, three and four times to one articie, and upon the top of that is the profit of every person through whose hands the property has id. What so. 70m" Suppose are oe profits oy 0 persons through whom the pro passes tha’ is by way of tariff? What fs the praat ou 4 pro! paid upon the tax? It is $25,000,000 a year, and tl you pay upon the internal revenue tax is $7,000,000 ayear. I say everything you eat, drink and wear is taxed. The child fro tho time it is born is taxed upon the clothing that is put on its back, its play- things, its bauble, its education, its school books, its business, trade or occupation through life, and the very coffin which takes it into the ground 1s taxed over and over again, and the first thing its repre- sentatives do when they call upon the Surrogate to administer on its assets igs to pay government tax. ‘These are indirect taxes; but how is it when you come to direct taxation? Who pays those taxes? ‘The rich man? No, fellow citizens; I tell you that the direct taxation in this country is the most un- equal and oppressive of any ever invented in any land in the world. It falls upon the poorer class. ‘They pay all direct taxes of any consequence. TAXING UNITED STATES BONDS FAVORED. Here are $2,500,000,000 of these United States bonds that are exempt irom taxation. What did our friends say at Chicago? Are they in favor of taxing them? They say nota word upon the subject; on the contrary, they assert it is repudiation. What does the democratic platform tell you? It says, in pat unequivocal language, “We are in favor of tax- ing United States bonds equally with ali other prop- erty.” But they say it is repudiation; it ls an out- rage On the bondholders, Is it? Let ussee. Con- gress has passed a law, it is true, exempting these bonds from taxation by State or municipal authority, but there ig no prohibition on the general govera- ut itseifto tax them, The United States can tax n ten, twenty or thirty per cent. They can tax m enough to make them equal to ‘all other property and relieve the- people who do not own bouds from the oppressive burden of taxation, NO REPUDIATION, government can do that, and confessedly 8 40 repudiation init. They admit it. Why not the government do that? They have had absolute power not only to pass laws, but to do so over the veto of the President; and why do they not r the peopie in this respect? Why, because this radical p Which started out with the in- scription upon its banaer, “Free soll, free men and free speech,” have become so degraded as to be now the mere bottic-holiers of the bondholders. the reason they have not done it, This government has been ruled by the bondholders ever since the radicals have had power. (Cries of “That's so, that’s 80.”) Every financial measure has been passed un- der their direction, They rule the government, and if these men succeed they will continue to do 80, aud if they rule for four years longer it will be too late for you to relieve yourselves, (Applause.) I go a step further, THE POWER OF A STATE TO TAX BONDS, I do not believe there is any power in Congress, or anywhere else, to prevent tle State authority from taxing these United States bonds, (A voice, “That's Uie point, stick to that,” and cheers.) 1 know the Supreme Court have decided that the States have no such right. I do not believe that the decision is cor- rect. They decided it upon the idea that if they gave the States the right to tax they would have the power to tax Bo high as to desiroy the value of the ouds, Ideny it. The right to tax on the part of a State is the power only to tax these bonds equally with all other property. If you discriminate ins them then the action of the State would be void; but so long as you tax this property equally with all other property there is no power iu the general gov- ernment or anywhere else to prevent it. ,1 have shown you that there is abundant power in the gen- eral government to do this. RSVERSAL OF SUPREME COURT DECISIONS RECITED. All parties entertain a high respect for the Supreme Court and obey its ntandate; yet | tell you the time Wil come when this decision will be reversed by in- fusing into that body something of the popular ele- ment upon this subject. It will be the same as it was in the matter of the United States Bank, where the people in their sovereign majesty, led on by that glorious old hero, Andrew Jackson, reversed tliat de- cision, [deal So it was in the Dred Scott case. All my republican friends claim that the peo- pie reversed that decision—that 1s, they infused into he Suprethe Court enough of the popular element to impress it with a different opinion pot that subject. And so it will be in this case. See the injustice of it, bind 1s it that the government can take our money without our consent? What is the justafication? Be- cause It protects our lives and liberties, and there- fore has the right.to take our money to pay taxes for that protection, HOW 19 IT WITH THR BONDS? How is it with the bonds? When they come into the hands of the citizen of the State are they not property protected by the State authorities? Are not all the expenses of protection incurred the same asin regard to any other description of property? If they are stolen the citizen can resort to a court of justice for redress, and he enjoys the same facill- ties as others possess to procure thelr recovery and unish the offenders. Why, then, should not these ondholders, I ask you, my honest republican friends, contribute something to pay the expenses of that protection as well as other peopie who own property? Do is Waut to pay taxes for the men who hold these bonds? I have no ill will to them, but who are they? They are not the men who labor for a living; they are not the men who rise early in the morning and toil till evening, but they are men riding past on the golden wheeis of luxury who live on the labor of others, and why shou! they not contribute equally with you and I? Re- member that this year is the last opportunity you Will ever have of protecting yourselves, APPEAL TO YOUNG MEN. Permit me to appeal to the young men, for this question is of more vital importance to them than any one else. Those of middle age will soon pass away, and the burden of this government will fall pe the young men just entering upon the stage of action, It is you, young men, who should rise up in this campaign, and prevent the forging of these ackles which will bind you and your terit; forever! View the countries of the Old World. Tool at England, probably the frst country in Europe to-day, and what do you perceive? Do you not know that this infernal system of taxation has und down the masses until they and their families ave become poorer poorer, to such an extent, that it is said that one out of every eight of the people of that land go to the almshouse or some ublic poorhouse during their lives? Why tg thie? jecause the moneyed powers have the control of all European governments, They have the control of the military power also, and they keep the people down by force. THE PRIVILEGED OLASSES IN EUROPE, It Is because these privil classes, these moneyed interests, these money ristocracies, most dangerous In any free government, the con- trol of the government and keep the people under that the great masses of them are 80 poor. any man who came from Ireland why he left his home— that bike isle that might be made to flow with milk and honey—and come to a be: 2 Jand among strangers to seek his livelihood. ‘ause the gov- ernment taxed him to that extent that he was un- able to support his family and himself, That is the reason why he left, The reason that hundreds of thousands from Ireland and other European countries come to this couniry year after year is because the masses of the people are taxed to death, THE FINANCIAL QUESTION THE VITAL QUBSTION, I tell you that the contest to be decided in the fall is more ae for the liberties of the country, on account of these financial questions, than any others, important as | be. No people can be free who are unjustly taxed to this extent. Why? Take a poor man, who works hard for a living, and the government takes haif what he earns, what will be the effect upon him? It destroys mann his vi- tality and independence. It destroys those elements which make him a@ free, an indepen(ent and a happy man. I never was in favor of siavery in my 1)! American slavery per se. Tonly agreed to continue it because it was part of the original compact. I would to God that the shackles were stricken from the limbs of every human being on the earth. (En- Unusiastic applause.) But there is no slavery 80 biting, #0 ruinous, so withering to men as this ac- cursed system of taxation, (Appice) There ia still another financial principle to which I wil briedy allude, ONE CURRENCY FOR ALL. We have inscribed upon our banners, “One cur- rency for the bondholders and tie people; one cur- rency for the farmer, the mechanic, the pensioner and the bondholders.” Our ho ge friends say this is repudiation, We say that the goverument bond which does not deciare on its face, or in law under which it i# issued, that it was payable ta coin, may be paid in the currency of the country — in the same currency that you were obliged to take for every debt owiag to you, for every article of property which you sold, for every hour of labor which you performed. The same currency you were obliged to toxe tie bondholder must take, tn- less the law under which it was issued specified to the contrary. WHAT iS THE CONTRACT? Buk the radicais say, iat padiation, this ta | bad faith, this is an act of fraud.” fs tuatso? T tell you that ts the plea of usurers and extortion- ers. us see if ic be bad faith. If you have @ greenback in the morning (and I hope you Trve piensy), and you turn it upon its back Jou will find that this note is receivable for ‘ail public and private bills, except duties upon im- } ports ang interest upon the national dept. That is | the jaw, that they are receivabie for ali pablic and private debis, and for everyting except thteress on the public debt and duties upon customs, leavung, | ther pat of the public debt to be paid “taxation. Not only do they ta the amouat Lever ets into the pubis ¥ amu / PHoive into the publ iy lntwer amous.¢ than te needed expense® of the wove nmient, but they hy 2 Laxcs most apequ and, Oppressi Het (ts tase tits tari tag, where Wey ras? $14,000,000 in ew whe pays the ” rates mi (Me . The poor man, (ule Oo 4 OF PATS OTS \o We ov: * ernment eta Nau the Fichest man ta | re communit Hn Sa GO, ONOTY LeCee. not only do | That is the contract. We do | -beiore the people. I do not belleve myself in abusi | not contract, Ont radical | {rignds come bere with poor grace, How was it in tue Legislature of this State? ‘This State yave bouds, Assued When gold Was the only legal (ender and the | tatercst payable ia gold. The repuglican Legisia- | ture, againgi the earnest wiah of ioevernor Sey- | wa (loud cheers)—passat an get to pay iat i terest ia greenbacks, Wuea It @as payable in go: ly repudiating Che eorgrnct of ‘the State of ¢ \ Mee Lok, dba Sy em cigas ou lieu pat, wh | you, rep vbucand, when we come to these rich bondholders, who have no contract for paymeni in gold, they raige up their hancis tu holy horror and cry out Tepudiation ‘and fraud, OF THE CASE STATED. toshow you what the law is; now, of the Here is a man who He lent it to the gov- So ayearin cod in gold for interest. from taxation, which would Added togetiier, that makes $45 already received in gold for the forty dollars originally lent the government, now he comes anda demands $100 in goid more. We pro, to pay gold, and yet the organs of THE JUSTICE Thave attempted What Is the justice five years ago had ernment and got a ceived since that time He has been exempted be equal to $3 in gold. him $70, what they are now worth in oo recor ieads, who seem Let uese bondholders, say we ure do! ustice these poor, wretched bondholders inst a nae $20 in addition to the $70 we propose to aithough they have received $6 more than ing origins ly jonnae to the government. They passed @ funding bill, which is to cure all these diiteulti just before Congress adjourned, but the President did not sign it, thank the Lord! (Loud apptaine and laughter.) They threatened to pass it over the President’s veto. It is a measure instigated Ka bondholders for their benefit, for the pur, of choking you off, my republican friends. (Cheera.) ‘They propose to issue new bonds, runni. thirty or forty years, and after they have run trey to pay four and a half per cent, principal and interest ta gold, and if they run forty years, four per cent, and make them forever exempt from taxation, Now, let us cipher. Let us see what the diiference would be. You take $1, which is equal, I believe, as gold now is, to about sixty-eight cents. That ts the present value, a8 we say, of $l of these bonds, sixty-eight cents in gold. Now, cast the interest for thirty years at six per cent, the present rate, and them take one, as they propose to give, of the new bonds payable in gold, and cast the interest at thirty years atfouranda half per cent, and you get forty-tive cents more than the bond is worth at the present value in greenbacks. That would make upon the Whole $2,000,000,000 the nice little sum of $900,000,000 difference, which these gentlemen propose to make a donation to the bondholders and fave you toll and pay it. Are you willing to do it? (Shouts of “Ne no.”) If you are, vote the radical ticket, and may God have mercy upon your souls ! THE FREEDMEN’S BUREAU OVERHAULED. Now, fellow citizens, the most expensive article that has ever been introduced is this thing called @ “Freedmen’s Bureau.” Jt isan article designed to feed, clothe, doctor and transport the lazy and idle negroes of the South, so that they will vote aw: your rights and privileges, That is the object oie, What did your abolition friends preach year after year. They said, “Ifyou will only free this unfor- tunate race, only break the shackles which bind their limbs, give them an opportunity to go out into the world a3 white men, they will support theme selves and their families, They are able, capable and willing to do it; all we ask is that this accursed . system of slavery shall be abolished.” Well, 1t- was. abolished. And yet the support of these negroes has been most extravagant and expensive, which has ail been heaped on the people of the North, Let me read to you an esti- mate for one singie year of the Superintendent of the Freedmen’s Bureau; commissary oer $47,500; salaries of clerks, $12,000; stationery an printing, $63,000; quarters and fuel, $15,000; cloth- Ing Jor distribution, $1,950,000, Only think of thatt One-third of the whole assessed vaiue of your coun- try to be distributed to these lazy, idle negroes for clothing in one singie year! Where did this Con- — get the power to dothat? A few years ago our riends in Ireland were starving, and they wanted assistance. Private and public charities were ap- pealed to, The government desired to heip them, ut it was determined that they had no power, under the constitution, to donate money for that purpose, however much they desired to do it and however much it was needed, But here, in a single year, without any authority, they distribute near! $2,000,000 of clothing to these negroes, who are ag o able to work as youorl am. Let us see the next item, “Commissary stores, $4,106,009.” What is that for? 1t 1s for food toeat. Did this Congress ever think of feeding the poor Bada of the North? We nave poor, sick and disabled people here, who have returned from the war, sometimes without limbs, and unable, though willing, to work, yet we never find this Congress maki any appro- priation to buy food for them. But $40,000,000 inone year is wanted by this superintendent the negro bureau to feed negroes at the South, an you labor and toil to pay it. “Medical bureat 500,000, for a set of negroes aswell clothed and as they are, Clothing at $2,000,000 and f¢ $4,000,000, Why it is the sickliest set of negroes ; ever heard of in my life. (Laughter and cheers.) Transport, ing, $1,980,0v0—almost $2,000,000, What is this for? Transporting these negroes round from poll to oll to vote? And so they go on until they make the items amount to $11,614,000 that they ask for one single vearasy support of this Freedmen’s Bureag. But this 1s not all; not only do you have to work and pay this tax, but millions more to Keep, up the arm, to support and protect the Freedmen’s Bureau and the negroes at the South. EFFECTS ON THE SOUTH. While you are paying these expenses the Southern States are so impoverished that they are unabie to contribute in any great degree towards paying the taxes of the government. Why the State of New York for the last year has paid doubie the amount of internal revenue that the whole ten Southern Stateg have paid, and yet they contain a population thr times greater tlian New York. But for this infer system of military despotism and Freedmen’s Bue reau, which prevents that country from developing itselt and becoming prosperous, it would contribute to the support of the vernment three times as much asthe State of New York. Instead of the whole ten States paying $30,000,000 they should pay $150,000,000, according to the amount of taxation as they would if they were as flourish! and prow perous as they would be but for the Pe deng, 4 ine Muence of this radical rule which is upon them, Cheers.) So you are not only obliged to contribute y direct taxation this $11,000,000 a year for the Freedmen’s Bureau and $10,000,000 or $20,000,000 for the army to back them up, but you are deprived . of $160,000,000 a year which ought to go into the Treasury of the general government, in conse quence of keeping that country as it now is, liow long will you continue this thing? It ts for Fad to decide without passion or prejudice. Are you ju favor of sustaining these men? If you vote the radical ticket and it is elected they will claim, and have the right to ciaim, that their acts have been sustained aud ratified by the people. The question is whether you will do it or not? (‘* Never, never.) THR CANDIDATES COMPARED. Thave spoken to you thus far of general principles, deeply vital to free government and to the freedom ofthe people of the couutry. I have endeavored to bring these subjects to your attention so that you will examine them, and I beg you as you value your own Legere cae the welfare ot the country to do so fairly, candidly and impartially. Now, I desire to Say One word in relation to the candidates who are men who are placed in nomination by politls cal parties for oflice, especiaily for the office of President, I do not think it is any credit to the American people, in the eyes the civilized world, to endeavor to produce an im- ression that elther of the candidates in nomination Ihe meanest man in the world, It is not to our own credit to make other people believe ues it is nottrue. No man could be nominated for Presl- dent of the United States who has not some qualifle cation which entitles him to confidence and respect, GENERAL GRANT AND Hi8 NO POLICY DOCTRINE. So far aa General Grant is concerned I have not one word to say in relation to his military qualities, Upon that subject thereis great diversity of opinion among military men. I have no competency to speals upon that subject, nor disposition. I am perfectly willing that he should wear every star that adorns his uniform in and without objection. Bu there is a lamentable thing in relation to Gen Graut which I t on his account—namely, the letter he has written accepting the nomination. I re- et it, because in that communication he tuforms us hat he has “ni Pg i for the administration of the verninent. ‘No policy” for the administration of he government in a critical Wane like this, whem one-third of the Union ns military despotism, when it requires more skill and statesmanship to bring back and restore this country to its former prosperous conaition than at any other period during Ita Leng General Grant, who asks people to vote for hit, tells them that he has no policy for the ad- ministration of the government, and he leads us believe (I believe that is the general understand! that he will be under the control and in subordina- tion to the bad men who now rule Congress and com> trol the radical party, HORATIO SEYMOUR RECOMMRNDED BY 4 FIRST RAT® NOTICE. On the other hand the democratic party of this nation have nominated its ticket. They met in con+ vention In New York. Eyery State was represented, Every district in every State was represented. An assemblage of men of a8 much ability and patriot ism never met together upon this or any other Con- ‘tinent, After balloting for three day® for various candidates, with the very best feeling and a de- aire on the t+ of everyone to harmonize the pro- coedings of the Convention, being unable to agree, the whole body with one mind, one voice and one heart pronounced the name of Horatio Seymour. I have Known Governor Seymour for more than @ nm my and private life. with him in the yoar 1842, im the Assembiy of this State. Tran with him twice. upon the same ticket since that time, and we were both at one of those elections chosen. I have been associated with him tn the administration of the State government, and llave knowa him well im every position that he has occupied since that time. And now, while it is trae that Govergor Seymour haa been @ candidate for office at times of great political, excitement, When the passions of men were greal aroused and unkind things were satd of lium; yet E venture to say, with a% much personal knowiled an anyone, I think, in tbe State, that no act of his life cam be pointed out that tsincousisteat with astatesman, & patriot and & Chiristian genlewman. He has made the Science of govcrament his stady throughout his tfe. . Nobody disputes that lis private lire is entirely pure aud spotiess. Nobody disputes that he has dl charged faithfully and honestiy every public trast, Who, then, ts there more competent in this broad land to bring “us back to the government of our faihers and to a condition of prosperity than Horatit Seymour? That is my opintoa, and | entertain Tentertain is without the siightest felt to Gener. On the contrary, 1 wi take every occ: the fullest justice to bim for ali his services to the country. But tt Is gene. vally believed that he ought to be satisfied with his ptesent position. jie holds his piace for life and t Soy M0: Seymour as President ag Grant ie of tie Army. That ts the iaartiuag. 1 loss Justig® to bota of them and it wil restore (hs couuty ) COREL AION, Fy NOW, (aioe {celina HR, Wo AB At ST OF MA Sverruody, Wal GU 7