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The Constitutionalist will be mailed to clubs of five, or more, from this date to the fifteenth of November next, at the fol lowing low rates; Daily $ 3 00 per copy. Tri-Weekly I 50 “ Weekly 00 “ The canvass will undoubtedly be the fiercest and the results the most important of any that have taken place in this coun try, tor the real issue is a Constitutional Form of Government or a Despotism, and every man should keep fully conversant, with the great struggle. Now is the tune lo form Clubs, as our rates are put down so low that no pecuniary profit can be realized. Those who want a sound and reliable Democratic journal for the campaign would do well to subscribe immediately to the Constitutionalist. C() N HT! T UTIONALMT. FRIDAY MORNING, AUG. 7,18 GS SPEECH OT? 8 •» Hon* f. li. ViLUMWHIM, AT Dayton, Ohio, JULY 28, 18<58. Asa delegate to the recent Prasidential Convention, 1 report to yon, my Democrat ic friends, officially, to-night, the results of its labors, and propose to consider also briefly and without rhetoric, the political situation and prospects. DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATES. Hquarcs. 1 Week. i ' 2 Weeks. 3 Weeks. 1 Month. ■ i Months 1 3 Months 4 Months b Months 0 Months. Not originally a member of that conven tion, but called in to aid in its deliberations after its sessions had begun, I wrought with fidelity an earnestness to secure that object which, next to principle, seemed nearest (lie hearts of the Democracy of Ohio for the last six months—the nomination of Mr. George 11. Pendleton. Wc failed because of reasons not necessary nor proper now to consider. Rut in all else, the labors of the convention could not have terminated more in accordance with the wishes and purposes of ail true patriots and Democrats, or 1 let ter for the country. For President we have nominated Horatio Seymour —an eloquent orator, an able and experienced statesman, an accomplished gentleman, sober and righteous, in the enlarged, catholic sense of the term—a man o! the strictest pecuniary integrity; the candidate of no “ring” or faction, and one who will neither himself Steal, nor permit, theft in others. And this, after the larcenous experiences of the past seven years, which have mocked and dwarf ed the gigantic peculations and corruptions Os even Roman or Fir lish history, and wherein, as in periods of physical epidem ics, every phase and species of public crime and offense, speedily assumed the form and type of robbery or theft, is high, exalted eulogy upon any candidate, and gives promise of a heturn to honester times,— Nominated, to my personal knowledge, against his will and w ithout a pledge or promise to any one, upon any subject, lie is under no obligation of any sort, other than that which binds the patriot, and gentle man. And if lie be “insane,” as little crea tures with false, rrialicions tongues insinu ate, I would that the same method were in the madness of all other public men. For Vice-President., we have nominated Gen. Frank P. B'air—a civilian and a sol dier, bold in the cabinet and brave in the field ; ready to take ail just and necessary responsibilities; skillful in adapting means to ends, and prompt, in executing his pur poses ; liberal and tolerant of the opinions, of others, and in the very midst of the furor of the late civil war, capable, as I well know, of discerning and conceding the. highest patriotism of motive in those who differed widest from him. Such arc the candidates put in nomina tion ; and in view of their superior excel lencies and qualifications, I may justly say to yon that voting, for t&efn'is the highest ■BPNfr'CTwv ft ageand moreover; that in my deli he rate judgment and deep conviction, this ticket is a winning ticket, and will receive a de cided majority of the entire electoral col lege, even without reckoning upon a single Vote from the States lately composing the “ foil federate Government ' RRPUm.rCAN CANDIDATES. As to tin; candidates, Gen. U, S. Grant and Schuyler Golfax, who make tip the ticket of the Republican party, ! have not a word personally of denunciation or de traction lo utter against them. I leave that whole style, fashion and system of political warfare to onr enemies, and 1 pray Ileatrcn to put it, into their Itt arts to devote every hour of time and every in-, sirmnentaliiy as to manner, througli Hie press and upon the hustings, to it in its widest, amplest scope, and foulest, falsest, bitterest, malignity. And 1 pray further that the war and the things of the war may make up the sole subject of their speeches, their documents and their ap peal* every way to the people; leaving to US, as they did last. Summer and Nall in Ohio, the exclusive discugsioji in every form, of tiie cheat living questions ok TO-DAY — I Ik.STOUATM IN, N WiK(l Sui-RKM\CV, Taxation, Tariff, Debt. CuttßEuey, and whatever else relates to the civil, t he politi cal and the material prosperity of the coun try. These be our topics before the people, while to them we give amplest license to howl on about “Rebels, Copperheads, Kn Klux, traitors, convicted traitors, the life of the nation,” the giory of the war, and all similar subjects of denuncia tion or of praise. As for my single self, glorying ill every word spoken, every vote given, every act done, and every wrong suffered by myself in behaif of right and liberty throughout the war, i am yet. not. now to be provoked by any tant'if. or denunciation into a discussion oi anything connected with Ft. It is upon trial, along with all its actors and a'd its sufferers, before the dread tribunal oi his tory, and by the judgment therein here after to be pronounced, i am content to abide. “Where was ¥ar.aß«li.gJm.m during the war?” may ho a very pretty and U iiin.g rhetorical conundrum in the mouths of “loyal” orators; but. it neither restores tiie Union, maintains the Constitution, upholds liberty, pavs taxes, reduces tiie debt, slops stealing, alleviates distress, nor in any way reaches tiie wants and ucccs»if ics oi the people, or tends to bring them roHef tom burdens too grievous now to lie borne. Then, gentlemen, I have no word of per sonal denunciation for the Republican can didates. I would not detract one jot. or tit tle from the fullest measure of military ‘dory Id Which General Grant may be just ly entitled. Ih :1V0 not a syllable to utter, as to ids persouri? habits- l t are- not wind his name is or may have hveii, by baptism or usage. I know Ulysses >S. Giant oniy as t.he candidate of the Revolutionary Hepub licaii party, and the representative of its principles, its policies and its purposes. We are not choosing the ring-master of a | ciicus, nor the magister of a feast, nor the keeper of the royal horses or hounds; nor even the commanding general of our armies to wage war; but the Chief Executive offi cer of a great Republic, to restore peace and prosperity through the arts of states manship ; and I know Ulysses 8. Grant only as the symbol of negro supremacy, delit, hard times, high prices, low wages, gold without taxation for the bondholder, jags and taxes for tiie people, and an impe rial military despotism instead of the sim pie but beneficent Federal Republic of our fathers. Beyond these, General Gran: rep resents nothing except the cold lava of the burnt oat volcano of civil war. Ho much then, gentlemen, as to candi dates. And now, for a moment, as to plat lorms. PLATFORMS COMPARED. The Chicago Platform of 1868 exults ia the labors and fruits of the last seven years of Republican rule, and promises a contin- AUGUSTA, (Ga,) FRIDAY WORKING, AUGUST 7, 18G8 nance of its blessings, such as they are. The Democratic Platform of 1868, recurring to the original and fundamental principles of our Government, and .proclaiming the ancient and sound policies of the Demo cratic party, under which for sixty years' the country prospered, flourished, was hap py and becajne truly great, deooiujceerthc ideas, the wrongs, the burdens and the op pressions o&the present, and demand* a change." It buries the dead past With all its discords and "Ms differences, and goes forth to moot the living present and the quickening future, full of the hope and . promise of better times; and rallies to its support on terms of perfect equality every element of opposition to the revolutionary doctrines and practices which threaten the overthrow of both the ideal and the actual Government which our fathers established. It. begins with the declaration that its trust is in the intelligence, patriotism and discriminating justice Os the American peo ple ; and however for a time tiiis people, or any other people, may err or run into mad ness or folly, or do or permit deeds of out rage or injustice, yet, under Providence, no trust is more sure and steadfast than in the sober second thought of an intelligent, civilized and religious people. It recognizes the Constitution as the foun dation of the Government and of its txnvcrs, and the limitation of them, and the sole bond of Union, and the guaranty of the liberties of the people ; and it admits of no fountain of pow'er higher than that instru ment ; of no “ military necessity”or necessity, and of no pretence of y justifying usurpation of powe.rfW. t'ilie doing of acts for partisan purposes, outside of the Constitut ion. ! It. accepts as the only used results or consequences of the war, the indissolubility of the Union, and the final abolition of slavery by the voluntary action of the Southern States in constitutional conven tion assembled; but proclaims that 1 lie original theory and fact and nature and pract ice of t lie Government as a Federal Union and* not an Imperial Republic or Legislative Oligarchy, remains just as in the beginning. it, demands the immediate restoration of all the Stab’S to t heir rights in the Union under the Constitution, and denounces the military despotisms and negro governments which reduce ten States to territories or provinces, and exclude them from the Union except upon terms dishonorable to them, and destructive of the fundamental princi ples of the Government itself. - Recognizing the sublime maxim that to err is human, to forgive diving, it pro claims, in the very spirit of peace and of true religion, universal amnesty for all past political offenses; thus putting to the blush of shame the shallow hypocrisy of General Grant, who denying both pardon and po litical rights to hundreds of thousands of his fellow-citizens whom more than three years ago he overcame in open battle, a.id delivering them over to the domination of a degraded and brutish race lately their slaves, yet impertinently proclaims, “ let us have peace.” Os him tve may well say, as said the great historian of the desolaters of Roman provinces, “he makes a solitude and calls it. peace.” Denouncing negro equality and suprema cy, yet in accordance with long established doctrine, it remits the regulation of the elective franchise in each State to her own ° lauy • surtby Rejecting the insolent dogma that a pub lic debt is a public blessing, it demands payment of the debt a* rapidly as practi cable, and unless otherwise expressly re quired by law or contract, in the lawful money, the “greenback '' currency of the country. And t hen, in the spirit of true Democracy proclaims, “one currency for the Government and the people, the laborer and the officeholder, the pensioner and the soldier, the producer and the bondholder.” It. demands, further, equal taxation of all property, Government, bonds included; a revenue tariff'; economy, the restoration of the rightful authority of the Judicial and Executive departments; equal rights for native and adopted citizens at home anil abroad ; the right of expatriation; and the re-subordination of the military to the civil authority. It proclaims the so-called “reconstruc tion acts” of Congress, delivering over ten States to ihe supremacy of the negro, under governments controlled by negroes, to he usurpations, unconstitutional, revolution ary and void. To the soldier and sailor it, guarantees the faithful execution of every pledge given in their favor by the Government; to the actual settler it, promises the public lands; and finally, to the workingmen it tenders live full sympathy of the Democratic party, in then efforts to protect the rights ami promote the interests of labor and of the laboring classes of the country. PARTIES COMPARED. So much for platforms in general. And now allow me briefly to consider some oi Ike primary and fundamental dif ferences in principle and policies, between the Republican and Democratic parties. First. The aim and purpose of the lie publican revolutionary leaders is to cen tralize the powers of the General Govern ment, so as to establish ultimately an Im perial Republic; which, in the judgment of the wisest and best, statesmen of America, from the beginning, can hero lie but another name for a military despotism. To secure tin’s object they began by denying and usurping the just, constitutional reserved rig ht sos the Suites. Next they assumed absouit - power to exist in time of war, in the President, vvl.on: they designated “the government;" and wwi .afterwards they quarreled with the Executive,they styipned him of every accustomed and even of very many of his clearly constitutional preroga tives, ami finally sought, oy a gross abuse of the poy/er ot impeachment, to remove him from an office te which little remained except 1 lie title and emolument. And when the Supreme Court stood in their way, they began, by hostile legislation, to circumscribe and cripple its rightful jurisdiction, and to bring it into contempt; with the people, by bitter and venomous denunciation of its Chief Justice! Upon the other hand, the Democratic parly ’insists, U) the language of Jefferson, -»ii “ the sunpoft of the Hi ate governments " ~ "m*ir rights as tiie most competent ad -1 1.. , ' -wir domestic concerns, and rmStb«.;X tendencies; and the preservation Geijcr.il Government, in its whole constitu tional vigor, as tiie sheet-anchor of our peace at home and safety abroad.” As to policies or ideas, the tvyo parties ditferfundnmentally in this: the basis of tljo -present Republican organization is bigotry, hate and revenge. It tolerates no differ ences of opinion. Tt, would forever fan and keep alive the flames of that civil war which for four long and weary years scorch ed the hearts and desolated the homes of one-third of the imoplc of the United States. It would cherish forever the hot passions and the bitterness and the feuds and dis cords which, in our own midst, arrayed neighbor against neighbor, and wrought dissension and strife among those of the same household. It refuses to forget the vile epithets which found no apology even amid the fury of a bloody conflict, and glib ly spits forth from its envenomed lips, » rebel sympathizer, butter-nut, eipperhead and traitor.” Professing a religion which js louiutel on eternal love, it yeT builds it self up Oft immortal hate. Invoking mercy and forgiveness from the God of heaven, it denies all pardon or grace to feTjhw men on fjSut (To these, opr enemies, realize that they themselves are the very children of political' wrath r- Have they forgotten tho accumulated wrongs ant! outrages which they heaped ufion.our heads —th&denuncia* tions, the Calumnies, the espionage, the mobbing*, the arrests, the imprisonments, the exile and the murder and assassination which we, their fellow-citizens, suffered at their hands? It is we, too, who have wrongs to forgive or to avenge. It is we who might shut the gates of mercy upon them, and demand a fiery and-consuming retribution. Animated by theif Own relent less spirit, I, too, might well exclaim: “ A platans upon thorn! Wherefore sWntd I curse them? , Would itiAes kill, rs doth the m-uidrak.i’j m-ttn, I would invent as Mtter-eesrchirn? tonne,. .As curst ns iiaisii, and horrible to hoar, IKJivereii cti.ejgly ihroutth my lived twit'i. - With full us many sittes of deadly hate, Aa Icari-facoit Envy in her loathsome Cii- e : My tongue should stumble in mine earnest words : Mine eyes should sparkle Ifimlhu beat#!: dint: My hair he fixed on end, like one distract: Ay, every joint should seem to-curse arid hail." , But, gentlemen, if such is to pj the spirit of our political controversies forever; if there is to In: no truce to our passions; if the past Is never to be forgotten or for given ; if the dead carcass Os civil war, with ai! its engendered griefs, and wrongs, and hates, is not sometime to lie buried out of sight, then welcome the fierce waters of the deluge in which perished the ante diluvial) world; thrice welcome the fire from leaven which smote and consumed Soilo/a and Gomorrah; so that, in God’s Providence, anew, and a wiser and better rare, Worthier of their noble heritage, may Depopulate this North American continent. Depend u|*on it. gentlemen, no party wlr'sc only cementing element jp a sympa thy of hatred can ever lie permanent in 'poo’er, or even in existence. With large multitudes of men this spirit of Pate was the controlling motive through out the late civil war, and lias .continued to govern t hem at every step in'their efforts at reconstruction. But with a smaller, yet lar more dangerous class of poJHieians, the sole aim for the last three years has been the perpetuhtiem of Republican rule, through the negroes of the South. To this basest of motives and purposes the public good and the pacification of the country have been steadily sacrificed; and worse, yet, constitutional limitations altogether disregarded. Signally defeated in their ef forts to establish negro suffrage and.equali ty in the North and West, they have now impudently iu their platform proclaimed that here each State shall 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 the desire to maintain partisan supremacy, they have disfranchised a large number of the white population of the Southern States, and conferred upon the negroes, by an act of Congress, Ihe right to voce ; and then, at the point of the bavo net, have proceeded to establish seven State governments, controlled by negroes or white adventurers meaner than they— anartsstaoarneis. birds of passage, and ver*J foul film* I WfWi(jvr«nrt nave g(Wre tnrOftghT the farce of admitting them iuto the Union and to the right of representation in the Senate and the Reuse, and lull vote in the electoral college for President. In tills maimer, gentlemen, they expect to control the legislation and the elections of the country. And these ignorant, brutish ne groes of South Carolina ami Florida and the other Southern States do now make laws, and levy taxes, and create public debt, for you, white men of Ohio ; and t hey expect to overrule your choice for Presi dent. Ves, gentlemen, under these Repub lican reconstruction acts, enforced by an armv for which you pay heavy taxes out of your hard earnings, half a million ot ne groes in Sout h Carolina, reinforced by some tii.msauds of adventurous white loafers from the North and West, will control nearly as many electoral votes as a million of white men in Ohio. Aye, and this pres ent moment the “ Governor,” so-called, of that. State, elected by negroes, under an act of Congress, and through the aid of your army, is a citizen of Ohio, having a. legal settlement here; so that if he were to be come a pauper—and South Carolina is very poor now, and no longer able to enrich her satraps—-the proper township in the county of Henry, in this State, could .he compelled to maintain him as a public charge. And moreover, Gen. Willard Warner, a noble confrere of his from Ohio, has, I observe, just been elected a United States Senator from Alabama! These arc the doings of the Republican party, and if not marvelous in your eyes, they are at least, costly to your pockets.— These are a part of the blessings over which the Chicago platform exults, and a continuance, and indeed multiplication of which, they promise upon the election of Gen. Ulysses.S. Grant. BANK INJUSTICE OF TITE RECONSTRUCTION POLICY. Now, gentlemen, suppose for a moment that t.he. case was reversed, and that the South had waged a successful war of con quest against you herein the West, and had compelled, by force of arms, the intro duction of slavery here, and you had sur rendered in good faith, under pledge and promise of all other rights with?n the Union, under the Constitution; and that when you had no farther newer to resist, a Southern Congress had, at t.he point of the nayonet, forced constitutions, governments and laws upon you against your will, and that victorious and insolent South Carolina had sent up hero the meanest and basest or her vagabond “Sand Hill” citizens, with carpet-bags in theirhands, to represent you, the once free, white men of Ohio, in the Senate and Rouse at the Federal Capital, and to usurp the places once filled by the Morrows, the McLeans, the Corwins the Ewings, the Hamers, and the Allens of this glorious Commonwealth, what would have <.ecu the emotions of wrath and indignation which would have bn rued within your bosoms? And yet to just such indignities are South Carolina and Virginia, and their sister States of the ‘M >id Thirteen,” scorch ed and scarred all over with the flames of the war of 1776, subjected, by the false and ”'*<muerate sons of t.iic New England sires who stood snoiiuhl!' V* RhoiiuhV l>y tj,em in that grand revolutionary conflict, which iu blood and suffering, and with trecious trea sure lirsi, bought n ,ojr lihei'tjrsj All, but “ these men are now rebels and traitors, and you, the Democracy, received them with open arms and gashing hearts to your recent Presidential Convention.”’ Thank God, we did ; and by noue were they hailed with more cordial welcome than by not t he bloodless though blood thirsty home loyalists of the war, but by the gallant and noble heroes, the Hancocks, the Franklins the Ewings, the Blairs, the Slocums, and the Steadmans, who had met them in deadly conflict amid the sulphurous canopy and shock of battle. We mean to have peace indeed. We intend to restore the Union iu fact.; and to-day we know these men only as our friends, fellow-citizens and brothers; the descendants of the Washingtons, the Lees, the Hamptons, the Suinters, the Marions, the Prestons, the Haynes, the I iaurens and others who, side by side, stood with the Hancocks, the Adamses, the Starks, the Putnams, the Gates, and the Waynes of the North in the heroic Revolu tionary struggle of’76, or with their sons and grandsons iu the later conflict of 1812, or the Mexican war of 1846 —Americans all, whose fame is the patrimony of the whole country. This is peace: this is Union; this alone is the blessed vision of the seers and prophets of an age gone by: One Constitu tion, one country, one destiny ! So much for reconstruction. And now, gentlemen, a word upon humbler yet more practical anil scarce less important sub jects. TAXATION, TAjMPP AND REVENUE. And first, as to taxation in its double form—Tariff and Internal Revenue. The sole foundation of the right of government to appropriate any part of the property of the citizen by taxation is the necessity of supporting the Government, in its several departments, working strictly within the line of thoir duty; and the only measure of the right is the extent of,the necessity, a reasonable economy being the fixed rule by Which to determine, that necessity. Every dollar which the Government extracts from the people beyond this is sheer downright robbery. Notv, a protective, tariff in its very nature, implies the levying of a tax, not for the necessities of the Government, but for the benefit of a class. Levied upon articles of manufacture, it is money trans ferred !>v ael of Congress from the pockets of the consumer to too bank account of the manufacturer. And this is robbery. Pre vious to the wav and in Democratic times, an average duty of some fifteen per cent, was laid upon imports; and without a dol lar of internal revenue collected by the Federal Government, the amount received was ample to pay the tlien seventy or eighty millions of expenditures. Now, as |>art of the blessings of Republican rnic, a contin uance of which you are promised under Gen. Grant, these duties run from a nomi nal sum or nothing on raw material, to three hundred percent, on manufactures, averaging upon the whole list more than forty-five per cent. And of this one half at least is an absolute gift by the Govern ment to the manufacturing interest—a gift taken by robbery from your pockets.— Eleven times lias the tariff been raised by several acts of Cougress since 1860, ami we have now just barely, by the adjournment yesterday, escaped another elevation. Oh, the choice blessings of Republican rnie which are to be continued and multiplied under Grant! But the inequity, and the iniquity too, of the tariff, is greatly aggravated by the fact lhat its chief burdens fall upon us of the West One-half of the proceeds of the tariff go to swell the profits of the Eastern man ufacturer, who buying onr produce cheap, sells us his wares dear, aud tbeu investing his rapidly accumulated wealth in bonds, purchased with “greenbacks” at sixty cents on the dollar, escapes taxation, re ceives his interest in coin, and after his bonded clajm against the Government has, in the language of the Chicago platform, been “ extended over a fair period of re demption,” like the English debt, he or his heirs in the tvnth generation, expect to be paid iu gold at the rate of oqe hundred cents %9 tin; ’ Ob, ti.j fcf ratings aif P. (Pub lican rule to be continued under Grant! But the West, blinded during the war by the veil of “ loyalty,” at last is beginning to open her eyes to this enormous wrong piled upon her; and I warn the East, in no sectional spirit, but in all kindness, yet all earnestness, that the strong, patient man of tiie West, staggering under this burden, is resolved in inexorable purpose, to shake it from his shoulders at every hazard. I have said that the necessities of govern ment, economically administered, are the limit of its right to tax. Wherefore, also, it is true that every dollar stolen from the Treasury, and every dollar misapplied from the legitimate purposes of government, is so much robbed from the people. And yet, in the very first year of Republican bless ings, the year of grace 1801, vve had the testimony upon the floor of Congress of a leading Republican, that. “ the Treasury had been plundered well nigh in that year as much as the entire current yearly ex peases of the Government* during Mr. Buchanan’s administration ” Republican petit larceny was then but in tin; pulp of embryo; but seven years of rapid and vig orous growth have developed it now into the bone and grizzle of sturdy and gigantic theft and robbery. And to day the expen ditures of the Government, legitimate and larcenous, are nearly five times as great as when eight years ago the power was snatched from tiie Democratic party and delivered over to Republican misrule. Tire PUBLIC DEBT. And now allow me a word as to t,he pub lic debt. It is a vain thing t.o-diy to en quire how this debt came to be contracted, or iibw much of it was originally neces sary or just. It may have been the most essential, the most constitutional, the most righteous and the most wisely and judici ously managed t hat ever a people incurred ; or it may have been in every particular, just the reverse. No matter. It exists, and must be dealt with accordingly. The Democratic and Republican parties both recognizing it, differ widely, radically in regard to it. The idea or notion of the Democratic party* may he best and most significantly expressed by a paraphrase of Dunning’s celebrated resolution against the royal prerogative, a hundred years ago in the British Parliament —that the Public, j)cbt has increased, is increasing, mul ought, lo /mi diminished: The Republican plat form declares that it ought to lx; “extended over a fair period for redemption a phrase curiously felicitous in expressing hdiiiito uncertainty of duration. It re minds me of Charles James Fox’s answer j to his creditors, who, vexed with his long delay, ironically proposed that lie should execute to them his bonds payable on the dav of judgment. “Ah,” said he, “just please make them payable the day after.” Cl*>n the other hand, the Democratic platform demands “payment of the public debt of the United States as rapidly as piactjcai/le, applying all money drawn from the people, by taxation, except so much as is requisite for the necessities o( government economically administered, to such payment.” The Democratic parly mean that this debt, with all its burdens and all its corruptions of every sort, shall lie paid off; and l say to you, gentlemen, that in my firm conviction, Republican government cannot long endure here even in form arid shadow, if this huge mountain of debt is to continue ; and that no lorm of government could exist pure anil incoirupt, if this debt is to becoipe permanent. Upon another subject, gentlemen, the pol icy of the two parties is in marked con trast. Planting itself firmly upon the fixed principle of all fust governments, that taxa tion ought to be equal, the Democratic par ty demands that the bonds and other secuii ties of the United States shall be taxed the same as other pro|>erty. The justice and equality of the proposition arc too plain for elaborate argument. These bonds and securities leave every legal elemeut of property in the hands of their holders, ex cept taxation. Why, then, the exemption ? They now amount in various forms U* some twenty-six hundred millions of dollars, or about one-fifth of the entire property of the country. And yet this oiie fifi.ii, claiming the special care and nurture of the Govern ment, drawing its increase in gold, and in the hands chiefly of the wealthiest men, and soon to become exclusively theirs, pays not a dollar of tax in the manner or to the extent which it would pay if it were other property. To-day your capitalist owns a hundred thousand dollars in lauds and goods,. and pays taxes, income iuoluded, State and Federal accordingly; thus bear ing his lull proportion of the burdens of the community in which he lives. To morrow he sells all, and invests in Govern ment bonds, receiving his interest, paid now by other men, his neighbors, in taxes, but lo! himself pays not a dime in taxa tion, save the income tax, deducted vir tually and in paper, f-om the golden inter est which he receives. And now the entire burden of taxes, remaining just tho same as yesterday, falls upon those of his communi ty who own bonds. And yet leaders of the Republic:*!) party, high in position and influence, have the audacity to tell us that whoever is for taxing bonds is no better than a penitentiary convict! Well, be it so; but there are three millions and more of white American voters in the United States who arc resolved that, penitent iavy convicts or not, they wPI have these bonds taxed. RONDS AND CTUffENUACKS. ] come now to the mode of paying the public debt, and the subject of the curren cy in general. Gentlemen, lain a hard money man. I alwavs have. been. Then- is no other real money in the world ; and least of all is irre deemable government paper money in any i‘roper sense of the term. It is not even the representative of money, but only of government credif ; and varies, and must ever vary, with the fluctuations of that credit. And it is by so much a greater evil when government seeks to make its oivn panor, its own credit, its own promise to pay, a legal tender for payments and debts. If government were to issue no more paper, or little more that) it wanted for taxes,-it need not declare it a legal tender. If it issue more, and just in proportion to the no kind or amount of legislation, jK’iial or otherwise, himl no unrulier of legal tender clauses, can save it from deprecia tion. I voted against the legal tender act. of 1862. I did not believe it const!) utional then. 1 do not believe it constitutional now. Moreover, I felt assured that it must sooner or later bring forth its evil fruit, and that abundantly. Government paper could not be made or kept equal to coin ; and there is no more mischievous agent of financial and commercial distress than a depreciated paper currency. And the evil is greatly aggravated if there be two currencies of unequal value. I concur fuliv in all that Governor Seymour has said upon this particular subject, and in the purpose of his recent speeches as I un derstand them ; and that was to warn the Democracy and the people of the United Stales not. to swing wholly from their an cient hard money moorings, and become too deeply enamored of the green goddess of paper money; to love wisely, and not too well; not to accept the extreme medi cine of the public jdebt and currency as dqUy 1 thirik the caution was timely and well bestowed. lam in favor of one currency, if practicable, and as soon as practicable, and that currency gold and silv(-~. This twenty dollar gold piece which I hold in my hand—General Scheuck intimated last Fall that I stole it; no mat ter ; it was certainly not. from him; and moreover, let. me tell him that it is not the wages of political prostitution, nor yet of that siu which is )x>litical death ; pardon the digression—this gold piece is money; not, indeed, “lawful .monfiy” in the lan guage of the legal tender act, but constitu tional money, and the only money known to that instrument. No act of Congress, and no number of penal provisions, could persuade me that, this twenty dollar legal tender is as good as this twenty dollar gold. This (the gold) is not the represents live of or substitute for money, it is money. It does not sav “ I promise to pay twenty dollars,” but “ I am twenty dollars ” Now, gentlemen, f should be veev glad to make this paper money as good as gold—if i only knew how. I remember in ancient mythol ogy, one Midas, who besought the gods for power to turn everything he touched into gold; but I recollect also that in the sequel of the story Midas was written down an ass. 1 know, then, of no way of making you, Government paper as good as gold, except by either immensely re ducing the volume—somewhere near to the standard of taxation —or requiring it to he redeemed on demand in gold at the Treasury of tijo United States. But neiUtcr of these is now practicable. What then ? Necessarily we arc to have two currencies for the present—gold and greenbacks: a dollar in coin equal to a hundred cents, and a dollar in legal tender, representing variously from fifty to seventy cents. And novy, hard money-man as lain, odious as a depreciated irredeemable government paper forced upon the people is to me, I meet the issue squarely. If you have gold enough for all, let ns all have gold. Bat if not, and there must be paper for some, then paper for all; and in the language of the New York Democratic I‘laUorin, “ one cur rency for the Government and the people, the laborer and the office holder, the pensioner and the soldier, the producer and the bond holder;” and whosoever would have gold, let him buy it in the market at its value in currency. And let us have no petty quib bling aboufrthe phrase “ lawful money. ’ In the platform it is the antithesis of “ Coin and in the entire legislation of Congress upon the subject for six years, it means the legal tender “ greenback” currency of the country. Redeem, then, in this lawful money—lawful to the plovvholder and law ful to the bondholder —as “rapidly as prac ticable,” ad obligations of the Government not expressly upon their face or by law, made payable in coin. Abolish forthwith your National Banking System; take up the bonds which they hold, save twenty millions of interest to the tax payers, and instead of redeeming three hundred millions of national currency with greenbacks, issue a like amount of greenbacks at once to sup ply their place. Here is no inflation, nor is there fmy, the smallest hazard of having “ too much money,” even of “ lawful money,” in the country. With the disappearance, too, of the present National Banking mono poly, we shall secure again old-fashioned specie paying banks whose credit shall de pend on their solvency, and whose promise to pay is redeemable not iu another promise to pay, but in gold and silver, the constitu tional money of the land. NO DANGER OF CIVIL WAR. I ha>o now, my Democratic friends, liu ished what I had to say upon the politi cal issues ail’d situation of the day. One word further upon another subject, and 1 have done. You hear from ever quarter through the Republican press tiie alarm that it is the purpose of the Democratic party to reiiir augurate revolution aud civil war. Let uo man be iu the least concerned. Unqnes- I tionably it is thq fixed purpose of three VO', sr, NO millions of Democratic Voters, yyith all the intensity which can fife fbb 'ftfijtris **? men porn freemen aud scarping to .die siuves, if iyc shall fairly, Constitutionally and legally sectta President, to see that, J;e is tnaugu to'tod at every hazard. It is bur right and our duty too; as also it is the duty and right of the Republican party and , they snail legally, constitutionally and 'fh.fr!>- oloei Gen. Grant, But no maftpic* litotes, openly or covertly anything heyPnd. No, gciille jncu, it is the Republican leaders who are the revolutionists. It is they who, resolv ed by all moans and at the liberties ot the people, and the peace of the coun try. to perpetuate their power, would again plunge us info both civil and so cial war with all its horrors. But to the ballot aud not to the bullet, wc now appear. The people are wearied of the Republican party, and of its Wrongs and its perfidies, Os its debt, ami Its tariffs and its taxations, of its.negro governments and its military despotisms, of a dishonored Coustitulf" and a broken Union which four years of and three years of peace under its comlm ’ and legislation, have failed to restore; anu they demaud and will have a clung '. Aud unless every sign and omen by which the political future may be discerned, shall fail, so signal and disastrous will be the over throw of this party iu November, that the themselves will make basic to roc and hearken to the voice of the pc* the voice of God: aud as chastened tiren, In alienee wiki submit to the.) ment which in mercy to themselves, a to us and to the whole country, shall drive them from the seats of power. No, gentle-*' men, no; there will be no move civil war In the land: but flic sun at high noon, shining on the JEasb n> front of llv Capitol, on the Fourth of March, 1860, will look down peacefully upon Hot;.* wo Ukymouk, I’IIBSIDENT OP THE UNITED IVi'AT”::. Seymour and Bla* I.ATSCE RVTIIWASiON J 'VO AT I ETUI,E ii pm, pa.—Riwgmr- nr it on uewter CT.YMER AND OTf'-’US. l^pccia 1 to (lie New 5 ork World. Bethokuem, August 2.—A large aud en thusiastic meeting for Seymour and Blair ' was behl here Balm day afternoon ami evening. Addresses in English were de livered by the lion. I !<•;«*,.y* < hyihi r, John D. Stiles, Davi * a nil others; and in German bv the editor of the New York BttmU Veitvno and others. The Old TeuUi Legion, always Democratic, is good for a largely Increased majority. R. AT. ANOTHER ACCOUNT. / On Saturday, the Ist itist., the Le!i* h County Democracy, join' and by tunny of As friends and neighbors from North, mptoj, had a great ratification rally in the neigh borhood of Bethlehem. The sneaking”in English and German commenced at 1, p. m., and lasted with little interruption rdl 11, p. m. The greatest enthusiasm prevail ed throughout. Toward night the journey men from the neighboring iron and. zinc works appeared en masse and heightened the general zest and animation of the vast assemblage. Messrs. Heistcr Olymer, Sena tor Davis, Fox, Matvey, J Id born and others spoke in English, and Herman ‘ tSchroeder, of New York, Dr. Warner, of Berks emv ty, end Mr. Ruhl, of Allentown, in Germ Lehigh and Northampton expect to incre thru-list,al Dtaiiwecatic majority i-> !.u>;, , I( ,i 1,500 votes, being good for 5,500 next (Special Dispatch to the Worlb. EKEVT MEETING IN ((SYRACUSE —SUEEOHES BY HENRY C. MURPHY, JUDGE COMSTOCK, SANFORD E. CHURCH, FRANCIS E. KIER NAN AND OTHERS—UNPARALLELED EN THUSIASM. Syracuse, August 4.—The Democracy of this city held this evening (lie largest and most enthusiastie political meeting ever held in this vicinity It was under the aus pices of the Onnndaga Association, a*Kl proved a wonderful success, as it. was the spontaneous outburst of the people n> ar the birthplace of our standard bearer, Horatio .veymour. 1 hero were bonfir.y.s, cannon tiring, music, fireworks, 1 orej|fight, proces sions and enthusiasm unparalleled in Con teal New York. Prominent changes are taking place ii• this v)< i*• •t v, and everything indicates that, this Kadieoi stronghold wifi bo redeemed fov Bcymotir and Blair. The meeting broke up at a late hour, and the enthusiasm still continues; a large crowd called on Hon. A. ,T. Rogers, stopping at the Vanderbilt House, and serenaded him, ivho came forward, acknowledged the compli ment, and predicted beyond doubt that, this State would give Seymour and Bair no less than 75,000 majority and they would be triumphantly elected, ' N. C. i Correwpondmice of (lie World. RATTFIOATTON MEETING AT SARATOGA SPEECHES BY HON. O. T. CURTIS AND OTHERS. Saratoga, July fit, 18(58.—-A large and enthusiastic meeting of the friends of Sey mour and Blair was convened at the Union Hotel at nine last evening. This was the second grand ratification of the people’s ticket, and was under the auspices of the Third Ward Democratic (Hub,oi whicirthe Hon. John H. White, President of tin village, is chairman. The band, urromidn. with torch bearers, arrived at the stand amid the booming of guns and (lie <*r, ■i. enthusiasm of the assembled tnukiludc The dense mass extended from lie* Union ffnito across Broadway to the Congress Hotel, opposite. Deafening cheers were given for Seymour and Blair, and Hire meet ing ad journed at 11:30, with repeated cheer for the Democracy and a reunion ot di late United Htales Old Saratoga county will poll a lar . majority for Seymour and Biair. [Slirci.il Dispatch to the Worlff. GREAT MEETING IN PORTLAND.—SUKEGIIKS BY HONS. BION BRADBURY, TANARUS;. o. PERRIN, OF NEW YORK, AND OH! I.RS. Portland, Me., August I. —The Seymour and Blair ratification in tins div to-night was one of the greatest political demon, i ra tions ever seen In the land of sunrise. Al 7 o’clock a splendid banner w;i ; vuu out in front of the Democratic quarters, amidst music, and the huzza:: of the great crowd assembled. The gathering was addressed briefly by Hon. William L. I’utnam, and it then marched to the office of the Itiaslcrn Argus, where another splendid banner wn> thrown to the breeze, with a display of tire works, and the multitude were nddr. ->1 by Colonel Joint M. Adams, editor oi that paper. The people then filled to stiff- -cation the spacious new Cily Hall, where the prin cipal meeting was organized. A large delegation of soldiers front Fort Leaven worth ut;.relied down to the democrat ic rutilieaiioii meeting at Leavenworth, and one of their number addressed the meeting, en dorsing Seymour and Klair. A soldier of the Third New York Artillery, who is at present engaged in selling campaign badge*, informs the Syracuse Covrter that the Seymour badges go like hot cakes, but that Ire. is unable to dispose of his Grant badges. lu Jamcsville, Wednesday, he wild 341 Seymour badges and not a siugle one o’t Grant, although he wits profusely covered with both kitjtlf. *h the ears between Cortland and SyrWcnse he sold twenty-seven Sevruour and only two Grant badges.— N. T. World.
