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Gov. Seymour On The Issues

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Day
4
Month
October
Year
1872
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Public Domain
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HORATIO Sí:vm.ii- luMrosaed his fellow oitizens at Utica, N: Y., on tho 19th uit., nul wo commend the following oxtracts f rom liis jjoech to tho Domoerats of Washtenaw, epecially to thoso who don't take kiudly to (ÏREEÏ-EÏ : Ste constnntly ftskod Ty our X'oliticftl opononta how JVütiocrats can support e Qrceley, wlio wns ro many yoorii opposod to them, and who luis friMiucntly violently assaileii their leaders and their organization. Now vt might parry thifl que tion by pointing to thu relationship (vhioh existed among tbe melnben of tho Republican i;u-t}-. AVo might remind 1 that lieretofore 'vhen wö huvo gonc ii:to : ' ander ouv -wn ohosèo li iders. tbey ha+e ddnonnóed us hl ' ■ keep alive an ■ ! to be opto the bní inturests ot oür coítutry ; irat iiow whon we u ;t Spiht of patriótica aro willing t: malte sacrifico of foolng, thcy reproaob os, Bayiug that wc are acíini? inc ■ nitfa (he; tv&ditionM oi H great party. Ñow I do not.suppóso '. give avüI satisty .vi, .-) are thns arrayed ngainst us, but i propose ■■ meel tías question fu 11 y and fairly fci the purpone of vindicating nductinthi eyes of the people of onr oonntry, and more than that, tor the purpi ■ fying ourselves in pur lint ivu ;ir. BCtingOtthistliño for th(: puii ose of roinoting tho best in■ '}' WH1 11 1 riiKT flIlEELET. 1 adinit if ouv only object in supportng Mr. Qrecley waa to g.iin a political: victory with the ordinaiy odv;intage wiii.'.i follow it, wo shotlld bo aoting inconsistently. I admit if it was a mere i of political Btrategy it would be unworthy of ns; but íí on tho other nn], thft condition of the country is such tbat it tlein 6tn ns a sa('rifi!o of prido, . and feeling, then it ís an 1OHOI ■ to lay uil theso thingS ip ii the altar of our country. (Api X(,v,-, in considering this subect I certainly can bo govorncd by no al inoüTíp, by no personal predi:. My rclationshipa to Mr. Uroon of ,i fticndly oharactor. JL - . sharp politica! opponent uil my life ]iin, and I can only njj before you iiow and urgoyou to voto fot him as President of tho United itates becanse ! fee) myself called upoii as ono thnt would suWst'rvoyourinterosts, as one that would advanco tlio intereats of hi.s oonntry, to lay aside my natural ■ ido iny passions, to stand horo to-d;iy tu urge you to that na it my duty. (ApI no porsorial inturcourse with Mr. Orcoluy. I nevor oxpoci re any. THE B1HOHAMPT0S BOOSBAOKi I Iniow it luts been said thal at an eafy day his noiuination was coutemplated by mysolí', and some vtry imaginativo gcntk'incn living in the southern portiou of this State hfxvo ürauscd themsólves with niaking up affidavits to prove that uit nouiination waa in some degrea brought about by my in terf erance. I don't kn these uien. I only knowthat when tiiey go before the pubic they don't stand upon tho stri'iigth of their own woids, but try to fortify theraselveá by aflidavits, which ia ns much as saying that they wonldn t be bolievdd xinloss they had 3worn to it. Unfortunately Kfiiitlenien went so far as to undertako to say that tb. y could rcad Mr. Greeley's handwriting - (laughtEï) - and vered that Mr. Greeley had said he was in favor of penfuoning the rebel sollirrs, but upon uiore careful reauinr they found th;it they were only mistaken ter this effei t- tbat he said iu 1864 that Mr. Clia.-o ought to havo been nominated in■ I mysëlf. (Laughter.) You Eöe liuw mar the truth these gentlemen could come wben they undertóok it. (LattghPAKTI39 CORBTJPTED BY LOTTO POWEIU ííow, líKjkiiifí over the hiatory of govrnmonts we find that whonever a great w:ir luis been waged and whenever any people have been forced to make vast expenuitures thiit tbere follows froin therti a great many moral and iinancial evils. tlie expenditures of wars are always prot'use from the nature of things, and they are always loosely inadu from the necessities of tha oase. No war in history has coít more than that from which wo havo recently nerged. I do not proposo tó inquiro as to the neeessity of the full messure of these expenditures, becausë many might honestly diiTor on that pointi I will take thom as they stand, and for the time btñng will assume all these exponditures to have been necessary, but noue the less bas tle outlay of these vast sums told upon the business interests, hubits, and moral condition of tbo American people. , I need not teil you, the intelligent men of this portion of tlio State what rast ohange itwrougbt in all values, wliat v;ist difiérenos it mudo in the prico of everything you had to sellj and not only that, but a change also in your own tío habits. I need not at any lcngth teil you how those vvho happened ut that timo in official position found themnelves to bo controllers und directora of sums of money we had not droami-d of beiore in the conrso of financia! transactions. When the war cea sea then the party in pover always linda it an exceedingly difficult thing to go back tö the condition of affairt before it began, and these vast expenditures :ire protract-' ed from the interests of individúala and almost from the necessities of the partios ives. For a long period we umi in the lustory of all peoples after a grëat war that it is always neceeearjr for somo political changea to occur, so that the fin - ancial condition of the people may bo carried back to thnt which it had been in a state of peace, that the expendieres may be roduced to thot soale, that the1 burden may fall as Iittle ae possible upon the labor of the people. Ishall notspeak to j on te-day in any unbeeoming partisan spirit. On the contrary I will go so i'iir is to Ilústrate :ay ideas by what took place in the rnnks of the Democratie party. I want you to cocsider that I stand here with an earnest desire to .-ic-rvo your interests and the interests of the people of the whole country. I have bccome to old min. l owe very much to tho people of this State for their kiiultiess. I owe veiy much to the party to whioh I bi loug for its partlality to me, and I owo vei y much to my political opponents, although at times thoy may have n"'- tliingsof my oondnot and chnracter.'or perhupa entertaiucd harsli feelings towards me. Perhapi that is to be cx; in the heat of a political eam. For uil tbat 1 have experiencia b of conrtesy and kindness from th m !hat I should be less than a niaü when I contémplate all classes of my fcllow-citizens if I did not at this period of my lifo fooi a renewed désire to flb that which should be for -their good nnú the good of the whole country. Not, what did you fiiid to bo the state of laétfallr1 THE KEIOKM MOVEMBKT LAST FALI.. r ths irasl expendituros of the war in the City of New Vork, which wüf nder Damooratio government, you huva heard of t!n tcisdoinga there and the vast frauds v.'lsii'h were perpetratofl : you and that a body of men np io that t i i - 1 " without influenos, wlïq werö without abiiity to work out fortunes for ;i the ordinary punaits of lire, yètwho, wl great ontlays ,'n inflation of money took place, found themselVes snddi:nlr, era of enormous wealth, and hat temptation, and at me priblic plucderers, and it . they phould be driveu n (o pos heM. In the iution of that purpose we wished I ponishmi nt, í in ordï thnt il i r! thtiz oöioial plaetís, bftt so thftt they should .:■,. ,frér. Thcre was another t, that tl)6 public, growing mad ín its pursuit of wealth, and forgotüng all fhings in its admiratioa of men nined if. Bhauld be brought back to B of fruth, that holiesty and honor and fair dealing with poverty is more to be songht and comtnonded tl sii boundlcp vrealth gainod by unjust and

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