Lynchburg Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1829-185?, 1841-11-29
LETTER FROM MAI. JACK DOWNING.

w >suINGToN. 10Th Nov. 1871.
To the Editors ol the New York Exprcss-thc same
p'psru old friend MIR Dwight printed spell ago,
Mn. Eprons.-l tcl'd you IN my last letter that
Gaping Tyler had gone TO Nrgnny -and that whilst he
WAS gone, WAS 10 pat all the Bank plans into my fan
mug mill, and blow the chr0 of the cicur corn Wen.
this has been no t1u oi job tell you. for out Of
more than two bushc basket lnlI Of pL,s there amt
than about good double handful OF solid clear corn
lett
Gaping Tyler has now pol back FROM Nrpnnv and
when show II hmmy NHiHgs-"wcIl,' says he, MIA
lo, your mill has made short matter ont any how-bu
Is there EMU left ior seed ~
jest eNaclly,' says |, 'and if we can't raise cnu'
from this small parcel for all our purposes then I'm mis-
taken Now Mayor, says Captng Tyler. Il should
like 10 know your notions about this matter, for we have
20, all Other things IN good train except this pagy
ney mattcr-f only get that going riph, then we
can say 10 all creatondH tine fields planted and if
Providence smiles u.s. shall have good crops -
That Is fact says land II YOU will listen III tell
yon s,o,, in as st order as can The Gaping took
his seat and pnre MS right at me. and there
thine have particularly nolcod IL The tapiing, which
is The with mos, toks-auG that is, whichever
way his pnis II Is sartin sign that he oOhS TIT
way, 81 there ls no mistake about il.
Well. IN tbs first place wcsr,tlcd the business about
the origin I'll moH,y.-how and why ii invented
irs non money neat brass and copper moncy-ncX s
and gold money and how IN the process Of diouino
and mining, non money got out ut iashon,-ncNt brass
and copper money, aud IN England. even silver mo
ney, as legal tender y but upon the whole. as vet
that silver and gold are AT the present day moncy but
there telling how snon 10y science and digging that
even ON, OF h these metals may mot be found so album
dan as Ia MAXI them :"n common for constitutional mo
ncy or what folks call ,rHSlTCS Of raienSt as iron
or brassor copper have become ell that being settled
next examined into paper money, how that was in
venied-being representative of moncytha is, kind
o money that mol only represents gold aud silver, but
honses and farms and wheat aud pork and beef and
ships and merchandise and every thing else IN creation
called property.
Nov says l. Gaping Tyler, kccpy your noscto this
pint (ior said aiorc the Gaping carries both
his eyes and along with it. and the Captnn muse
is almighty nose, and the Duke WcIutun's is bu
ping Ia II now, |, lever since PAPER money
was invented by the great democratic pdrtg OF creation
who insisted that industry and property as rood and
should he represented as WELL as mere gold and silver
they begun war; between money ON one side and
property and industry the ohcr,-hat is money
wanted to get hold OF AS much property and industry rs
possible, and property and industry wanted get hold of
as much money possblctach of course trying to die
prcciate the other.
In this state of things" saws l. "what was and &c bo
true duty o Government, whose duty it is Ia prncc,
like heowners OF money aud the owncrs of property and
ndusry-(propcry and industry being one and the same
thing, for industry creates proWrty)P
Here we broke OIL as it was getting late and went 10
sleep upon II, and would advise folks generally To do the
same thing. providing they tik well over the matter
and understand ii, before reading further
Well. the next day turned To AGAIN. and went over
the whole matter As history and facts tell NJ ho, -,
one time when all snng and all branches otnIusfrv
was working along smoothly GorcW,ned took = notion
10 let folks manage their paper money aud broke
up the old balance whecl-and then how N,aic Ranks
aud States themselves all to work maxine an >tr
batch OF Bills and Bsnksan all kn1so
and all considered mnncy-and then of conrs, b,,
high property gotur land aud wheat and pork and ~,
Us and all will and must rise in price Just 81 far AS Won
cheaper money by making il too pcnty-and then how
Government got aarmd and issued Specie Crc,Is and
would mt take any kind Of money but hard mone,,and
snlasid away against all banks and paper money ma
koIs, bills bonds, notes and mortgages-and brnrht \
hnshel measure right down to quart pot calmo every
man rascday Spectator who got caught ON the wronp
side OF the ttncesa that good many folks who did moi
keep the run Of things like man who borrowed cc
nlaauary and agreed 10 pay it back in Aneust-hut oo
vernmcntiolkswhohcd fat Offices didn't feel this as much
their pay W. Tx same in Sod-and Of course the more
valuable gold became thcbcttcr for them Whv saws |
tsptng Tyler il you bring all kind of pyopciy down To
soland and silver and measure it by that standard al
and have no other kind ofmmcy. then say ivinr all
he property in the Union It's fair chance. YOU could with
one year Of your wages (Which YOU have pht to take
IN eoldf buy moro property han YOU could shake stick
at, NV Is that far AMI reasonable ii riullt and