The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1875-11-12
The State Organ Taken to Task.

The State Organ Taken to Task.
LEwisBURG, Tenn, Nov. 9Th, 1875.
To the Editor ofths Herald and Mail:
"The Chariot The Chariot, it's wheels
roll in fire." as the booming of Republi-
eau guns is heard shaking the Granite
hills of New England, stirring the coal
beds of Pennsylvania convulsing money
king New York, and rumbling all over
the shore Of Jersey until met in response
by the sullen, angry roar of the restless
sea- Not content with the ruin already
wrought, with the "clans of Culloden scat
tered in fight" all over the North and
West, we still find the "eighteen feet
horse man of the Nashville american
battering away at Senator Key, because
they said Senator Key fails, with all the
fear of the Lord before his eyes, to look
through the same spectacles, as does the
Trojan Horse of the american Office
The american modestly suggests the res
ignatisn of Senator Key, because not il
harmony with the Democracy on the
Bank question, and reads him a lecture
ex-cati edra in positive language, speak
ing for the whole Democratic party of the
State. What does the american mean?
Does it pretend to say that the Demo-
cratic party is now or ever has been a pa
per money party? Does it assert that the
Democratic party is now or ever has
been an endorser of the Greenback Legal
Tender Act of the Republican Admins
tratIon of President Lincoln? Does tht
american claim that no man is a Demo>
crat, who will not now yield to its dictum
of Initiation, bad faith, and subsequent
1narCial ruin? We fear not to assure
the NASHVILLE AMERICAN that Senator
Key does not stand alone among Demo
Gratis in his published views. kut what Of
that Democratic Resolution of last year?
VIII you ostracise Key, when the party
itself kicked it overheard by electing
Hon. Andrew johnson to the United
States Senate, over and above this very
declaration? If we are not misinformed
he late Senator occu"ied pretty much
the same position that Senator Key does
only probably a little more of the hard
money about him, and yet the NASHVILLE
AMERICAN did not rise to rebuke the great
cOmmoner for his financial views. 1t Is
too late to crack the whip over that Dem
Ocratic Convention; too late to call upon
Democratic principles, when the party IN
all its actions since that declaration has
studiously dIsregarded i in toto. The
election of Senator Johnson was a
signal overthrow of that Convention, and
any attempt now to ride down any man,
who NAV vet adhere to the traditions OF
pure Democracy, is, in the language OF
the AMERICAN, "a work of superogatiOn.
A paper money legal tender act is thor
oughly, wholly and altogether Anti~Dem0-
cratic. and no man can gainsay 1t. a
Local Legal Tender paper money
Think of it! A wild cat local paper, and
all of New Legal Tender And is Ghis
what you call Democracy? This be lntia-
ton with a double distilled vengeance.
| The United States takes up her bonds by
| issuing legal tenders-this stops interest
| The State of tennessee takes In her bonds
| by issuing State Treasury Warrants
! this also stops interest, and gives wonder
| full Banking facilities The cities like
| wise take up their bonds, and Issue IN
! their stead, Corporation scrip; the coun-
| ties, not to be behindhand IN the good
work, sweeps out their interest obhga-
! tons by paving over their desks, the in
| soiIabIp county warrant-all legal tender.
Just Local Legal Terders' in the Ian
| ruage Of the AMERICAN. and the days OF
| iubiIo am come for a fact" Of course, il
| Mr., Key stands in the way of this con
| summation with any old foolish conscIen-
tiuus scruples of right, he must be mod
estly, but emphatically r quested to re
! sign-'git" 1t matters not sthat every
| Democratic National Convention since
kingdom come has stood by hard money
this local legal tender thing is at last
! the ultimatum 1t matters not that every
| Democratic State save, two or three, and
| they were beaten dIsgraceiully on 1t, still
| Kew must be lectured for his folly IN run
ming his head against this! papal bull.
| Since Bill Aliens great speech wherein
| he proved gold as worthless tor money
| purposes as brass, iron or copper, unuI Il
| IS stamped BY GOvernmt nt,I have seen
/ nothing more ludicrOus or FOOLISH than
! his sane effort to bride the free Judg-
! IN Mt of United States enator ON "
| great and vital question of state policy
| The AMERICAN is beside ltselt-'m uct
! learning doth make II mai It has tor
| ever forg 1tten the first principles of Con
| stiuu ional Democracy, in It's thirst Tor
| place and power The Constitution new
| er gave Congress any power to make
| money. Legal tenders are not money
! they are promises to pay monty, and II
| YOU take up every bond Tomorrow by le-
| ral tenders you will give no relief to the
people, In the end these legal tender
| note must be paid, and be paid by taxa
| non at that There is no help for 1t exc
cept by Reputation, and / am not vii
| ling 20 believe the AMERICAN ready Tor
| that yet, but it will come to 1t by and by
! 6y the AMERICANS process we may, a.
| he expense of good faith, save few mil
lions in interest by doubling our legal
tenders to-day, and having them to meet
| hv taxation Tomorrow This is saving at
the spigot and simply turning the bung
loose. 1t is a fal.acy, a Iuinous delusIon,
and its ghost will haunt Geo. Ii. Pendle>
! II to his political grave. Never more
! fatal error crept into the Tiuds OF men
than that Of the old etfete John Law sys-
TEN Of basiug paper money upon the
property OF the country, and making II
! legal tender. Every nation had tued
that experiment, and failed. Laws the
orv run its course in four short years IN
France. viii men ever learn wisdom
from experienced mol Key is more than
half right, and the people will soon see
his white plume, and rally TO has Slde.
The people are tired of shams; they be
lieve in paying honest debts IN honest
mOuey-hard money or lts convertioie
equivalent. With StonewallJ Jackson they
stand when he says, What IS life without
honor2 degradation is worse than death;
In the South, where jackson lived, fought
and died, nothing is left us but honor
NAV the hand of him who would take that
from us by means of the necessities
which, God knows, presses hard upon us,
be palsied IN the unholy effort.
DELTA.
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