The daily gazette., 1875-09-15
WILMINGTON, Del, Sept. !, 1875

WILMINGTON, Del, sept. /, 1879,
Dear Sir:-I have Just received the let
ter of the Democratic Executive Com
mlttee of the State Of Maine of the Both
ultimo, asking me to address a mesting
at Bangor on the evening OF the llth IN
slant,
The invitation you tell me was ad /
dressed TO me at Cape May never re-
ceived.
My duties and engagements now are
such as will not permlt me to take from
them the weeks time it would require
to make the journey to and from Bangor
and deliver the desired address to your
people.
Although You are engaged in a can nvass
to fill State Offices only, recognize fully
how issues of national character must
enter into your discussions.
The crying need of o wise and lud
cious management OF our finances, and
the restoration of a stable currency ichich
shall be the standard Of rdlue IN the deal :
ings Of our people, and be of intrinsic rdl :
| lIe IA itself, is almost universally admit
| ted, and it would seam impossible that
| any honest, earnest and intelligent nd
| vocate Of n sound currency on the basis
| of gold and silver coin, shall be now vii
| ling to rely longer on the empty proml-
ses Of political party which has rc-el :
| ected and sustained Grant and his ad-
| ministration, and who, at the end of sew
en- years Of uncontrolled power and am
pie opportunity find the country in q
more embarrassed condition in every re-
| spect than it was in March 4, 1869.
The credit of the country and the bus
mess interests of the people are in nay
opinion exceedingly unsafe in the hands
/ Of an administration, which amid loud
1 a ~ xnnarA for fha hltn
honor have never taken one resolute
step for its protection; but on the con-
trary, tcithout wdrrdnt Of ldlr, and against
law, re-issued, in 1873, $28,000,0 900, OF
| legal tender" treasury notes, which nm
| der lac and a wise policy looking to d
return to specie payment had been re-
turned and cancelled" by the preceding
administration.
The bigoted and short-sighted folly Of
Mr.. Boutwells administration of the
Treasury Department lost golden opper-
tunities for resumption, afforded by ar
| over.howing treasury and active busi-
ness operations all over the country,
| and threw away fair chance of specie
payment in 1872.
The insubordinate and revolutionary
| action of the same party, led on by Az.
| torney General Hoar, resulted in the
| overthrow of its first deliberately ad.
verse decision to the legality Of legal
tender in paper by the Supreme Court
| Of the United STATES, at time when the
public was preparing to accommodate itf
| transactions to the Just and beniticent
results Of such decision.
Still later, witness the utterly false
unworthy and fraudulent measure, thE
fruit OF a caucus Of tricky politicians
passed last winter into law under tht
| title Of IAN act to resume specie pay.
ments in 1879" over which Morton, tht
rampant inhationist, and Sherman. tht
pseudo centractionist, chnckled AM
winked unblushingly in open Senate.
Must not all this convince any one, not
disposed to self-deception, that q returt
to specie payment and q sound system d
finance under the rule OF party led b.
Butler, Morton, Kelly, Logan and Sher
| man will be "dd kdlendds Gracds" an,
not sooner? 1t would seem incredible
that q party with such record and
history should have the cffrontery 4
present themselves to the American pe0
pie as the champions Of sound tinanG
and honest money.
We also now,witness sadly all over TIN
country paralysis Of commerce, manu-
factures and all branches Of industry
which in my belief is in great measur
caused by the unwise, unjust and de
structive policy pursued towards th
Southern States Of the Union by Presi
dent Grant and his associates, unde
whose influence the political control q
many Of those States has been handle
over to class OF profligate adventurel
whose many wrong doings have neve
been rebuked; but who, on the contra
. ry, have had the aid and countenance 3
the President and his party, even to til
, extent Of revolutionary and lawlea
, usurpation, civil and military. The fol
chile overthrow of the Legislature
Louisiana by Sheridan's dragoon's hay
Continued ON fourth page.)