The Leavenworth weekly times. [volume] (Leavenworth, Kan.) 1870-1880, 1876-12-28
THE SILVER QUESTION.
A letter From fharIOw Weed. Com.
mendins the Passage OF VIZ. ke.-
Silver.

A letter From fhurlOw Weed. Com
mendinS the Passage OF VIZ. ke.
ley's BiII-Paymen; of tie Debt in
! Silver.
/; The following letter from Thurlow Weed
appears in the New York 7ri5uRe:
70 Ike Editor of he Tribune:
Sir-The passage yesterday by the House
of Representatives of Mr.. kelley's bill re-
storing to silver the legsl-tender character
BY nearly two-thirds majority il in the
highest degree cretitible to the intelligence
and patriotism of tie representatives of the
people. This emphatic action Of the House,
reversing what seemed TO b. its sentiment
upon the silver question At its frs. s.sion,
indicates = gratifying condition of public
sentiment and a commendable response to
that sentiment by one branch of the Ma
tional Legislature.
There Is reason to hope therefore, not
standing the persistent hostility Of the
leading journals OF our city, that gold and
silver will become the legal.tender, as il
has always been the constitutional curren-
cy, Of the government and people.
have listened attentively to all that has
bern said against restoring silver 10 the
monetary relations it has held since the
existence of the earliest forms Of human
government. / find nothing stronger or
better in support of what regard to be the
wrong eide OF this question than that the
Latin governments have discovered that
a double Iegal-tender standard is income
nieilt. To this question of inconvenience We
reply that, in accordance and harmony
with the governments OF the Old World,
silver and gold were made the legal-tender
currency Of our country. Daring the re-
cent war our government borrowed nearly
four thousand million dollars, promising in
the laws authorizing the loans payment Of
interest and principal in coin. Such being
the terms and tenor Of contract between the
borrower and the lender, it is not only in
convenient but constitutional to invalidate
the contract. Our national drbt is sufii-
GENTLY burdensome in all its aspects, but
have no words tn express my establishment
at finding leading New York journals earn
estly advocating policy which deprivss
Us OF 90 per cent. OF the legal tender ability
to meet the demands Of the national credi-
tor. This voluntary zeal to aggravate pc
cuniary embarrassmenis. from the pressure
OF which all our industrial interests are
suffering, reveals a new trait IN human
character.
II, in accordance with this idea, the Lat
in governments should discover that the
use Of cotton was inconvenient, and call
upon Us to unite with them in di-ccuraPing
its production, would the press urge Con-
gress to prohibit its expectation? And yet
hi. is precisely what Congress did do in
1873 BY demonstizing silver, and what the
pr 81 ia now doing in urging the Senate TO
reject and the President to vote bill which,
should it become Law, would insure an
early resumption OF specie payments and
restore prosperity and happiness to the
American people. I. W.
NEW YORK, Dec. Is, 1876.
THE Louisville Courier Journal has rot |
succeeded in firing the heart" OF the Breck-
inridge Ky Neus, and securing its sup
port for the "wah" to inaugurate Tilden. |
Says the Ners:
"No, l thank you don't want the mus
ket and hard-tack. Pass the buckwheat !
cakes and honey, please"