The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1877-11-29
CORRESPONDENCE.
GENERAL JACKSON AND GnEENBACKs.

Mr.. EpIroR:-As am the only Democrat left to
defend Democracy, and You know. l was ruled out
of the Democratic party in this County. because OF
my devotion to the teachings of Old Hickory, and
because would not agree to .rnove the ancient land
marks would it not be well for those sapien gentle
meet again, and denounce all the teachings of
jackson, and then call themselves Tilden Democrats!
For, you see, '.Old Hickory is dead and his teach
ngs forgotten; but great and good Tilden still lives,
and his lege henehmen still be found in the Dem
ocratic and Republican ranks. Now, there was a
time in the history of the Democratic.party, when its
leaders, like the Rechabites of DID, held To the trad
tons of their fathers But, alas Tlicnism has chang
ed all this, and the putrd fumes of this ST. Louis
stencil the land. and the barrel organs are
still shouting for banks. and call it Jack ksonis. But
have that jackson not this kind of
'patrotr He was for .reenbaeks. and wanted pa
per money founded upon the credit of the Govern
ment and its revenues Now. which of yen would be
Democrats eonycit me of error, when say Jack
son greenbaek man, and held that .if Congress
have the power to regulate the currency, ras coa-
fTed 10 be ercrcsed By themselves, and not 10 be hs
Jerrrd 10 a corporation r. This Democracy once,
hut n fhe teaching Of greenbackers only True
jackson called gold and silver constitutional cur
rency because there were Sub Treasury bills or
greenbacks then in existence, and bank issues are
not money-were uneonstitutional-and he warred
against them throughout his administration. and
damned them in his farewell address, at its close.
After Jackson moved the deposits from the old
United States Bank the Senate passed resolution,
censuring said act and to this resolution Old Hickory
replied in protest both manly and masterlya paper
that will be turned TO and read with pride by true
hearted men as long the Republic shall endure.
And in that protest he said n this point Of the case
the question is distinctly presented whether the peo
pie of the United States to govern through repre-
sentatives chosen by their unbiased suffrage. or
whether the power and money of great corporation
TO he secretly exerted influence their jud ment
and control their decisions" This is the warning of
Old Hickory against this brood of yipers, who now
doing this very act and seeking by bribery 10 con-
troll the decisions of Congress Yes, and becoming
to raise money ~ to Sec tie y mambcrs % Of Congress be-
fore the session begins. Great God how long We
to bear this, before we-the People-eau shake off
nv ant fnnta h,pI -anl hn Ea
the Old Man of the Sea- sit enthroned the necks of
the people!
Again he says, in this protest $50 glaring were the
abuses and corruptions OF the bank evident its
ed purpose to persevere in them; and papable its
designs, by its money and power, to control the Gov
erment and change its character, that deemed it the
imperative duty of the Executive authority, by the
ertion of every power coded to it by the Constitu
ton and laws To check its career and lessen its ab
ty to do n,isehirf in the painful alternative of
dsmssins the head of one of the Departments And
this the way Democrats once talked yes glory he
to God! there was a time when men were honest and
true and conld he trusted. But that before the
Tildens. BelmOnts. and observation-disclosures and
money changers of the Eastcrawled ON board of the
old Democratic ship. at ST. Louis. and hauled down
the old flag and gave this pirates emblem, und er
which the old has been sold to the bondhoder.
But now Democracy is dead let us mourn for Democ-
duty again. They were mustered out at st. Louis
let them 90 III peace. But, should there ever be a
resurrection, the toads and lizzartls and creeping
things may he swept from the deck of the old craft.
and Democracy he itself again. But let us not wait
Tor this ihr tretnback party Is the only place Tor
a true Democrat or Republican.
But here let say. jackson not the author of
the greenback idea Thomas Jefferson, the father of
Democracy, WAS, and he it who first gave us the
true theory of finance. He saysrhat Treasury bills,
botOmed taxes, hearing not bearing interest.
may be found necessary, thrown into circulation icW
take The place Of much goh aud sHrer. Bd'ik paper
9,"s be suppressed, and Tie circulation restored 10 the
Nation, WHERE IT BELoSGs.--lLetter to Mr. Eppes,
Jctfersons Works. vol. 6.
Do you hear this you shoddyte crowd : Now con-
trast the above with the following Tidenism: The
Government has hut to make good its own promises,
and the banks WH take Of MeBscircs, without dis
tressng anybody. The Government is. therefore, the
only delinquent" just think of the old Democratic
ship flying such banner as this St Louis affair at
her masthead covered over with such strange devices
as this: banking done here Let pay the bond
holders gold interest and debt and gire them the pa
quens tax us tax us - The banks can take care
of themselves; they pay taxes. And this is called
Democracy! Democracy! May the Lord deliver us
from all such Democracy, now ana forever more |
Amen!
But it may he said, the Democratic party will
all this and repudiate the unnatural teachings of
Dorsheimer and Belmont, in time; and they may |
point to Ohio. example of what may he done in
its name But what evidence have that these
i'll Ohio any better than they years
ago, when working under the lead of the gallant Old |
Bill Allenl They fought the good fight then, but |
SUNK away like whipped spaniel; in the Presidential
Louis. And when the bond-hoding Shylocks shall
come again, they surely WILL at the next Oympad
AS Benton wOnld say-you will find these same men
shouting for Mcclellan. other shoddyite, and
calling it Democracy. and shouting for platform of
principles anything but Demoeraticyes,a and praying,
God save the bankers and bond-holders, and give
them rest; the poor work.
And thus history repeats itself | read, in the an
mails of Scotland, how the Scottish army sold
their king-Baliol, think it was-for groat each.
and We're afterward ashamed. But this is the first
instance now remember, of free people selling
themselves for less money, and Boosting of il. Would
TO God that these men had remembered the admOni-
tion of Old Hickory given in his sixth annual
sage, where he says: lit is fcryently TO be hoped
he'd lp hay nt.r
yored establishment of substitute for the present
bank Will be induced to abandon it, it is evidently
better to incur any Inconvenience that may be
ably expected, than to concentrate the rhoic money
porer cf The Republic, in any form, ichatsoerer under
ung restrictions" What think you COuld Old HEX
ory have joined this shoddyte party, and endorsed
its thousands of banks Lord, never And so neither
shall l. The living principles of Democracy, and all
that is good of Republicanism, found in the Inde
pendent Grcenbaek party; and so mote it be, and
say. Amen.
In my next, shall speak Of things they are and
how to remedy them Respectfully.
Is. ODRISCOLL.
DoSIPnAS KANSAS, Nov. Is, 1877.