The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1878-08-15
GREENBACK CLUB.
Resolutions Adopted by the Green
back Club Of Pulaski, Tenn,
Aug. 5, 1878.

ReSolred, That we affirm and pledge
ourselves to support the platform and
principles of the National Green
back party in substance, as follows:
l. 1t is the exclusive function of the
General Government to coin and create
money and regulate its value, and the
circulating medium, whether of metal
or paper, should be stamped by the gov
ernment and made Il full legal tender
for all debts, duties and customs in the
United States at its stamped value. All
National Bank paper should be at once
retired and the National Bank Acts re-
pealed.
?. There should be no privileged class
of creditors official salaries, bonds, and
all other debts and obligations, public
and private, should be discharged in the
legal tender money of the United States,
strictly according to the stipulations of
the laws under which they were con-
tracted.
3. The bonds of the United States
should be called in and paid off in legal
tender money, until the circulating me-
dunn amounts to fifteen hundred mil
lions of dollars, adequate TO the full
employment of labor, the equitable dis
tribution of its products and the re-
quirements of business, enterprise
and industry of the country. The min
imum and maximum circulation should
be regulated by wise and equitable laws,
not wholly in the interest of the bond
holder as heretofore, but also that the
labOrlng classes may have a chance to
live.
4. Government bonds and money
should be taxed precisely as other prop
erty, and compelled 10 bear tn cir just
share of the burdens in support of the
government.
5. The public lands are the common
property of the whole people and should
be reserved for actual settlers.
6. All useless offices should be abol-
ished and the most rigid economy en-
forced in every branch of the public SER
vice.
Z. We demand the free coinage of the
silver dollar and the repeal of the re-
sumption act.
s. We charge that the limiting the le-
gal tender quality of greenbacks, the
changing OF currency bonds into coin,
the demOnetiZatiOn of the silver dollar,
the excepting of bonds from taxation,
the contraction of the circulating medi-
um, and the proposed resumption of
specie payments were crimes against
the people well calculated to make
slaves of them.
9. With the records of the Republi-
can party and the Democratic party be-
fore us, we know that neither of them
will ever give us the free coinage of the
silver dollar, repeal the resumption act,
increase the currency, or remedy the
evils of which we complain. We charge
that the free coinage of silver and the
repeal of the resumption act, were both
defeated in the last session of Congress
by the votes of ten Democratic Senators,
and among them the leading Sen
ators Of that party in the South as well
as the North, to wit: Hill of Georgia,
Lamar of Mississippi, Bayard of Del
aware, Herman of New York, and six
others. For the truth of this charge we
appeal to the record. If these ten DEM |
Ocratic Senators had voted for these vital ]
measures of relief they would have
passed over all opposition.
10. With these facts before us we |
have no confidence that either of the |
old parties will ever carry out these |
measures ofrelief, and we cordially invite |
all who favor these views to cooperate |
with us, without regard to previous po |
litical ties, and perfect at once, state !
and national organizations, to elect such /
men only as will pledge themselves to /
do everything in their power to estab- /
lish these principles.
N. s. TOWNSEND, Pres.
ii NJ. GRIGsBY, Sec'y.