The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1879-01-23

payment Of all debts. But yet would,
to use Mr.. Tilden's phrase, "have got
ready to resume" and more or less invited
into cooperation with the government
the wise providence Of the business cir
cles of the country, and permitted the
| business necessities Of the country, with
its shaping hand, to disentangle the f.
nancial web which Republican states
manship had wound round and round
the great industries of the country until
q stood like the lion in the meshes. The
small operations of daily life, gradually
cutting mesh after mesh, would in due
| time, and with wise providence aud pa
tience, relieved the distress of the coun-
try, naturally and permanently. Sudden
resumption. in my view, cost the people
OF The country too much to be advocated.
should have preferred more of what the
doctors call the tentative process than the
| enormous physicking through which The
country has been put. No one can tell
the countless loss and sorrow through
which the people Of this country have
passed in this rapid resumption measure.
which can be compared TO nothing else
.han the Egyptian order to the Israelites
to make bricks without straw. Yet when
the hard pan has been reached, painful
Though the process may have been, it
does seem to me to be unwsc to 20 back
and, perchonce, have unwisely to travel
over the same ground again. | do not
think it wise for the Democracy at this
stage to act back the wheels OF resump.
ton. Let us rather now take advantage
OF whatever good may be found in it.
The past, with all its sorrows, it would
be as well with all might and main to-
put bravely behiud us, and look out to
the wide future before us. The truth is,
resumption will prove partial success
or failure before 1880. We, in our own
interests. whether Democrats or other.
wise, should wisely endeavor to make the
most of it, and the country hes right
to expect this much at our hands"
THE JACKSON DEMOCRACY.
Correspondent-"I believe, Governor.
you have always stood on the platform
of the Jackson Democracy"
Governor-"Ever, and l stand there
to-day. To my view, we should get back
there as fast as possible. The true Jack
son policy, us | apprehend it, is to olsen
tangle the business transactions of the
country from the legitimate financial
conduct of government affairs. To mix
the two things is unwarranted by the
constitution and dangerous to the last
degree. Why, does not everybody see.
from what has transpired before ms. that
the moment that the government becomes
involved in its financial operations with
those of the country at large, the mon
eyed men of the country and the great
industrial classes become involved in "an
irrepressible conflict" even more terrible
than that which the great New York
politician of u former day pressed upon
the attention of the country? The
moneyed men in their own interest en-
deavor to shape and control the financial
policy OF the country, more or less, as
the necessities of the case or the greed
OF the moneyed men might demand.
The industrial classes, at first uncon-
scious of control, CT patien: under it so
long as business prospers with them, as
soon rs reverses come-either arising
from the eXigeucies of the times or the
misshapen policy of the government, it
matters not-begiu to howl against the
undue coHtrol of the moneyed classes.
who In turn cry repudiation, until there
Is lcst confidence, general lookup of
current notes, and consequently universal
etagnaton in business. Tins, in attempt
ing to join that together which the con-
stitution has left apart, we erect dan
gerous propinquity of interests, which
must lead In the end to anarchy, actual
repudlauon, II not bloody revolution.
Inc jackson Democracy, on the contra
fy, puts the conduct of the financial
affairs of the business and industries of
Inc country at large in its own hands, to
expound and contract according to its
own necessities and the unccntrollable
laws OF trade, more or less variant in
different sections, and hence more or less
adapted to the wants and interests of
each section. The State Legislatures
Incorporated the banking institutions of
the country, which, in the enlightenment
OF the times, will only permit such vari
atlons from the common standard of
chartered privileges and requirements as
the special industries and necessities of
the case may demand and justify.
THE CAMPAIGN OF 1880.
$50 far as l can see," continued the
Governor, II do not recognize the neces-
sity just now of the Democratic party
taking on its back the responsibility OF
the financial question. The Republicans
as whole, have shaped out the financial
problem which they now claim is a sue
cess. Let us not neddle with it, but give
II fair chance of success. If they have
brought the country to death'e door in
achieying 1t, let us at least strive not to
make 1t au actual funeral, whereas it will
IN such an emergency become our funer-
al no less than theirs. Let us look attbe
permanent interest Of the whole country
end endeavOr whether we win or lose to
deserve we'll of the whole country.
am CnrvtncaA ra oa,, ,,,;.,i:.. 1OoO
II the Democratic party of the Union
will have done with men of expediency
| and learn to toe the mark suuarely and
fairly on established principles, and |
know no better school than the old-line
jackson Democracy Then let us nut
good, tfiisty man IN nomination. fearless.
| ly avow our principles, and show our
selves worthy of trust by being willing to
take defeat at the hands of the people
should they disapprove of our policy. 4
Constitutional rule, selfgoucrnmea and no
sectionahsm should be the sum and sub
stance of our platform. fitted to good
honorable, trusted and tried standard.
bearers, 1t matters not whether thev be
from the East or the West. have no
patience with an Eastern Democracy anu
Western Democracy, Northern Democ-
racy sud the Sout.' ern Democracy. 1t
is no Democracy at all that is not as wide
rs the whole country. Until we can find
an Eastern constitution and Western
constitution, or Northern or Southern
constitution of the United States, let us
have done with this sectional Democracy.
which means and ought to mean certain
defeat. ,s 10
Let us trust the people with the matter
and believe the sober second thought
/ of the nennla of this orrnnt count ~,