, 1879-05-01
OUR WASHINGTON LETTER.
WASHINGTON d. c., April Il, 1879.

age business man, though Il Demo-
crat, even Bourbon of the most hide
bound persuasion, can be brought to
approve the evident tendency among
their Representatives, here to strike
hands with the Greenback incendi'
aries in a wanton attempt to reopen
the Pandora box of imitation, whose
evils all were fast coming to believe
had been escaped by assumptions
and remand US to the uncertainties,
disquiet and disaster that character.
lied the five or six years immediate
ly preceding the formal redemption
ton of it's pledges by Government
on Jan. l, 1879. A knowledge of
the intrigues and dickering to brings
to bring about united assault on
the national credit and break down
the Government in its efforts to make
resumption a success in the widest
acoeptation of the term by Democrat
and Greenback Congressman, had
been confined to very few outside
those most Immediately concerned
until within the past few days. At
least public attention has been so abb
sorbed in the political struggle in
progress at the Capitol that the COM
binations going quietly on for the
purpose named, had escaped the par
ticular notice that had otherwise
been bestowed on them days ago.
And from the action of the Demo.
cratic caucus Wednesday evening
and the character of the resolutions
then adopted, it would appear that
large portion of that party's Repre-
sentatives here have as little capacity
for learning aught by experience as
the most purblind and bull-headed
of their predecessors. The political
resolutions adopted gave the lie so
direct to all they have done or sought
to accomplish since Lee promised
their submission to laws IA years
ago, that no man with sufficient iu-
telligence to have kept himself in
formed as to the spirit Of the factious
and disloyal course pursued by ma
jority Of their leaders since, will be
for one moment deceived by their
assembling and false pretenses.
The nature of the financial resolve
adopted confirms the now almost
uniform belief that the managers
have deliberately sold out to little
handful Of accidental Grsenback
Congressman in the present House
in matters financial, in consideration
of their cooperation in matters polit-
ical. 1t is an alliance that can be
regarded in no other light than
standing menace to everything really
and truly Republican in our form of
Government, and as threat to force
it squarely back on its honest and
honorable record with its creditors
heretofore, and drive it into the in
iquity of repudiation-to turn it over
to the joint direction of the fealtists
and the communists; to install on
the quarterback of the Ship of State
such lunatics as Ewing and Murch,
and such ranting fannel.mouthed
demagogues as Kearney and Schurtz,
leading their batallions Of hoodlum
ragmuffins. Every new develop
ment since the first hour of this ses-
sion has shown that Backburn's
bombastic announcement Of his par
tvs purpose not to stay its hand till
every vestige of the war and recon-
struction Legislation is wiped from
the statute books and the Govern
ment is restored as near as may be
to the position it occupied at the
close of Buchanan's administration,
was truthful statement of tie least
offensive and most conservative part
of the Democratic programme which
it has been voted repeatedly to ad-
here to the very letter Claiming
no exceptional gift'of prophet, be.
lieve my correspondence will bear
me out in saying that have repeat
ed the warning over and over that this
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