The comet. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1877-1882, 1879-05-17
A VOICE FROM THE GREENBACK
MEAD-CENTRE.
General Reuben Davis ON Financial
Reform.
ABERDEEN, MISS, May 7, 1879.

ABERDEEN, MISS, May 7, 1879.
= To the Editor Of the Comet:
Dear SSr-Although our personal rel
tions have been to some extent limi
ed, have all the while entertaine
sentiments of high regard for you. am
patron of your paper, and the main objet
which influenced my subscription was on at
count of the cordial recognition receive
at your hands at the time when I waa bein
bounded down and mercilessly denounce
by many of my old acquaintance fo
opinions sake-yes, 1 might say for th
sake of cherished opinion, which inhu
erced me to lend my humble ability in be
half of the financial relief of the country
MS honestly think, concerning which yo'
| and the greater portion of the Democratic
press now seem to be trying to harmonize
I am ever gratifed to have it in my powel
to honor civi]ity whenever or wherever ten
dered, and am sure that smile from
gentleman of your culture and magma,
nimity is at all times acceptable and giver
under the circumstances to which I allude,
impressed me with the kindest emotions
as might not haye been disappointed with
more than bare recognition of genteel
urbanity. Your playful display of undis
guised friendship had much to do, assure
you, in tempering storm of merited in
dignation harbored by me towards others of
your profession, who have and still con-
tinue to deal harshly and unjustly toward
me. Being sensitive, and ready to resent
an injury, I am equally quick to forget, and
under no circumstances lose sight of a
kindness. In addressing you this letter, my
chief desire is to thank you for your cour-
tesy, and at the same time, with your per-
mission, put my position, and that of my
friends who acted with me last fall, fairly
before the people of the State, and to vim
dicate the same as best I might be able in
so short communication, from the view
presented in your reply to contribution
in yours of the Sd inst, signed 'Peep."
Your caption embodies, in my Judgment,
a grave interrogotary: els there any ne
cessity for Greenback party?" This
question you proceed to answer sin glitter
ing generaities," the result, I suppose, of
a caucus composed of forty members of
Congress, including six from this State, re-
Gently held in Washington. You SO far have
failed to formulate any system of your own,
neither have you presented any particular
system as being put forth by the Dem>
ocratic party-State or National. On the
other hand, you rather seem to be content
with charging the sireship of the present
ruinous system on the Republican party,
hoping, as suppose to elude public scru-
tiny from inquiring into the legitimacy of
any paticular system of your own party.
With this artful dodge conspicuously dis
played in all your articles on the money
question, you assert that the several Demo-
cratic Conventions have dissented from
the Republican financial system; but you
sigually fail to show wherein the Democrats
present one widely differing or materially
better
You charge that ''the truth is and the re-
cords will show it, that the substitution of
he currency clause for the coin bonds, the
of silver, the exemption of
ponds from taxation, the contraction of the
and the premature resumption of
specie payments, were all Republican
measures, and passed by a Republican |
congress. This is all so, and the kepub-
ican party, true to its principles, has had
he manhood to battle for each and every |
During all this time of legisla-
i've enslavement were there no Democrats
n Congress? and if so, what were they do
ng? Did they present an opposing sys-
EN-? 1t is time few of them voted
gainst some of these fearfully oppressive
measures, which were intended to aggran-
ize the rich and enslave the poor. But
my recollection serves me correctly, not
single Democrat raised his voice against
he demonetization of silver. One thing
now to be certain, at the time the bill pass
Congress, Lamar, Bayard, Tilden, and
ost of other prominent leaders favored its
assage, and to this hour have given no sat
,factory evidence of their disapproval.
In order to refresh your memory on the
uestion of Democratic tealty on these
bominable bills, apprehend scarcely |
eed do more than cite your attention to
le National Convention which nominated {
'ilden and Hendricks in 1876. Among ,
ther hard money or gold heresies promul~ I
ated and endorsed in that memorable con- {
lave, the foil )wing is conspicuous. "We i
enounce the failure of all these eleven q
ears of peace to make good the promises
f the legal tender notes which are chang
lg standard of value in the hands of the
eople, the non-payment of which is dis
,gard of the plighted faith of the nation"
The foregoing resolution, embodies, it :
,ems to me, enough of metallic ring to {
ave appeased the morbid appetite of the {
reediest bondholder in the nation. Not so q
owever, as the following couplet of i'm .
assioned appeal will show: Q
"We denounce the financial imbecility i
I that party which during the eleven years ?
peace has made no advance towards re- C
lmption, no preparation for resumption, g
ut instead has obstructed resumption" c
With the foregoing evidences of othodox
,undness on the specie standard, are you h
repaired to deny the fact that the great l