Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1879-04-18
OUR wAsmINGTONLETTER.

WAsHINoToN. d. g., April IL, 1879.
II appears unlikely that the average
business man, though a Democrat, even
Bourbon Of the most hidebound persuasion,
can be brought TO approve the evident ten.
dency among their Representatives here to
strike hands with the Greenback incendia-
ries in a wanton attempt to reopen the
Pandora box OF imitation, whose evils all
were fast coming to believe had been es-
capped by resumption, and remand us to
the uncertainty, disquiet ana disaster that
characterized the five or six years immedi-
,tely preceding the formal redemption OF
! q pledges hy Government on January 1st,
1879. a knowledge Of the inlrigues and
dickeringS to bring about united assault
on the national credit and break down the
Government in its efforts o make resump-
tion a stccess in the widest acceptance OF
the tern by Democratic and Greenbpck
CongrcsSnen, had been confined TO very
few outsile those most Immediately con-
cerned until within the past few days.
sorbed in the political struggle in progress
at the CAPITOL, that the combinations go
ing quietl! on for the purpose named, had
escaped tie particular notice that had 9th
erwise been bestowed on them days ago.
And from the action of the Democratic
caucus Wednesday evening, and the char
acter of the resolutions then adopted, il
would appear that a large portion Of that
party's Representatives here have as little
capacity for learning aught by experience
as the most purbhnd and bull headed of
their predecessors. The political resolu-
tions adopted gave the lie so direct to all
they have done or sought to accomplish
since Lee promised their submission to the
laws II years ago, that no man with sulli-
cient intelligence to have kept himself IN
formed ns to the spirit of the faclious and
disloyal course pursued by ma aiori'y Of
their leaders since, will be for one moment
deceived by their assembling and false
pretenses. The nature of the financial re-
solve adopted confirms the now almost uni
form belief that the managers have delib-
ately sold out to the little handful Of acci-
dental GTeenback Congressman in the pres.
ent House in matters financial, in consid-
eratiOn OF their cooperation in matters
political. 1t is an alliance that can be-
garded in no other light than ns standing
menace to everything really and truly Re-
publican in our form of Government, and
as a threat to force il squarely back on its
honest and honorable record with its cred
tors heretofore, and drive it into the iniq.
| uity of repudiatiou-iO tnrn it over to the
! Joint direction of the fiatists and the COM
munists; 10 install on the quarter deck of
he Ship Of State such lunatics as Ewing
and Murch, and such ranting flannel
monthed demagogues as KearDey and
| Schwab, leading their batalliOns of hoDd-
lum rag mullins. Every new development
since the first hour OF this session has
shown that Blackburn's bombastic an.
nouncement oil his party's purpose not TO
stay its hand till every vestige of the war
and reconstruction legislation is wiped
| from the statute books and the Government
is restored rs near as may be to the position
it occupied at the close of Buchannan's s
administration, was a truthful statement
Of the least offensive and most conserva-
tive part OF the Democratic programme
which it has been voted repeatedly to ad-
here to to the very letter. Claiming no
exceptional gift az prophet, believe my
correspondence will bear me out in SAYING
that have repeated the warning over and
over that this was the objective point
aimed at. Aud now rs if inspired by the
lowest demon in the pit, Democracy openly
| filings aside the mask il has worn and an
nounces its tnrmal alliance with the repu-
diaIionists, the communist, the hood um-
with every worker OF mischief and iniquity,
| IN liz headlong race to restore the rel IN Of
caste, ignnrace, superstition and wide spread
| oppression. DEWITT.