The daily gazette., 1880-05-06

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G. Fl. RICHARDS. Chairman,
GsoRGErowN, Del, April ~. 1885,
IN ANOTHER COLUMN we publish
a letter from Mr.. Long, leader of
what is called the Greenback party
in Delaware, in reply to Mr.. Samuel
Townsend's letter declining to ac-
cept the nomination as Representa-
tive to Congress, of the Green
hackers. We do not know Mr..
Long; but presuming that he was a
unit of the Democratic party, and
hoping that we may induce him to
return to cast his vote with that
party again, we publish his reply.
Were it not for this hope we should
not permit his remark, although he
quoted it from another, that Gen.
Jackson was a tyrant" to go into the
GAZETTE.
OF course Gen. Jackson had ene-
mics in the Wing party, and with
some temperaments political oppo-
sition becomes personal animosity.
This is true and pity it's It's true"
We hope no controversy will grow
out of this reply, since Mr.. Town
send can well afford to rest upon
what he has said, and both John c..
Calhoun and General jackson sleep
in honored graves that should not
be approached by those who admire
liberty, learning and law, and great
ness and goodness, without a feeling
of reverence and awe. The action
perhaps that most adorns General
Jackson's life, was that at New
Orleans wherein he appears in Court
with hat in hand obedient to the
mandate of a Civil Court Judge,
and not only submits to the fine i'm
posed for declaring martial law, but
pays the fine himself while he pro-
tects the Judge in his acts. We
may search through the whole
records of the late war for such
sublime submission to law as Gen.
Jackson, surrounded by an immense
and admiring army, made at New
Orleans. This act alone is enough
to stamp out the charge that he
was n tyrant and none but liars will
dare to use it. His declaration of
martial law and his fearless attack
upon the English in December saved
the city of New Orleans from those
who were boasting that they would
possess its "beauty and its booty"
and never was duty and loyalty to
liberty better illustrated than on
this occasion by this great soldier
and greater civilian. Such greatness
is Just what We need in this age.
We do not enter this controversy
nor do we wish to entertain any by
these gentlemen in the GAZETTE
We prefer to look upon the Green
back party as a thing of the past.
There is no opposition to the use of
the name to designate a peculiar
piece of paper, which all acknow-
ledge is as good as silver or gold, SO
long as there is silver and gold in the
treasury to redeem them rs fast us
they are presented. But we may
say to Mr.. Long that we heard a
very respectable gentleman, citi-
zen and man who had reared a
family to the faith of the Republican
party, declare that General Wash.
ington was rough old tyrant
that he was no soldier, and was the
cause of the death of many men
for the want of military knowledge, y
and this man pretended to be a
reader Of history, and to give trI.
dictionary authority for what he said
OF course we did not presume to
raise a question with such man OF
to say more than give an unqualified
dissent to such language. 1t would
be folly to argue with man who So
himself up as a judge and to decide
adversely to such men as Thomas
Jefferson, John Adams, Patrick
Henry, Benjamin Franklin, and John
Hancock, Lafayette, Kosciusko,
and Gen. Lincoln.
Gen. Jackson had his enemies
among the Wings; but they were
not more obnoxious to the masses OF
the people than were the Tory
enemies Of the Father Of his Coun
fry. We regret that any American
be his politics what they may
should utter sentiments derogatory
to either.