Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1880-07-31
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A Prominent Greenbacker De-
clares for Garfield & Arthur.
The Hon. 3. r. Parsons Makes a Forci-
bile Statement:of His Reasons
Therefor.

The Hon. 8. T. Parsons Makes Forci-
bile Statement:of His Reasons
Therefor.
To the Editor of the Post and Tribune.
tits we'll known that. from the birth
Of the Republican party until the spring
of 1878 supported and, to the utmost of
nv ability. lab0red to advance its inter-
ests. In the spring and fall OF 1878,
with many other lifelong Republicans, l
labored to advance the interests of the
National Greeuback party. Though my
views upon the financial policy of the
mast are not materially changed, vet
specie resumption and the universal
prosperity which has attended it have
happily disappointed hundreds of thous-
ands of those who looked upon resump-
ton with the gravest of apprehensiOns:
and since the financial suffering incl
dent to resumption has passed and the
country has entered upon an unparallel-
cd career of prosperity which no good
citizen can wish to disturb, and, as any
unnecessary or unjustifiable agitation
or legislation upon the financial ques-
ton. will, more than anything else, tend
to disturb the confidence of capitalists
and men of business In all those things
wherein confidence is necessary to con-
.tinued prOsperity, it appears to me, high
ly impolitic to continue to act with or
to aid in sustaining the life Of party
that has accomplished all the good it is
capable of, and can have no hopes for the
future unless such as may be kindled by
an alliance, with the lemOcratic party
as proposed in Maine.
What then can or ought to do but to
return to my allegiance to the Republl-
can party-a party whose record upon
everything (Other than questions OF IL
nance. which are now settled) is brilliant
and glorious?
To it every merican citizen is indebt-
ed for country, for 2 government, and
for a flag that floats in honor and in
triumph "over the land and over the sea
in every nation under the whole
To it under God we are indebted fora
nation freed from the whitening, blight
ing scOurge of slavery.
To it we are indebted as people and
as a nation for all that we hope to be in
the future.s -
But every laurel and every diamond in
its crown Of glory has been won by fierce
and hard fought; battles with thesDemO-
cratic party, whose history is one OF shame
and whose record has been long con-
tinued libel upon the civilization of the
age. 49,. = q,
/ have not the time and cannot tres
pass upon your space by attempting to
paint it's crimes, but in the coming CAM
paign, 80 far as my ability will admit, /
shall endeavOr to arraign this party be-
fore the bar of public opinion, and l hope
and expect to see it convicted and con-
demned. lElAsst 8
l have never seen a man steal the
livery of heaven to serve the devil in
who did not in time receive his just
punishment. i once heard man in
church on abbath morning pray in
loud voice with great apparent earnest
ness that God would search out the
thieves that infested the country and
bring them to speedy justice. He. his
father, and two younger brothers were
that night caught while in the act of
removing to place of safety four loads
of goods they had previously stolen. The
hypOcrite was given fifteen years i'm
states prison, while his father received
but four, and the brothers but two each.
When the Democratic party undertook
to steal Greeley for the purpose of get
ting into power and serving its master,
the south, it received just such punish
ment as human wisdom and human ex-
perience predicted it would. but 1t seems
that that the Democratic party cannot,
from experience, acquire wisdom. 1t
has now undertaken to steal Hancock
for the same reasons that it undertook to
steal Greeley, and its fate will be the
same or more. ~ S.'H US PARSONS.
DETROIT, July IL, 1880.