The daily gazette., 1880-05-08
SECOND EDITION
For the Gazette.
Letter from SAINT Townsend.

MR.. G. P. JOHNSON IL send you a
lew lines, and think, as you do, it is un-
necessary to have any controversy with
Mr.. Long or the Sussex Greenback men,
for 1t is so thin and of SO little account
that it is not worth noticing;and would
not have done so in this case only 1 see
by last nights GAZETTE that Mr.. Long
has published letter, in which he
blows against the: ::bloated bondholders,
as he calls them. 1 therefore ask Mr..
Long what are the politics Of large
majority of these bondholders and
would-be privileged classP Mr.. Long
has not this class of men grown up
under the Republican acts and policies
OF the last twenty years? Have the
Democrats had the power in Congress
to change the laws or policy? Was not
Buchanan the last Democratic Presi-
dent, and did not his term expire on
the I'd of March, 1861, twenty years ago
next March? True, for the last two years
the Democrats have had Congress, but
the Republican President has held it in
check with the veto power. Therefore,
Mr.. Long, it is unjust to charge the
Democrats with being friends of the
very men you complain of-the bloated
oondhotders-tor they are certainly Re-
publicans, and they have given you Sus-
sex Greenbackers so little offence that
you have had the hypocrisy to call your
State Convention at Dover the same
day, the 9th of May; and then for you
fellows to offer me the cheap immortali-
ty to come to that meeting and make a
spet ch, and accept your nomination.
Not calling you a devil or myself
Christ, l must confess your offer to me
puts me in mind of that passage where
i'll il states the devil took Christ I'D in
the mountains and offered him ali he
could see if he would only turn and be
one OF them. Now, il had been an
ambitious fool, and caught by your
cheap thunder, and gone TO Dover and
made speech, would have been COM
pelied to have told you that all your ills
aud grievances come from the Republl-
cans that you were that day holding a
partnership meeting that the Republi-
cans were the authors and responsible
for all the bloated bondholders and,
further, that they rushed in and forced
on you white Sussexians negro voters to
60 10 your ballot boxes and jostle and
crowd you white men around. You, l
thihk, was raised Democrat and took
letters to Governor, certifying you to
he good Democrat, and received an
appointment to office and in the year
1850 call State Convention to meet at
Dover the same day in conjunction with
the same party that is the real author
OF all the grievances you complain OF;
and then for you men to write to me that
l was the choice to head ali you invalids.
l thought was so well known in this
State that l of all others would have
been spared the proposed honor to
lead such a piebald set of politicians,
when you know that our Democratic
currency plank is gold and silver for
basis, and paper money that can at the
will Of the holder be converted into Ell
ther gold or silver. What is paper money
worth if you cannot buy at par value,
and you cannot get good greenbAck OF
paper money without having something
10 get it with. SO if you are opposed
to bloated bondbolders, as you call
them, change your tune and CT rse the
Republicans, and keep away from their
meetings and help your old. Democratic
friends, and when they get in power at
Washington it will come out all right,
and you eau look back at your folly of
the 9th Of May, 1880.
SAMUEL TOWNSEND.
Townsend, May 9Th, 1880,