The daily gazette., 1880-04-28
For the Gazette.
Letter from SAINT IOsOnsesd.

INK. IL. w. LONG - Dear Sir:-I
received your letter dated Georgetown,
10Th inst, saying was the unanim GUS
choice for Representative to Congress at
your conference of the 18th ins.., and
asking If 1 would accept. You have
failed, or forgotten, TO name the pa rty
In whose interest this conference of the
18th Inst. was held. But you state or
infer that you are deciples Of jackson,
Jefferson and Calhoun. The first two
named-sJackson and Jefferson-I agree
were models, and beacon lights for
Young America to pattern after but
the third-.Calhoun-and suppose you
mean j. @. Calhoun, of South Carolina.
II SO, you were very unfortun ate in
naming your trio, for the first named Of
the three. jackson, had TO threaten your
third named model, Calhoun, with the
choking sensations of the halter to
keep him in any decent line of political
conduct. Now, Mr.. Long, and all
those persons who may act with you, in
the formation Of third party, as you
state, TO reform abuses and purify De-
mocracy, IL tends 10 the direct opposite
effect, as 1t weakens and divides the
very party that was founded by Jeffer-
son and upheld by Jackson and others.
And does not Jefferson tell you the
price of liberty is eternal vigila, ce?
You know and know that great de-
signing rascals, for villianous selfish,
ends, will join and associate with the
Democratic party, and IL was toward
these men that Jefferson asked his hon.
est followers TO exercise eternal vigil
ance. The opposition to Democracy in
The United States is from the old, self
styled, blue-blood aristocrats, and fol-
lowers OF King George, Of England; and
the parties that have founded parties for
the last hundred years or more, down
to the present day, to oppose the poor
white man, both naive and foreign
born, and in my recollection they bad
become so incensed at foreign
white population, because, after
crossing = tempestuous ocean, TO
get clear of their home oppressors,
and when these men or a great ma
jority arrived here, they saw the DEM
ocratic party was the true party and
friend of the oppressed white man, and
therefore joined in and acted with if.
Then the opposition party of aristo-
Gratis, and would-be privileged classes
changed the name Of their party to
Native American, hoping to deceive
and divide the American people, to
vote for an amendment to the Consti-
tuition of the United States requiring
all foreign born wLite men to have q
residence of 81 years before they would
be allowed the right to vote. The op-
position to Democracy failing in this
daring prospective scheme, they
charged away at abolition until they
inflamed the people, and fomented civ
| IL war, and as soon as that was over,
turned around and Illegally enfran-
chised every negro in the land, to try
to hold on to power, and now in their
last act of desperation try to take up
and elect Grant for third term, thus
| ignoring the example of Washington,
Jefferson, jackson and others; and /
have no ambition for Office and have
told the public so through the columns
of the public papers for the last 30
years or more, and if had l would
hardly be natural fool enough to ac-
cept a nomination from faction
whose apparent object is to break
down the Democratic party that have
spent lifetime to help build up, and
l say to you MIR. Long and all your
friends, you can, for your cherished
jackson and jefferson principles do
much more in the Democratic party
than you can in new party. For, sup
posing you could start party of an
gels, you might as in heaven soon
have black angel and have to cast
him out. Respectfully.
SAMUEL TOWNSEND.
To wnsend, April 9th. 1880.