The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1884-06-18
Buffers Letter.

Buffers Letter.
New York, Tin res spouse to
formal announcement OF his nOm-
ination by the Greenbaek-LabOr
national convention, General Butler
says:
LOWELL, MASS, June 18th.
GENTLEMEN OF THE COMMITTEE:
1 received at your hands the Afi-
cial announcement of the action
taken by the convention at Indian
apolis with deep sensibility. In the
ordinary course of political events,
the choice Of convent on of
representative men from any
considerable portion Of my
fellow citizens, according to me
this the highest honor they can con-
fer, would call for a grateful &C
knowledgement; even though it
night be selection to represent the
thought Of such a convention upon
questions which commonly decide
political parties; views upon such
questions may have been inherited
or be an outgrowth of measures
of administration. The great ques~
tions you present are higher and
grander than any mere political
measure. Nearly a quarter of
century ago when the very exist
snce of the republic and the estab-
lishment of q Democratic repre-.
sentative government hung tremb>
ling upon tile issue of the greatest
civil war the world has ever known,
by the wisdom born Of an
imperious necessity, q fnsn
cial sys EN- sprung from the
patriotic impulse to save the ma
tons life, and rescue the hope of
free institutions for all men from
going down forever in darkness and
death, was devised by the great and
good men OF that day, to whose care
a Republican government, to be
administered for the people, and by
the people, had been confded. That
system of finance for a free people
IN its infancy saved the life Of a ma
ton, perishing without iG, and broke
the chains, which enslaved four
million men. 1t gave to this coun.
try, war raging, a prosperity it had
never known. 1t enabled the peO-
pie to assess upon themselves and pay
taxes to an extent before unknown |
in any country. It made it possible |
for the government to repay three !
fold all the loans it had received |
from any creditor, or gave to him a |
security more profitable and stable |
than have ever been issued by any |
power IN the world and made the |
financial system of our governments |
at once the envy and admiration of |
all men. This was done by legal |
tender currency; while questions as
to its stability were raised by the |
form of the legislation which it was |
enacted, and while still graver
doubts prevailed in the minds of
many wise and patriotic men as to |
whether a legal tender currency in
expensive III fact-resting not on
the intrinsic value OF the m aterial on
which it was cOined-was wi hin
the constitutional competency and
power of the legislative branches Of
the government; that question hav-
ing been three times submitted to
,he Supreme Court of the United
States-the very highest tribunal
IF Constitutional construction-wss
It last decided in the affirmative,
Yithsuch unanimity that there could
lot possibly be any reasonable doubt
'gainst ii. The purpose of your
and of those who
bought and acted with you was to
Import and sustain this money as
he currency of the people. This ,
'eOples currency you will remember
vas designated by its friends by the
'et name OF the "greenback." Two
ears ago, 1 did myself the honor to {
ay that that currency Sd COM
nended by the merit Of is great
eeds, wrought for the peoples
afety and prosperity, enacted by
be highest legislative power, adju-
icated by such a couIt, aud with
be decision about to be resffirm ed
vas an accomplished fact, now,
ever again to be disturbed or
ouOied; 50 that its friends might
yell say: "See the end of our I
sbors in this regard has come"
0 let us rejoice, let those who aided
q this great work press on to deal
nth equally important unsettled
nd necessary measule s for the well
are Of the whole people. The legal :
enter having become the very
oundation of, az well as a mf asure
value, .ntertwined with all the
usiness Of the people, the engine of :
ne prosperity of the nation, it l
serns to me almost an act of cruelty :
} again disturb, au-elessly, finsn-
Ial question which has been so set
rest with the assent OF sill good
leu, as much as question of right
a man to hold his brother man in d
avery; Therefore l said: 81 AIN glad q
rat that q 'lestiOn has no longer a G
art in pontical nnsideratiop, and .
,atesmanship may now turn {
ON it as the country has .
armed from questions o. slavery :
nd war" Bat alas the power of
De darkness of error, the ie.urrec =
onists Of false 1deas.of the dead :.
asst have dug up the remains OF
1ntentiOa from peaceful graves
here they slept, and threaten oy a
shash of exploded resolutions, for