Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1884-06-18
COY BENJAMIN B.
He Accepts the Greenback homin'
alton,
AS HE WAS EXPECTED TO DO
A Lengthy Document in Which the hassa'
chusetts Widow Bravely Shakes Her
Mourning Weeds.

New YoRE, June lin response 10 tee
formal announcement Of his nom nation by
the committee from the Greenback National
Convention, Gen Butler SAYS:
LOWELL Mass, Jnne II.
Gentlemen Of the Committee:
received at your hands the official an
nouncement Of the action Of the Convention
at Indiapolis with deep sensibiity. In the
ordinary course of political events the choice
of Convention Of representative men OF
any considerable portion of nv fellow c'ti-
zens according TO me this highest honor
they can confer, would call for grateful
Acknowledgement even though ! might be
selected TO represent the thoughts of such n
constituency on questions which commonly
divide political parties. The views upon
such questions may have been inherited or
an Outgrowth Of measures merely OF admin
is;ration. The great questions you present
are higher and grander than any mere
political measure. Nearly quarter of q
century ago when the very existence OF
Republican Institutions
and representative government hung
trembling upon the issue of the grcaies'
civil war the world ever knew or may ever
know. bv wisdom born of imperions neces'
sitv. a financial system springing from pa.
triotic IMPULSE TO save the nations life aad
rescue the hope of free institutions ior all
men from going down forever in darkness
and death was devised by great and good
men of that day TO whose care the RcPuo'l-
can government, 10 he administered Tor the
people and BY the people, had been con
hdcd. That system OF finance 10 tree people
in its infancy saved the life of nation per-
ishng without and broke the chains which
rnslaved four million men. II gave this
country while the wave was raging pros
rcrity il had never known IL enabled peo'
nlc TO assess upon themselves and pay taxes
of nm extent before unknown in any country
II made it possible for u government to re
pair
Three Fold
all il received in loans from any creditor
| or ravc to him security move prohtap't
| and stable than ever issued by any power
in the world and the financial system o
or government was at once envici and ad
| mircd by all men This was done y I
lrpal tender currency. While quGiSs:.''""ns o
,, its stability were raised TO every form o
ioo;s,o,,." by which it was enacted anc
while still grave doubts prevailed e.,,e.. in .n 'S'
minds or many wise ~" pauaone @ men n'en
whether the legal tender cur. .e"'! tue1
pcnsive in fact, resting not on '"'fi'isit
value of material OF which it was Coz"
was within the constitutional competency
and power Of the Legislative branches OF the
government That question having been
three times submitted to- the Supreme Court
Of the United States, the very highest tri'
bunal of constitutional construction was at
last decided in the affirmative with
such UnRnimity
rs only to show there might be no possible
reasonable doubt against it, The one
purpose of your organization and of those
who thought and acted with you although
it was to support and sustain this money, as
the currency of the people You will say was
designated by its friends bv the pet name
of the "Grecnback' Two years ago did
myself the honor 10 say, that the currency
50 commended by the merit of its great
deeds wrought for the peoples safety and
prosperity. enacted hy the highest legisla-
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