Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-06-18

NEW YoRK, Jupe lin response
TO the formal announcement Of his
nomination by the committee Of the
Greenbackers' national convention.
Gen. Butler says:
LOWELL, MASS, June II.
Gentlemen ofthe Committee:
i received at your hands an official
of the action of the con-
vention at Indianapolis with q deep
sensability. In the ordinary course
Of political events, the choice of a con-
vention Of representative men, and
considerable portion OF my fellow citi-
zens, according to me the highest
honor they can confer, would call
for grateful acknowledgment.
The great questions you present are
higher and grander than any mere po-
lltical measure. Nearly quarter OF n
century ago, when the very existence
OF the republic and the establishment
of u democratic government hung on
the issue OF the greatest civil war the
world ever knew, or may ever know.
by wisdom born OF imperious necessity
financial system, springing from pa
triotic impulse, to save the nations
life and rescue the hope of free institu-
tions for all men, fiom going down
forever In darkness and death. was
devised'by great and good men OF that
day, to whose care the Republican
government, to be administered for the
people and by the people, had been
contided. That system of finance for
free people in its infancy saved the
life Of the nation, perishing without II,
aud broke the chains which enslaved
four million men. 1t gave this coun.
try, war raging, a prosperity IL never
had known; 1t enabled people to assess
upon themselves aud pay taxes of nj
extent never before known in any
country; II made 1t possible for the gov
ernment to pay threshold all it re
ceived in loans from any creditor, OF
gave to him security more protitabl,
and stable than was ever issued by any
power in the world, and made I'll,
financial system of our government a
once the envy and admiration of al
men. This was done by legal tende
currency. While questions as TO 1t
stability were raised by the very form
of legislation by which IL was enacted
aud while still graver doubts prevaile,
In the minds of many wise men
whether legal tender currency, uneX
pensive, In fact, resting not upon tn
intrinsic value of the material In
which IL was coined, was within thu
constitutional competency and powe
of the legislative branches OF the gov
eminent. That question having beel
three times submitted to the suprem
court of the United States, the highes
tribunal of the constitution, the cor
struction was Mt last decided In til
affirmative with such unanimity "a
show there might have been a possibl
doubt against H.. One purpose o
your organization, and of thos
who thought and voted with you
although not of it, was to support ant
sustain this money ms the currency q
the people. This peoples currency
you will say, was designated 10y il
friends by The pet name OF "the greer
baclk.n Two years ago l did myst
the honor to say that currency so con
niended by the merit of its great deed'
wrought for the people satet
the highest legislative powe
adjudlcated by such a court and de
cision, about 10 be affirmed, was
accomplished fact never again to |
disturbed or doubted, 80 that its friend
might well say, "See the end Of OF
lapors in this regard his come, let us r
joice." Let those who aided in I'll
.. great work press on 10 deal wit
equally important, unsettled measure
for the welfare of the whole peopl
The legal tender having becon
the very foundation of as we
as the measure OF val,
entwined with all bushes
of the people. the engine Of prosperit
of the nation, 1t seems to me almost n
act of cruelty again TO disturb caus
lessly financial question which h;
, been so set at rest with the assent of a
good men; rs much so as was the que
ton of the right Of man to hold h
brother man In slavery. Therefore
said: am glad that this question
no longer Il part in political consider
ton and craftsmanship. We may no
4 turn from 1t as the country b
> turned from the questions of SLAYER
, and OF war. But alas! the power of Il
!, darlluess of error; the resurrectionisl
of the false ideas of the dead past d,
no the moldering remains of conteI
ton from their peaceful graves whel
I, they slept, and threaten by a reha'
y of exploded resolutions, formulat,
= into a platform by party conventio
= TO reyiyify aud agitate controversial
y which will uDsettle the commerce
. values, hinder and delay the busine
: energies OF our people, with app
= rently but the single object,
: extend a system OF pure
: paper currency, Issued by corporation
established by the govern ment J.
deed, but Tor the private emolnmel
and gain TO corporations, while u
currency itself is To be valuable, on
:. because 1t is made redeemable In u
! very greenbacks which this ghoul-lii
= agitation seeks 10 repudiate, overtime
aud destroy. Such a. currency Al
: drew Jackson. with the wisdom OF
: statesman and by the iron hand OF
= soldier, sustained by the Democrat
of more than a generation az
;, had wholly crushed out, and IN u
. hone of the wise and good, had buri'
y forever as one of the grlevous errors
his administration which had insic
ously crept into the governmentforti
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT of the few to the d
}. .trlIctiou of the people. AS Dem
!. crat. taught In the Jackson school,
s. my early youth, with my judgme
10 matured by many years converse
IS Dublic affairs, aided by ear
+ est and deep study, WI
a intensity of purpose, with
10 ,nnic Of such magnitude, afiectiI