The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1886-08-21
Gen, Vests Letter.
Holly SPRINGS, Mss, July 20, 1886.
The Hon w. 5. Eskridge:

~, Holly SPRINGS, MISS July 20, 1886.
The Hon W. 5. Eskridge:
My DEAR SIR,-It is with no ordi.
nsry pleasure ! acknowledge the re.
| ceipt OF your kind letter OF the 231
instant Please accept my sincere
thanks for this friendly remembrance.
| am rel Diced to know that you APP
prove the sentiments of my letter de-
Ginning to run for Congress. will
briefly notice your friendly express
sious of regret that | severed my con-
necion with the Democratic parry.
In this and in the effort to organize
and perpe ua,e "rhe National Green
lock Party" in the South may have
erred, and a failure t1 succeed is strong
presumptive evidences that my action
in these respects WAS unwise. IL is
obvious that 80 far rs my personal in
teTest is concerned, they were mis- axes,
but personal considerations should
never sway our actions against the pub
lie GOOD. Blu alter all, the future may
reveal that some good was accomplish
ed by thess apparent mistakes, since
their prime obi cts were to reform pub
lie abuses, recall the people back to
the principles and practices of the
founders OF. the government and re-
store to the productive industries
high AID animstng property; TO-
deed the gensral discussion Cf these
objects gradually weakened the power
OF the Republican party at the North
and | am persuaded contributed to
the election of Cleveland and Hen
bricks. But what YER may havs been
the apparent necr ssjty Of third party
ten " ars ago, iii re is more now. The
two old parties are strong in numbers
and resources and thoroughly organ-
IL ID as rival c1nte tants for the con.
troll Of the gov rnment, and each is
termined to live until the other
dies, hence they p1sicSs the elements
of long lives aud alternate success.
The policy OF the Repubi an party
has been, and is still strictly Northern.
1t was conceived in sectional animosi-
ties and fostered by hos,ile agitations
against the constitutional and pers nal
rights If the inhabitants Of the South
ern Ststes l. is To-Day thoroughly
imbued with everlasting hatred of the
representative white people of the
South. 1t is guided By the decraeo of
Wall street and thu 1000 millionares
their legi lative policies have p,o-
duced T1ey have made multiplied
mil ions of poor men, the rich nave
grown richer, and the poor poorer.
Depression, insanity and all forms of
crime have increas I'd. They have
squandered, on monopolies, the public
la ds--the hertsgs of the people.
offices multiplied, salaries increased,
peculatio1 rife, and the standard OF
public and private morality lowered
1t has been to the South the abomina-
ton of desolation." The Democratic
patty is national, maint i0ing the co.
equal rights Of all the Sates
and al thu people, and is today
gradualy Illustrating the genius
ald the indestrucibility of our free
in titutions. The existing state of
things in the South does mos natural
ly Identity the southern white people
with this party, as against the Repub.
lican party, whose whole policy has
been to sacr fica the South - the other
parts CT the Union, and degrade her
to servile d pendeuce, and to legsa
for the few against the many, and ulti-
mately place The government in the
hands OF mcneyed aristocracy. The
Democratic perly is now the only Wis.
ible org N 'zed power that can success
fully resist the encroachmeuts upon
the rights of the people and maintain
the Union upon the basis of the con-
s,itution. For these reasons / voted |
for Cleveland and Hendricks and |
identified myself with the Democratic
party, and trust that no future events
will cause mo to regret it.
Agsin thanking you for your kind
letter, please accept my assurances that
its friendly sentiments are heartily re-
by your friend,
A. NJ. WEST.