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Show GENERAL. GREENBACKS. Uncle Peter ooper uml Sum i ry IVilt Hold Out to llio Luil, New York, 27. The candidates of the independent greenback party for president and vice president, have isHUed to the voters of the country an wddrtss which vigorously arraigns both old parties and clearly sets fort i the principles which the candidates ff the new party maintain. They any that there is to be no withdrawal or compromise on their Dart, but they will stand firmly to tiio end. After Hiving the old stereotyped arguments hi favor of more curreucy they continue: con-tinue: "We hold that gold and silver iiB measures 'f value belong to ignorance ignor-ance and the past; that uvt-r since tlieir adoption for that purposothey uavo floated from west to east, from intelligence to iguorauce. from gov-prnmeu'a gov-prnmeu'a ruled by the people to arbitrary despotisms, from communities communi-ties which adopt individual, corporate ir national credit for tite irrtuu-Uou nt business to those who know no nther uses for money than to bury it or manufacture it into images or worship it, or into ornaments lor their i tilers, as in tho Indies, In-dies, whera more than two-fifths of nil these metals have- already found their resting place; that it is idie to talk of turning their course from east to weptas was demonstrated in England's reply as to the payment of the Geneva Gene-va award, and tho risa in the rale of interest to ten per cent, hy the bank ot England when in 1S73 the insig nifieent sum ol $15,000,000 was shipped here to buy food lor tho fam ishing people of India. We would not take from the government tho right to impress cold and silver and make such tokens legal tender in payment of some of the obligations, but we hold that it is not their iutriu sic value, but the impress ol government govern-ment that do'ermiues their legal value, and we further hold that to re-establish those metals as tho only measures of value would turn hack fhe wheels of progress, paralyze industries, in-dustries, destroy enterprise, bankrupt very debtor, enslave Ialor and .-stablish ft monied oligarchy to rule and ruin tho people; that 'tich policy is in conhVt with the free government and spirit of this ge, and would not be tolerated toler-ated except for the influence of a partisan presa and the growing familiarity with class legislation. We ho.d that there is an irrepressible irre-pressible conflict between those who think or whose interest it serves thai the future currency of tiiis country should be the product of labor in one material, and those who hold that it should be based ou the credit of the nation, representing all its production, produc-tion, all its gold, all in silver, all its cotton, all its wheat, corn, rye, petroleum, pe-troleum, butler, cheese, and all of its lauds and every man's labor; between a national currency that can be expanded wlien the huaina-w of the country requires it, and one that can be control ted hy a few when most needed by the many, or entirely withdrawn rroin the country wneu ii suits tne interest or caprice of its holders to do so; between tuose who hold thai wealth invested in government gov-ernment securities is more sacred than weallh invested in privaU enterprises; enter-prises; bflwet-n In nii who lid that a petiole, should ba made prnperuu" wnen called upon to bfMr heavy pub lie burdens, and th"we who hup U iiistain the public credit and national honor, while lhf spring the currency, curren-cy, dfstroy value-, and fnrro million Ol people into idlene-i?; tnJtet-n tho' wuo would promote ent'Tprne and and foster private crtrfit aiid tnos-wno tnos-wno would bankrupt Ihn nation to satisfy the gretd of its creditors." |