Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 3, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 April 1860 — Bates and the German Republicans. [ARTICLE]

Bates and the German Republicans.

[From the Cincinnati Gazette.

The Valksblatt, of tnis city, yesterday copied an article from the St. Louia Anzeiger, (Republican,) published on the morning of the 10th ult, the day on which the late Republican State Convention of Missouri was held. We translate the material portion of the article, as showing the feeling of the German Republicans of St. Louis, in regard to the nomination of Judge Bates: /- “In wise consideration of the circumstance, that, by prudent, conservative course, the Repuqlican party may bring to its support a multitude of other opponents of the dominant party, the leaders, and the most trustworthy friends of Freedom in this State, have resolved to range themselves under the aigis of a man whose character is not'only so pure and irreproachable that even the most shameless will scarcely Venture to assail him, but who, also, through almost a thirty years separation from partisan and official life, has brought, if no special benediction, surely no denunciation, upon his venerable head. “This man is Mr. Edwardßates. Beyond a doubt, in to-day’s Republican Convention, he will be named as the first choice of tI(C Republicans of Missouri, and it would be a fruitless, and at this time criminal undertaking, in opposition to the Republican party in tAis State, to place ourselves in hostility to this nomination. Our own sentiments are known to every intelligent German throughout Missouri. As we have expressed our views fifty times, during the last few weeks, we will not repeat them, even once to-day. Mr. Edward Bates is not our candidate for the Presidency, and he will first beaome such then, when the Chicago Convention shall have placed him on a Republican platform, and he shall have avowed himself its representative in all its parts. “But Mr. Bates is the best name in Missouri, and under it let all unite, who oppose and detest the National Democracy.”