Rensselaer Union, Volume 1, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 September 1869 — Rosecrans on the Democratic Parly [ARTICLE]

Rosecrans on the Democratic Parly

General Rosecrans’ letter declining the nomination as the Democratic candidate for Governor of Ohio has l>ecn made public. It is a fearful review Of JPendletonism, and none the less severe because written deliberately, after he knew that Pendleton was his successor. In declining the nomination he claims therightto m vise the Democracy, and does so by saying that the Democratic party ought to be a party of principle, a party of life, of action and of progress. Fojgb and fault-finders do not properly btsong to the party and ought to be retired. It ought, he says, to hold high the banner of universal freedom, impartial justice, and"' equality before the law of all who live beneath the flag of our country. He, by implication, declares that no party which rejects these, ought to expect public favor. He is particularly explicit upon the subject of the payment of the public debt and the evils of paper currency. The enormous interest the United States have to pay, he Justly attributes to the depreciation of the national credit, and, to arrest this evil, he demands that the Democratic party must labor to increase our credit abroad until our bonds are worth their full value in coin. Then we can borrow for less interest, and promptly redeem every existing bond when due. Every effort, he says, should be made, to raise the national credit abroad, and the Demvcratic party should be the last to “ whine or act reluctantly about paying the public debt, even though its present holders should have bought below its fair value.” - His description of Pcndletonism as “whining’’about paying the public debt is a truthful one. The entire speeches of Pendleton are one continued “whine” about the oppression of compelling the country to pay its debts, and Rosecrans tells the truth when he says that “ faultfinders” ought to be retired from any party which expects to be trusted by the people. “ He denouno6* on irredeemable paper

currency—the greenbacks of Pendleton—: as a gigantic fraud—“ a the evils of false weights, false measures, and worse:" autl he insists that the Democracy of Ohio should renew Us old declarations in favor of a " paper currency convcrtahle at par into coin at the will of the bolder.” The Democratic party of Ohio, and of the Northwest, however, in thoir devotion to the lost cause, have repudiated this unquestionably true policy, and still cling to the delusion that they rain revenge the war by giving lo later that irredeemable paper currency which Roseernns so strongly denounces. Emphatic as the General is upon the financial question, lie is even more so upon the errors and criminality of Ills party on the subject of suffrage. True Democracy,' he says, has always favored a broad rather than a narrow basis of suffrage, and prefers giving the right of votingto manhood and qualifications which will tend to create tends us political brotherhood. In conclusion, he advises that, should there be Democrats whose mental organization or temper does not permit them to recognize fuels or conform their action to great popular changes, such persons, for the public good, should abdicate leadership and leave the energies of the people free to act in the line of life and progress. The letter, in its general scope and policy, is ail admirable one, and, taken with the fact that Pendleton is now the candidate, is as rigid a condemnation of the declared policy of the Democratic party as ever ramc from a Republican.— Chicago Tribune.