Rensselaer Union, Volume 1, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 September 1869 — An Ideal Democracy. [ARTICLE]

An Ideal Democracy.

Gun. Rosecrans, like many other patriotic men, bears A sort of attachment to the so-called Democratic organization, not for Its own sake, but because of a certain sort excellence whiebthat party liigltt, could; wotdd.or should have attained. The letter of General Rosecrans, so far as it utters any positive convictions, advocates doctrinesaud measures spread out clearly in everjf Republican platform pnow before the people. The party which Gen. Rosccrans defines has no tangible concrete existence; it is purely jnythicaL It is a golden vision oi his own imagination, which has no founda- ' tioa Hell fa,not rntgeunjike. hetohu than is th* Democratic pasty, of the past eight years unlike the imaginary picture of Democracy given in Jifa letter to the Committee of the fate Ohio Convention. The Democratic party of to-day fa thoroughly apostate front every principle \Vmcli the woru Democratic would indicate. Instead of being a party of the people and for the people, it has become the organ and instrument of a selfish and intolerant ojigMoby, Instead of an jftdVoOate ot liberal' suffrage and a‘ more complete, recognition of the rights of the masses, it has become the mere .tool of setfibb ' demagogue#. Gen. Rosecrans is mistaken If he supposes the organization, . " t&tm <>£>)£ life fU’IfiJISJcV

as such, can ever be reclaimed or reformed. Apostate individuals sometimes repent and reform; but apostate parties, never. This is the lesson of history.The Republican party advocate* the true Democracy. We hhve austaincdlhc Union —fought Its battles and vanquished Its foes. We-oppose all class legislation. We believe iu paying the debts of the nation, and keening Its lianor untarnished. We believe In a paper currency, of equal value in every part of our country, sustained by the credit of the nation; we believe in coining to specio payments at the earliest possible day. Those are the doctrines taught by the Democracy of other days All the good of tho ancient Democracy the Republican party retains and the party of Pendleton rejects. The only party which Democrats who Sympathize with Ocn. Rosecrans and lifs views, onn consistently act with, Is the Republican piirty. To act with the party represented liy Pendleton, will lie sclrstultification on their part The Republican party is in good part made up of the staunchest Democrats, who were taught in tlie school of Jackson, Silas Wright and Stephen A. Douglas; men wluvwere considered its chief expounders in its purest days, while the Democracy is composed of dreg* of the Federal party and of the sectional Know Nothing organization. Geo. 11. Pendleton is himself of Federal antecedents nnd education, and his political creed to (lay is more like that of the Hartford Convention thjn of the Democracy of the olden time. We appeal, therefore, to all patriotic, Union-loving Democrats to stand by their principles and thus rebuke the organization so basely apostate that a patriot like Rosecrans cannot accept a nomination on a platform of their framing. When good men fear tlie odium of repudiation so that they dare not accept office at its hands, it is time good men forsook it for a party of better principles. —Toledo Blade.