Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1856-07-16
Letter from Charles Reemelin

Letter trom Charles Reemelin
The Greenville Journal published the
following letter from Charles Reemelin,
Esq, in reply to an invitation to address
a public meeting at that place. The
spirit manifested in this letter is causing
the masses of the Democrats to Withdraw
from the demoralized and corrupt party
that retains the name but none OF The
principles OF Democracy:
CISciNNATI. June 90. 1916.
E. B. Taylor, Esq, Greenvzle, Ohio
DEAR SIR: l must decline your very
kind invitation, because the business OF
our railroad calls me from home. You
are engaged in a good cause! Fremont
is the mamie HIS the nerve and the
prudence necessary to put things to right,
again.
Think Of i'll A party diseraced by
the acis of its leadrrs-leadcrs whom
that party could not keep from mischief
and whose misdeedS it dare not IT,
fuse to endorse; Il p rty thus cuwardly
before It's Dan shadow, thus Inundated
and disgraced-wIth the blood of civil
war upon its handS-wiih money plum
deIed from the State aud County treas
urirs in its vely pockots-wiih iniquities
and corruption enough 10 sink two Wing
partics--rhis party has ~impudence to ask
US TO trust it for four years more. This
shell Of what used to be an honest party
this mere form Of a former thing OF
ife-IhiS mere ouier garnent--this dem
ocratic falSity. claims TO rule the PEG lei !
Well indeed does the name "Bucaneer''
apply to that party. Ithas all the flag
OF all the old parties in its pos<eSsion.-
Buchanan brings the "FederaIisi," Wise
and Cushing the ''Whig." Adams, OF
Mississippi, the ''NatiNisl." and Pierce
aud Douglas the red flag of fIlibuster
ism. 1t hoiSts any lag necessary for the
occasion-the old Wing it salutes with
Conservatism. The foreigners by profess
ing to love liberty "0J-ood." the Know
Nothing by loud talking of the Union"
The question is. shall the people be
ruled through this party? | 90 for the
direct rule of the people against the in
direct through a party! Mankind has
always he'd presented 10 it, some pa ent
orthodoxy or other as a sure nd lnfal
lible remedy against political and social
evils. The PhaIi>ees in JuIea. The Car
dinals and the Pope in the Ca hclic
Church--the blood of Kings and Mobiles
the wisdom of Senaies and Par ia
mentS, and in Il day and in this land
tile party To each and all these, and
other human cuntrivanceS the people
have trusted and gone To sleep, TO be-
walked up b. all kinds of caIamities.-
We are all prone to have too much faith
in political %panaceaS, and every one OF
us should forgive each other for having
erred, in trusting too little in the people,
and too much to the party. Believe me
all human governmental machinery
needs watching-and the great fol of
lay has been, that We set tn party
to watching the Government and then
ceased to watch the party. We did no
see, until almost to la,e. that the party
was the Government, and thL thus
neither was watched. Let US be a people
again j To Fremont we can all trust
for tour years. He is but one man. He
goes into the Presidency EithouI a party.
Look however. upon the Other 81 E
There Buchanan aS a man disappears in
the sink. holes of the party. You &c not
elect a person PreSideni,-a human be
ing responsible TO God and man-no.
you elect a party, irresponsible as the
Cincinnati Convention proves-for it
shifts he man anil with the scene at
pleasure You elect Il party with per
petgal succesSion-a perpetual political
c rporation! Therein lies The abdica-
ton of the people, and herein lies the
Danger of the hour and the day. Pom
der on it. Arouse We people Be free.
Respectfully Yours,
CHARLES REEMELIN.