Indiana American., 1856-07-18

The Greeuville Journal published
the following letter from Charles
Reemelin. Esq. in reply TO nm invita-.
ton 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 de-
moraliEed and corrupt party that re-
tains the name but none Of the princi
Piles OF Democracy: ap - svtiftpi
CrscrESArr. June 28th. 1856.
3. B. Taylor. Esq, Grssnviils. o.
DxAn SrR:--I must decline your
very kind invitation. because the bus
mess Of our railroad calls me from
home. You are engaged in a good
cause! Fremont is the mamie has
the nerve and the prudence necessary
10 put things 10 rights again. !,
Think oft! A party disgraoed by
the acts Of its leaders leaders, whom
that party could not keep from mis-
chief and whose misdeeds It dare not
refuse to endorse; q party thus cow
ardly before its own shadow, thus hu-
initiated and disgraced-with the
blood Of civil war upon its hands
with money plundered from our State
and County treasures in its very pock
ets--with iniquities and corruption
enough to sink two Wing parties
this party has the impudence to ask
us TO trust it for four years more.--
I his shell Of what used TO be al hon.
est party-this mere form Of former
thing Of life-lhis mere outer garment
this democratic f'Lsity. claims to
rule the people!l Well indeed does
the name :Buccaneer" apply to that
party. II has all the flags Of all the
old parties in its possession. Buch-
anan brings the "Federalist,' Wise
and Cushing the '"Whig," Adams. Of
Mississippi, the "Nativist. and Pierce
and Douglas the red fiag of fiillibus-
,erism.s Ithoists any Gag necessary
for the occasion--the Old Whig it sa-
Iutes with Conservatism. the foreign-
ers by protesting to love liberty
''s5road," the Know Nothing by loud
talking of the ''Union." ''t
The question is. shall the people be
ruled through this party. any party?
go for the direct rue of the people
against the indirect, through q psrtyl
Mankind has always had praised to it.
some patent orthodoxy or other as
sure and infallible remedy against po-
litical aud social evils. The PLarisees
| in Judea. the Cardinals and the pope
| in the Catholic Church-the blood Of
Kings and Nobles-the wisdom Of
Senates and Parliaments, and 10 our
day and in this land-tAe party. To
each and all these, and other human
contrivances the people have trusted
and gone to sleep, TO be walked up by
all kinds of public calamities. We are
all prone to have too much faith in pa.
litical panaceas. and every one OF us
should forgive each other for having
erred. in trusting to little in the peo-
pie. and TOO much to the party. Be-
Iieye me--all humsn governmental ma
chinery needs watching-anda the
great folly Of our day has been. that
we set the party to watching The Gov
ernment and then ceased to watch the
party. We did not see. until almost
too late. that the party was the Gov.
ernment, and that thus neither was
watched. Let US be q people AGAIN.! |!
To Fremont we can all trust for four
years. He is but one man. He goes
into the Presidency without a party.
Look. however, upon the other side.
There Buchanan AS man disappears
in the sink-holes Of the party You
do not elect a person President, "a
human being responsible to God and
man--no. you elect party, irrespon-
sible, as the Cincinnati Convention
proves--for it shifts the man and with
him the scene at pleasure. You elect
a party with perpetual succession-a
perpetual political corporation! There
IN lies the abdicstion Of the people,
and herein lies the danger Of the hour
and the day! Ponder on it. Arouse
ye people! Be free! s'
Respectfully yours.
~ ; CHARLES REEMELIN.
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