Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1859-08-18
The spauldine Letter.


Republican State Convention adjourned,
Judge SPAuLpIse wrote letter 10 a friend
setting forth The tessons why Judge Swan
was not rernominated. We have never
pubisbed that letter--but having been
called upon BY the editor Of the Farmer
to do so, We had concluded to do so, and
accompany it with an article giving our
our notions Of the amount of weight that
should be attached to such productions,
and their saitableness after party has
made its nominations, but the following
which We find 10 the Cleveland Herald
suits us SO much better than our own that
we adopt it instead:
So Say We.
Gentlemen who busy themselves, oyel
their own signature, in giving the creed o.
the Republican party, when the Republican
party is no more in their keeping thar
was the extensive domain on which the
Devil looked when he proposed for GER
tain consideration to convey in fee simple
that amount ofreaI estate, night read with
profit the following from the Xenia Torch
Light, to wit:
The Republican party submits to nc
dictation. When their conventions speak
authoeitatively they sometimes acquiesce
in the sentiments and deliberations; but
for an individual to assume to give the
motives of the party and fix its future
policy and course of action is drawing it q
little too strong, and should at once be re-
PEELED as an unauthorized and unwarranted
assumption, let it come from what quarter il
may.
! The New York Commercial has some
very sensible remarks upon this habit o.
certain men in speaking over individual
names, as if auihoritatively for the BE,
publican Party. We suggest, however, to
the Commercial and other Republican
papers who notice the effusions of such
men, that the very aim such men seek, is
attained BY the notice the Republican pa.
pers take Of them. The most efficient
way of counteract;ng the insliscretion and
intemperance of such men is BY letting
them alone severely. Let their vaearies
pass, and only be waited by the African
Democratic papers who know that the
union of the opposition is death to slavery
extension, and who wish to divide that op.
position by exciting the jealousy natural.
ly engendered By the missiyes referred to,
The Commercial SAYS:
It is the common misfortune of politi-
cal parties to embrace some extremists in
their ranks, but no generous Or even can
a'u ;.sa pill, oppunsn' wiz ho.o 'ne party
nal members We're ws J;snossaA y - I1,,,a ~ n0o
such weapons against the Democracy we
could find them in the utmost abundance.
a q seo'e " oou.nern Journals would supply
home won,S swell ,hs nnn,bsr. ,sh;l. a,.so. saso
tons passed with acclamation in even the
old Wigwam itself, would immensely add
70 the nest but tnae klnd OF warfare we
TO the strictest responsibility for the doc.
trines which as a party they avow. But
when indlYidaals with warped minds and
.ha ..ass e ,u'e s,,sa usa my
Of authority claim 10 speak for GREAT
party, uttering only their own crude, un-
-
genial' unpalriotlc sentiments, let them BY
.nd ,haS .sns;an,S eva.u, sor g sne l as
for what tbev are worth their source ! m be;ng
considered.
The substance of Judge Spaulding's let
ter-wAich we have not room for-is, that
Swan was defeated because of his decision