Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1860-08-18


very active and energetic in getting uP Re-
publican Demonstration, which is TO come
of to-day. The. Young Mems Republican
Club has distributed special invitations with
q very generous profusion, one or two hun
dred gentlemen in this city, besides all the
members Of the press-gang, having been thus
favored. As IL is q custom in such cases to
address invitations to distinguished persons,
who might add to the attractions of the oc-
casion, and who, if they do not attend, are
expected to respond by letter, for the edifica-
ton of the meeting, II is quite natural that
this, to those unacquainted with the general
extent of the invitations should be regarded
sas special call on the distinguished to ex-
pound on the issues Of the day. Accordingly,
we find in the Springfield NeWs the following
letter, which the Ns'Os properly introduces
as "sound political document from that
distinguished journalist" Murat Halstead,
ESQ.,, of the Cincinnati Commercial:
a CIScNSATI, August 10, 1860.
ITO CR4On NJ. HichOl Secretary Of the Young Meas
RepWbhoan CIab Springfield, Ohio;
"Your meeting will have all proper and
needful conspicuity in the columns of the
| Commercial. ANt
81 am obliged to you and the Young Re
| publicans Of Springfield for the invitation to
place myself under your care for q few days,
i but my duties here forbid me to think of
accepting your hospitality.
"I do not see well how candid, intelli-
gent young man of the Northern States can
account to himself for doing otherwise than
i supporting Abraham Lincoln for next Presi-
4 mt off n Tf hos e 90 H.
q crisis, now is a good time to have it. No
honest man can have even superficial ac-
/ quaintance with the politics of the day,
i without knowing that the interests of the
| whole country demand the overthrow of the
| partiAans now in power-who have used the
| prejudice against negroes which pervades the
white race, without the distinction Of party
and the scare-crow of disunion-to fortify
themselves in career of profiigacy as scam
dalous and ruinous as that Of the official
thieves who have impoverished Russia and
bankrupted Austria.
nAs understand the Republican sentiment
it is opposed to making the institution of
slavery basis for operation against the Fed
eral Treasury to allowing the
holders Of peculiar property the exercise of
the prerogatiye of governing the whole
y'T have not much confidence in the Repub-
lican party as a party-and no confidence in
| the Republican platform as a declaration Of
| principles-but believe in the necessity of
turning out the ins-in the legitimacy and
| excellence of the Republican sentiment-and
in the personal integrity and sturdy will to
| do well, of the Republican candidate for the
Presidency, who is eminently man Of the
people--and | more and more believe THE
MAN for the nation. M. HALSTEAD."
The qualification of the Neps at this
Sound political document, which has mot
much confidence in the Republican party, as
party" and none at all in the Republican
platform, is truly refreshing. Surely the
Young Mems Republican Club of Spring
field must be striving for the blessing prom
ised to the poor in spirit. But this may be
made up by his confidence in the Republican
party as not party; and the young Repub
licans of Springfield have the consolation o
knowing that he has great faith in the Re,
publican sentiment but what the Republican
sentiment, outside the Republican party and
its platform, is seems to be left in profound
mystery by this Sound political document
except that it consists in turning out the
Hs"--,a principle which is usually more OIL
less vigorous in the outs, in proportion as they
expect to supply the place of the ms.