The New era. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1865-1871, 1866-08-02
THE TRUE POSITION.

AIENANDE Mitch ELL, ttSQ., VI
milwaukee,, Wisconsin, and a very in
fluential member of the. Republican
party, in an able letter addressed by
him to Hon. J. r. DooLITTLE, uses the
following language:
! believe il to he every mans duty
to take his place with those whose views
ere right on the momentous issues OF the
present hotH, and not be carried into
supporting hurtful policy merely
because it may be advanced by those
who were right on an issue now dead
and gone; neither are we TO despse the
cooperation OF any, merely because
they may have held erroneous views
upon questions now settled fcr ever.
Our present duty must dictate our pres
ent position, and we owe it to ourselves
and to our country to uork aeHh oil arho
are right Hon.a
These are golden words, says the M
kohot Ittel1igeacer, letters of light, that
we hope may be in the minds eye of
every delegate to the Philadelphia Con-
vention. If they are, there will not be,
we feel sure, cause for apprehension as
to accredited delegates. organization,
declaration OF principles applicable to
the present great issues arising from the
course of revolutionary Congress, and
in respect to the spirit and feeling that
will be illustrated in thoughts that
breathe and words that burn, by the
very gifted men who will constitute the
Philadelphia Convention. Let it be kept
especially in mind by politicians by
trade, that the people will be there, in
tens Of thousands, from all parts of the
land.
Every hill will send its ril and every valley
its stream
While they would not prescribe stale
politicians with their effete issues, names,
and prejudiees, they will demand that
we shall enter upon new life i'll Ameri
can politics, and that the great, live,
eXigent present issue-that upon which
all men, without respect to the dead
past, may join hands and swear eternal
hostility to every form of tyrannous
treachery of the revolutionary and
usurping Congress-shall be " Union'
in name and act, in spirit and truth.
Referring to the true national issue, that
sagacious and able journal, the Albany
11yus, thus speaks: -
Shall these eleven States be practi-
cally kept out of the Union, and denied
their Constitutional Rights, when repre-
sented by undoubtedly loyal and Union
loving men, fer the sole purpose of en-
abling the Radicals to continue in the
majority in The two Houses, and to pre-
vent such States participating in the
next Presidential election? This is the
true issue. The Radicals, when the war
began, claimed that they wished to avoid
disunion; but now, when it is happily
ended, they seek to continue dsunion,
i'll order that they may continue in
power. This is the issue which is soon
to be tried by the people. Every voter
should make himself familiar with it,
and be prepared to put his seal of CON
domination upon this attempted con-
tinuance OF Il practical and forced dis
union, got up and perpetuated for polt-
cal purposes. We cheerfully submit it
to the determination Of the American
people. whose natural instincts are in
favor of the Union, one and inseparabe.
now and forever, however it may affect
individuals, and especially mere poll
ticians struggling for place and power"