The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1866-08-18

anu Ata LUENAEG9aSA10K,
DennIaon ON the Great Issues BE.
Interesting Information for the
People. I11'Ifis.f sgl-f .S,ga.
INVITATION. OF .oTTIzENs OF oTsEdo
-al.B IsG COUNTY. -
s. oTsEGo LAKE, Aug. /, 1866.
IOtte Hon. WTp. De1lniso7s, late Post
master General: H'3=H t,sf{f'
DEAR SIR: Awaiting ourselves OF
your temporary soiourn in our county,
we respectfully request the honor oi
lyour company at dinner which we
tender to you, at Tunnicliff's, at the
Five Mile Point, on the afternoon OF
"Wednesday of next week. .fS
4tgtves us great pleasure to have this
opportunity, in some degree, 10 express
our appreciation of your services dur
ing the war of the rebellion, both as
Governor OF the State of Ohio, and as a
member of the Cabinets OF Mr.. Lincoln
and Mr.. johnson. But it is for your
eminently patriotic course while in the
Cabinet of the present Administration
that We desire most emphatically to
convey to you In this, the best mode
which presents itself to us, assurance OF
our gratitude eahd respect 1Gka = {
Inthis grave crisis in the history of
our country; when the hearts ofhthe
loyal and patriotic are filed with sad
ness and apprehension; when the best
fruits of the triumph of the nation
seem about to be blasted; when, by the
treason of some, and by the strange
ana piteous lapse of others, the great
Union party is Threatened with over
throw, IL would afford us peculiar satis-
faction to meet one who, faithful
among the faithless, reluctantly. and
at the hazard of being misunderstood,
retained office only to avert threatened
calamity, and then, when the effort
proved hopeless, showed that he pre-
terred his country to place and power.
We desireI sir, the pleasure of felici-
tating you 9ihlp person. 2 on your timely
withdrawal from an; Administration
which seems to have abandoned and be-
,trayed the great and patriotic party
which elevated 1t to office, and in do
ing 50 we are cohhd dent that we express
the unanimous sentiment of that party,
not only in this county, but in this
State and through the nation.
We hope to meet you ON this classic
shore as a citizen and friend, and also
as a distinguished leader in that great,
inevitable and spontaneous organiza-
ton; whose aims are as pure, and
whose principles are us deep and abid-
ing, as these waters.
In case your engagements will not
permit your accepting this invitation,
we would be glad to have for publIca-
ton your views upon the political sit
latton of the country, so far as you
We are, with great respect, your
friends and obedient servants. -
Oliver A. Morse, G. A. StarlSweather
iNna w Campbell, In Worthington,
w. H. Ayeriu, ii. Scott, ..,-s'.,-, :
VIM. Nichols, Fred. A. Lee,
David u H. Little, r.. N. Harris,
III. y. tOlcotty- Samuel s, Edfck.
Willard TruE, E.2Judd, 's7Tst
VIM. III. Baldwin, Geo. p. Ripley,
Joseph Phelon. II =
REPLY OF GOVERNOR DENNISoN. &
PARK HOUSE, CHERRY VALLEY,
,70.iis1ri 40 -. iii August, 1856. IL.
3 GENTLEAtEN-Ih have the honor to ac.
knowledge the receipt of your invita-
ton 70 dinner on Wednesday next, and
regret that my arrangements will pre-
vent my availing myself of SO pleasant
an lion to meet and return yon my
grateful ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ents for the too
friendly estimate You have placednpon
my public services. Such kind express
sions as yours far more than compen-
safe me for any disappointment / NAV
have, felt in being compelled from NV
sense of duty to the Union party. and
the country TO withd draw from the Cab
met of President Johnson. jA.I
In explanation of my resignation, I
may say, that I was not unaware, some
time previous to its occurrence, that
different views We're entertained by the
President and myself on questions
moreo or less important, relating to the
treatment Of the REBEL lfous States. Our
political education and antecedents
were wholly dissimilar. Born in the
South himself a STAKEHOLDER previous
tp, the war an earnest member OF the
Democratic party of the South. which
always maintained the rightfulness of
lBlayery and the duty of the Governs
meut to give 1t all the national sanction
which ITS Interests should demand, it
could be hardly " possible that his, and
my general views would correspond on
the subject OF slavery, and its agency
IN bringing on, and resp ibility for,
the prolonged continuance of the war:
born and reared as 4 was in free
State, taught from infancy to regard
slavery as a greatimoral, social and po-
Iltlcal wrong, and q member Of the
wing party rom my early manhood,
which, in Ohio whateverit may have
done elsewhere, never failed to de-
nounce slavery and oppose all It's efforts
for territorial expansion, aud the i'm
crease of Its power in any form. Still,
q attach less inn ortance 10 any real or
supposed differences between us. as j
did not doubt but they would be recon-
ciled by the COURSE Of events. Assum-
ing that the President was equally de-
tternninedi with myself to ACCEPT the
final action of Congress In the matter
of reconstfuction, whatever might be
his opposition toI particular measures,
bety is him and &. "a lefnbeEi 81 Ii1is
Cabinet, more did II believe there
would be any occasion for a
breaetTY YlbetWeenalh lhing and the major
itY in Congress, 4 j assumed that heS bis
Cabinets and the majo ority in Congress