Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1867-10-30
ABEELErrER FROM BosroN
Republicans to the Democratic Cam
l. didate for Governor.
!. -. BOSTON, October u, 1851.

ABLE LETTER FROM BOSTON.
to the Democratic Can
- didate for Governor.
r BosToN, October II, 1867.
To John Quincy Adams, Esq
The undersigned, comprising for the
most part men who have never been iden-
fed with the Democratic party, beg leave to
express their hearty concurrence in the
sentiments of your manly letter to the
President OF the Democratic and Conser-
vative Convention recently held at Wor-
cester, in which you accept nomination
by that body for the office of Governor OF
Massachusetts,, and also their purpose OF
rendering you their cordial support at the
polls. We have great pleasure in the fact
that we are consciously able, to give our
hand and vote to one who bears so honored
a name as yours, and that we recognize
in you representative in the fourth
generation of patriotic service and public
worth. 1t is satisfaction to us to find
that race so eminent in the past gives
such promise of usefulness and distinction
in the future.
We feel that old issues have passed away,
and that old names have grown obsolete.
We have now to inquire, not by what title
a party is called, but what principles it
proclaims, and what policy it proposes to
adopt. In this view we find in the reso-
which nominated you, much that
we heartily commend. A party which
stands upon that ground, by whatever
name it may be called, meets our en-
| tire appreciation, and will have our
cordial support. And we honor in you,
once a member of the Republican party,
the manly courage, charactertistic of the
blood that flows in your veins, that, does
not fear, in the way of duty, to meet, the
charge OF inconsistency so invariably rails
ed by those who cannot distinguish between
| names and things. L ..,is,... z.
We never had any doubts as to our course
of duty during the civil war which has re-
Gently convulsed the country 1t was a
war to maintain the legitimate authority
of the Government of the United States over
the whole territory of the United States,
and to determine whether the right of Sc
cession existed as lawful right
under the Constitution. Painful as the ne
cessity for civil war was, and always is,
it had become necessity in our case; and
the path of duty was plain before us. 1t
was to sustain the Government, to uphold
| the Constitution, preserve the Union, and
enforce the execution of the laws. -
But now Jhe war has been long over, and
a new class of duties is devolved upon the,
| people of the country. All armed resist
ance to the authority of the Government
has ceased. Our business is now, not to
| subdue, but to create and renew; to heal
| the wounds OF civil strife, and to repair its
losses. Our duty is to restore the Union !;
and by that we mean Union in truth as
we'll as in name-in spirit as well as in
form. A Union maintained by force, i'm
| which a sullen and discontented minority
is controlled blythe bayonets of standing
! army-is not the Union which our fathers
| framed-is not the Union which we desire
| to transmit to our children.
| We agree with you in your views upon
,tns
"the doctrine of State rights, as understood
and promulgated by the founders of our
Commonwealth, and by the fathers OF our
| National Union" We were not brought
up in the States rights school, so-called.-
Upon this subject we have nothing to learn
and nothing to unlearn. Our creed upon
/ the rights Of the States, and the powers of
the General Government, is to be found in
| Webster's immortal speech in reply to
| Hayne.
We also agree with you in your remarks
upon the subjects of finance and taxation.
| We hold that both in the extent to which
the principle of-protection has been push
ed by the recent legislation of Congress,
as well as in the manner in which it has
been applied in detail, there has been
shown gross ignorance of the elementary
principles of political economy, the re-
suits of which are already seen in the d.
minished prosperity and productiveness of
the country. The same remarks may be
made as to our cumbrous and complicated
system of internal revenue, by which the
! Government is defrauded and the people
| are demOraliZed.
Upon 'sthe practical and immediate ques-
tions of State policy" as you call them, our
sentiments agree with yours. We hold in
contempt the moral cowardice which de-
clmes to utter frank opinion upon the
only local question " vllich is of the least
Importance in the coming election. We
repudiaJe the sour and shallow fanaticism
which would fain fetter the action of the
people of the State by one of those sump-
tuary laws which you justly characterize
as ''preposterous invasions by statue of the
lawful domain OF morals" Such laws be-
ed to secure religious conformity by
the prison, the scaffold, and the
stake; and the enlightened spirit
of modern legislation frowns upon all eff
forts to interfere alike with liberty of con-
science and the regulation of the personal
habits and domestic life of the citizen.
Such laws are ,doubly objectionable; first,
because they are an interference with in
dividual liberty, which the State has no
right to make; and second, because they
always fail of their end, and demoraliZe
| the community by the habits of conceal
ment and hypocrisy which they create, and
by arraying the natural instincts of .hu-
Holding the above views, we have only
to express our great satisfaction that by
accepting the nomination of the Demo-
cratic and Conservative Convention, you
have given us an opportunity to vote for
one whom we can support with such hearty
and unhesitating good will and we pledge
ourselves to use all honorable means
within our power to secure your election.
Thomas Aspinwall, Thomas Motley,
Albert Fearing, j Thomas Stevenson,
Edward Blake, John L Gardner,
VIM Amory, w Balch, 7
Amos w Stetson, Henry V Ward,
Leverett SaltOnstall, j Francis Tuckerma an,
Nath'l 81 Emmons. Adams Ames,
Peter Wainwright, Waldo Flint, I
VIM Thomas, Joseph West,
VIM Parkman, Fisher Ames,
Geo A Gardner, Eben Bacon, -
III Stevenson, Geo III Lyman,
Josiah Bardwell, Alanson Tucker,
David Buck, Francis Peabody, Jr,
Frederic H Bradlee, Causten Browne,
Richard D Rodgers, 5 Endicott Peabody,
r w EmmonS, Frank w Davis,
5 T Dexter, u.t Eben Cutter,
j Davis, H Geo F Peirce,
VIM W Greenough, TIL Perkins, .
Aaron Hobart jr, Geo Eaton.
Tolman Wiley, Henry G Gray,
Rob't F Clark, W Sever,
M ID Inches, VIM g Rogers,
John G Jones, Benz White,
Jno l. Stevenson. w NJ Whitney,
Jeffrey r Brackett, Isaac Thacher,
David Nevins, Joseph Gardner,
L Stevenson, .ese E A Baker,,
j w Rogers, j Ell Wales,
-..--,1- William c Otis,
and two hundred and thirteen others,
whose signatures are omitted for want OF
space.