The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1869-09-03


| perpetually huctuating in value, is gigantic
fraud on the people-a concentration -ef the
| evils of false weights, false measures, and
worse, injurious to all classes. but especially
to those who live by labor
The Democracy should assert with renew
ed vigor and determination, its old declara-
tion in favor of specie basis and a paper
currency convertible at par into coin at the
will of the holder, and should take prompt
and eficsciovs measures to raise our bonds
to where the security they Uffsr and the in
| terest they bear ought to place them, so as
to draw greenbacks after them TO par, With
the least possible delay. This will relieve
all classes, especially the laboring, and aug
menting the value of our circulation 25 per
cent, give healthy and vigorous impulse
to every department of business and industry
}. The fundamental principle of free trade
and that all taxation should fall as directly
as possible on all members of society in pro
portion to their ability to pay, have always
been held by the Democracy. The aim oi
its legislation must, therefore, be as much as
! posi- bic to reduce the amount and diminish
the number of indirect taxes, and levy such
as are necessary for revenue, having due re-
gard to the principle that the wealth of a ma
tiOn, consisting in its productive Industry,
whatever favOrs the greatest amount of this
in the masses is to be favored, and whatever
fosters special kinds and classes to it's detri-
ment is to be opposed by the Democracy.
4. Democracy opposes all kinds of class
| legislation, refusing to rob the rich for the
poor, or the poor for the benefit of the rich
and views with equal adherence the partisan
of unjust claims, and the advocate of the re-
pudiation of Just ones. But, knowing that
| legal provision for the security of private
property generally suffice for the protection
of the rich, Democracy, without violating
individual rights, will always aim to educate
and elevate the masses of the people.
5. Offices sheuld be created only when
clearly demanded by necessary public bust.
ness, and such saleries be paid as the nature
and importance of the business require,
leaving no Just grounds of complaint, or
excuse for speculation.
A policy that leads to or requires the null
duplication of offices is anti-democratic, un-
just, and dangerous to freedom. A policy
which changes men in offices for Individual
profit instead of public good is a perverson
of the principles of business, anti-demo-
cratic, corrupting, and perilous to the liber-
ties of the people. .71att
Official power is a trust for the common
good, which no public officer has right to
use for his private benefit, and whosoever
does so is a greater scoundrel than he who
misapPlies funds in his trust, because the Of
fetal trust is more sacred and the wrong
more difficult to detect and measure.
Whosoever obtains votes under false pre-
lenses is baser knave than he who obtains
| goods under false pretenses, and, on account
Of the greater difficulty of detecting ard
measuring the evil done, deserves severer
punishment and reprobation. g. y.
Regarding all officers as servants Of the
people and trustees of power for the common
veal, Democracy favors such modes of sp-
| pointment and tenures of office as reason and
! experience show best calculated to secure
good conduct and efficiency in the public
service, without regard to private interest,
public customs or individual pretensions,
Reason and experience alike condemn
frequent and needless changes of public of
fcers, and the generally prevailing practice
of making them for personal benefits instead
OF public good, is acting in great matters OF
the State and Nation on a principle which
would ruin any private business, and, unless
corrected, will bring the administration OF
free government into deserved contempt. 1t
is essentially opposed to the principles OF
democratic government, and it behOOVes the
Democracy of the United States to make
war on the practice, without truce or delay,
returning to the Jeffersonian standard of Of
fetal qualification, lis he honest capable
and faithful2'
8. The immense increase of the National
Executive patronage, placing upward of one
hundred thousand offices, besides numerous
minor positions of emolument, at his disposal,
and the habit of changing the incumbents to
secure or reward Executive partisanship,
have become dangerous to the liberties of the
country, and demand prompt and eficacious
remedy. .-.i- a,- ~
That remedy, at least in part, and numer-
Gus important national advantages, may be
found by providing that no President shah
be eligible for more than one term, without
joint resolution of Congress, passed by a
two-thirds vote in each House, previous to
the election, declaring the same; and a fnrth-
er provision that the Presidential term shall
be extended to six years. 90
Z. The Democratic doctrine of suffrage re-
quires distinct reaffrmation.
Democracy has always held thatisuffrage
is not natural right to every human being
nor ofs particular sex or race, but a politi5
cal privilege, and who should exercise il is q
question to be decided by what will produce
the greatest good 10 the greatest humber, ,
and therefore as far as possible to be deter
mined locally, where lies the great body of
the rights of the people. -
But In these local discussions the Demo-
cratic idea faVors broad rather than mar
row basis Of suffrage. 1t is not unmindful
or regardless of the rights of women, of
property and inferior races; but seeing other
effective and advantageous ways in which
these can have their influence oa all legisla
tiOn affecting their interests. at present it
prefers giving the right Of.yoting to manhood
and qualifications, which will tend to create
bonds of political brotherhood between the
rich and poor, based on mutual interests,
and to avert conflicts between capital and
labor. -IJI
The caucus system, invented by the De-
mocracy as practical way of finding out
who IS proper person to be voted for where
a constituency is too large to know each
other personally, and, in spite of its glaring
lmperfectloBs and corruptiOns, now adopted
by all parties, should be improved by the
Democracy and carefully regulated by wise
provisions of law
These views believe TO be explicitIv or
implicitly held by three -fourths Of our yet-
ing population, and only require distinct
Democratic enuncistion to elicit substan-
tial response from the people, who well
know that neither public policy based on
passions, nor Radicalism per Sc, can long
rule without running the country, and would
be glad to combine for the public good on
grounds that would restore our State and
National administrations to the spirit and
practice of Democratic Republican simplic-
ity. t IS aa ,i-r - - ~. j
Should there be Democrats whose mental
organization or temper does not permit them
to recognize existing facts, or conform their
action to great popular changes, let them,
for the public good, abdicate leadership, and
leave the energies of the people free TO act
in the line Of life and progress. -ll.t4-4
The exceptional political condition of
parties, and my desire to recall we'll known
fundamental PRINCIPLES, and indicate some of
the logical consequences and applications in !
my Judgment vitality important to the future
of the country and the cause of free govern
ment, must be my apology for the length of
this letter.
Thanking you for your cordiality and
kindness in communicating my nomination,
and begging, through you, to thank your
constituency for it, l Iemain, gentleman,
Very truly your friend,
General G. W. Morgan, General Durbin
Ward, Hon. j.. II. Heaton, Hon. j. Il.
Putnam, Hon. Lewellyn Baber, Commit.
tee, Columbus, 0.
Pendleton Disavowed by Democrats.
While hiOhlv eonuard;Dc. A. .,.-aI