The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1869-09-24
ROSECRANS VS.. PENDELETON
Their Two Platforms Contrasted.

ROSECRANS VS.. PENDELETON
Their Two Platforms Contrasted.
Speech Of Senator sherman,
at Springfield.
Senator Sherman addressed the Repub-
licans of Springfield, Clark county, Septem-
Der Sd, 1863 In opening he said:
"FELLow- -CITlzENs.-W are again re-
quired to enter upon a political canvass.
This frequent recurrence Of elections is the
penalty that accompanies the blessings OF
self-goverument. The election this fall is
important. 1t is a State election involving
the choice of a new Legislature and State
officers; but it is also of interest to the ma
tiOn at large. 1t involves the general policy
of the Government, and Of parties, on all
national questions. We have had a feeble
attempt by the Democratic party defeated
on old issues, and under old leaders, to take
new departure, in imitation of the South.
General ROsecrans declines the prOfered
leadership, but in declining he gives US his
programme for the Democratic party. He
adopts nearly every principle of the Repub-
lican party, but labels it Democrats instead
of Republican. The best way 10 show the
difference detWeeu ROseeraus' Democracy,
as it is, is to compare the propositions of the
ringleaders. - H}+.1iai 9i
General ROsecrans says: The enOrm-
GUS interest on our public debi is producing
the most fearful inequalities 10 the distribu-
tiOn of capital Who made the interest on
the public debt so enOrmOus9 It was the
Democratic party-by opposing the war and
casting doubts on the success Of the National
Government. Whe prevented q reduction
Of the rate of INTEREST," The Democratic
paIty-by casting doubt upon the public
faith and preventing a funding the debt at a
lower rate of interest.
General Rosecrans says: "To effect this
We must diminish our expenses at home,
establish a confidence in our political and
administrative ability, and increase our credit
abroad until our bonds in foreign markets
are worth what our ability and certainty to
pay warrant, and then from the proceeds of
the sales of a nes issue, bearing q reasonable
rate Of interest, and subject to reasonable
taxation promptly redeem every existing
bond the moment it becomes DUE, He says
to effect this, THAT is to redeem the rate Of
INTEREST,", we must sc. This is precisely
what the Republican party is doing. and
will continue to do, and precisely what the
Democratic party is trying to prevent us
from doing. We are reducing expenditure
and establishing our credit, and with the
proceeds of the sales of new bonds, bearing
low rate Of interest, mean to pay off the
present debt. We passed a funding bill,
fixing the rate Of interest at four to four and
half per cent, and johnson, with the hearty
consent Of the Democratic party, poeketsd
| it,, General ROsecrans says: "No local
declarations, inviting popular prejudgment
Of any legal question about the terms OF
payment Of the national bonds should impair
the priceless value of the public credit at a
time when it is all important to create the
speediest means Of Kidding the country Of
those enormous expressions. But every
Democratic platform should tend to raise
higher the public credit, and TO satisfy the
people of Europe that the Democratic party
is the last party in the United States that
proposes to whine or act reluctantly ABOUT
the payment of the public debt even though
its present holders should have bought it
below its fair value" What a severe COM
mentary are these remarks of the General
upon Mr.. PendletOn's course and the
Democratic platform. General ROsecrans
says the Democratic party n ust not whine, ="
but that party and its leader, Mr.. PendletOn,
are doing nothing but ''whine" and howl to
the injury of the public credit. Mr.. Pendle-
tons letter of acceptance is a dismal whine,
and every Democratic stump speech this fall
will take up and echo the same despaiFing
CRY. .,t-9
General Rosecrans says: .eAn irredeem-
able paper currency, or one perpetually
NJ in vail mn Mi frurr
the people, a concentration Of the evils Of
false weights and false measures, and most
injurious to all classes, but especially to
those who live by their labor This is all
most true; and have myself told the same
several times, and l mean to repeat it.
General Rosecrans adds: I'Phe Democracy
should assert with renewed vigor and
determination its old declaration in favor Of
specie bOsis, and a paper currency, CON
vertible at par into coin, at the VIII Of the
holder, and should take prompt and
efficaciOus measures to raise our bonds to
where the security they offer, and the in
terest they bear, ought IS place them; so as
to draw greenbacks after them to par, with
the least possible delay. This viii relieve
all classes and especially the laboring, aud
augmenting the value Of our circulation
twenty five per cent. give healthy and
vigorous impulse 10 every department Of
business and industry" This; / am happy
to say, is precisely the principle involved
in the Funding Bill, which proposes 70 put
the note and the bond on the same footing,
to be convertible to each other until both
advance to the standard Of gold. am now
happy to know that General ROsecrans
agrees with me exactly, and l need no
Z Al H--
Democratic friends for pressing, as l mean
to do, this indispensable measure of financial
legislation.
General Roseorans says; "Rsgarding all
officers as servants of the people, and trus-
tees of power for the common veal. Dem
Ocracy faVors such modes of appointments
and tenure OF Office as reason aud experience
show best calculated to secure good conduct
and efficiency in the public service, without
regard to private interest, public customs or
Individual preUensions" This sounds very
much like an APPROVAL of the Tenure -Of-offiee
Act. But l did not before know that the
Democratic party were in favor of that
measure.
Again, he says; The Democratic doc
trine Of suffrage requires a distinct Teaf-
frmatiOn. Democracy has always held that
suffrage is not natural right OfsYery human
being, nor of particular sex or race. This
looks as if the Democratic party, in its
'reafirmations' Of principles Intends TO be
beforehand On woman suffrage, for he aifirms
that neither race nor sex is a ground for ex-
cluslon. Where is Nasby2 Again, he says:
'The Democratic idea favOrs broad rather
than a narrow basis of suffrage. 1t is not
unmindful or regardless of the rights of
women, or minors, of property, or Of IN
ferior races; but seeing other effective and
ways in which these can have
their influence in all legislation affecting their
interests, at present it prefers giving the
right Of voting to manhood and qualification
which will tend to create bonds Of political
brotherhood between the rich aud the poor,
based on mutual interests, and, to avert
conflicts between capital and labor. Here
he is out and out formanhOOd suffrage, with
the promise in the future TO go further.
"Thus General Rosecrans assumes and
adopts all our Republican principles, in
whole and in detail, and calls them Demo-
cratic; and then gives formal notice TO all
unbelievers to take back seats. He says:
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 sbdicate the leadership, and leave