Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1872-04-25

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Ex-Governor Oglesby on the Situa-
tiOn.
SEVERAL members of the Illinois Legis
lature recently addressed letter to the
Hon. r. J. Oglesby, asking him if he
would consent to the use of his name be-
| fore the State Convention as a candidate
! for the nomination of Governor. In re-
ply, after stating that he had had no ex-
pectatiOn or wish to become such candi-
date, but that if the Convention, after
meeting and deliberating on the subject,
should, with unanimity, require his SER
vices, he should not feel at liberty to de-
cline Mr.. Oelesby says:
The Republican party, great in its acts,
great in it history, grand in its results, stand
ing to-day as a guardian angel over the Re
public, looking hopefully to the future rs it
does with supreme satisfaction to the past,
whose policy for twelve years is the policy
| of the nation, whose patriotism shines from
| every battlefield, whose wisdom is reflected
| in the just and humane laws under which
we live and prosper to-day, is about to enter
| once more the contest for the public conf
| dence and trust. 1t is beset with no section
al prejudices it is hampered with no narrow
| local attachments but, wise in its expert
ences, tried by the ordeal of national
thoughts, ideas, and theories, it reaches in
| its comprehensive policies over all the nation,
| responds to it's multiplied and complex in
| terests, and boldly meets on every hand the
exacting requirements OF busy, intelligent,
bold, and patriotic people. 1thas dealt with
the most difficult questions of constitutional
law, and has ever found, in the sense of equal
liberty to all, that just Interpretation which,
fully protecting the private rights of the
citizen, maintains the national authority,
and secures the supremacy of the Union.
1t has expanded and enlarged the liberties
of the people by amendments to the Consti-
tuition, admitted on all hands at last, and
after formidable efforts to thwart and de-
feat them, to be wise, just, and necessary.
1t has unfiinchingly maintained the
sound currency, whose circulation Is as
broad as the land, and adapted to every in
dustrial, commercial, national and individual
want. 1t has kept steadily in hand the ma
t1onal finances, and preserved the public
credit against the Interest hostility ever
waged by one political party against an
other, and from spontaneous and wide sys-
tenn of internal taxation, forced upon us by
the enemies of the country, eliminates the
crude and oppressive, and, steadily, year by
wear, ledrnluS Dy experience, SeIIleS Ddch III
to safe, judicious and universally accepted
system, which, by the end of the present
Congress, will oppress no industry, hinder no
development, and harass no man willing to
bear his just and reasonable share of the
public burdens.
To the reduction of the tariff it is pledged
by every consideration of expediency and the
repeated declarations of party platforms, as
rapidly as regard to the enormous war debt,
its annual interest, and prudent considera-
ton of the industries of the country will al
| low. 1t seeks to build up no monopolies;
| it discriminates against no industries; it
looks alone to the general good, and does
not fear to meet every demand for relief, for
| personal protection, for good order, and at
| last has the satisfaction of presiding over
nation at peace with all the world, whose
laws are respected, enforced, and obeyed at
| home.
To such party the attachment of all who
ever belonged to it is still due. Its career
fills with pride the heart of every one regis
tered upon its long roll of honor. 1 envy
not the spirit of those who wish to tamper
| with this grand political organization, or to
drag it down into dishonor and defeat. A
few, it is true, seem willing, after having
| tired of the honor it has conferred upon them
and the bounty it has given them, to stray
away, under one pretense or other, either of
personal disappointment, defeated hopes or
some such imaginary grievance, into some
| speculative chances of making themselves
more useful to mankind. Some of them
aver there is now no great principle at stake
about which men need differ, and therefore,
each may set up for himself in any new
movement. Others very openly assert that
the Missouri declaration (whatever that is)
contains the principles for which they have
always contended. But all concur in the
| demand for a complete amnesty to all, utt er
ly forgetting the Republican party has long
| ago clothed with citizenship and the ballot
| every man who ever bore arms against the
| Republic. 1t is true a few have not the in
estmable privilege of holding Office, but
even this coveted boon is fairly promised
| them, and they are in a fair way to have it,
| unless they shall be coaXed to hold off until
that uncertain time shall come when their
| new friends are to confer it. This would
look like putting off amnesty little too
| long.
Why this impatient haste to plant the
seeds of discord in the ranks of the Republi-
can party by those still claiming to be its
! friends Is it safe to assume the disorganiza-
ton of the Democratic party? Although de-
feated for twelve years, and over and over
again admonished by the people that it can
not be trusted with power, it is, neverthe-
| less Ghough just now wearing the grim pre-
tense of death), a formidable element, alert
and ready at any moment to return under
any advantages, compromises, or combina-
tions, unchanged in principles, to the active
control of the government. In such an
event, everything would become unsettled,
whereas now we have universal prosperity,
with a steady increase of the wealth of the
country and the individual; under an honest
| administration, an abb ling confidence by the
! people in the rectitude of the government; !;
the stability of our banking and currency
system, well-adjusted and thoroughly salts
factory in its operations, with all interests
| OF the country working harmoniously to-
! gether by well-settled rules, to which all are
accustomed, needing and receiving only such
| notifications as experience shows necessary;
taxation annually reduced the revenue
faithfully collected and honestly applied to
the expenses of the government; the prompt
payment of the interest and the steady re-
ductlon of the national debt in amount
far exceeding the expectations of the most
sanguine friends of the public credit We
should have, under the government of any
other party, nothing but uncertainty, dis
turbance, instability, and general derange-
| ment. The country would be held i'll doubt,
threatened with the repeal of the National
Banking law, imitation of the currency, unre-
strieted free trade, and an entire abandon
ment OF the wise and safe measures of public
! security, lnaugurated by the Republican
party. Trade would languish, capital would
seek seclusion, the industries of the country
would hesitate, if not decline, and no one
could tell whether to stop or go forward in
the commonest affairs of life. New and un-
successful elements of discord would devel-
op, and it is not too much to say that
personal liberty would be less secure. To
avoid the possibility of these unpleasant con-
tingencies, let us remain true and faithful to
the old standard which has thus far led us
in triumph through perils such as never over
took nation before; let us stand firmly
upon the solid ground we have gained, and
build upon this foundation a structure OF
freedom, prosperity, and beauty, that shall
attract all nations, and render forever great
people the freest, wisest, and the noblest OF
the earth
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