, 1872-08-01
Ruset Sound 9ispatth.
The Pending Issues.

49, -
The issues pending in the present
Presidential canvass, and to be deteTm-
ined by the election, were succinctk
stated by Hon. James r Doolittle, on
taking the chair as President of the Ball
timore Convention. Mr.. Doolittle was
one of the founders of the Republican,
party; one of the Delegates from sNeE
York who withdrew from the Bay NeR
Convention of l84S, on the nomV Ion
of Gen. Cass. and gave his support to
Mr.. Van Buren as the +" Free Soil'' can
didate. and subsequently represented
Wisconsin in the United States Senate
from 1857 to 1869 as Republican, com
manding the confidence and respect Of
all, not more for his acknowledged abil
ity as statesman than for his strict in
tegrity in public and private life. He
was among the most intimate and trust
ed friends of Mr.. Lincoln during the
war, and like all the ablest and best of
Mr.. Lincoln's constitutional and conf
der tial advisers-including Chase. Sum-
ner, Trumbull, Browning, Davis, Welles
and others-he was thrust aside by the
adventurers, pot-house politicians and
time-servers who came into power with
Grants Administration and now repre-
sent the Grant party in the name of the
emasculated Republican party. AS Il
man of incorruptable integrity of life
and purpose, as one of tie most distin-
guished and honored of the Republican
leaders. as the trusted friend and adv1s-
er of President Lincoln; and as one who
has subordinated party to country; when
he raises his voice against the abuses of
party to the success of which he devoted
the full tribute of his genius and the
best energies of his life, his words are
entities to our most serious considera-
ton. Mr.. Doolittle said:
Gentlemen, what means this great
and rising movement which you every
where see? What means this proposed
union of three millions Of Democratic
Republicans with million, it may be,
of Republicans? What means this un-
ion upon a common platform, and this
proposed union upon the $; me candi-
dafoS-a union c,, SudIap So ro,ppacf
so earnest as to surprise its friends and
to confound its enemies? [Applause. ]
Which comes as the winds come; which.
to borrow figure. overwhs Inns the or
dinary currents of public opinion, as
the surface currents? What means all
this? There are some things, gentle
men it does not mean. 1t means no
abandonment of what is true, of what is
inst. of what is good in human govern
ment. [Applause 1t means no ulion
for the spoils of Office [applause ]; but it
means a union of men with the same
faith upon the great and paramount l.
sues of the present hour-a frank, man
ly, honorable, and equal union OF men
who have the sagacity to see, and the
moral courage to accept, the situation.
| Cries of "Goodr' Good" and loud
cheering. 1t means union of men
who have the sagacity to see what is
past, and to deal with the Issnes of the
present. and for the future to do their
duty to their country, their God, and
their felIowmen. [Applause.] The is
sue of to-day is not the repeal of the
Missouri Compromise, nor the question
of slavery in the Territories. upon which
alone the Republican party was organic
ed in 1856. 1t is not upon that which
followed, when the Lecompton Consti-
tuition for Kansas divided the Democrat
ic party in twain and elected Abraham
Lincoln to the Presidency III 1860. 1t
IS not the question of secession, nor OF
war to put down rebellion; nor the auol-
ition OF slavery in the States by military
order, or by constitutional amendment,
upon which Mr. lincoln was reelected
in 1864; nor yet is it the question OF re-
construction, or of the Fourteenth OF
Fifteenth amen iment; nor the question
of negro suffrage; nor of the establish
ment by Federal power of universal suf-
frage as condition precedent to the
States of the South having any rights,
or any existence even, as States In the
Union. 1t is none of these questions
that are now at issue. All these have
been issues in the past-Great issues,
sufficient in themselves to create and &c
dissolve political parties; because ideas
are stronger than men or parties. But
they are all past issues. They have
been fought out and fou yht to the end,
lin the forum or in the field, and they
are no more in issue to-day than the
Mexican war, or the war of the rebel
lion. [Applause.] We could not re-
open them if we would, and they falsely
misrepresent our purposes who say that
we wonld reopen them if we could
l[Loud Cheering.]
EQUAL RIGHTS, HONEST GOVERNMENT,
PEACE AND GOODWILL.
This great union, therefore, means nc
step backward. [Cheers. Forward
Is the word. TLoud cheering. And,