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No mans opinions are entitled to
more respect than those Of Hon. Geo.
H. P~endleton, Of Ohio. He has been
the long, tried, trusted and honored
leader Of the Ohio Democracy. His
influence IN the councils of the
national Democracy has heen ~ com
handing as that of any other man.
The following are his views embodied
in q letter read at the 9Th Of January,
Celebration in. Wooster, Wayne
county, Ohio:
CINCINNATI, December so, 1871.
Messrs. Eshelman, Feristone,
Baughman, Committee of I%nvits.ion
l-Gentlemen: Iregret that l cannot
accept your invitation t. be present
at the next annual celebration of the
9Th of January. Il would have given
me great pleasure to meet and take
counsel Of those who are SO well
grounded in the faith and the practice
of Democracy as the men of Wayne
county, aud with themsto recall the
principle and example of the founders
of our party.
II TWO GREAT DANGERS.
Two great. dangers imperil free
institutions :andcr. the policy of the
party now in power. The spirit of
centralized military government
attacks everywhere the constitution,
aud corruption in Office destroys the
civil administration. l do not speak
merely or chiefly of special defalca-
tions, however startling, but of the
general degradation Of the standard
of official integrity, until the Offices
in both the civil and military service
seem to be considered the property
of the party, to be dispensed and
administered primarily for party az.
grandizement or personal profit.
WHENCE THEIR ORIGIN.
The dangers grow out of and are
~inseparablc from the present organi-
cation of the Republican party. Its
foundation, its philosophy, Its history,
and its leaders recognize military
power and the corrupting use OF
money by official patronage as legiti-
mate forces in ordinary civil admins
tration, and now more than ever
they are brought into active exercise.
THE BULwARK OF SAFETY.
The Democratic party confronts
this theory and denounces these
practices. Founded upon the idea OF
local government, jealous of power
granted to- authority, taught that
simplicity and economy are essential
to the honesty necessary III Republi-
can institutions, it MAINTAINS with
more determined purpose that the
military must be subordinate to the
civil authority, and that Offices r a
trust for the people, not spoils for the
victors.
THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY.
Its powerful organization enters
every village in the land, and num-
bers among it's adherents nearly IL
half the peopie-as pure, as patriotic,
as unselfish, as any of their fellow.
citizens. They r too numerous to
be cowardly. They are too patriotic
to be lukewarm. They are too sin.
cere in their purposes and convictions
to be d~rivenrsO ao,Pvnsaeuuo 10y tea
years Of reverscs. They have shown
constancy in defeat as we'll as wisdom
in victory.
NEITHER FLIGHT NOR DIsBAND'
! MENT.
! If understand their feelings. they
) will neither disband their organiza'
tion nor fee the field before the
contest commences. Either course
! they believe, would yield undisputed
sway to the present administration
, which could then give undivided at
tention to the deserters from it's ranks
l An advancing army, with the enemy
either dispersed or-in fight, never
: loses divisions Dr. regiments. or ever
companies, and is generally able tc
! pick off or to pick up treacherous OF
} thoughtless stragglers.
, THE DUTY OF LIBERAL REPUBLI.
, CANS.
If there be as is claimed, many
members of the Republican party
who disapprovc the ideas which
dominate the administration of Prcsi
, dent Grant, and r prepared to op'
f pose his reelection, they should de-
r clare their purposes, organize thcil
party. develop and manifest thei,
strength, and, i'll may predict the
future, they will have no just cause
even the most sensitive and timid
among them, for refusing to cooper
ate with the Democratic party.
THE MAIN PURPOSE IN VIEW.
j When its authorized convention
shall speak it Will remind its adher'
cpts that the ultimate and highest
purpose of its existence is TO secure
the greatest prosperity, in its best
sense, of every human being in the
land ; that principles Of government
are true or untrue, us they contribute
to this result ; that parties and poll