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VICE PRESIDENT WILSON.
HIS LATE ST ETTER.
VIEWS OF REPUBLICAN POLICY.
forgive, FORGET, AND UNITE"
THE CROPS IN OHIO
BETTER THAN WAS EXPECTED,
DEFALCATI0NS In LONDON.
BISMARCK'S DAUGHTER BETR0TRED.
VIEWS OF REPUBLICAN POLICY.
forgive, FORGET, AND UNITE
THE CROPS IN OHIO
BETTER THAN WAS EXPECTED,
DEFALCATI0NS In LONDON.
BISMAECES DAUGHTER BETRoTHsD
LETTER FROM VICE PRESIDENT
WILSON.
HIS SOlfettude I'm Regard to the Posi-
t1en ana Prospects OF the Repubif-
can Party.


BOSTON, sept. 1.-THE following letter
from Vice President Wilson, addressed 10 a
MEMBER oil The state committee, will be pub
lished here to-day:
NATICK, MASS, Sept. 10. 1s75.
DedT ST:-l have received your Invitation
to attend a conference of leading MasSachu-
setts republicans to consider their duties In
The coming election. While il will not be i'm
my power TO be present, cannot but express
10 you and all other republicans the solicit
tude feel, and have felt for many months.
IN regard to the position and prospects of the
republican party of the commonwealth and
OF me Whole country. Surely the hour has
come Tor all Massachusetts republicans 70
"FoRGIyE, FORGET AND UNITE"
and TO place our state i'm the same command
ing position she has hitherto occupied. That
Massachusetts, which stood in the days of
lrlal so nrmly and with such persistent
s,ead1ness in support of the rights of man.
The unity of the nation, aud the authority of
the general government, does not now occu-
Ply te leading position she once held. is
painfully true That the old commonwealth
which, a each of the last three presidential
electors, gave 10 Lincoln and to Grant a
majority OF seventy five thousand, has
lost something OF its former prestige
republicans are compelled, with unwonted
NUM- ton 10 confess. Your proposed meet
ing, take IL, Is by full and frank consulta-
lion and comparison of views, to aim
TO REGAIN WHAT HAS BEEN LOST
aho 10 pace Massachusetts once more in its
recognized position among repub licau states
Certainly this object is worthy of the
thoughtful, considerate, and unseffsh atten-
ton OF every republican who would faith
July serve either his party or his country
In these consultations ard COMPARISONS il
should ever be remembered that nothing will
oe gained by lowering the standard i'm regard
10 principles, measures or men. Human
rights have ever been the watchword and in
splration the guiding star and dominating
ldea OF the republican party. II can with
elther honor or safety take no step bacK-
ward Mistakes have been made in the state
and iD the nation. Some men entrusted win
Ofhclal position have proved themselves un-
hVr hi nfN
aroused and directed to such mistakes and
misconduct that republican presses and con-
ventlons have spoken, ana are
SfEAh1NG LOUDLY FOR REF RIM OF
ABUSES,
and for the removal OF faithleSs and incom-
petent officials. Mistakes, too, have been
eofrecled and are being corrected. Unfaith-
iui ofhcials have been dismissed. and the
pu6lic voice imperatively demands that all
Sucn snail be; and there is Increasing evil
dence mat the party in whose ranks is found
the country looks with regret, az it was
expressed by British statesman, upon
every hour that passes over recognized
and unreformed abnsas. Is there then
or can there be, sufficient reason why
the republican party, containing the masses
OF liberty loving and pa triOtic men who
loughl the battles of the rebellion and piloted
the country through the stormy night OF
civil war, should De displaced in the COM
mOnWealth or nation, or voluntarily reIin-
quiSh the helm of state to tide democratic
party, win Its past or present record. In
your consultations and comparison OF views
L trust you will place little confidence in
mere party discipline. In the present tenn
per of the country it has lost much of its po-
tency. 1t has seemed to me, and now seems
TO me, that
THE WAY TO STRENGTHEN THE REPUBLI-
CAN PARTY
in Massachusetts and in other states is 10
put IL right on the living issues that divide
the country, with the principles and pur-
poses so clearly expressed aud honestly
avowed that there need be neither misap-
prehension nor mistake; to open wide its
doors, and make the invitation and prom
lsed welcome full and free. Not only should
new recruits be sought, but those who once
belonged 10 its ranks and helped 10 swell it's
victories, and who for cause or without cause
have left IL, SHOULD be pressingly invited TO
return. Its tried and trained leaders should
be brought to the front again, and their wis
dom sought Tor counsel and guidance in the
effort
TIE RETRIEVE WHAT HAS BEEN LOST
ana 10 restore 10 ihe party Its former prestige
and power, republicans should look peril In
the lace and meet the present emergency
with prudent, wise and healing counsels.
They should act, too, in a spirit of self
abnegation, prepared TO sacrifice for the
cause all personal aspirations Candidates
for public stations, high or low, should see TO
II that their individual aims and ambitions
and their personal rjValries could not be
allowed to be burden or aindrance TO
OUR NOW IMPERILED CAUSE,
and that, In the presence OF the dangers that
menace the party aad the nation, something
OF the spirit that prompted the self-denying
ordinance OF Cromwell : time should animate
them and secure like self-Sacritice now.
With this policy i am still confident the
republicans can regain their complete as
cendancy in Massachusetts, recover lost
states, continue To guide the cOunsels OF the
nation, and complete, without reaction, their
grand work of unity and liberty, reconstruc-
ton and reconciliation.
Truly yours, II. WILSON.