The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1880-07-22
WHAT GEN. ROsENCRANZ THINKS
ABOUT 1T.

Gen.W. S. Rosecrans was invited by
a committee of Democrats, at Sar
Francisco, to be present at ratifica'
ton meeting in that city. His letter
in reply was admirably concluded
and his utterances were full of states.
manlike views. At the meeting he
presided, and in the San Francisco
Examiner, of July l, we find another
admirable letter from him. He says
My abstention from active partici.
patton in party politics, notwith.
standing abundant and flatterine
temptations on all hands, is well
known by my friends and former
comrades in arms, and, in some meas.
ure, to the whole country. BY con.
senting to preside at the Democratic
ratification meeting last evening, al
Platt's Hall, / have made an extraor.
dihary departure from former hab-
its. It viii interest those who care
for the country to know what could
have induced the change. The sub
stance Of my reply to the Democrat.
ic state central committee explains
my political leanings and those OF
many others whom know. l have
to add, that when the nominations
came, and a platform was announced
with more meaning in fewer words
than is usual with those documents
1 made up nv mind that an opportu.
nifty had come to do q great--a very
great good for our country. Fol-
the first time since the war, 1 see
hope. The genius, wisdom, elo-
quence and power of the great
Republican party all these wears
exerted in the South, having
substantially failed properly to
reintegrate that now loyal. intelli-
gent, thoroughly American and con-
sentative people with the rest of the
country, and equally failed to enlist
the pow erf1l, experienced co-opera-
ton Of the, Southern whites in aid
ing and elevating the freedmen,
whose interests are bound up with
theirs. Now the time seems to have
come when the thorough reunion
Of the great Democracy of the coun-
try win forever end the demagogue
yelp about 20 Solid South. and q Sol
id North.S When the carpet,bag-
gers have given up the Job of man.
aging the colored men of the South
they may have the counsel and helm
of. white people among whom they
have been born and reared, and who
are naturally, through habit, interest
and feeling better friends than out
siders could be- Would not the at
tainmeut Of two such great objects
be immensely beneficial to ol,r coIIn.
try? But II they are obtained as nIease
God they will be, by the election OF
Gen. Hancock, much more of good
will follow. The young Democracv
of the country viii be filed vitb
higher aspirations, and their neTf
lnati0nal platform, instead of BEING
lean, long and commonplace, win. in
8 few words, announce something
worthy TO be done for the future of
the country. Such, for examnle
would be one term of seven years
for the presidency, and no re-elec-
ton I have abandoned absteution
in hopes that these ends can be-
reached by the elecfion Of the Dem
ocratie candidates and that thus We
shall pat 3 stop 70 that hopeless de-
mofaizstion which sngeested 10 so
many keruhlirNns, and even to some
Democlsfs. the speedy necessity Of
the strong hand. = and made fhern
willing % secure II even by 8 third
term ard ~ such chief