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Show WILSON. The Vice - I'l-fMidciit on tho Rm-publican Rm-publican I'lii-ly Hard Hun on the iirniil l'olicy WJI-nou-m Impossible Hol'oriu. New York, IS. A Herald dispatch from Washington says that Vice President Wilson has written a letter to Sam Bowles of the Springfield lie publican, in reply to a paragraph in : that journal asserting that the vice-presiuont vice-presiuont openly gave up the republican repub-lican party us bout en and certain of defeat at the next election. Wilson replies in effect that ho has notnaid this and doesn't believe it, and lie tliiuks the republican party may yet got in, and fhat a necemy exists for ita continuing in oflioo. He admits that it is in danger, butamcrte that it peril comes not from its own fault but ironi the misconduct of men who have obtained high positions in it. It must, he says, at once and ex-pli. ex-pli. itly declare against a third term and thus relievo the public mind of painful apprehension and put to rest at ouco and forever the tear which docs more than aught else to alienate the people from the party. It ought to remove many ofiiee holders, high and low, and especially some of tho higher officers, whoso mismanage- ment has become oflensive to the people and whose conduct, both in their departments and in general aflairs, make them and their party odioiiB. It must adopt a concilatory and thoroughly firm policy in southern south-ern affairs, avoiding any federal interference, inter-ference, and taking ofl the heavy hand of the government. The equal rights of blacks must bo defended, but unconstitutionality oupht to be avoided and-tlicipublic opinion of the north must not be offended by violent acta or language toward the south, i Finally Wilson thinks it necessary to; open the door to those men who1 strayed off after Greeley, hiit whose, hearts are still with tho republican party. , They must bo ' conciliated, thoir leading men must be taken into the confidence of tho party aud some should be called iu high places. |