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Show A GOOD LETTEB. Vi'-e-I're.i.o'-nt W'i'n-m haa deemed it . r-.iry i" ;. , ly i a public Idler b-t!,i: (Tit:. iii.i -:ne of til') jour-n. jour-n. ut 'bin p-ihiicd party, ai.d tepe-cittlly tepe-cittlly to tLo attacks of the Washington Washing-ton H'puUf.an, the reputed organ ot tho administration, which haa deeply concerned itself with the vice pres'-dent's pres'-dent's motives in making his recent virit U) the southern statw, and inti-m-aed that ho is inspired hy pnui-dential pnui-dential loiiKin-s. Mr. Wilson writen that his viftit was made in the internet of hi health; t:uit he w-m welcomed in the south by the people of ah elates and of both races; that he did not refer in h'n speeches to party politic, but spoke of law, order, peace; of industry, in iterial development, develop-ment, education, temperance; of justice to black uieu and of a generous gener-ous policy to white men adding: 1 Th-ited tho graves of Jackion anri CI y, of laylor a-i.l Polk, of CriUeridn, Liali and U.nilon. I vi-il l. loo, a dv'i"K t-vici: pru-i'l'-iil, a. d chatted with Mrs. J.-llorioii Dvii in t'Lw slrecls of Mi-ui-phii. t.'cver ilid I Qiaku a more inuo-cciit inuo-cciit or axreeablo j .unioy limn Wti. crowded ii;to tln'se :x wueks. Out 1 tlnil on my reiurn thiU all lliia is Tery 'cgiiifl ant." This Weleomo Irorn all. wiuioul distinction of race or color; tin ee hr f rtpix-chLM; tlos veil lo the couch of a ilvh'K m in; thit li tlu talk with the, wift) i.f Liu preri lent of Lhu lata conf.'d nicy, were liill of no-fVniiid Tho "wanderini vice, pn-HdenL" was "loo unaniiiioii-, he was "iho victim of pro-id' nlUl a.-p r aliona, " mid he inuet be rebuked bb olhor Bunilprceri suspfctod ofliko deairoa had been. The vice-president saya he' has never hiutw.1 to unyhody a desire to lie n candidate for tho presidency, and that ho never, in a political lile of thirty-fivo years, "mado a promise to give oilico or patronage to persons or preasts f'ir votes or influence, and that I never intend to do so. No money ! no patronage! no organ ! Surely this pitiable condition should contole and reaanrc, if it dooa not please those distressed gentlemen, who see such i nighty influences in j money, patronago and organs, and protect me from their jealousies and suspicions." Mr. Wilson eays he is not opposed to the administration; but is opposed To the third-term lolly, and he seems to imagine that his free expression against this idea ia the basis of his offending. He then gives a general review of his southern to ir, of tho hopeful condition condi-tion of that section, and warns the republicans agai nst continuing to follow the mistaken policy which re sulted in their crushing defeat of last : fall. The letter, on tho whole, is exceedingly creditable to its author, and shows that tho republican party might mako a greater mistake than that of nominating Henry Wilson as their candidate for the presidency in 1875 a contingency which we imagine im-agine is almost out of the question. |