The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1855-11-01

up respectable body of his fellow-citizens, as
guilty of disloyalty to the Union and Constitu-
ton.
The Republican party governs the State Of
demonstrating carried it by majority Of
fifteen thousand. 1t commands fifty-one thou
sand votes in the State Of Maine-more than
the Pierce party, by the aid of Rum, Patron
age, and Straightout Whiggery, could muster
1t has just swept the State of Ohio, giving Mr.
Chase one hundred and fifty thousand votes
and despite the letters of Hunt and Barnard
Choate and Winthrop, will probably carry the
great States of Massachusetts and New York
1t is represented in Maine, on the part of those
formerly Wings, by such men as Fessenden
and Washburn; in Vermont, by Foot and Col
lamer; in Massachusetts, by Rockwell, Good
rich, Eliot, Upham, and Hudson; in New York
by Seward; in Ohio, by such papers as the
Cincinnati Gazette and Ohio State Journal
while from other classes, we number distin
guished men, whose names are a guaranty Of
good faith, honor, and lofty patriotism.
A party thus constituted and thus represent
ed, is stigmatized by this man as wretched
| formation" and is arraigned for the following
alleged offences:
1t proposes to represent and take care o.
one half of the Republic only, on a principle
of hostility to the other half
1t proposes to set one half Of the States al
deadly feud with the other half"
Ii would establish justice "by libelling the
Judiciary, and trampling on constitutional laws. >
1t would insure domestic tranquility "by ser
vile Instruction
1t would provide for the common defence,
"by civil war;" and the general welfare, "by
intestine connections"
1t would secure the blessing of liberty to
us and our posterity-the white race-by the
overthrow, all for the love of the black race, of
the best guarantees of popular liberty ever de-
vsed in any system of Government, since the
world began"
1t is "a purely sectional party seeking
and claiming to be able TO rouse the whole
North TO united action on the single sentiment
of hostility TO the other haIf Of The Union on
account of Slavery"
1t appeals to l;.naticsmr
1t is "a bold menace to the integrity of the
Union, such as cannot be justified or excused,
unless treason can be justified or excused"
Other still more malignant and false accu-
abound in this letter, from one who formerly
rejoiced in the title of Minister Plenipotentiary
Is it worth while to repel such calumnies If
one half he says were true, no country has ever
been cursed by a Party, so diabolical. Slavery
Propagandism itself becomes respectable in
comparison, and Atchison and his marauders
are Christians and patriots, contrasted with
such demons as Chase, Seward, King, and
Rockwell
The Republican Party proposes
To take care of the whole Republic, by abol-
ishng the Despotism of Sectional Interest,
which, in seeking its own ACKNOWLEDGEMENT, ruth
lessly tramples upon every other interest.
1t would harmonic the States, by excluding
from Federal jurisdiction the only Element
which generates discord between them.
IT would establish justice, by exposing the
despotism of the Judiciary, and by opposing
and repeating unconstitutional laws.
1t would insure domestic tranquility, by
wrestling the Federal Government from the
hands of those who are using it to build up and
oAtcnd Il system, whose inevitable tendency is
10 servle insurrecton.
IL would provide for the common defence
and general welfare, by restricting to the States
in which it exists, an evil which in peace has
always been source of discord, in war, o
weakness.
1t would "aeeure the blessing of Liberty tc
us and our posterity," by doing justice to al
men, ofwhatever race-by securing, through the
| Federal Government, where it can constitution
ally act, through the State Governments, where
they alone have the right to act, guarantees O
personal rights to white and black, native and
| foreign-born.
1t is a strictly constitutional and essentially
| National Party, seeking and claiming to b,
able to rouse" the opponents of Slavery, Nortl
and South, to united action, against Pro-Slavery
| aggression and the domination Of the Slave
| Power, SO as to restore the Government to it.
original Anti-Slavery policy, defined in the Or
d,nsace Of 1881.
Whether sEeh Party be ianatical treason
Gus, "a bold menace .G the iptegrity of tn,
| Union ;" whether ID. ID. Barnard and Washing
ton Hunt are better patriots than William III
/ Seward and Preston King, are questions whicl
the People OF New York will have an opportu
nifty 10 answer next Tuesday.
The fundamental principles o. the Republi
can movement were asserted in lS4s, by Iotl
the Wing and Democratic Parties st the North
and by every Legislature in the Free States
with single exception. They were subse
auently sacrificed by the so-callcd Democracy
DOR party reasons. For years, at successive
Conventions of the Wing Party in nc North
thsy were reafSrmed. Both Parties meanl
,ramnle,. dcm under foot at Baltimore in lS5!
After that, at occa- -''"'A' eo4FtAsrs ~ r.
Free States, both Wing and l.,
were again re-aflirmed. During the ap,t,,.
OF the Nebraska Bill, they were strongly urge,
by Wings and Democrats " of the NORTH an,
last year solemnly enunciated by the Viii,
State Conventions Of \ W York and Massacbu
sets. The Republican Party has not adde,
one jot or title to these Principles, nor has it
IN its resolves, INDUCED in so much invectiy
on the general subject of Slavery, as its prede
| cessors.
Now, how happens il, that what those Parties
at the North professed from time to time. with
out fanaticism, without sectionalism, withou
treason to the Union, without exciting the pa
triotic agonies Of the Choates and Barnards
should be held now by these gentlemen " wor