Weekly Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1853-1861, 1856-06-26
araaleu,a Manifesto

The Y. Y Tribune, Of Monday, speaking
Of the Black Republican party and its can
didates to be nominated by the Philadelphia
Convention, says =" The Republican party
has we'll defined principles and purposes, Of
which its candidates are not likely to be ig
nOrant To suspect or insinuate that those
candidates will be secretly hostile TO those
principles and adverse to those purposes, is
to suspect them Of treachery and knavery
which would disgrace common swindler.
The contest in which we are now embarking
is too grave and momentous to be decided
by jugglc If BUCHANAN is elected, it is
the Cincinnati platform which tiiumphs and
not an Individual So with the Republican
party and its candidates, whoever they may
be. The. triumph Of either party will be a
triumph Of its distinctive principles, no mat
ter by whose hands its standard may be
borne. Now, this is manly, at least, on the
part Of the Tribune, and we hope to see the
same distinct ayewal kept up by the Black
Republican press of the country generally.
The Black Republican party has we'll defined
principles and purposes, Of which IFS candi-
dates are not likely to be ignorant. As to
what those principles and purposes are, the
7Sibssne as fugle-man-general of the whole
Abolition Republican Phalanx, has kept the
public pretty well posted for the last two
years. They embrace the most radical meas
ures of a faction that has proved itself more
obnoxious to the peace and harmony of the
Union than were the Jacobins Of the French
Revolution to government of law and order
in France. When HORACE GREELEY left the
Wing party subsequent to the last Presiden-
tial election and set up for himself, how many
among his present associates were there to
denounce his doctrines as visionary, imprac-
ticable and disorganizing ? Then, HORACE
stood alone without party to support him.
Now, he has at his back motley crew,
whose name is legion, ready to swallow all
the crude radicalisms on the subject Of
slavery that have rendered GREELEY and
his Tribune in days gone by, mark TO be
shot at By all who possessed enough of con-
servatism Of character and principle to swear
by. They have come to his mark, not he to
theirs. The "vagaries" of the Tribune have
become the principles of the Black Republi-
can party. To suspect that the candidates
to be nominated will be secretly hostile to
those principles, is to suspect them of treach-
cry and knavery that would disgrace COM
mon swindler.
Let delegates to the Philadelphia ConEen-
ton incorporate those well defined principles
Of which the Tribune speaks, into its plat
form, as they are bound to do if they are
honest men; let the nominees plant them
selves boldly on that platform, as they are
bound TO DO, If they have no ambition to
take rank with the common swiudler," and
then see what becomes of the platform, nom
inees, and the whole Black Republican party
in November. We do not wish to anticipate
beforehand the "GooD TINE COMING - but
would rather enjoy it as it comes. With the
assurances which the future promises, we can
we'll afford to wait its coming calm as a
.ummermorning.