Weekly hawk-eye and telegraph. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1855-1857, 1856-02-20

The ncpub,ican Parry.

'.shan qrps and sentences, ana hes. paper bslisss
the brain, man from iAe career Of his haIaos
Many a half formed resolation-maHy wis
and necessarr reform has been .'niptT the bud,
by a little well directed ridiculc. How many IN
ebriates kavc resolved and reresolved that the
would mot touch the cup" and been brough
back to their old place in the gutter by the Jeer
of their companions. Many good thing, IN tn
hands of faint hearted and irresolnte men, ha
received its auietus in the same way, which argu
men, would have been impotept to meet bu
men who have counted the cost, who can give
reason for the faith that is in them, and who pur
| sue good cause with their whole might ane
strength, are never thus overthrown and defeat
ed The shafts of ridcule never reach them, but
pass by on the other side. They know they are
right and go ahead.
! The Republican party which is now springing
into existence and rallying to meet the most i'm
portant crisis of this generation, has before 1t a
mission fraught with blessings to this country
Its object is to meet properly the aggressive spir-
it of slavcry-to forever stay 1t within Its pres
| ent limits and bring back our National Admin
istration to the Republican ground it occupied
in the days of its founders. Then it was the pol
icy to exclude African slavery from the terrific
ries and as an evil that could not be got rid OF,
confne it to its then limits. But all this has
now been reversed. New territory has been ad
ded for the purpose Of giving room and verge
for it to spread itself.
Slavery has really assumed the direction and
control ofpublic affairs, worded and shaped our
laws. 1t has stamped its narrow, selfish and sec
tional dogmas upon both the late political par
ties, controlled their conventions, formed their
platforms, shaped every plank, and then nomina-
ted their candidates. 1t has trampled upon the
most sacred compacts, and declared its willing
ness to dissolve the Union itself and trample our
constitution in the dust, to attain its ends. 1t Is
time this fell spirit was met and laid. High
time.
This new party, which has come into existence
so suddenly, which has sprung, as it were from
the SOIL is composed of sterner stuff than to be
diverted from its great object by ridicule. The
men who compose it are in earnest. The public
mind has been thoroughly convinced OF the ne
cessity of resisting the outrages and "ncroach-
ments of slavery, and this conviction cannot be
put down, silenced or satisfied by clamor The
senseless cry of A5oHtioaisD, has lost its poten-
cy. The poor, pitiful paid tools OF corrupt ad-
ministration who are turning the nginery of the
press upon it, will fail. The old party leaders
who have been left high and dry upon lee
shore, by the dissolution of old parties, may
roar and tear their hair, cry 'fusion,
"wool," treason" aud whatever they please.
They might as well try to dam up the deep blue
waters of the river that flows along our Eastern
borders, on its way towards the sunny South
The Republican is no weak and taint-hearted
to be killed off by u few qups and
soft paper bullets. 1t is founded upon the
crying necessity of the times. Its aims are ma
tional. 1t proposes measure but should be
submitted to as Just and fair to all parties and all
sections of the Union And as long it ad-
heres to the ground it now occupies, it never
can be rdculcd, sneered, jeered or voted
down.