The Davenport daily gazette. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1856-1869, 1856-12-09

with party got up for purposes not
in harmony with their own, the con-
duct of Mr.. Fillmore's friends, in eth
er voting for Mr. Buchanan or divid
ing the opposition by separate tick
ct, can hardly be repeated again.
The true course Of the Republicans is,
to organize promptly, boldly, and hon
estly upon Their own principles, so
clearly set forth in the Philadelphia
Platform, and neutrality-suspicious. with
other darties, appeal directly to the
OF all Parties to ignore all organiza
tions and issues which would divert
the Public Mind from the one danger
that now threatens the honor and in
terest Of the country and the stability
Of the Union, Slavery Propagandism
allied with Disunionism
Let us not forget that it is not the
want of generous sentiments, bat Of
sufficient information, that prevents
the American People from being unit
cd in action against the aggressive
policy of the Slave Power Were
these simple questions submitted to-
day to the.people.of the United States:
Are you in favor of the extension
of slaveryl--Are you in favor Of such
extension by the aid or connivance of
the Federal Government!--and could
they be permitted to record their votes
in response, without embarrassment,
without restraint any kind, nineteen
twentieths of the people of the Free
States and perhaps more than half OF
the people of the Slave States, would
return a decided negative to both.
Let us have faith in the People. Let US
believe that at heart they are hostile to the
extension Of slavery, desirous that the Ter
ritories of the Union be conse .ated TO Free
Labor and Free Institutions and that they
require only enlightenment as to the most
eifectual means OF securing this end, to
convert their cherished sentiment into hx-
ed principle of action
The times are pregnant with warning.
That a Disunion Party exists in the South,
no longer admits Of toubt. ltaccepts the
election Of Mr.. Buchanan as atfordlng time
and means to consolidate its strength and
mature it's plans, which will comprehend
not only the enslavement OF Kansas, and
the recognition Of al! slavery in all Terrific
nv of the United States, but the conversion
O, the lower halt OF California into Slave
State, the organization Of new Slave Ter
itory in the Gsdsen purchase. the future an
nexation Of Nicaragua and subjugstion Of
Central America md the acquisition OF
Cuba; and, as the Free States are not ex-
oecte d 10 submit to all this, ultimate dis
m emberment Of the Union, and the forma-
ton Of great Slaveholding Confederacy,
with foreign alliances with Brazil and Rus
sis. ltmay assume at first a moderate tone,
TO prevent the sudden alienation ofits North.
efn allies; i, may delay the development OF
it's plot, as 1t did under the Pierce Admins
tration: but the epe al Of the Missouri Com
promise came at last, and so will come up
on the country inevitably the Iirst acts ot the
dark cons piracy. When ,hst hour shall
come, then will the honest Democrats Of
the Free S ates be driven into our ranks,
and the men ii tie Slave States who pre-
fer the Republic OF Washington, Adams,
and JeffersoH--a republic OF law, order and
Hferty-to an oiigarchy ofslaveholders and
slavery propagandists, governed by Wise,
Atchisun, Sduie, aud Walker, founded In
fraud and violence, and seeking aggrandze-
men, by the spoliation Of nations, will bid
God speed to The labors Of the Republican
PARTY 10 preserve Liberty and the Union,
one and .inseparable, perpetual and all
powerful.
Republican Rooms, Washington, Nov.
81, SO