Bradford reporter. [volume] (Towanda, Pa.) 1844-1884, 1856-03-15

| ciplcS in which both agreed embraced in their
designations, however much they disagreed
about matters of policy and modes of admins
| tering the Government
The Federalists gave their support to the
Republican form of government The Repub-
! licanS were devoted to the federal compact
both agreed i'll opposition to royalty, and in
opposition to a severance of the federation and
leaving the States to drift as petty nations.
detached from each other May not those
who have organized with view to correct
what they consider mere error in the legsla-
ton and administration of Government, under
whatever party name or watchword they rally.
unite with those who do not agree with them
about the measures or mode of reform on points
which involve nothing vital, to redeem the 60
vernnent from an nfraction of the fundamcn-
tai laws on which they believe its peace and
prosperity certainly depend, and possibly its
unity as nation. Cannot ali parties in the
North unite in such crisis, to preserve what
they in common feel to be paramount to all
other questions in controversy which have here
totore divided them, and cannot all rally under
Republican standard to defend the cause of
free institutions and the Union against the
aggression of interested and ambitious men.
VINO make slavery means of combining a Sec
tonal force to accomplish their designs gainSt
them, and especially when if this moment be
lost the cause must be lost !
The great object Of defeating this attempt,
by putting all questions of difference in abev-
ance for the time, does not imply surrender
Of other party principles, or of the organza-
tions to be employed to give effect to them
hereafter. But such is the reluctance of men
who have battled for a cause nader banner
to which they have given their offections-so
loyal are the hearts of good men, even to the
badges they have worn and which they honor,
that they Will not desert them for others, al
though they feel the necessity of uniting with
those whom they have once opposed, in sup
port OF still dearer and more important inter
estS. | think this noble feeling should be con-
suited by this Convention in the arrangements
it may make to produce concert among all par
ties who place the preservation of the free ter
rltorlcS from Slavery (and as result, the pre-
scrvatiOn of the Cnion) above all other sub /
Jccts of controversy, and it is hoped that mea
sures will be adopted to induce all the friends |
of this cause, who are unwilling to take part I
in nominating candidates for the first and sec
ond officers of the Government in the Repub- |
lican Convention, to send delegates to separate /
conventions under their own party designations |
to meet at the same time and place to confer /
upon the subject of the nominations, and in
conclusion, if found necessary and practicable
to unite in Mass Meeting of the Representa-
tivcs of all parties, drawn together to confer in
regard to the means of eXtricating the country
from the threatening and most alarming posture !
in which it is now placed -surrendering for the
occasion all questions Of minor differences of
policy and reform and personal predictions, +.
for men of this or that party, and giving. as
did the patriots of the Bevoution the whole
heart to the cause and nothing but the cause
and thus by Joint counSels ensure glorious
triumph for the conservative principles of our
Government-the public will The candidate
of such a mass meeting would stand above the
conflicts of pnrtizan politics, and Ike the cIc-
waited chiefs who led in the establishment of
our independence, would value no man but as
a contributor to the success Of the great cause
of the country. Francis Z. BLAIR.