Monmouth weekly herald. [volume] (Freehold, N.J.) 1854-1860, 1856-11-20
Stand to your Arms !!

Never, in the political history Of the country,
says the Trenton Daily Republican, has a
party been instituted that had so glorious a
record, or accomplished such great results in
the same period Of time, as the party4of Free
dom Ushered into existence in the face of a
hostile organization that had grown to a gi-
ant stature and exercised almost unbounded
sway in the politics of the nation, itnearly sue
ceeded at the first encounter in Overwhelming
its, adversary and reyolutlonizing the entire
policy of the government. Aiming only to re-
dress national wrong, in the nefarious plan OF
extending slavery over the Free Territories of
the Union,--a wrong conceived in political de-
pravity, and attempted to be consummated by
fraud and treachery--it appealed to the jus
tiee of the people, and this appeal was not I'M
needed A million and a, halfof Freemen have
attested by their response at the ballot-box the
strength of the appeal aad therighteousness Of
the cause in behalf of which it was made In
that part of the country where Freedom Of
speech and the Press are not mere distractions
but glorious realities, -wherever the people
heard and discussed the greatprinciples involv-
ed in the issue,--there the friends of freedom
triumphed and their adyersaries were made to
trail their banner in the dust We have beat
en- the enemy in the Free States of the confed-
eracy by nearly quarter million Of rotes A
change Of few thousand votes would hurl the
successful faction from power and give the nom
extension party standing in every state Of
the Union Who doubts that those changes
will occur Where an issue is SO clearly mark
ed as in this case, it is impossible that an en-
lightened people can hesitate to support the
right. We shall have their support.
The Party of Freedom will continue to gath
err fresh recruits to its standard, until in $780,
it will accomplish final triumph This re-
suit is inevitable if we are faithful to duty
Let agitation not cease, let our Organization
necessarily in complete as it is--be perfected,
let the truth be promulgated by speech and the
press, and every other proper means be adopt
ed to dspel the mists of prejudice and ignor-
ance that partisan deception have spread
around this subject.
To all the territory guaranteed to Free
dom we have an unquestionable right The Free
laborers If the North have the right to demand,
that eykhall not be snpJegtctq N The territories
to the social degradation and Inequality that
everywhere attach to the existence of the in
stitution Of slavery. They have the right to
demand that a bargain solemnly ratified be-
tween the North and the South, shall not be
violated at the expense of the free labor Of the
country. Even if slavery has got into the ter
ritories of the conniyance Of corrupt officials,
and should be preserved for season there by
dictation of a minority Of the people, there is
yet remedy. If slavery has got there by
force or.fraud, we have right to abolish it,
With such rights therefore and with such pow
er, it is no time to think Of acquiescing in the
victory of the wrong. Let the peoples party
stand to their arms, sustain their tried and
glorious leaders, and perfect their organization,
and they do two things First, they put the
party in power on its good 6ehavior. They
leave it but one chance Of maintaining its po-
sition, to wit:--t0tqL abstinence from asggres-
sions on Freedom Second, they secure an easy
and certain victory in 1860.