The Davenport daily gazette. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1856-1869, 1856-11-04
THE DAILY GAZETTE.
THE REPUBLICAN PARTY


The following are an honest Free
mans reasons for supporting and act
ing with the Republican Party:
|. Because it is in favor Of FkEf
SPEECH, and opposed to club law ou
the floor Of Congress, and to Border
lsuffian law on the soil of Kansas.
2. Because it is in favor OF FREE
LABOR and opposed to the policy
which fills our market with the pro.
ducts Of foreign workshops, while our
own workmen, their wives and chill
dren, are unemployed.
2. Because it is in favor of FREF
MEN, and opposed tothe system which
gives, 10000 oligarchs, owners Of hosts
OF slaves, the sole direction Of the pol
icy oi the country.
f. Because it is in favor of FREE
SoIL, and desires that the vast plains
of Kansas and Nebraska, sufficient to
make twelve such States as Pennsyl.
vania, shonld be divided among the
free men of the country, their wives
and children.
s. Because it is in favor Of FsEE
GovERNMENT, and opposed to the sys.
TEN which gives to the people of Kan
sas no choice except between martial
law and the mob law Of the Border
Rufiisns OF Missouri.
8 Because il desires to rescue THE
LIgEEuEs or THE CITIZENS, and is there
fore opposed to the doctrine Of con
shucdYe treasons and contempts, by
means ol which corrupt Govern
ment, and corrupt Judges now seek
their subversion.
!. Because it desires to settle all
questions BY means ofthe BALLOT Box
leaving 10 he advocates Of Slavery
the use of The revolver and the bowie.
knife
S. Because ii has no affinity with
the party whose leading organs teach
their readers that SLAVERY, wheth.
or for the black man or the white, is
LEGITIMATE. Useful AND ExPEDIENT
INsTTrrTroS; and that, therefore, they
should seek 'not merely to retain it
where it Is, bat Ito extend it to re-
gions where it is unknown"
8. Because in seeking to protect the
national property from the detilement
of Slavery. il acts instruct accordance
with the principles Of that GREATOR
pNANcE OF SEVENTEEN IlusDREp AND
EIeHTY- SEVEN, which, with the single
exception Of one northern meaiber,
received the unanimous vote of Con
gress, and has since been confirmed
by acts Of Congress. bearing the sigma
ture OF every President from Washing
ton to Polk. tsa
10. Because It protests against the
repeal Of the MIssoCEI COMPROMISE, 10
which in 1s4S. Mr.. Buchanan eluug
with more tenacity than ever"
II. Because,in advocating the cause
Of FREE LABOR IN KANSAS il acts iis
full accordance with that Compact ".
Peace which set limits beyond which
Slavery should not he extended, and
within which it was not to be interfer-r
ed with.
L. Because it is purely NATIONAL,
and ANTI SEcTroNAL-holding that
the North has rights as well as the
South; and that those ofall should be
equally respected
13. Because it is emphatically THE
PARTY OF THE UNToN-being the only
one that has never threatened dissolu
ton OF the connection, because of suc-
cess or failure in the approaching elec-
ton.
II. Because it has incurred THE
HATRED..oF ALL SEerIoNALIsTs; as we'll
those living north Of Mason and Dix
on's line as those living south oft.
II. Because it is the party which
follows in the train of the PATRIsTs Oh
THE REvoLUuoN--ail of its doctrines
on the subject OF free and slave labor
being derived from Washington, JET
terson. and other eminent men Of the
South.
16. Because it STANDS BY THE Cox
sruCTEoN as interpreted by Washing
ton, Adams, Jefferson, Madison,
Monroe, adams the younger, Jack
son, Van Bllren, Harrison. Tyler,
Polk Taylor-and Mr. Buchanan him.
sell, until the passage OF the infamous
Kansas Nebraska act-all OF them
having held that Congress had full
power for the government of all the
National territory, and might exclude
Slavery at its pleasure.
IL Because it is the PEACE PARTY
-repudiating altogether the highway
mems plea, embodied in the Ostend
Circular
Is Because it is the SOUND Cur
REScY PARTY--advocating the adop-
tion OF measures that will cause to be
retained at home the gold now sent
abroad to be applied to the mainte-
nance Of the currency Of other coun-
tries
1s Because it is the HIGH WAsRs
PARTY wholly opposed to the idea
that reduction OF the free laborerto the
of the slave, is the measure
tNItifS't " NAitlS uS W Will
the Pauper laborer OF Europe.
20. Because it is the PARTY OF
EREEDoa everywhere anxious to re-
lieve the millions OF poor and down
trodden whites of the South from the
and debasing tyranny to
which they are now subjected.
II. Because, holding that FREEDoM
IS NATIONAL, and Slavery only section
al, it objects to all measures tending
towards enabling Southern planters to
''call the roll oftheir slaves at Bunker
HILL"
%. Because tits the party of SouNp
MoRALs--being opposed to the intro
iuction Of either Slavery OF Polygamy
into the Territories of the Union.
%. Because it has for its standard.
bearer JOHN c. FREMONT. q man OF
high intellect, spotless integrity, and
rhinestone fully wor