The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1856-01-17
For the National Era.
DEFENCE OF THE GERMANS.
lCONCLUDED.l


can Politics can, in the present positions of
the parties, take place only by struggling
against the existing abuses. The Turner's
Confederacy considers as the focus of cheese
abuses: Slavery, Nativism, and Compelsive
Temperance; and it puts forth, therefore, the
following positions:
l. The Turner's give their votes to no man,
for any Office, who belongs to the Order of
know Nothings, or to any Corporation Or
Party of Natives, or who does not publicly OPP
pose them.
2. The Turner'S are against Slavery, bat
particularly against the extension of the same
into free Territories, as they consider IL to be
absolutely unworthy ofa Republic, and directly
contrary to free principles.
3. The Turner'S are against every Temper,
ance law, as undemocratical unjust, and i'm
practicable in its execution.
The Convention based the political portion
of this programme upon the resolutions of the
liberal Germans of Minnesota, and no man, of
just sentiment, can blame it for having made
its resolutions so purely negative. A positive
rule for action can be given to the Turner'S
Confederacy, as such, only when the new
Liberty Party shall have completely labored
itself out of the present chaos of the Union.
Politics. AS long as this party limits itself to
single States Confederacy that extends over
the whole Union cannot be supposed to ANAL
gamate Internationally with the same
How much the Turner'S Confederacy take to
~ tboh ,,r, oJ,
of its members, is proved by the following
unanimously adopted resolutions
l. In order to promote the intellectual cult
walton in the Turner'S Associations, schools of
industry shall be established, in which the
following branches are to be kept in view, 40
much as it is possible to the individual associa-
tons: English Language, Mathematics, Natp-
raj Philosophy, Practical Chemistry, Drawing,
History, Geography, and Bookkeeping.
Associations that are unable to do anything
in this respect, shall be held to provide at least
for tuition in the English Language.
2. Every association shall, as much as posi-
BILE, take care that daily schools for the, pupils
be established, in order that the latter be, from
their earliest age, radically educated, not only
in their bodies, but also in their minds.
3. The Diet is charged to induce and to
mediate theoretically, by the organ of the Con-
federacy, the organization of scientific practi-
cal lectures for the promotion of intellectual
cultivation Of the Turner's Associations -
Turn-Zsitung, PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 4, 1855.
THE REPUBLICAN PARTY.
With avar-ipcrao oipp ouioL stopo 49,,
Party of the North is rising from the chaos of
party fermentation; and we Germans should
greet with loud reclamation this phenomenon,
which gives us the prospect of humanizing,
morally energetic policy, that alone deserves
our support. By this an end is put at last &c
the sad alternative, that we have only to choose
between two evils the lesser one-that is to say,
between "Know Nothingism and "Dcmocra-
cy" the latter; and the movement is led to a
ground on which we can firmly foot, and ad-
vance with safe steps. We will and We shall,
however, by no means declare ourselves direct
ly here for joining this Republican Party"
which is now forming. We have at present
only to deal with the principles of this party,
which we may adopt and defend as such that
answer next to ours. But the party itself con-
sists of individuals who have to represent those
principles; and the manner, hoao they represent
them, can alone decide us, what position to the
party we shall ake.-Iarn-Zeitung, Piladel-
phia Got. 4, 1855.
SOUTH AND NORTH.
| We must duly acknowledge that the slave
holders speak openly, and that they are, in
their uncovered cynical brutality, not half as
disgusting and contemplate as the Northern
doughfaces, whose mouths are ever full Of po-
| ~ Al e ~
| the maintenance of sacred compacts," but
who are with doggish humility and cat-like
faseness at first silent about any and every vio-
ation of political morality apd good faith, who
then hush them up with sophistical trickery,
and finally endorse them directly or indirectly.
! A victory of Democracy, in the next Presi.
Dental Election, would be nothing else but a
victory Of the South over the North. Slavery,
now firmly footed at the boundaries of Mexico,
and extending to the boundaries of Kansas,
| would trespass these limits, and extend to the
southern boundary line of British America
| That Devils wall of Slavery would cut of the
free States not only from the Pacific Ocean,
but also themselves from each other, geograph-
ically separated; and they would not in their
mutilation, be able to present any longer an
energetic resistance to Slave Power. Slavery
would then be no more sectional, but national;
it would rule the Republic.
| By the open and bold stand, which the
Georgia Democracy has taken, is marked out
to every humane friend of Liberty the course he
has to 60 in the impending complications of
Union-POlitics. The Territory of Kansas is
the next prize for which Liberty and Slavery
| will struggle with each other. That situation
has been depicted, with clear and grand marks
| by Mr.. Seward, in one of his late master
speeches. At the Republican Meeting in Buf
falo, October l9, 1855, he said:
"This issue is to be decided by the present
Congress, or possibly continued before the next
Congress, under a new Administration. The
Republican Party are committed to the rescue
of Kansas. Is it not just that Kansas shall be
| free State? Is it not an inherent right of
every community to be free, if it desire to be
so? What does your Declaration of Independ
ence mean, if it do not mean that? Was not
Freedom pledged to Kansas in 1920 by the
shareholders themselves? Was not that pledge
surreptitiously and perfdiously broken in 1854,
by the Kansas Territorial act? Was not Free
dom pledged even by that act to the people of
Kansas, if they should desire to be free? Is
not even that pledge shanefully broken by the
| usurpations of the Missouri Shareholders? Let
the Republican Party prevail in this and in the
next canvass, and Kansas will become free
State. Let the Republican Party fail, and
Kansas will inevitably be slave State. On
which side, then, are Justice, Equality, and
Freedom? Answer me, as you will expect to
answer at the bar of the public opinion Of man
| kind"
Notwithstanding all that has occurred at the
individual State elections, we still hope and
believe that German humane sentiment and
! love of honor shall be proved as true in the
great struggle between South and North, which
must be fought ont in the next Presidential