The Council Bluffs nonpareil. [volume] (Council Bluffs [Iowa]) 1857-1867, 1857-10-10

hey were successful ip removing an old
lndmask, and in producing the present agi-
alton Of the Slavery saestien. The Demos
ratio party It once become Che apologize
nd sponsors Of this spplilaion Of @Sqaat-
er Sovereignty" TIE Cinsinnati platform
# 1856, was declared BY Northern Demo-
rats, to express in plain terms, that the
people Of territory could receive or cast
put Slavery. On this understanding, MIR.
BUCHANAN was elected President. Now it
Is Democratic doctrine that Sldre1y erists
in all the Territories BY pirtue Of tie Con-
Of the United States, and that the
question Of Slavery or no Slavery, cannot
be decided until the formation Of State
Constitution. This is the latest cloak A.
sumed by the patent Democracy-but as
this is progressive age, We shall not in all
probability have to wait long for something
new ssto turn up'' in the interchangeable DEM
ocratic party.
AS we said before, the Wing party did
not survive the election Of 80. Though, in
many of the States, the members chung to
its name and its principles, with tenacity
worthy Of all commendation-it could not
be resuscitated. About this time, the Know
Nothing party sprang into existence, and
for time, swept everything before it. 1t
once bid fair to engulf everything in its
meshes, but it split upon the rock Of Slare-
~, and foundered, making but poor show
in the succeeding Presidential race. The
Republican party had its origin shortly SUBJ,
sequent to. the repeal Of the Missouri Com
promise. not to say from the very day in
which that act Of gross perfdy was con-
summated. The North had hitherto looked
with comparative indifferenceupon the more
gradual aggressions of the Slave power, but
when the restriction Of 1920 was removed,
the act was of a character SO audacious and
startling, that the really true men Of the
Union were drawn together by the motives
of common patriotism, to check the pro-
gress of that arrogant power which seemed
determined, in violation Of the spirit Of our
organic law, to attain permanent suprema-
cy of the Government. Here We see the
provocation and the resnlt.> The Republic
can party grew up naturally from the out
ragged sensibilities of the masses of the peo-
pie, and taking its organization just as it
did, simply to repel an aggression, it is fol-
ly to pretend, as the Democratic party does,
that it is sectional party, for to be sec
tional is to be aggressive. Wherever Re-
publican platform has been formed, it has
been incorporated in it, that the only de-
sign Of the party was to prevent the extension
of Slauery-and that while we were willing to
leave Slavery where it was left by the foun-
ders of the Government, our own interests,
and those of the whole Union, required that
it should be kept within its present limits.
This ground the Republican party is deter
mined to maintain. 1t is controversy we
did not provoke, but it is one from which
we shall not shrink. Our brethren in the
slave holding States are full of denuncia-
tions and threats Of disunion, and conse-
quent bloodshed. This is the language Of
passion and not Of reason, and will hardly
deter us from our purpose. Thegreat ques-
ton is not, as to who is pleased, but, are
pc Right.
We would ask, if the advocacy of free
principles is sectional-and if this be re-
spouded to negatively, as it must be-we
further ask, how can the Republican party,
whose Distinguishing characteristic is such
advocacy, be sectional party? The charge
is susceptible of no manner of proof. A
| party which took IN unmeditated existence
from an urgent political necessity, and
which met its first unrelenting attacks from
mere politicians, cannot of necessity be a
favorite with them or under their control.
Hence, the oft-rung cry, that the Republi-
can party can never be successful. We are
not surprised ut this, as the wish is so Of
ter father to the thought, and those events,
which we, in our minds sincerely desire may
not take place, we speedily conclude will
not. At the present time, every indica-
! ton argues the eventual success of the Re-
publican movement. As yet, we perceive
no faltering in the Republican ranks since
the last Presidential election. Vermont,
Maine and Rhode Island, have lately affirm
cd their past actions, and Ohio, New York,
Wisconsin, Pennsylvania and the embryo
State OF Minnesota, are thoroughly awake,
and promise to give unmistakable evidence
of their devotion to the Republican organi-
zation. Iowa, too, will attest her devotion
to the principles of Right, next Tuesday,
in manner not at all consonant with the feel
ings Of the Sham Democracy. 1t is these
signs of the times, which alarm the Democ-
racy, and prompt them to affirm, asseve crate
and ''shriek' that the Republican move
mcnt Ost be unsuccessful. But, we know
that the hearts Of the people are right-and
that they will not be frightened out of their
fidelity to principle, by the bug-bear of
"abolition''-and that is all we ask. In
this is our own guarantee of success.
Keeping up Courage. @ .sr
The Democratic organs throughout the
State are having delightful time of it, just
now, "whistling to keep up courage" among
the dry bones, until the day of election
They TEEN with fulsome sleaders' of the i'm
mense success Of their nominee for Governor