The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1857-06-04
The Republican Party Its Present
and Future

That able and judicious Republican
paper, the Sandusky Register contains an
article pnder the above caption. which is
SO repiete with sound advice and wise
suggestion, that we copy it here, and full
ly endorse the sentiments as our own
Let thegadvice of the Register be needed.
and ilae permanehcy'of the Republican
party is established. 1t will not ONLY
malntaio its proud ascendency in Ohio,
but its principles--which are the true
principles of the Government, finding
their chief support in the Constitution
ltself-nSist continue to spread until sla
very and its doughface tools and abettors
make a complete and final surrender
We pity the poor sciolist who is, unable
to discernthe great principles underlying
the Republican organization, which must,
in the nature Of things insure its perma-
nency, That We shall succeed in euery
encounter with the enemies Of fr, edom.
between this and the day of final triumph,
is too much to expect. The most perfect
human organizations experience OCCASION
aisrererses. Bad men may creep into
our party, and by its aid, seek to advance
their own sinister designs at the expense
OF truth and such may be potent instru-
ments Of evil to our cause before their
true character is discovered and exposed.
Again, our enemies may entrap us by
sklllfully sprung SIDE issaes, well knowing
that they can make no headway in an
open field encounter against the glorious
principles embraced in our platform. But
all such checks will be temporary, and
the Republican party, if true to the sacred
cause of freedom, will go on conquering
and to conquer until the last fortress of
slaveryis dismantled and its forces retire
from The combat wiser if not better men.
Our contemporary says: g Perhaps at
no period since the advent of the Repub-
lican party, has caution, prudence and
discretion been more essential to the sue
cess Of that party, and the permanency
Of its principles, than at present. The
Republican party was inaugurated under
circumstances Of rare peculiarity. It
owes its organization to the punic faith
of the leaders of party which had be-
come desperate by the long possession oil
power and patronage. The Republican
organization was quickened into being as
an instra mentality to repress fragrant
wrongs, and to check the mad career OF
men who feel power and forget right.
Other organizations with antagonistic in
terests and conflicting principles, had
arisen ana maintained themselves in the
field for long series of years but in
many of the States they were eAfectually
'0iped out, when the people cast from them
the liveries of those other parties, as re-
fuse trash, and put upon them the pano-
ply of the Republican; Organization
Never did a party take such hold upon
tie sentiments of the people. Never were
the people more feed instheir determine
tion to vindicate their principles.
The Republican organization. though
scarcely three years old, ,,has nobly made
its mark. 1t has record of which it
may well be proud; and we trust 1u-
tire. worthy of its beginning. But as we
remarkedin in the outset, prudence and cir
cumspeclion are necessary to secure that
future. There are among us-and they
are not confined to eitherione Of the old
parties--men who are politicians By trade.
Long experience has made them familiar
with partisan tactics; and their sole capt.
tai consists Of investments in the particu-
lar organization to which they are attach
ed; and from which they derive their
chief Consequence Fortunately for the
Republican party, being a comparatively
recent organization, it is but little encum-
bered with this kind of furniture. This
is not ethe erefore, the point of danger
Nor does the peril consist in the evaaes-
cent character of its principles and its
aims j; for. these are fixed in the affections
may, let us say in the very religion OF
the members composing the organization.
Their irfathers bequeathed them FREEDOM,
and they have covenanted in their hearts,
and before high Heaven, to transmit the
legacy TO their posterity.
: The Ianger against which we would
warn our Republican friends, is to be ap-
pretended from the introduction of SIDE
ISSUES uponslocal interests. or personal
preferences. Less than two years ago,
every branch of our State government
was in the hands of our opponents and
recklessly did they use their power for
its perpetnation in their own hands. Now
--aohefe aretAeys A horde of cormorant
starveEngs, hungering and bowling for
the spoilslef Office. Driven to the federal
den, as last resort, they way-lay the
presidential mansion, and watch the exec.
utlve departments-ready at any mo-
ment to devour each other for the mere
chance of Ohtaiainor offico aud ,,l,,do,.