The Hillsdale standard. [volume] (Hillsdale, Mich.) 1851-1909, 1857-10-06
NO. 57G
The RepubIIcan Party Lives.

The late election In Maine, vermont, anu
Rhode Island, demonstrate with a glorious
certainty, that the republican organization is
not an ephemeral one, formed by selfish politi-
clans and supported by mercenary partlzans;
but that its foundations are laid broad and
deep in the hearts of freemen, who will cling
to its principles and battle for the truth, 30
long rs slavery is the curse OF our republic,
and the principle of the declaration OF lnde-
pepdencc are made by word and reproach
to other nations, in the bondage of Millions.
Look over the result. Missouri, at the late
election, made the question of emancipation
the issue for the first time. Her constitution,
upon which Benton prides himself as his own
special work, provides that slavery shall be
perpetual and the legislature by its provi-
sions, are denied the right Of abolishing it,
Missouri has always cast her electoral voto
for the Democratic candidate, yet to-day,
FRANCIS P. BLAIR, Jr., true unfiincting
advocate of emancipation in that State, re-
presents the city of st. Louis IN Congress,
and Mayor WIMER, and the officers OF that
city, were elected by large majority upon
the same issue, and at the late gubernatorial
election Major ROLLINS, who took strong
ground in favor of emancipation in that State,
failed, by but 800 votes in a poll of ninety
four thousand, of an election. Hereafter
we count upon Missouri as free State. The
German element Of her population are sound
upon this question, and the influx of North
crn emigration upon her soil, the steady in
crease of the free population aud tho de-
crease of the slave, ensures the triumph OF
free principles there, and her powerful aid IN
the future.
The Republican party is unit to-day.
Failing as we did in the election OF Fremont,
We shall accomplish the purpose VIC aimed
Mt, in the admission of Kansas AS FREQ
State. The aid and means extended to the
free cmigrarts of the North, who have made
that territory their home, have given us
great numerical majority Of the population,
and in our oppnion, the sceIes Of bloodshed'
and violence by the hands of Border Rufiians
upon her soil, aided and abetted by the dis
graceful administration of Franklin Pierce,
arc at an end, and though Gov. Walker,
backed by fifteen hundred OF the United
States troops, may attempt to overawe ana
crush out the spirit of Republicanism that
lives and triumphs there, yet we believe that
the October election will result in the de-
feat of the Michigan dough-face, ex-Gov.
Ransom, and the election of free delegate
to tho next Congress by an overwhelming
majority. A democratic Congress may refuse
to acknowledge the validity of the Topeka
constitution but they cannot, dare not, refuse
her admission as free State. And the two
hundred thousand inhabitants of MINNESOTA
arc soon too vote upon constitution, when
provides, that involuntary survitude shall
never exist upon her soil. Gov. Gorman,
Senator Douglas, and other northern men
with southern principles, have failed in their
attempts to annul the action OF her constitu-
| tional convention.
Rhode Island gives moro than 5000,
Maine $4,000, and Vermont $4,000 Repub-
lican maiorities, at their late elections. Gov
Chase is renominatcd in Ohio, and will prove
an affectual Payne Killer to the pains and
chronic difficulties of Loco focoism IN thac
State, while Wisconsin will elect Judge Kan
dali, as Governor, by large majority. Inc
Germans will give almost their entire vote 70
the Republican candidates in Wisconsin
The appointment of we'll known Know Moth
inps to federal officers, by Buchanan, arc hav.
inc their legitimate effect upon that part OF
the foreign population, who have heretofore
voted with the Democracy, and in Cleveland
for this same reason, four hundred foreigners
have in n body decided to no longer act with
party, in whose profession they can place
no reliance. r
Republicans of Michigan, our prospects OF
trium ph success in the future were never
more fiattering than to-day. Let the rabid
Loco Foco press howl at the action OF inc
present State Administration, and attempt
TO divert the attention OF the people from
tho great national issues by harping upon
local questions, and gross misrepresentation
Of State matters Their attempts for this
purpose, will be as vain aS their desires 70 re.
gain possession of the government, SO long
perverted from its true function to suoserVe
party purposes. Tho Democracy of Mich,
iran have been tried and found wanting ana
tho people will not again submit to the bur ,,!
den so long imposcl upon them. Repuoh
canism lives Lansing Republican
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