Litchfield enquirer., 1858-11-11

son. whether time enough has not been wasted on these points already, without gaining any other than this single advantage, namely: the discovery that orly one thing can be effectu- ally done at one time, and that the one thing which must aud will be done at any one time is just that thing which is most urgent and will no longer admit of postponemcnt or delay.
 Finally, we are told by faintheartcd men that they despond. The Democratic Party they say is uuconquerable, and the dominion of slavery is consequently inevitable. l reply to them that the complete and universal dominion of slavery would be intolerable enough when 1t should have come after the last possible effort at escape should have been made There would in that case be left to us the consoling reflcc- tion of fidelity to duty.
 But I reply further, that l know-few l think know better than 1.-the resources and the energies of the Democratic Party, which is identical with the Slave Power. do am pie prestige to its traditional popularity. l know further-few l think know better than 1.-the disadvantages and difficulties of organ izing new political force like the Republican Party, and tine obstacles it must encounter ill lahoring without prestige and without patron age. Bat notwithstanding all this, l know that the Democratic Party must go down, and the Republican Party must rise into its place The Democratic Party derived its strength originally from the adoption of the principles of equal and exact justice to all men. So long as it praeticed this principle faithfully, 1t Was invulnerable It became vulnerable when it renounced 1t, and since that time it has main tained itself, not by virtue of it's own strength or even of it's traditional merits, but because there had as yet appeared ill the political field no other party that had the conscience and courage to take up and avow and practice the Iife-inspiring principle which the Democratic Party had surrendered. At last the R,pub lican Party has appeared. It avows now, as the Republican Party in 1900 did, in one word, its faith and its works Equal aud exact justice to all men," Even when it first entered the field, only half organized, it struck blow which only inst failed to secure a com plete and triumphant victory In this, Its second campaign, it has already won advanta ges which render that triumph now both cas, and certain.
 The secret of its assured success lies in the | very characteristic, which in the mouth O scot1ers constitutes its great and lasting lmbe cility and rcproach. It lies in the fact that in is a party of one idea ; but that idea is . noble one-an idea that fills and expands al generous souls the idea of equai.tyy-th' equality of all men before human tribunals ano human laws, as they are all equal before tho Divine Tribunal and Divine Laws
 l know, and you know, that revolution has begun know, and all the world knows that revolutions never go backward. Twenty Senators and hundred Representatives pro claim boldly in Congress to-day, sentiments and opinions and principles of free dom whici hardly so many men even in this free State dared to utter in their own homes twent. years ago. While tie Government Of tit United States, under tie conduct of the Demo cratic Party, has been all that time surrender ing one plain and castle after another to Slave ry, the People of the United States have beel no less steadily and persevcringly gathering together before tic forces, with which to re cover back again all tine fields and all th' castles WHICH have peet IosU, oonfou"< aud overthrow, by one decisive blow, the be trayers of the Constitution and of freedom l forever.