Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1858-09-17
Garrisonism.


relative to abolitionism being the cause
of the present Republican party, and we
think in it he has presented US with the
biggest specimen of pettifogging we have
seen in our brief experience as a news
paper publisher, and he certainly deserves
the first premium in that branch of
pleading. His confounding the repub-
lican party of 1924 with that Of 1858, is
sublime nonsense. The republican party
of to-day is no more like the republican
party of 1924, than modern democracy
is like the democracy of Jefferson's time,
and we are surprised that so profound"
a man as our correspondent is generally
acknowledged to be should make so gross
a "blunder" He says truly that John
Quincy Adams was elected in 1924 by
the republican party, and was defeated in
1928, when that party was totally de-
stroyed. From that time to l855-a
period of twenty-seven years-there was
no party which bore that name, or even
had our greatest principle Incorporated
in its creed. He says the old whig party
rose from the ashes of the republicans
and achieved a great victory in 1910,
which may be true. Now for the sake
Of proving the falsity of his statement
that the "whig, free soil, and republican
parties, in all their changes have been
essentially the same," let Us compare
principles. The principles Of the wing
party were National Bank, high Pro
tective Tariff, Distribution of the pro
ceeds of the sales of the public lands
among the several States" &c. These
were their great measures, while with the
republicans they are of minor Importance.
Here let US ask our friend if he knows
what led to the organization Of the re-
publican party, which he says is essen
TALLY the same as the republican party OF
1924, or the wing and free soil parties oil
later period. The present republican
party was not organised till 1865, and the
cause for it did not exist till 1854, when
Mr.. Douglas brought forward his Kan.
sas-Nebraska bill, repeating the Missouri
Compromise, and the organization of thai
party in 1855 was the effect of the re
peal of that compact; and yet he say.
the whig, free soil, and republican par
ties "in all their changes have beer
essentially the same" What ignorance
What stupidity, and what a libel upol
the republicans of 1858! Why, the lif
and soul of this is opposition to the slav
power, while the principle of anti-slaver
never entered into the contest of tho
other republican party. Neither was tn
wing party north considered very deepI
tinctured with anti-slavery sentiments
With us, opposition to slavery is wha
holds US together. That is the magn,
which attracts and binds the FESTIVE mas
es together. Without that holy prime
pie the party would soon be disseveret
There are, to be sure, other issues, BIT
this is tile issue. We have shown VIII
are the principles OF the republican part
Of 1858, and will our correspondent no
inform us where the similarity is betwet
that party and the republicans of 1872
on the anti-slavery question, for that
the origin of the present organizations
We have shown that in ordr Of tin
our correspondent is wrong, and that Il
party is mary years younger than ca
risonism.
He then asks, HAS Garrisonism
fuenced men to become anti-slavery, a
thus republican ?" To be sure it has.
The evidence Of it is seen throughout t
Union. Look at the great and growi
anti-slavery sentiment that is abroad.
How was it twenty or thirty years ag
Why, even in Vermont, the present c
adel Of free soil principles, men We
mobbed for daring to lecture upon al
litionism. Now nearly every man in l
borders is an anti-slavery man, and
there Is one pro-slayery man here
does not dare acknowledge it, for fear
bringing upon himself the merited C,
tempt of the public. Behold the chan
Our correspondent then asks, w
one Of the principles Of Garrison ent
into the creed of the republicans ?" {
then tells us what the prominent poi
of his belief are. Not one of them
advocated by him or by his school, ent
into our creed, but the sacred princi
of freedom in a rational form enters
it. Garrison and his disciples were uI
lists, while the members of our party
Observation-Disclosures but tn {
never would have been that large con!
vative party that there now is, had it
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