Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1858-11-19

ever fcrSsaW so clearly the COURSE oi iutufs
events as TO plan a universal scheme for
future action. adapted TO all possible emer-
Who would ever have joined even
the Wing party Of the Revelation, ii 1t mad
been obliged 20 answer, in 1TT5, whether
it would declare for I~Edependence 1875, and
for this noble Federal Constitution of ours,
in 1851, and not 4 year earlier sr later!
The people of the q uited Ststes will be
as wise next year, and the year efterwsrd,
and even ten years hence, as We are now.
They will oblige the Republican party to
act as the public v clfare and the interests of
Justice and humanity shall require through
all the stages Of its career, whether of ur;al
or triumph.
Others will not venture an effort because
they fear that the Union would not endure
she change. WIFI such otiecters tell me
how long a Constitution can bear strain
directly along the ibres of which il il cota-
posedl This is a Constitution of Freeesm-
Il 10 being converted into a Constitution o.
Slavery. 1t is a Republican Constitution
Il is bring made int an Aristccratic one
Others may wish 10 wait until some eeilat-
eraI Questions concerning Temperance or
the exercise of The Elective Franchise are
properly settled. Let ms ask all such per-
Suns, whether time enough has not been
! wasted on these points already, without
gaining any other than hiss single advan-
tsge, namely, the discovery that only one
thing can be efsectuaIly done at one iiuse, aRd
that the enc thing which niust and can be
done al any ore. time il JUST that Thing which
lie nIust urg Mt Lnd Will ne -onger admit sf
-possponement or delay. Finally, we sre
told by faint hearted men thai they despond,
the Democratic party they say is ~uncanauef-
able, aud the dominion of Slavery is conse-
qucntly ineyirabie. l reply 10 them, that
the complete and universal domiaion Of
Slavery would be inroiersbie enough wheD
il should have come after the last POssibis
effoa to escape should have been made.-
There would in that case be Iel the con.
soling reflection Of fidelity to duly.
But reply further that know-few ]
liIink know betterthan I-tlse resT trees and
energfys of the Democratic parss, which II
identical with the Slave Powey. | do am,
| pie prestige 10 its traditional popaIari.g.
know furthsr-fe~ I thin know bette
than 1.-the difficulties am. disadyaataee .
organizing a new political fprce like The
Republican party, aud The obstacles il mus
encounter in iaooring without prestige aAs
without PatronSge. But, notwithstanding
ali this, 1 know TIA t the Democrats party
must go down and The RepublicaR part,
rise into It's Pts &c. Tho Democratic pertj
derived it's strength s>rigira ally fozla its adop
tion of tpe princi ples of equal and exac
justice TO all mel. So long Is il practices
this pyinciPle faithfully il was lnsulneEsble
Ii became v4inerahle when il r~eRoGnced it
not bye Sftue of its own strength, Or even 0
ifs tr dditio ma. merits, but because there as
y.thad appeared in the political kels n
other party that had the conscience and the
courage 10 take up and asow aRd praetics
the hfe-inspirlng principle which the Demo
cratic parry had surrendered. At Last ths
Republican party ksd appeared II avo~i
BOYS a. the R.pnoliean party of 1900 did
in one word lis faith aud It's works, "E4ua
and exact iisiics 10 all men," Even wheI
il first entered The field, only half organized
il struck u blow which only just failed + Il
secure com 2lets ami triumphant victory
Ia this. its second campaign, il has alread,
won advantages which render that triumph
both easy and Certain -.
Tle secret Of lis assured success lies j,
that very CHARACTERISTIC, which in the mouth
of ~scoffers copSllute its great and lasting
imbeciiiy and reproach. 1t lies in the fac
that it is a psrty of one idea; but that idei
Is a noble one I'm idea that fills and ex
paRds all generous souls; the idea of equal
hy-t the equality on all men before human
tribunals All human laws, as they are equa
before the Divine tribunal and Divine laws
know, and You know, that q revolutioE
has beguA. l know, and all the worl
knows, that revolutions never go backw ard
Twenty Senators and a hundred Represen
t~aliyes proclaim boldly in Congress to-da.
sentiments and opinions and principles o
Freedom which hardly SO many men ever
in this Tree State dared to utter in their ewI
homes twenty years ugo- While the Gov
ernment oil the United States, under tht
conduct OF the Democratic party, has bee
ali thai time, surrendering one plain an
castle after another to Slavery, the peopl
of the United States have been no les
steadily, perseveringly gathering together t b
forces, with which to recover buck again a
the fields and all the castles which hav'
been losl. and to eontound and overtime,
by one decisive blow, the betrayers of III
Constitution and Freedom forever.