The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1858-10-07

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time, are nothing. They are not things. W
want aid concert, and fusion OF all the eler nts
for great and good object, aud ought b
willing to sink subordinate issues for its Viz
ment Let us all unite in saving the OF 'Str
first and then in fulfilling the great miss @
its redemption from misrule afterwards, b
liberal and compromising purpose, in VIII a
mere sectionslity shall be discArdedY
We question neither the ability nor p sol
ism of our cotemporary; but we must tie
our protest against the policy lie recomn Ids
What is ii? Absolute aeq 4iesceaee al
the adaptations Of Slavery; TIL cessation al
opposition to the doctrines on u aich they ,dt
tended; and the adoption Of :he Primo 90
Popular Sovereignty, as erpOu aded in til Gin
ciHnati Platform. We have italicised ,os
passages in the extract which authors thi
definition. We are not to attempt to une ANY
thing that Slavery has done-rot to dist tn
past-not to ask concession to our cow ion
respecting Slsvery-not to aek more fl ear
ance and federation than were exhibited il 84e
when in the National Convention that Una
ted General Taylor, not a resolution re RIM
to Slavery was allowed to be adopted. W
we will 60 still further-we will cast a OF
the Wilmot Proviso, as " a wedge" by aicl
the Democracy in lS48 sought IS rend il vail
the National Sentiment in fsror of G era
Taylor" and we will substitut for the Vic,
of that measure, the policy I'M listed nj b,
the South, that the people MAJ be allo t,
determine their own institutions in the owl
way" We will give up every Princi w
contended for in 1856, and embrace thu rim
ciples we coHtended against-jn other eds
accepting the invitation of the louisville our
nal, surrender or forego the obie ,tionsblt sue
that Lave hitherto constituted us Sc ona
PartyIl
Do we misrepresent? Read again ex
tract, and say whether our versiun of its can
ing be not true.
What great revolution has taken pie au
thorizing such change of pc icy as ,er'
recommended Has the Slave Power ,seC
to be, surrendered its ill-gotten aims, lai "sid
its aggressive purposes? Is the ST. EN-,
Court renovated? Is the bred Scott dc ion
socslled, reversed2 Have the Slavery opa
ganda abandoned their schemis eff co nes
in Cuba, Central America, and Hexico2
Has the American party gained siren b a
the South, or made new converts at the nth
Has the Anti.Slavery sentiment gre D 81
feeble that you can venture tt trife it
Did Jou7 carry California by fusion ,-dit
we lese Maine and Vermont BY adher, ce Il
our Principles and Organizations
Where ia there a change OF Public emit
ment that can embolden the Forth An ica,
to expect victory over an Adtainistrat o, b.
demoralizing the only organizs ion that aeet
it upon live issues, and emb' dies tn, iarg
majority of voters adverse to it? ca yoI
bring the Republicans of N W Engl ID t,
abandon policy, in the strt ngth of shicl
they have Frustrated the Sls,e Dem, racy
and opposition to which subserted oil
Wing PartyH How much would be It @
an opposition party in New York, Mi igau
and Ohio, could you induce the Rep lea
Organization to place itself upon the n iona
Platform of the Wing Party aud cand lie G
lo4oT W hat an adreit movement on par
of the Republicans of Illinois for the pres
sion of Douglas, could they only be pc, .sde,
to adopt the counsel of the North A1ne an
pledge themselves to let by.gcaes be b, ones
to 10y down their arms against Slavery xter
Tar sovereignty N
Pennsylvania and New Jerney and ,lifor
MIA are not model States. ;he loca ,olic
that may be deemed advisable in them " tn
overthrow of the Administration, if at npts
generally in other free Stats, wou onl
strengthen it.
The views of the North Anhrican CO neye
cnange the nature of the Republican .nizs
ton, but they may and will, If embra' an
urged by influential men, tend to di lie II
couusels, impair its strength, aud thus erpe
uate the Administration we all seek /. owe,
throw. What possible benefit could su me
ss John Bell, and John J. Ceittendef Ieriv
from this3 In their own Stats, they ,e Ii
tie ,'olitical strength. No trsasformat n tn
Rep iblican Party could undergo woui eve
sscsfe it the support of single s. Their
State, while it would ALLEVIATE from (, nan
Northern States Are the liberal men f III
South to be aided in this way2 WIS goo
will it do them to break the back of the ortb
The Slave Power and Slave Democr ar
one, No American, no Old Wing, no ,npre
Peoples Party, can overthrow them, th
plata reason that no such Party can NJ e tn
free States, or divide the slave States. I NEE
the Slave Democracy, which, holding Il sout
in bonds, wields the whole power of the sders
Government you must have Party Il t ca
unite the free States, and the only Pa, tina
has the slightest prospect of being abb to d
this is the Republican. If liberal s. ,ther
men seek redemption from i misrule If til
Slave Democracy, their true policy lie dis
counte nance all movements calculated weak
en- its only efficient adversary. They sht h
know that, could it be guilty Of the flag ant in
consistency of surrendering all that it has con
tended for, and of adopting the Principlsi of tn
Party in power, it could command no -ates-
and they ought to know, too, that its olIy hop
OF success is in adherence to its settled arinci
pies and its organization. Jf they uiak til,
rule OF such Party more to le dreadsd tina,
the misrnle of the Slave Dec Ocracy;S1af then
JOIN the latter if not, let t'zem adyise thsi
Free State friends to abstssa from af,unsel
whose only effect must be 70 weaken e Re
publican organization, and trengthen IN Oh
pressive Administration.
We have no sympathy with. sectional s cling
We are as deeply imbued nth the 50 irit 0
" Nationality " as those wha are fore or de
claiming about it One of she worst i allure
OF >he Slave Democracy is its intense : action
alism one of the highest attributes of tn