Freeman's champion., 1858-07-15
Prairie City Republican Club.
Why Organize the Republican
Party?.

lllS question mas otten Deen aSKe(
us since in O late number of tn
Champion we advocated that stel
We will endeavor briefly to give ou
reasons:
First, We believe that after th
Cd of August next, with successful
defeat Of Lecompton Jun, the mis-
sion Of the Free State party as sucl
will have been accomplished and the
people of Kanzas can then afford to
merge themselves into an organiza'
ton Of higher grade, having ma
tional interests in view and seeking
to apply to the whole people and
government the ideas and principles
which we have sought to engraft upon
a community.
Second, We believe we now need
a platform, such one as shall exl
press the views and ideas that have
permeated with quickening life blood
thecontest which has ragged so 6ercely
in our midst. The present organiza-
tion requires no other standard of
qualification for membership than be-
lief in making Kanzas Free State
Let man believe this, and he may
hold the most ultra Slavery views
on other disputed points, and yet be
in full fellowship. He may believe
that the Dred Scot decision is the
essence of judicial wisdom and poll
tical Justice; that Sluatter Sover-
eighty is no humbug, but that the
protection of the national egis shall
extend alike over the stakeholder and
the freeman in the national Terrific
ries I'VE say man may believe
these and q hundred kindred abomi-
nations and yet be q member Of the
Free State party. Now we think a
majority Of our people are Republic
an and Anti-Slavery in, principle,
and like us they do not feel at home
in such company. They have, how
ever, borne and forborne, waiting for
an opportunity of deliverance. The
voteupon the English Bill will close
up the traitors drama, at least so far
as making KanzaS q slave State is
concerned, and the fight will then be
5ntween the Administration and the
opposition, as to which line OF pol
icy and principles shall triumph.
? VIZ can best meet that and do yeo.
mAls service for the enfranchisement
OF oQrgovernment from the hands of
tlo oilglrchy by uniting ourselves
witA party already in the field,
having q platform which embodies
more fully the opposition to slavery
and its extension than any other, and
ono which has grown in strength
uatil the best elements Of the nation
aro enlisted on its side.
Third, We desire to form the Re-
prblcan party because, like all Or
lhisations, and especially political
onos, the Free State party has grown
corrupt and become demoralized,
Tnat the Free State party has grown
c9rrupt---and by this we mean not
the people who compose its bulk,
but the few who aim TO direct its OPP
9rations and mould its purposcs--wt
agod only for proof to point to the
nrococdings Of tho last Territorial
L2gislature, the schemes Of debauch'
ary now being concocted by this same
fsttion Of Minneoloans, andithe charg
sSof corruption, &c., constantly be
ils banded about relative to tn
course Of prominent men, many 0
which have some foundation in truth
AMew party, like q now broom, al
seyssweeps clean, and therefore W
believe the new organization will b
ilruly to exercise q greater amoun
ot vigilance over affairs than on
pry5ent worn-out party. Anoth'
tasantagc to be gained will bc th'
ia al likelihood we shall got rid
lds suckers and lceches who ha'
.nag upon our Free State skirts
sas Republican garments will not