The River Falls journal. (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1857-1861, 1858-10-27

AZ IuiS Juucture--ln the UNIVERSAL III
dignation Of the North at such an outrage
-citizens Of all political organizations
united and formed the Republican party,
to restore the Government to the princi-
Piles of the Fathers. and take its control
away from the ruthless and blighting
hand of Slavery propagandism. By that
one act Of the Democratic party, the ro-
peal of the Missouri Compromise, the
question of Slavery had put all other
questions out Of the way for the time, and
the old Wing and Democratic party were
shiyered to atoms, by the shock Of public
sentiment at that outrage. All the pro-
slavery elements of the country rallied
around the Administration, and the ele-
ments of opposition to the mad schemes
Of that Administration except the extreme
Abolitionists of the North gravitated into
an organization which was called the Re-
publican Party Democratic aud Wing
statesmen went hand in hand in the for
nation of a new party, for the reforma-
ton of the Government. Past assoca-
tons were forgotten, in war against
common enemy.
The new party thus formed, reiterated
the universal doctrine of the Fathers of
the Republic that Slavery is a great ma
tional evil-wrong in itself, and baneful
to the interests of the country; that in
the States where it now exists its abolition
or its continuance is not question for the
General Government to interfere with,
but belongs to each sovereign State to
dispose of in such q manner as her citi-l
zens may lawfully choose-but that is the
duty of Congress under the authority Of
the Constitution to protect the Territories
from its introduction there until such time
as the people thereof shall assume State
Governments when, by virtue of their
sovereignty, they have the power to legis-
late independently for themselves; but as
the Territories had already been thrown
open to slavery. and no reasonable hope
being entertained Of being able at once to
restore the Missouri restriction, and as the
Administration had expressed a willing
ness to submit the question of slavery to
the people, under the principle of popular
sovereignty enunciated in the Nebraska
bill, that it was the duty of the N orth to
take all lawful and peaceable means to,
induce the emigration to Kansas of citi-,
zens favorable to the exclusion Of slavery,
and to unite in one grand effort to place
the administration in the hands of men
who would see fair play in the struggle
there to take place. .s. f.sse.f
The decentralization of the Government
in Democratic hands, as demonstrated by
its conduct in forcing the Nebraska bill
through Congress, and i'll the appoint
mcnt to office of men of VIGOROUSLY bad
character and low capacity, as reward for
party services, called for reform in all its
departments, and this reform has been no
less an object Of the Republican party,
than the success Of its principles in regard
to slavery. ~, ,-..f-.4 ss
These, fellow citizens, are the leading
principles of our party:* 1t has been the
object in the formation of the party, to
raise no distractingr minor issues, but to
take such ground that all classes Of citi-
zens, of whatever previous political creed.
might unite and act in good faith and
unanimity upon it. Ali persons who
believe that Slavery should be placed by
constitutional means in the course of Ill
innate extinction, by preventing its extern
sion into territory now free-all persons
who believe that Slavery should not be
allowed to enter into competition with
free laborers, and thus degrade the white
man without elevating the black, and all
persons who are in favor of administering
the principles of the Government upon
the principles ofatrnth and justice-are
natural Republicans. 1t is needless to
recount the history of the Kansas strug-
GLE It is notorious that the South and
the North made the most strenuous eff
forts to coIonize Kansas with citizens ia
vorable to their views; although as q
matter of date it is well known that the
Missouri Blue Lodges made the first or
ganized effort to send voters to Kansas,
and that their enigrants marched over
the Missouri line, armed to the teeth,
voted, drove away free state voters. con-
trolled the elections by force, and returned
to Missouri in crowds when the voting
was done, while the free state emigration
was bona fde settlement of the Terri
tory. 1t is also notorious that through
out the long strdggle Of the freemen of
Kansas to exclude Slavery, and lay the
foundation of free government, to regu
late their domestic institutions with the
freedom promised by the Nebraska bill,
the administrations of President Pierce
and Buchanan with all their civil powers,
and even by the use of military force have
been against them. How they struggled
against the enactments Of the Border
Ruffian Legislators, elected by wholesale
fraud and sustained by the General Gov
ernment-how all federal appointees to
executive and judicial offices of the Terri
tory were elected from the ranks Of ultra
pro-slavery partizans every species
of fraudulent schemes and tyrannical
measures were devised and brought to
bear against them-how they were bull
lied, outraged and DISTINGUISHED, by being
required to submit to unheard Of tests,
before being allowed to vote,-how. when
it was found impossible to subdue or drive
them from their purpose, they were held
in allegiance and deprived of all govern
*NorE.-The Republican Party. as will be
seen from the Resolutions of the National
Convention at Philadelphia which nominated