The Kanzas news., 1858-06-26
EMPORIA. KANzAs:
The New Party.

ing quite splurge for few weeks past
about new combination of the political
elements in opposition to the present Ad-
ministration.
Telegraphic messages were despatched
from Washington to all sections of the coun-
try announcing that the Republican party
was to be disbanded to make room for a
non-descript, non-interyention, national
anti-corruption, anti-sectional Peoples
party"> for the Presidential campaign of
1860. This new fusion party was to en-
brace all the Republicans. the Douglas or
.anti-Lecompton Democrats, and such South
Americans as Winter Davis, Humphrey
Marshall, John Bell, and John J. Critten-
den. With such combination it is thought
the election could be carried against Buch-
anan in 1860 and the political millennium
ushered in.
With all due Difference to the Washing
ton letter writers who have wasted so many
pages of foolscap in witing this precious
piece of news into notoriety, we beg leave
to pronounce it all moonshine! While we
most ardently desire to see such line of
policy adopted by the opponents of the
present weak, wicked, extravagant, corrupt,
imbecile and tyrannical Administration as
shall lead most surely to its complete and
final overthrow in 1860, we should depre-
cate any such movement as impolitic in the
extreme. "Union is strength undoubt-
edly; but it must be union of kindred ell
ements or congenial spirits animated by a
common impulse and striving for COM
mon end. 1t must be a union based upon
principles-not on the lust after spoils.-
Such union we are in favor of-to all
others we are opposed.
The union of opposites-of incongru-
ous and coficting elements, always has
been and always will be productive of
weakness and not of strength. Everybody
knows. or ought to know by this time, that
the one sole, single question of Govern
mental policy on which the country is di-
vided is the slavery question. Shall we
encourage free, or slave labor? Shall the
national Territories be given up to the slave
holder to be cultivated by slaves; or shall
they be reserved as the heritage of the free
labOring men of the whole country-North
and South I? Shall this Government be
welded for the benefit of distinct class,
of 357, 900 Shareholders, or for the benefit
of 25,0OO,0O of freemen? This is the
one living issue in American politics, and
must be so until it is settled. On this is
sue the so-called Democratic party takes
one side, the Republican party the other;
and no middle ground is possible. Nor
would it be desirable if possible. Let the
battle be fought out and the question set
tied. 1t may as well be settled now as ev-
er. None but the very smallest fry of spoils
politicians-political eunuchs, can desire to
postpone the struggle. Let us have no
more shutting, lodging, and scull -duggery;
but meet the question man fashion and set
tie it once and forever.
The Republican party organized upoH|
the Philadelphia Platform is unit; con-
sistent in its principles and harmonious in
its action. Its name is tower of strength. |
and its history from the day of its birth to
the present, brilliant succession of victo-
ries unparalleled in our political annals
The campaign of 1856 into which the
Republican party was precipitated with |
scarcely the semblance of an organization
except in three or four of the States, was
In its progress triumphal march; and in |
its result real, substantial and most fruit |
full victory-under the name of defeat. It
was the Bunker Hill of the struggle be-
tween free and slave labor. AS the battle |
of Bunker Hill dispelled the prestige of
British invincibility, and taught the parties |
engaged and the rest of mankind that the |
relocated veterans of Britain had found in |
the honespun-striped- -frocked heroes of the |
backwoods, foemen worthy of their steel, |
so the Fremont campaign has taught to all |
sagacious observers that the Democratic |
party, for the first time in its long and event
full history. has in the Republican party
met foe as inaexible in purpose, as indom-
liable in zeal and as prompt in action as
was that now decaying organization in its |
palmiess day.
The Republican banner, then for the first |
time unfurled to the breeze, has since been
borne resolutsly forward over many hard |
fought field, and now floats in triumph |
from the battlsments of many stronghold
where heretofore the deyotees of pro-slave-
~ Democracy" rioted in conscious secur
ity. 1t floats from the Capitol of every
free State in the Union except Pennsylva-
nis, Indiana and California; and even in |
these the signs of the times argue a speedy |
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