Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1858-12-15

Ind the temper OF The people when they
.all it into activity. Subserviency tc
Slavery is law written not only on the
70 ehead Cf the. Democratic party. but
also in its very soul-so resistance to
Slavery, and devotion to Freedom, the
popular elements now actively working
for the Republican party smong the peo
pie. must and will be the resources for
lis ever ene"ing strength and constant
invigor,Iion.
Others cannot support the Republican
Farty. because it has moi sufficiently ex
posed its platform, and determined what |
il will do and what /: vii rot do. when |
triumphant. 1t may prove too progress
i've for some. and too conservative for |
others. As if any party ever foresaw
81 clearly the course Of future events as
to plan universal scheme for future ac
lion. adapted to all possible emergencies
Who would ever have joined even the
Wing party Of the Revolution. if it had
been Obliged 10 ;nswer, in IT'S. wheth
er it would declare for Independence in
l716. and for Ih S noble F deral Consii-
tuition of ours in 1887, and not a year
earlles or later?
The people of the United States will
be as wise next year, and the year af-
terward. and even ten years hence. as
we are now. They will obli5e the Re-
publican party TO act as the public well
fare and the interests OF justice and hu
manity sba' require. through all the sta
g~s oi its career, whether of trial OF tri-
umph.
Others will not venture an effort. be
cause they fear that the Union would
no: endure the change. VIII such O5-
j-c;ors til me how long a Constitution
can bear a strain directly along The
fibres of which it is composed? This is
Constitution of Freedom. 1t is being
converted ;n;o Constitution of Slavery
Il is a republican Cons,ilu,io=. 1t is
beng made an aiistOcralic Cne. o hers
may wish to wait until some collateral
questions concerning temperance or the
exercise of The elective franchise are
properly settled. Let me ask all such
persons. whether time enough has not
been wasted on these po nlS already,
without gaining any other than this sin
gle advantage, namely, the discovery
that only one thing Can be eIfeciually
done at one time. and that the one thing
which must and will be done at any one
time is just that thing Ilich is most ur-
gent, aud will mo longer admit OF post
ponrment or delay. Finally, We are
told by faint hearted men that they de.
sponl: the Democratic party, they say
is unconquerabie, and the domin;on o.;
Slavery Is consequently inevitable. |
reply to them that The complete and
universal dominion Of Sl,very would be
ialoIer able en.ugh when it should have
come after the last possible effort TO es
cape should have been made. There
Sould in that case be left 10 US the con-
soIiug reflection OF fid lily to duty.
But reply, further. that l know
few, | think, know better than 1.-The
resources and The cnsTsies of the. Dem
ocraIic party, which is identical with the
Save Power do ample prestige TO its
traditional popularity. Ikncw. further
few. thins. know better than 1.-The
difficulties and Disadvantages Of organ
izing u new political force like the Re-
publican. Plyty. and the obstacles it must
encounter in laboring without prestige
and without patronage. But, notwith-
standing all tkis. l know that the Demo
cratic party must go down. and The Re
publican party must rise into its place.
The Democratic party derived its strength
Sori5inally from its adoption Of the prin-
;;pIes OF equal and exact justice to all
men. So iv%%s as il practiced this prin-
ciple faithfully. it was in,ulnerable. 1t
became vulnerable when it renounced it.
and since that time it has D,ain,ained
itself, not by virtue Of lis own strength,
or even Of its traditional merits. but be-
cause there as yet had appeared in the
political field no other party that had the
consci nc and the courage 10 take up
and av1w and practice the life inspiring
principle which The Democratic party
had surrendered. At last. The Republi-
can party had appeared. 1t avows now
As The Republican party Of 800 did; in
one word, its faith and lis works, Equal
and exact justice TO all men, Even
WHEN it first entered the field. only half
organized, it struck blow which only
just failed 10 secure complete AMI tri-
umpbant victory. In this. its second
campaign, it has already won advan,a-
yes which render that triumph now both
easy and certain.
The secret Of its aSsGred success lies
in that very characters ic which. in the
mouth of scoffers. const tutes its great
and lasting imbecilry and reprosch. 1t
lies in the TACT that It is party of one
flea; but that idea is noble oue-an
i lea that fills and expands all generous
soul; the idea of equality-Ihe equality
Of all men before human tribunals and
human laws. as they all are equal before
the Divine tribunal and Divine laws.
know. and you know, tlat a revolu-
ton has begun. L know. cnd all the
world knows, that revolutions never go
backward. Twenty Senators and a
hundred representatives proclaim bold
" III SOuIieSS to-udf SSHtIulcu'o anu
opinions and principles of Freedom which
hardly so many men even in this free
State dared 10 utter in their own homes
twenty years ago. While the Govern
ment Of the United States, under the con
duct OF the Democratic party, has been
all that time surrendering one plain and
castle after another TO Slavery, the peo.
pie of the United Safes have been no
less steadily and perseveIingly gather
ing together the forces with which To re-
cover back again all the fields and all
the castles which have been lost, and 10
tonfound and overthrow, by one decisive
how. the beirayers of the Constitution
aud Fra sedom forever.
The Thanksgiving proc iamatiol of
Governor Moore, OF Albania, suggests the
proprieiy of making the day one of pray
er for the preservation OF the Union.