The Perrysburg journal. [volume] (Perrysburg, Ohio) 1853-1861, 1858-11-11
n Q. Xxx VII


the popular elements now working for the Rrpub
ilcoh party among the people, must und will hu
Tue resources Tor lis ever renewing strength, uui
constant inyigoration
Others cannot support the Republican par,v
oocnnie 1t has not sufficiently exposed It's platform
! anu determined what it will DO aud what IL will
NOT 90, When triumphant. IL may prove too pro-
greSSiNe for some, aud too conservative for 9th
ers As IL any party ever fuieSaw so clearly the
course OF human events, nS TO plan a universal
ScueWe ior future action, adapted to all nossjbe
emergencies. Who would ever have ioined even
! the Wing party Of the Revolution if il had been
Obliged to answer in 1870, whether ii would de.
clare Independence in 1855, and for this nobo
Federal Constitution OF ours in 1887 and not "A
year earlier or laterf
The people of the United States will be as wise
next year, and the year after, and even ten yenrs
hence as we arc now They will obige the Re.
publican party 10 act as the public welfare aud
the interests OF justice and humanity shall REQUIRE
through all the stages OF its career, whether Of
trial or triumph.
Others will not venture an effort because they
lear that the Union would not endure the change.
NlIl such obJcctors tell me how long n Constiu-
non can bear strain directly along the tibers of
winch 1t is composed1 This is Constitution of
Freedom. 1t is being converted into Constitu.
t'on OF Slavery. 1t is Republican, Constitution
Others may wish 10 wait until some collation.,
questions concerning Temperance or the exercise
OF the Elective Franchise properly settled. -
YET me ask all such persons whether time enough
mas not been wasted on these points already with
out gaming any other than this single advantage
namely, the discovery that only one thing can be
enectualIy done at one time, and that the one
thing that must and will be done at any one time
gust that thing which is most urgent aud will no
longer Admit OF pOstDOncment or DELAY
FINALLY, we nre told by fnint-hearted men that
they deSpond. The Democratic party, they sey,
IS unconquerabc, and the dominion of Slavery 10
consequently inevitable, | reply to them, that the
complete and universal dominion OF Slavery would
be lntoIerabe enough when it should have come
a''cr the last possible effort to Q cape bad been
nude. There would in that case be left to us tho
consolng reelection of fiedlity TO duty.
But reply further that kuow--fcw, | think,
Know oelter than THE resources and energies
VI 'ue democratic party, which is identical with
tnc slave Power. do ample prestnge to its tra-
d'tionai popularity. know iurther-iew think,
know better than tho difficulties and disadvan.
tngcs OF organizing new political force like the re-
publican party, and the obstacles il must encoun-
ter IN Iaborng without prestage, and without pat
ronnge. But Notwithstanding all this, l know
that the DGmoCra r~etv In~st ~ uvr.s, aua
the Republican party must rise in its place The
Democratic party derived its strength originally
from its adoption of principles of equal aud ex-
act justice to all men, So long as II practised
this principle faithfully, it was nvuncrable 1t
became vulnerable when it renounced it, and since
that time it has maintained ise[not by virtue Of
It's own strength, or even ot it's traditional merits
out because there had us yet appeared in the po-
iucal field no party that had the conscience nnd
courage TO take up and avow aud practice tho
Ile-inSpiring principle which the Democratic par
ty had surrendered. At last the Republican par
~ hn1 ornI 4 ,l, Il
hcnn party III 1880 did, in one word, its faith and
its works. Equal and exact justice to all men,
Even when it entered the field only half orgun-
lied, it struck blow which only lust failed to
secure compile te and triumphant victory In this
It's second campaign, il has already won sdvan-
tages which render that triumph now both easy
and certain.
The secret Of its assured success lies in that
very characteristic, which in the mouth OF scoficrs
constitutes its great and lasting imbccty and re-
prouch. II lies in the fact that it is II party OF
one idea; but that idcn is II noble one an idea
that fills and expands MI generous aous; the idea
ofequalitythe of equality of all men before human
tribunals and humun laws rs they all arc equal
before the Divine tribunal and Divine laws.
know, and you know, that revolution has
begun. | know and all the world knows that
revolutions never go backward Twenty Senator'S
and hundred Representatives, proclaim boldly
to-day sentiments aud opinions aid principles Of
Freedom, which hardly so maGy men even in this
free State dared utter IN their own homes twenty
years asI While the Government Of the United
States, under the conduct Of the Democratic par
ty, has been all that time, surrendering one plain
and castle after another to Slavery, the people Of
the United States have been no less steadily aud
pcrseycringly gathering together the forces with
which 10 recover back again all the fields and ull
the castles which have been lost and to conouud
aud overthrow by one decisive blow, the bptraN-
ers Of the Constitution and Freedom forever.
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Au-llALLow EvEE,--I1st Sabbath evening
was the Anniversary OF the old and time honor
cd Alhallow Even. All Saints Day, which
will be on Saturday next, was Instituted at the
time the Pantheon OF Rome was converted ntu
| d Christian church. and was observed in memo
rs OF all holy martyrs but in after times tn;
holidays having become 50 numerous, they adop.
ted this day to do honor to all saints, instead of
having special day set apart for each one
Allha,'ow Even was celebrated hy Il variety of
superstitous practices, many OF which sill
observed in the old countries. The faith placed
! in these wilcheries, or The social amtsemeu
| found in their performance, made the rrCurrent
! of the evening of far more important interest
than the day itself But the people have de-
generated greatly in It's Observance since those
days, and even wc can remember when Allhsl-
low Even was considered one Of he most i'm
| poriant and jnynl evenings that was celebrated
At that time. - North Vast
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Thc Hndiana Kidnapping C;Tse.
! Itaifords us great satisfaction To announce
/ that ia al probability, there has been complete
settlement of the late unhappy difficulties gruw-
ing ouI OF the capture OF il"r"ce Bcll, ON SaIuE-
day last, by uuauthoris-d louisville olhrrs.- =
! The lrlpuatipn which ll,lcpt,ti tp RTant Rnhur1