Randolph County journal. [volume] (Winchester, Randolph County, Ind.) 1855-1862, 1858-12-30

Negotiations for the Sale of the
RepubIican rarty.

NE,'ti''iVHN ipf tic Naic Ol the ne
publican Party were set on foot, if we
mistake not, during the last session of
+ Congress The rebellion Of Douglas
against the Administration the stand
taken by Crittenden and Bell against
It's Lecompton policy, AMI the tempo
rary combination OF the Republicans
with the few followers of those leaders
in support of TIE Montgomery amend
ment, awakened the hopes of certain
political schcmers that the Republican
Party might be surplan,ed by a gene
raj union Of the opponents of Mr.
Buchanan. with . view to the Presi-
dental election of lSG0. As condi-
tiens precedent to this, it was neces-
sary that the Republicans should drop
their name, cease to urge their peculi-
ar ideas, and either ..fuse," or CO.
operate with Douglas Democrats, Ma
tional Wings, and Crittenlcn Ameri-
cans, on general issues, not embracing
any of the doctrines of the Philadelphia
platform. That platform was to be
ignored. Douglas was to be support
ed In Illinois. Americanism, National
Whiggery, and Repuhlicanism, were
to be hannonized in New York; Crit
tcndcn, AMI other gentlemen of like
views, were to be made prominent; in
u word, events were to he carefully
shaped to the gathering together of Il
nondcseript, head-ovcrhecls Oppo,i-
tion in lS60, made mp OF the most dis
eor,lant elements, without Principle,
without Policy, united by the single
purpose TO obtain the control of the
General Government. What was to
he done then, dill not appear in the
programme. Whether Republicans,
or DouylaSi>ln, or Cri:tendeni>m. or
National Whigism, was TO bear rule.
was to be left TO chance or 90 the skill
of dcmagogucs.
That certain Republicans, so-callcl,
were concerned in this plot, appears
from the declaration of the editor of
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the Louisville journal, who Announced
that they had been written to, and
were not unfavorablc to such combi-
nation. The Philadelphia meeting
last june that attempted to inaugurate
the Peoples Party was doubtless a ! art
of the scheme. The active efforts oi
Mr.. Grecly, in concert with certain
managers Of the Know Nothing Party
in New York, in favor of a plan of CO.
alition, which, had il been successful
would have superseded the Republican
Party in that State 10y Il mongrcl. UNI
principled Opposition. were in accord
ancc with the same scheme, if not an
essential part of it,
We have seen how signallv the plot
failed, both in Illinois anil New York
and what an abortion the People
Party has turned out The victories
won over the Administration during
the last season have been won chiefly
by the Republican Party, which has
quite uncquivocally announced its pur-
pose not to be sold out. or to he made
subject of barter 10y artful poll
; ticians.
notwithstanding all this, few oi
its newspapers seem disposed to mag
Nifty their wisdom against the clear de-
cision of the great mass of the Party
The Louisville Journal. representa- Z
a Party which has no national exist
cnce-which controls but a single
State, and that in the South; which
has not ten cxponcnts of its ideas in
the Congress Of the United States;
: which voted for Millard Fillmore III
1886, and thus secured the election oil
James Buchanan; which is pledged to
acquicscencc in all the usurpations OF
: Slavery; which, after the election OF
1856, would never again have been
heard of, had the Republican Party
been sagacious enough in every case to
ignore it, and carry its appeals directly
to the Pcoplc-this Journal, repre-
senting such Party, not only a
Know Nothing, but a Do-Nothins
concern, coolly invites the Republi-
cans, controlling as they now 10. and
have done since 1856, nearly every
; Free State in the Union, to ahiurc
: their name. to abjure their principles,
to ALLURE their distinguished statesmen
to disband their organization, and Sc
South for a Presidential candidate
Mr.. Crittenden, for example. II
they will do this, Hurrah for 1860
the grand Opposition will sweep every
thing before it 4. The Journal is cap
!. ital at a joke, and this looks like 9
very broad one; but a few Republican
!, papers seem to think the invitation i,
: made in good faith, and have solemnly
taken it in.s consideration. The New
: York Tribune. for example, which has
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