Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1859-08-25
Circular of the Republican Nation
al Committee.

TIE Cincinnati Commercial has the follow
ing dispatch, dated Albany, Aug l6:
The Republican National Committee, al
their meeting recently held in this city, is.
sued the following Circular to their Repub.
licsn friends throughout the Union:
In the judgmen. of the undersigned M m
bers OF the Republican National I ommt
tee, the time has arrived for consulate on
and preliminary action in regard 10 the ap-
preaching Struggle for the Presidency. AID
they beg. therefore. 10 call your at 10
to The suggestions which .ollow The Re
publican party had its origin in thr Obvious
necessity tor resistance to the aggrsssion-
of the Slave Power, ard main aining Tor
the States respectively their resstv' d rights
and sovereignties. In the contest OF 1856
by the presentation asd1 advocacy oi true
science of Government, il laid. The 10 lnda.
ton of permanent political organization
although il did not ge; possession of the
power TO enforce its principles. When the
result, adverse to its efforts and its hopes,
was declared, it unaffectedly scquiesced,
giving to the victor, for the sake Of the
country, its bes. wishes for an honest and
fair administration of the Government.
How far Mr.. Buchanau's Administration
has realized these wishes is now patent to
the world. With the executive power of
the Government in his hands, his Admins
tration has failed in every respect to NEE,
the expectations of the people, and has
presented the most humiliating spectacle of
corruption. extravaganza, imbeciiiy. re-
cklessness, and broken faith. So apparent
is this. even to our opponents, that the so
called Democratic organization, always dis
tingu;shed for its discipline and party fidelity
is utterly demoralized and distracted, with
out any recognized or accepted party prin-
cip.e. and threatened with disruption by the
riva aspirations and struggles of its leading
pratisaus. While the Administration has
been thus faithless to the interests of the
country and has thus disorganized the party
which placed it in power, the Republican
party has been constantly mindful of the
great public necessity which called il into
existence, and faithful to the fundamental
principle upon which it was erected. Ex-
perience has only served TO strengthen the
conviction Of its absolute necessity, in the
reform alton OF the Natioral Government,
and of the wisdom and justice of its pur-
poses and aims.
Although some ef the exciting incidents
of the election of 1856 have been partially
disposed of BY the energy, enterprise and
vaor of free people, the duty of Repub-
licuns TO adhere to their principles, as enun-
ciaied at Phlatelphia, and to labor for their
establishment. was never more pressing
than at this moment. The attitude of the
Slave Power is Persfstently insoent and
aggressive. 1t demands of the country
much more than it has demanded hitherto.
1t is not content with the absolute control
of the National Government /; not content
with the dispensotion OF the honors ant
emolumen;s of the National Administrat on
not content with its well-known influence
always psrnicious over the legislation a