Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1859-01-01
WEEKLY TELEGRAPH.
AsHTABU "a
Saturday Morning, Jan. I, 1853.
Tnr nrsronsr Of the n. Y. T'ribrns % lhe

TnE nrsroSsK OF the n. Y. T'ybne 70 the
Louisville Journal proposing basis Of union
Of thc political clemoats opposed TO Locofo-
Ism, does not meet with very general favor a.
mong the Republicans Of this section Of the
Reserve The proposition Of the Tribune was
70 allow the candidate for the Presidency, to
be selected from without the Republican party,
bat that he should be committed 70 the doc
trine Of eonaning slavery within It's present linn
its. This is thought to be going further than
Mr.. CnKmRy is authorizes to go, and partakes
too much Of surrender. And yet it is not
palaiable 10 The JsHrRad whose Editor treats
such an arrangement as simply odious. II so
liberal proposition as this, meets with only un-
qualified dissent, Il may readily be son and un-
dersiood how hopeless is such negotiation be-
tween the North aud the South. The Repub-
lican party cannot concede anything further
than is offered by the Tribune. 1t cannot staOd
in any other position than that embraced in the
copdition--no more slave tcrritory--and the
northern slave states can hardly hope for un-
Ion while this is withheld or blnked out Of sight.
As is well remarked by the very clear sighted
editor Of the Ohio State Journai-
A party made up Of such elements as the
present Republican is. viii never consent to any
compromise or bargain, that involves the slight
est sacrifice Of cardinal principle. 1t is not Of
course, indifferent to success ont success can be
valuable to il only, as the legitimate triumph of
its distinctive doctrines--not as the price re-
seivcd for their abandonment With il, the
vindieaiion Of those doctrines is the end; aud
success as party, is but the mcGAs Of making
them effective.
The ultimate triumph OF Republican princi-
pies is q foregone conclusion. 1t is merely q
question Of tine Political combinations and
platforms are only inferior agencies, to advance
or retard this eCnsummaton. The power that
will irresistsby enforce results, is behind and
superior TO, all this external machinery. IL is
the moral and political sense of the people,
which, however, it may be repressed. will in the
end assert its supremacy, and stamp its sover-
cign will upon the legislation OF the country
The operation OF this sentiment in a representa-.
tive government like our own, is as certain and
immuiabe as physical law.
Under such circumstances, to talk OF COM
promise or concession, to agitate the m0diica-
tion Of Republican principles, or the abandon
mert Of the tried and faithful representatives Of
those principles for new and doubtful leaders,
is worse than folly. 1t is criminal. A rigid
adherence 10 the avowed policy and objects Of
the Republican organization will inspire conf
dence in its friends, challenge the respect Of its
enemies, and attach TO its support thousands oI
the wayering and the doubling. By advocating
such course, we would not discourage acccs-
sions 10 our strength from those who will hearth
ly adopt and labor for the triumph Of our com
mon cause, We only express our dissent from q
policy that would seek to gain new allies by go
ing to them, instead Of inviting them to come
TO us.