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Republican National Committee Circular.
The Circular of the Republican National
Committee to their Republican friends through-
out the Union, is well considered and timely
1t nails the Republican Flag at masthead, and
calls upon all patriotic men, who wish Tor the
establishment of republican principles and
measures in the administration Of the National
Government, to rally and to aid in perfccting
and strengthening the Republican organization
for the coming struggle. The necessity which
gave rise to the Republican party still exists,
and with additional force, since the aggressive
Democratic Slave power now demands the es-
tablishment and protection of Slavery in the
Territories by act of Congress, and the revival
of the African Slave Trade.
The Circular lie the more opportunc since a
disposition has been manifested in some quar-
ters 10 lower the National Republican standard
to ignore the great issue on which the Re-
publican party was inaugurated-to disband the
Republican party, have great "Oppostion
National Convention" and nominate a Pres-
dental ticket which in the language of the
Richmond Whig, "will command the confidence
I'd support of the conservative and patriotic
masses in both sections Of the Union The
New York Tribune does not 90 quite so far in
its "Opposition" union appeals, but its policy
would be lust as suicidal if adopted; and we
rejoice that the Republican National Commit
tee composed of eminent and sagaoious citi'
zens of Free and Slave States, have at this cri
sis faithfully remin led Republicans every where
that, "although some of the exciting incidents
OF the election of 1856 have been partially dis
posed of by the energy, enterprise and valor
of free people, the duty of Republicans to
adhere to their principles, as enumerated at
Philadelphia and to labor for their estab
lshment, was never more pressing than at this
moment"
The Territorial slavery question never pos
sessed such vital importance now. Kansas
has been made tree by the right arm of her
people-not by any stipulations with the C ov
eminent, nor even by consent of the South
Her freedom is her own achievment against the
whole South, and the whole Democratic party,
hdCktl ON Tie supreme NoNAO VI Nh' N''''NN
States Utah, Nebraska, Washington, Arizo-
ma, Dakota, the Indian Territory, and New
Mexico, comprising twenty times the extent OF
Kansas, are all, to-day, by the decision of the
Supreme Court and the influence of the Ma
tonal Government, as administered by James
Buchanan, slave territories. One Of them, New
Mexico, has already slave code of laws ias-
tened upon it quite stringent as that which
made Kansas a field of blood
1t is sheer folly for the Opposition Uuionists'
to say that the Territorial slavery question is
settled" Kansas was but an outpost Of the
great citadel of slavery propagandism. The
South cuvets all free territory, and would
spread her black curse over all. Southern
politicians not only grasp for more territory,
but have re opened the African Slave Trade to
furnish population to keep pace if possible, with
the increasing millions Of ireemen spreading on
ward from ocean to ocean. There is, there can
be, no settlement of the Territorial slavery
question, except by the triumph Of Freedom.
The young growing, and sinewy Republic
can party, early proclaimed its purpose to pre-
FtuL tllc tAbtubloll hl SldNtiy liAo Iil' A'illt'
nes, to expel slavery usurpation from Kansas,
TO make freedom national, and to restore the
Government to the po icy of Washington and
Jefferson The work is but begun Only one,
and that the smallest, object for which the Re
publican party was organized, has been ac-
compllshed The greater work it will not shlrk,
nor torcgo, nor ignore. The Democratic par
ty is the embodiment Of the slave power, and
the life.blood Of the slavery question The
practical measures advocated by the Democratic
pro-slavery party, such as the protection OF sla-
very in the Territories, the Dred Scott decls-
ion, and the repeal of the laws against the
slave trade all tend to one central idea
the perpetuty and increase of slavery,
and its spread over Territories once free.
Repubicanism is the party Of freedom -
freedom of soil, labor and people. The porty
was never more compact, nor felt more con
scous of its strength. il is firmly planted on
the platform Of "uncompromising hostility TO
the cxtention to human slavery and in the
truthful language Of the Republican National
Committee experience has only served to
strengthen the conviction of its absolute ne
cossity, in the reformation of the National
Government, and of the wisdom and justice of
its purposes and aims "