, 1859-04-01

Republican organization, why was this new
and ultra Abolition programme thought
necessary to insure success in the late con,
test in the Empire State? The Repeblis
can papers and writer's had used the com.
mon and ordinary arguments and induce
ments in order to spur the indolent and add
fresh zeal to the workers Of the party.
But the heart of the organization was yet
to be touched, and that was done BY the
ultra Abolition manifesto Of Senator Ses
ward The response to the sentimentS
enunciated in the Rochester speech was
most significant, In the face Of the fact
that an Abolition candidate was in thG
field, still the whole body of ultra AbOli-
tiOnists came 10 the support Of the Repair
lican candidate for Governor, so soon as
Senator Seward had placed him unmisthk1
ably upon his Rochester platfom--ths
platform Of intended interference with the
domestic institutions Of the States-thus
showing, most conclusively, that the life Of
the Republican party is its thorough iden.
tiGcation with the most ultra doctrines
ever ehunciated in this country with refer
ence to the question Of interfering With the
reserved and guaranteed rights Of tho
several States Of this Union. Senator Se-
ward says the States must be all free or all
slave, the Republican party endorse and
applaud this sentiment, aud that fact
demonstrates their position to be precisely
that Of the old Abolition organization Of
the country gi9ials ~ -an naa a
The few men in the Republican party
who have dissented from this view Of the
mission Of that organization to which they
are attached. have met with stern and em-
phatic rebukes from their leaders. The
Hartford Times, in sketching the true posi-
tion Of the Republican party, remarks;
The attempt q portion Of the Republican Partytg
natonalze that organization BY diyeslng Of the
most offensive part Of is sectional character and adcP
ting less narrow and bigoted set Of principles, j.
likely to draw out the bitterest opposition nom thS
jority Of the party and who have idea Of giving up
the control OF It's fortunes. Thus Joshua r. GiddnRgf
the told wheel horse OF Aboltonism a. his friends
at one time delighted TO call him. made speech IN
be declared that the Black Republican party Wa
"based the great fundamental truth that al men
have right 70 liberty and the pursuit Of happlneao
-henee be deduced the argument that the true duiy
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tuition 81 slavery, and destroy u a. all hazards.
This Is an interesting exhibit Of the trne cnracisI
and position Of the Black Republicans. and pTes
sumo Il may be regarded a. being official 4
Mr.. Giddngs then went on TO 'snip ID the bud the
hopes Of the more liberal Black Republicans by maxi
ing the following declamtions slll az VI isg.fg =.
when gcntemen were asked 70 modify the Repuhs
lican platform he would say there was 20 neairdi
gTOasd between freedom and slavery. The BASIS Of
!he Republican party tHndnmsnia, and could noi
be changed" ..s...f.ss t,.a .5sa 80
There is no middle grnundY says ciddiags; 'lhe
Republican party must be one thing o. the other-lnd-
cal Abolition or nothing. u must plant Itself On tho
old and deEpiscd Abolition platform, O abaudon IL
organization as party. An active, hostile interlerf
encc with the Institutions Of the Southern States
issperatioe the part Of the Republican party, OF n
Organization cannot be mainfanod. We mist lak0
and maintain positive AntSlaVery ground. The Re
publican party mus conc upon my old Abolition plat
form, and wage an uneomplomlsng war upon Ne
Snuth-lf disuhon b the result, all risbip p f
Such in effect Is the language Of Giddingl. whom 4
majority Of the present Republican party, while they
acted as whigs, ridienlcd and opposed. Ciddlna
their stand on the old true blue Abolition plaiiom
That is precisely what they have got 70 come toand
most Of them arc already there. (,
No ono who has watched the progress Of
the Anii-slaFery movement in our country
will question the correctness OF Mr. Gid
dings proposition. The Republican party
must hoat on the wave OF Abolition excite.
ment or sink to rise no more In limesof
comparative quiet ituay exist. and cajolc
the people with tho idea that Il means 10
act within the scope and limits o. the Con
stitution. but when the fnal struggle comes
the old banner Of disunion and higher law
will be raised, and the real purposes Of the
Organization be plainly revealed That
purpose is to override tho Consultation by
means Of political power obtained il seer
tional issne, and thus virtually dissolve the
Union, or compel the people Of one portion
Of 1t to accept such terms as the victoFs
shall be willing 10 extend. Senator Sew
ards Rochester manifesto means simply
this, and as that has been endorsed BY tho
Republican, party, they are bound By IL