The Shasta courier., 1859-07-02
The Republicans Endorsing the Anti
LccOmpton Platform.

The S. F. Neps,-the Anti-Lecompton State
organ, and one of the very best newspapers in
San Francisco-admits that its party desires to
gain Republican votes. Nay, it says, 1--WE would
not refuse the votes of repentant Lecompton-
ties" 1t deems acquisitions from the Republi-
cans altogether the most desirable, however,
For, it says, "we hold them (the regular Demo-
crats) to be morally and politically dishonest p
while, $50 far as the Republicans are concerned,
we have not met with an intelligent
man OF them who has any fault to find
either with the form or spirit Of single resolu-
tion of our State Platform Of course not
Why would the Republicans find fault with your
Platform If it suited them? If your doctrines
and their doctrines agree, there is no room for
difference. genuine Democratic Platform
however, can no more agree with the doctrines
of Republican Platform, than can the ethics
taught by Christ agree with the system of NOR
ality taught by the Thugs of India
If, however, your Platform suits the Black Re-
publicans, and is repugnant to the party with
which you have heretofore acted, is it not prinaa
yeS'" S'4NSiSS3 az lOtoL lustI you nave changed
your political sentiments essentially recently?
However, the Neags must know that the Black
Republicans have always contended that Con-
gress had the power and the right to prohibit
slavery in the Territories. Does this agree with
your Platform Does this agree with the doc
trine of the Cincinnati Platform, CT " non-inter-
vention by Congress with slavery in States and
Territories, or in the District of Columbia"
But, says the Nens, the Republicans accept
the principle that the people of Territories have
the absolute right to form their domestic insti-
tutions in their own way Where have they ac-
cepted any such principle? When have they
done so? In what manner? In what meeting
or Convention =? Their State organ, the Times,
of the 18th June, in reply to similar charge OF
the Marysville Democrat says
"The Republican party has not changed ground
on the question of the RIGHT of Congress to in
tervene in the domestic affairs of Territory
But in regard to Slavery they hold that sound
policy requires that it should be left to the peo-
pie of the Territories to decide for themselves
whether they will have it or no. The idea that
| the people of a Territory, who, like the Nor
| mons, outrage all sense of decency and indulge
in the grossest and most disgusting practices,
like concubinage and polygamy, are not and
cannot be liable to be cut short in their crimes
by the strong arm of Congress- is preposterous
Now, Mr. Ns'cs, if your party and the Repub-
lican party be one in sentiment as you seem to
think how do you account for these differences?
And ifyour principles are the same as those of
the Republicans, why do you not join in with
that party? The Republicans have strong
organization in the majority of the States, while
your party exists as separate organization on
ly in California, and perhaps in Pennsylvania.
Surely, then, you, the small minority, should not
expect them, the large majority, to come to you.
If you and they are " twain of one flesh" why
not live in wedlock, and tell all the world
that you are married?