Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1859-05-13
Unity and Strength. of the Repub-
liCam PARTY.


Whilst the National Democracy are falling
other, it is satisfactory to know that the
upon a powerful, compact and harmonious
organization. Were the Republican party in
the same disorganized condition as the
National Democratic party-were the opposi-
ton to the latter as chaotic in the North as in
the South, patriotic feeling might we'll be
subject to disquietude and apprehension. No
party could elect President by the electoral
vote Congress would be miniature, or
rather a microcosm of the several Earring
minorities into which the people would be
divided. Were it even possible to constitute
a Federal Administration from such material,
it would be utterly impossible to give it a
policy. An Administration is powerless
without a strong party in both branches of
Congress. No affirmative policy could be
adopted by President and Cabinet springing
from the bargainings and intrigues of two or
more discordant factions. The country,
under such regime, would suffer, and the
Federal Government would lose its prestige
both at home and abroad In view, therefore,
of the expulsion of the National Democracy
from power in 1860, it is matter of rejoicing
that no party nterregnum shall succeed. A
new and vigorous dynasty is ready to occupy
the high places of the government and to
give fresh impetus to the great destinies Of
the country.
The unity of thought and fraternity of feel
ing which distinguish the Republican party
are not less apparent than the radical differ
ences of opinion and personal feuds which
have almost destroyed the National Demo.
cratic party. The organs Of the former speak
the same dialect East and West on purely
party questions. There is no enforced,
unnatural unanimity, and yet there is entire
willingness to support the nominee of the
party for the Presidency, whoever he may be,
and from whatever section Of the country he
shall be chosen. There is also entire una
nimity on the question Of Free Labor and Free
Homesteads in the Territories and on the
Pacific Railroad. Opposition to the African
Slave Trade, fillibustering and piracy in gen.
eral is also the unanimous sentiment of the
Republican party. We expect the rapid
development of the West as a consequence of
the accession of the Republican party to power
in 1860. That it will be invested with power
in that year we are not permitted to doubt.
Under no possible circumstances can the
NatiOudl DelnOCfdtS carry ~ Tree Otale, except,
perhaps, California. This fact simplifies cal
culation on the subject. Unless some unto
ward revolution (the like of which our history
furnishes no parallel for) should occur in the
interim, the Republican party will carry Hi
nois and Indiana and Minnesota, as we'll as
Massachusetts, Vermont, and all the other
free States; and the practicability Of their
carrying Missouri and Maryland is apparent
under certain conditions. We see that
attempts have been lately made to reunite the
discordant Democracy upon some compromise
of the slavery question but this can only
terminate in the further degradation of the
Douglas wing, and consequently in its COM
plete overthrow in the free States. The issue
in the Presidential election will be Congress
sional slave-code for the Territories or the
rights of Free Labor. Those adherents of
Douglas, who still fatter themselves that he
will receive the nomination at Charleston,
would find it difficult to place him foremost
on either platform, however willing he might
be to mount either. The Charleston Con-
vention, if it ever meet, will make platform
and nominate candidate, which will be
rejected by every free State in the Union
except California. If the platform be non
committal, then the man will be secession
list. If the man be a doughface, then the
platform will be ultra pro-slavery; and, in
either case, both will be rejected