Sioux City register. [volume] (Sioux City, Iowa) 1858-1871, 1859-06-30

tvseo ~ Dosss, csssiss.l
10 there Republican Psssyt
Quite . new Question IL likely ssos -
assume very peeaissss shaps in The -
litics Of this cosptsy, cd which ~ tbist
will obtain categorical reply even bsfors
the crisis Of The ssxt gsosssl eIsetion y.
rivss. The qusstina il DOW fast taking ths
far"-1s there Repabicss pstyf We
spprebend that before it will come forward
in the decisive shape of % isdispus.bls
proposition, the consentiog voice Of . vast
majority Of the people will decIare--:he
Republican party dead! The miscellsne.
Gus congregation Of elements which pass
es under that name will dissolve for want
Of any common principle Of sssocisted
Onrposes or interest, through divided coun
sells and sntogonistic opinions. Indeed it
hes for some time past been undergoing
the tbroes Of psrturition, in the delusive
hope that the result would be the produce
ton Of new organization, Of more than
maternal hope, for which the denomin.-
ton already fixed should be I" the opposi-
ton" The expectation 10 10 itself fore.
gone avowsl Of the weakness Of the Re-
publican power and name. The enquiry
must come up-opposition to wbst7 10
it to the present Democratic sdmipi.tra.
ton. Such rsllying point would clearly
be superfuous. because We do not under.
stand that this is likely to be any matter
Of contest. New men, and to 90 extent
which may prove satisfactory to the ruling
sentiment Of the country, new measures.
will unquestionably be proposed. The
course Of time itself does and must neces
ssrily work great changes 10 this respect.
Or is it opposition to the slave power, SO
called, supposed to be represented by the
Democracy, in the main, and which has
furnished the chief ground of resistance
to the present Administration of the gov
ernment
In this respect also. the very foundation
of the party has been taken away by the
progress Of events just - one of our
southern rivers eats into the heart of some
uprising bank, and carries the soil and flo.
rid vegetation along with it, to be dissolv.
ed in its waters and be no more seen for
ever. 1t was early last winter, in the dis.
cussion on the Army Bill, we believe that
Mr.. Seward declared in substance, IL not
in language, that the anti:'slsvery battle
had been fought, and the contest was ov.
er. And it was perfectly true, that the
issues upon which. no. merely the Repub
lican party, but . large majority of the
people Of the North and South, stood equ.
ally in opposition to the extension of sla.
very for political ends, had then been al.
ready decided. The admission on his
part was probably mad vertent, though en- J..
tire'y consistent with his more recent
course Of remarks; quitting that ground
altogether upon which the Republican
party was organized and brought up to
the contest in 1856. and taking the ex-
IRENE position. that all the States in the
Union must become slsveholding, or else
slavery mus: be altogether abolished -
This is mere abolition. of course, since
the introduction of slavery into the free
States is impossible. and the second alter
native Of his proposition alone remains.
This also is the doctrine distinctly put
forth by Mr.. Wilson in his recent letter
upon the amendment to our State Consti-
tuition, claiming the anti.slavery cause 70
be . paramount issue, to which al consi-
derations must yield. And undoubtedly
they, As party men, have done the best
they could in taking that position. because
there was nothing else for them to do. If
they could only retire from thelfeld. In
one sense, they are wise to resort to this
expedient, since they had no other hope.
If it were beam, it would supper, them !:
but IS it is only straw. where are they ?
Few, except those whose hopes delude
their judgment, can believe that the main
body of the Northern aid Western people
are to be engaged in . political canvass
solely upon the unconstitutional and I'M
fraternal basis of devotion to the anti
slavery cause. Resistance to the extern
sion Of slavery involved political reasons
Of substantial weight. The snti.slsvery
cause in any ineligible sense. means
the exclusion Of Slavery from the United
States, which no one in his sense imagines
could be attempted by any considerable
party without bloodshed and civil disrup-
ton, or could be accomplished, if i, be ev
er possible by any forcible means.
The Republican party therefore, we say,
which numbers Of its prominent and inhu
entail leaders are en.eavoring to CONVEX,
into mere antislsvery organisation, is
even now for that very reas son. practically
defunct. Surprising it possible. though
We believe it impossible to carry q single
State in the Union on this bare issue, that
New England were found to be 30 tho.