Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1859-08-24
WEDNESDAY. AUGUsT "a. 1850.

1t would not be easy to count the men who
are just now AT work making nominations for
the next presidency. And, what is remark
able in view of the actual condition of things,
most of those engaged in the business assume
that the position of parties snd the selection Of
candidates can be determined by agreement
among a few politicians. So far as the Repub-
lican party is concerned, a greater mistake is
hardly possible; and if those who are dream
ing that the Republicans can be drawn away
from their party into some strange organiza-
ton where the great issue of the time is fer
gotten, will take due account of this fact, it
may serve to correct some of their vain mag
nations
If it were possible for few men to get such
control of the Republican organization as to
fling aside the platform and nominate some
candidate who represents nothing in it, they
would Immediately find themselves deserted
by the voters and left alone in defeat and dis
honor. Those who constitute the Republican
party are not men who can be managed and
Unanswered through an election like dumb,
driven cattle" They understand the great
issue which has called the party into existence
and have fully made up their minds in regard
to it and, under all circumstances, they are
likely to act freely and surely from their own
convictions. 1t would, doubtless, be more
convenient for those who aspire to lead the
party, if Republicans generally had less reli
ance on themselves and more blind submission
to party drill. They must, however, deal
with the fact as it stands, and carefully avoid
undertaking to 40 what it is not possible. If
the-party were less devoted to principle, it
would not be worth supporting; and if the
time shall ever come, when it can lay aside
its principles and give itself up to the
control of those who deny and spit upon every
thing it holds dear, it will richly deserve the
humiliation that will overtake it.
The strength of the Republican party lies in
its princples,-in its resolute and consistent
opposition to the aggressions of the slavery
propagandists. The public sentiment of the
country demands and will have such a party ;
and, when it wins an honest and sure
triumph on its own platform, it will be
strongly and enthusiastically supported in ev.
cry part OF the country,-in the South, not by
any of the old party organizations, but by a
new organization of all those Southern men
who feel, as all thoughtful persons feel, that
the slavery extremists are destroying the
country,-and in the North by those who have
resolved that slavery shall be driven from con-
troll of the government and confined to its own
place. Take away its principles and transform
it into band of mere soldiers of fortune, and
it will become the weakest and meanest party
organization in the land.
Herein is our safety as well as our strength.
The most INSCRIPTIONS politician will hardly
think of uniting the Republican party frater
nally with the besotted pro-slavery "opposi-
ton" parties in Virginia and Kentucky, for
instance, while he knows very well that such
an amalgamation would break it down through
out the North, and bring it not single cleo
toral vote from the States in question. If
treachery could see the hope of grand
success, it would be impossible t. to say
what might be undertaken. AS the case
stands, it does not feel much enconr.
aged to proceed in that direction. The
Richmond Wing intimates that Republicans
may come into its party at the back door, and
have the rank of negro slaves. But nobody
accepts the invitation.