The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1859-10-01
Union.

the evangehcai rellgious denominations ID :
to one grand phalanx, to wage war against
satan and all his workers. The subject
was mentioned to a. certain single minded
old lady, cousin to Mrs. Darlington, we
believe, whoat once fell in with the project
land suggested the way in which it could be
accomplished. It was for every body to
Just walk right up and join the Baptist
| Gkarek ----z--- -z
| That is precisely our plan for uniting the
opposition for the next Presidential cleo
zion against the present Administration and
its supporters. Let the people walk right
up and join the Republican party That
is the shortest and simplest plan of union,
| it is also the easiest and the best and what
ever the 1Yes0 York Tribune or anybody
else may say or do about it, we believe it is
the most expedient course to be taken.
The Republican platform is wide enough
and strong enough for every true man to
stand upon. It's truly national in every
plank, and in every timber. It is opposed
to the extension of Slavery, opposed to the
Slave Trade, and opposed to .swindling. It
is in favor of Free Soil, Free Speech. Free
Labor, Free Homesteads and Free Schools.
1t is in favor of the Pacific Railroad, and
in favor of making the rails for it out of
the mountains of iron we have at home,
rather than running in debt for them in Eu-
rope, and bringing them FIVE thousand
miles by sea and land to lay them down at
the foot of those iron mountains, through
forests of timber and over mines of coal.
while our laborng men who should be EN-
ployed in mining the coal and smelling and
manufacturing the iron. remain idle and
destitute, unable to buy the -four, pork and
beef of the farmer for want of the employ
ment. 49,
The doors CT the Republican Council
House are wide open-no obnoxious tests or
degrading ceremonies are required. IL
Republican party is made up of thu co ~ h.,
were once Democrats. Wbigs ar r. c.,
ers. and of those who we - 49,,
have acquired the ri h'. - xoto s;noa tho
term Wing bec>mo ohso,s,e There arc
- and southern men, eastern
ph estern men among its members
r.. Republican faith is he faith of the
2 Liners of this Republic. The air1 Of the
party is to return to the good old paths
from which doughfaces and demaeoyues
have led us astray. at the bidding of The
Slaveholding oligarct,y. The Republican
party Is not a new invention as many are
taught to believe. but its leading ideas are
as old as the Constitution, and as vital te
LIBERTY Gs air is to the lungs. The black
Democracy of the present. day whether Of
the type advocated by Douglas, or that pat
ronizsd by Buchanan. is a modern inven
tion-a new tangled notion, having ne
root in the ConstiI ution-no sanction il
the teachings of Jefferson, Madison, Mon
roe or Jackson. The Buchanan policy i,
in all essential features identical with the
old Federal policy. of which Buchanan was
in his younger days devoted partisan
His early predictions are still the mos
powerful impulses of his being Govern
ment under his Administration has becom
! ESQ far as he can make it) centralized des
: potism. The old State Rights doctrines ar
: ignored and trampled under foot, Will
bred Scottish is set up as was the abomi
> nation of desolation in the ''holy place" Q
: the Jews. The appointing power of TIL
/ General Government has been turned int
an engine Of corruption, every contrac
made for huildinga ship for the Navy c
e for supplying Army or Navy with any
+ thing they need, must eovera bribe of fror
: FIVE to fifty per cent. for some corrupt an
trotten favorite, while the Supreme Cou
e itself has at last been transformed, as Je
e ferson long since prophesied it would ult
II mately be. into "a csrps of sappers an
Is miners" to undermine and destroy the Cor
20 stitution, that our fathers framed. tt
Republican party is a reorganization of th
q Republican party first organized by Jefie
4 son and his eo-laborers. Ito protect the n
I'd served rights Of the States and of the pei
ne pie from the vast and constantly increasin
a power of The General Government-to pr
he vent the immense patronage and weight
= the General Government from crushiu
Ill out the Independence aud substantial belr
be of the States. Our Government was II
er tended by us founders TO be confedera'
of sovereign States, with a general agen'
es at Washington for the transaction of &c
b. tain business matters which the Stat
he could not so well manage for themselves.
o. By the oyershadowing power and infiuen
'er of its hundred millions of annual reven
'w in the hands of unscrupulous and CORFU
he IofSeials. this confederacy of soYerei