The daily press. (Cincinnati [Ohio) 1859-1859, 1859-05-12
THE PRESS.
q GISoINNArI, THURSDAY MAY -,
Republican Policy Foreshadowed.

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party, during the coming Presidential
trial. The aspiring in such matters are
ever uneasy and are found seeking oppor-
tunities to bring their names before the
public, and in the Republican party
where literature is q much more impor
tant element than with its antagonist
the tendency to get into the newspapers,
and to appear wise upon current political
events, is especially perceptible. fl
Messrs James Kelly, Horace B. CIaAin,
John A. c. Gray, r. Emmett, James II.
Titus, Chas. A. Peabody, Edgar Ketchum,
j.. +. Butterworth, George D. Sherwood,
Francis H. Fits, Charles H. Leigh, Chas.
King, Horace Greeley, George w. Blunt,
r. NJ. Blatehford, Isaac Sherman, Simeon
Draper, VIM. R. Strong, Hiram Barney,
Frederick Kapp, S. B. butcher and Chas.
W. Elliott, of New York, have recently
addressed public letter ITO the Repub-
hcans of New England" in respect to
the law which has been submitted by the
Legislature Of Massachusetts to the peo-
pie of that State, to prohibit the foreign
born from voting until two years from the
date of their naturalization, and in oppo-
sition to that measure. The burden of
the letter is the injurious effect which
such policy would produce upon the
Republican party, of which these gentle
men have constituted themselves the
guardians, in all parts of the country-a
thing especially to be deprecated on the
eve of Presidential election
They proceed to inform the Republic
ans of Massachusetts, what is the distinc-
tive doctrine of the Republican party
the one upon which it is an unit, stating
it te be: "HosTILITY TO SLAVERY, WHETHER
WHITE OR BLAcK"-which, being divested
of the unnecessary flourish of the last
clause, means simply that the Republican
is, in their view, neither more nor less
than an anti-slavery party-a party op-
posed to the existing social organization
of the Southern States of the Union, and
seeking through political instrumental,
ties, to work revolution therein.
1t would, no doubt, be unfortunate for
the Republican party to adopt, or become
implicated in, the folly of the hybrid and
purblind politicians of Massachusetts,
but it would be still more 80 for the Repub-
icans of New England-thatis to soy, so far
as the chances of success at the next elec-
ton are concerned-to adopt the hostility
to slavery platform of these New York
gentlemen. Slavery, whatever may be
said of its intrinsic rectitude, is an eco
nomical interest of one portion of the
United States, many hundred millions o
dollars in value 1t is thing accepted
by the people where it exists, and recog
nized and protected by local laws aud in
stitutions The right of the master in the
slave constitutes PROPERTY; and upor
this fact is based the entire social and in
dustrial system of half this confederacy
For one-half of great people to declare
political war against the proprietary re
lations of the other half, is a state O
things which, but for its absurdity, would
be alarming. A substantial material in
terest, of appreciable value, exists by i'm
memorial usage, and general acquies
cence, under the equal protection of Law
and public sentiment, in one section o
the republic; political organization hos
tile to the same, originates in another sec
tion, and, upon the ground of such hos
tility, and for no other reason, claims pos
session of the common government 1t
not to be supposed that single electora
vote coming from the States that are mos
affected by this hostility viii be in favo
of making it practical in the person c
the President; and consequently, the r,
publican party, upon this idea, will nc
only bo sectional party, but one of tn
worst kind-having its local habitation j
one part of the Union, and its end to wG
against the private interests of the peopl
n of another.
sDr When the case is presented in this Vi
attractive form, the reply is: o, we
not war against slavery; but only again
o its extension. That is mistake III
plea of opposition to the extension
g slavery, viii not cover all that is don
much less all that is said, sung al
printed The literature perpetually slid
over from the possible TO the actual al
the considerations urged against the e
= tension, arc placed in such form as
apply equally TO the continuance ]
deed. whatever words of limitation M
be used in respect to present desigr