The River Falls journal. (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1857-1861, 1859-08-10
How to do it.

The great mass of the people in the
Northern and many in the Southern
States have becomo convinced of these
facts; that the Democratic party is bank
rupt in principle, profigate in practice,
aud that by selling itself unreservedly to
the Slave Power, by direct and indirect
countenance of fraud and violence, by its
unparalleled favoritism, it has brought
dishonor upon the national name, and
that the interests of the country demand
that it be deprived of the power it has 80
abused aud new party take its place
party that shall substitute economy for
profigacy, energy for imbecility, and
Craftsmanship for the arts of demagogue-
ism--in short party that shall worthily
represent the national character and faith
fully execute the nations will.
Now what party shall be the instru
ment by which this desirable change shall
be effected? Whiggery Is dead, beyond
hope Of resurrecti on, and the "American"
party as far rs national influence is con-
cernod, sleeps quietly beside it. No ex-
pert and ambitious professor in political
science, can, by any possibility, galvanize
these defunct organizations into vigorous
life.
Our hope, then, lies in the Republican
party. That party was the logical and
necessary result Of the apostacy of the
Democracy. 1t was the popular protest
of an indignant people against the CONVEX
sion of the Federal Government into a
tool of Slave Power--it was, and is, 40
emphatic and eloquent re-assertion ofthose
"glittering generalities," embodied in the
Declaration of ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
which had weight and meaning in the
DAYS of '76, and which have inherent
power and vitality still. It's leading aim
was to check the aggression of Slavery,
and to e-asscrt the rights of free labor in
the national domain, while its general
policy is one Of economy, of encourage
ment and protection to home interests, in
opposition to lavish expenditure, and the
desire to enhance our glory by the arm of
conquest and the arts Of diplomacy.
This party, young, vigorous and hope
full, stands forth to-day the bold antago-
mist of diseased and dishonored Democra-
cy. 1t cmbodies in its creed the popular
convictions, and is the exponent of nearly
all the earnest antislaverv, anti-fraud and
anti-prohigate sentiment of the land. 1t
is, therefore, though this organization
the overthrow of Democracy is to be eff
fected. 1t is around its standard that the
masses must rally, and in its ranks is vic
tory to be won. Believing this the mem
bers of the Republican party desire to fra
ternize with all, of whatever previous po-
l;tical faith-of whatever creed or class
who sympathize with its aims and objects.
Standing On its broad but simple platform,
it is not moved by the contemptuous sheer
that it IS zone idea party"-a heteroge-
neous mass of sbriekers and agitators-a
loosely bound conglomeration of ists and
isms. 1t is true it is diverse in its ele-
ments, but it is firmly bound together by
the cohesive power Of a vital principle and
living faith.
The way to do it, then, is for all oppo-
sers of Sham Democracy to unite under
its banner. ignore former differences, for
get former quarrels, bury former jealous
les aud move forward to a glorious yicto-
re-.