The River Falls journal. (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1857-1861, 1859-05-25
Republican yict09ies-vhat
Lesson shall they
ea4! -fE4 ~ teach Esss 9-

go eds 81 .e5vEa IT, sges ct.1 on .l5
Never were the auspices OF freedom
Brighter than they are to-day. The au-
CURES Of Rolne's most successful gene: q !.
were never s favorable for victory and
conquest. SIS are those of the Republican
party III the coming Presidential election.
New Hampshire opened the bail in a
manner that was worthy Of the old Gran
nc State, and as the notes of that victory
were just dying away in Der vallies, Cor
necteut caught them up, and sent them
laundering over her hills and down bv
tbs ban IS Of her quiet river. Even The
far eff West Seems TO have been touched
BY the electric spark, and St. Louis sends
hes shouts OF victory TO III ngle with the
chorus fthe froemon's Voices fthe North.
T'his.is glorious, not because the party has
SIMPLY gained 81 local victory, but because
= tells 10 doubling men ana way ering SOL
sliers III freattotis ranks, that our princi-
pies n2ast vet triumph, and that not an
cther rcd o. G -,3,s heritage in the Now
World shall be cursed with the spr> adj of
fhe Barbara customs Of another age
Bu, these victories, grand as they are, ana
aweepiiEg as they were, will al be useless
# the l'afiy. or rataa, ths peone do not
zoe them aritht. Let US therefore suerest
VIC 'eSs3n thas-it saaDls 10 US these tri-
Nlnths should teach US. 4".
IN the first pace, Toy have bsen won
upon 2 platform IN which there is-thc lar
lcst tolerance to all op;nions, s;ye. up, II
the QUESTION ofl;hetty 'ahl slavery. Here
,i,ere must be On mss. unity. harmony
and complete rl.aIity Of opinion Ne
Ssuggaryi in the cause, 10 doubter Of the
talth, no sn>orer;a ct It's n,ea, no trader in
It's cread, s'lfuct he tolerated in tho ranks
as q leader or q follower, if he does not
heartily believe and en- i3rse the sentiment
Of the frcclnen Of the North, that all men
sare born freq and eqaal, and that to DENY
the black man suffrage and citizenship. is
70 pave the way - make white men slaves
70 Northern masters. J,,,. .-
Missouri, il she pleases, may maintain
the opposite doctrine. Oregon may imi-
tate her, ahl the Democrats and their
icalpp-folloc ers NAV Gu lorse her. Butno
Reppb.ean, can stand Oh any such plat
fQys'. Unl2as the party repuliates it, our
Republican victories will soon be to us
whss Capua was To Rome's yictorit US CO.
horts. u is unmstakablv true, that the
-anu-siaeery sentiment Of the nation is
deepening. Inc moral power of the pri-
mary principles Of liberty are each dav
cxerting a weightier influence over tie
fl,eople, while Northern industry, trade
arnd manufactures are knocking at the
doors OF slavery in every border State
All that the people of tho North have
now 10 do, is 10 march forward in solid
phalanx, To the music of Free Soil. Free
Speech, ana Free Men. Discussions, dc
Liberation and sgitation arc our censtitu-
tonal rights, guaranteed to us by or ia
Tiers who baptized our young Republic
~ Their own blood. To check the slave
power IN its growth, to rcbuke it in It's
iasulence, 20 check it in It's attempted ar-
srandiSoments, is every freeman's coust:-
tutional right. To war for slavery's over
throw is every freeman's bounden duty
Let each soldier of party eat meat Oh FRI.
day or no, believe in natul alisatien ID one
year or seven, if he be true to his colors
and stand by the war cry of 'tNo NOR,
slave States. and no more ensla.ed men,
lei us welcome him to the ranks, and on
w ask him as Cromwell did his Psriia
me It ito stand BY the fnuds neRtals."-
Warceatsr Nassl Treaser3