White Cloud Kansas chief. [volume] (White Cloud, Kan.) 1857-1872, 1859-04-14
correspondence.
For the Chief
,%tTION OF THE RE-
THE K"npIJCAN PARTY.

-,,-;ety OF orsahiAi"5 IL :.
Fcp.I; issue upon which more depends than IS
hD $50 ~ conceded. The call has been made
s eDs, an organization, and from many quar-
for w. hesn most heartily responded to. Is
en =. a prudent One7 Is it the call OF wis
ms M Let US consider what is to be accomplish
DON. .bi. organization, as well as the cOnse-
60 " -. ~ not organizing. The objects OF all
9D - associations in Democratic govern
~, made up of cOnfederacy of States are
- 80, State or Federal purposes-to maintain
s''1H 80 some power in particular State, Or
;.Ia an influence throughout the nation
Csc then the party proceeds to organize
=, riTl be the result? 1t requires not the
.h.,;e vision of seer to foretell. Many Of
=. uurest and best citizens of the Territory
L,vs linked heart and hand with them in
=. hattie against the common eneny-Demoe-
.,-.OuId no longer join in the holy league,
hrt ,ould either go over to the camPhres of the
xouId stand BY idle spectators Of the
'..,s The strict party platform necessarily
.,.,dinr such an organization would drive from
-, b-otberhood a host Of noble men. not be-
.,,.s thew are less opposed to the so-ealled De-
-,c-,ev nov than heretofore; not because they
I,,s abandoned the cherished principles of pu-
:, and patriotism; but because, in the Repub-
s.,u DIatform, they see, what they at least con-
..;rs 70 be, sectional political organization
,.ty from one portion Of the Union arrayed
i,Seadly hostility against the citizens eff the
obsr pOrsiOn-the North against the South
su.b i the view which has always been taken Of
the Republican party by many Of our best cit
i,sns; and with us it is wholly immaterial
rbsther II be correct view or not, so far as the
Io.s at the ballot-bOz is concerned. In either
c,se the loss is sustained, and that, too, at a
time when inevitable defeat must follow in its
tain. But, suppose the organization is effected,
and that the result lin Kansas is the brilliant
success which its Warmest friends anticipate,
shich is extremely problcmatical and full Of
doubt, what thenl Two Republican Senators
in Congress, upon the admission of Kansas in
the Union, whose voices would be drowned in
that branch Of the National Council, by the
overwhelming Democratic majority already cho-
sen for the Senate. OF the Lower House it is
unnecessary to speak. What good, then, will
have been accomplished? The party in a wOfnl
minority would be as impotent for good as il the
Republican issue had never been sprung in the
Territory. They will have gained nothing
practically; no great principle will have been
established; - Important measure carried; but
en- the ether hand, will have alienated from
them the sympathy, the feelings, and more than
al, TIE Uetes at TIE polls, of thousands Of good
legal and Umez-i Sving citizens. Why then
sacifee the Friendship of those whose aid will
ee so much needed ia less than tweEty four
months, b establish that which has nothing in
itFactically; that which, in truth, if properly
considered, is but name, bubble. | have
vet to learn what measure the Republican party.
As separate and distinct party, proposes to i'm
mediateiy enforce, which weuld not be as read
lily enforced by the laws Of nature.
An era in the political history of our country
i fast approaching. IL the Fab Of 1850 will be
fought the most memorable battle ever chroni-
e,ed on the pages of civil history. Democracy
has usurped the Pceud temple Of constitutional
liberty, and under the disguise of that once hal
lowed name, which it now mOcks and desccrates,
Yields supreme sway over thirty millions Of
teemen. Under its dynasty virtue has been
ostracisei, and crime rewarded with the spoils
Of Office /; patriotism has been sacrificed 20 the
demon god of party; craftsmanship has been
ignored, and low demagOgueism holds the watch
towers Of the Nations councils; parity aud
wisdom no longer have voice inthe controlling
destiny OF our country. But vcnahty and cor
ruptiOn are the passwords Of the dominant par
ty' Like the heather car of Juggcmaut, this
nOnstrous engine of political power rolls on
crashing and anRihilating all who stand on its
ask-aiready has its rulers, with one hand
grasped the keys to the treasury, while with the
other, they clutch at the sword of the army-a
"nenan-pOwer as self-willed and arbitrary as
the Gar of Russia, as despotic as the master
Of France, stares US in the face, and all that is
wanting to build upon the ruins of our civil
liberty, dSspOtism as strong and terrible as
that Of BOnaparte the First, is one more victory
lot Democracy. The people, the arbiters
al the ballOt-bOx, for the ruin or the glo-
Tof our country, are awake to these startling
demonstrations, and unless misled By ambitious
party spirit, will crush with one voice, this pow
e'iul and dangerous organization. Can this be
uone! Yes, emphatically yes' Let the motto
ei the Republican party, until November, 1860,
Oe peace be still" Let all trifing differences
oloplnion, between Old.line Wings, Americans,
Republicans and Conservatives Of whatever
e'eed be flung to the wind or buried for a sea-
YIN IN oblivion. Let the strength and power Of
Ill taese be gathered under one banner, their
countless lesions marshalled in array against
~e common enemy, Democracy, animated BY
we cause of unallOyed patriotism, inspired by
'uA' maternal feeling which war against CON-
"Oa enemy always engenders; let them present
Ooe anerOken front, one solid phaianx, and a
mus splendid triumph win reward their efforts.
De' 'nem not seek for differences of opinions
"uiOog themselves. Such a course would have
eiSA'ed all Europe, in 1915; such course
souia have held US under the British yoke till
S uAy Let them enter the holy crusade
H one common end, one COMMON aim-death
democracy When the patriots of l776
met CORVALLIS at Yorktown, they stopped moi
~ whether the army was composed of stur-
O1'alOns from the Palmetto or from the
STATE from the Old Dominion or from the
-@PFe State, but looked only to the great cause