The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1859-12-02
The Position and Prospects Of the
Republican Party.


fProm the New York Herald1
Thirty years ago small knot OF en-
thusissts, following in the footsteps Of the
English fanatics of Exeter Hall, started
the abolition party in this country.
As party it has never been a success
full institution. Beginning its career at
time when the abolitionists of England
were about to achieve their triumphant
destruction of the industrial, social and
moral organizations of the British West
India colonies, its fallacious theories have
had to encounter in their propagation the
hard facts of failure in practical applica-
ton, set forth in the history of the de-
cline of Jamaica and her sister islands
In addition to this impeachment, the tide
of abolitionism began to ebb in Europe,
and the fact has naturally reacted upon
its progress here. For these reasons it
has never attained in this country the
dimensions of great party, and it never
will. The mania of philo-negroism has
run its course in the world, and has
achieved all the triumphs it will ever OBJ
tain. But this shadow of party has
been convenient instrument which dis
appointed politicians and ambitious dem
agogues have frequently availed them
selves of to further their own schemes.
In 1910 it cast seven thousand votes,
and did no special injury to any one. In
1914 the enemies of Mr.. Clay seized upon
it to defeat his claims to the Presidency,
which it did by giving New York to Mr..
Polk. On this occasion the abolition
vote was sixty-two thousand, since when
it has never been presented in an dn-
adulterated state. In lS4S Mr.. Van Blu
rem took possession of it for the purpose
of defeating Gen. Cass, which was done
by giving the vote of New York to Gen.
Taylor. During this conflict the aboli-
toned or free soil vote reached two hun
bred and ninety-one thousand through
out the Union. After this the wing party
was entirely broken up, and the dema-
gogical portion of its leaders sought fu-
sion with the abolition sentiment, the Of
fecting of which left the old wing states
men, who would not stoop to such q
course, high and dry on the sands of poll
tics. In 1862 the abolitionized or free
soil portion of the democratic vote was
reduced to hundred and thirty thousand
q large portion of which went over to the
republican camp in 1856. In that year
the demagogues were disappointed in the
effort to foist their candidate on the op
position elements, and they contrived tc
defeat Fremont in the election.
Ever since that time they have been al
work aboltionizing the elements ant
principles of the republican party, an6
carrying it nearer and nearer to the verge
of the precipice, from which it must in
evitably fall into the gulf of treason, dis
union and civil war which is so openly
proclaimed by the apostles of abolition
ism. These fanatics unblushingly curse
Washington, denounce the Union as {
league with hell, and proclaim open trea
son to the constitution. But there is, il
the honest portion of the opposition
ranks, vast number of patriotic citi
zens, who love the Union and the consti
tuition, and who are not willing ant
never will be, to give up all the great ma
terial and moral benefits which the Unior
and the constitution guarantee to the
country, North as well as South, in or
der to cling to treason and disunion will
the demagogues. They have seen the
danger into which the republican party
has been led, and the recent State cleo
tons show that there are n million o.
conservative voters in the Northern
States who have not followed, and viii
not follow, the leaders to the precipice o
disunion. Thus the demagogues, in abo
litionizing the republican party, have
shorn it of its beauty and its strength, al
did Delilah the giant Samson.
The honest and earnest elements o
the opposition now look round for theil
old leaders. There is laundering afte
the men whose names were cheered o
DID, and whose steadfast loyalty to the
teachings Of Washington and the obliga
tons to the constitution, was beacon
to patriotism and a safeguard to tn,
Union. Many ofthese have passed away
but no small number llremains. Their,
are Everett, of Massachusetts, Hunt, o
New York; Rives, of Virginia; and hun
dreds Of others, who, if they would come
forth and buckle on their armor, woule
rally at once hundreds of thousands O
voters to their support, who do not wish
to 60 into the democratic camp, and who
will not follow the republican leaders il
their reasonable tendencies. We cal
upon these men to meet together ant
consult upon the condition of the times
and to organize the conservative ele
ments of the country for the preserva
ton of the Union. The republican par
ty, under its present organization, has be
come abolitionized, and is undergoing
the rapid dissolution which must ever at
tend every party seeking to adopt the
insane teachings of Wendell Phillips and
William Lloyd Garrison.
ROBBED OF Ten THOUSAND DoLLARs.-The
New Orleans Picayune of the Oath says
Yesterday afternoon, between l and 9
o'clock, the clerk of Messrs. Cutrer, Har
rison & Co., p Carondelet street, was rob
bed of ten thousand dollars, whilst at
tending to the bank business of that firm
He went into the Citizens Bank to make
a deposit, and laid on the counter along
side of him, the bank book Of the firm
with the Merchants Bank, containing
six bills of one thousand dollars, (be
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