Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1859-09-20
THE REPUBLICAN PARTY.


In the old Morse religion a great point was
made of the "Consecratiop of Valor" /a1d
this rite symbolized some of the best elements
in the character of the Mortimer, >ETho were
full of bravery and force. The politicians of
our time, and those especially who work with
the Republican party and SSSish to see it trium-
plant, may proitably/ Study that Morse Coon
secration Of Valor~ 6ntiI they fully comprehend
its meaning <fRey would thereby learn why
those rude Vikings had much nobler
style ofmanhood than the most polite and
promising of our civilized towards. In a
ySrd, they would be taught very clearly that
S6rarery is first, and an indispensable qualifi-
cation for success in any great work
There never was new political or
ganization which furnished more to encour-
age hope and resolution than the Republican
party. 1t has been forced. into existence
by an invincibe necessity of American politics,
and the power of public conviction and feel
ing from which it came, has broken up and
scattered all other opposition parties that have
attempted to live in its presence. 1t grows
steadily in every part of the country, 1t has
now great force of votes in Missouri, where
it had none, or next to none, in 1856. 1t is ad-
vancing into many other slave States, where it
has many friends now, and will have great
many more when it is installed in power; for
its friends in those States are the only real an
tagonists of slavery extending democracy, that
con be found there. 1t grows stronger
steadily in all the free States; never on
any day since it began its existence, has
it been SO strong, or so full of vigor and hope,
as it is now never at any previous time had
the party so many votes at its command, as it
could poll to-day.
1t is not easy to imagine, within the limits
of reason, circumstances and prospects more
admirably calculated to inspire bravery and
encourage hopeful endeavor. Shall we
desert principles which work with such
force and promise such results Shall
we follow the counsels of those men who
are merely cunning, and who are so con-
stantly misleading and cheating themselves
Through their inability to appreciate the moral
force and Significance of our principles No.
We cannot do so if we would, for the party
cannot be made to go in their direction. 1t
must be, what it is, the Republican party, and
whoever attempts to make it anything else,
will return from that effort somewhat wiser
than he was before.
1t is not to be concealed that there are men
in the party,-men who aspire to be foremost
leaders, but without succeeding to make them
selves so,-who do not fully comprehend its
character and mission. Men of this class have
great faith in cunningly managed political
maneuvers, and but little faith in anything
else In their calculations of the future, it is
not thepower Of Anrinciples that is to win
and carry tn. c~.,,,ly, but some deliberately
contrived coalition of hostile forces, some cum
ming intrigue, some inscriptions arrange
ment which shall treat principal as a fs..-1t,--'z
ultra, an incendiary, miserable dreamer
of vain dreams. Something like this is at
the bottom of most of the indefinite talk
about Omitted Opposition" complete
union of all those who naturally belong to the
Republican party, is greatly to be desired; and
we shall have it. This, however, is not what
is meant by those who talk ola Omitted Oppo-
sition" with most indefniteness and despera-
ton; for they mean union with anybody, on
any terms and propose ''no higher aim" than
to beat the Democrats and get the offices.
When the Republican party becomes plant to
the manipulations of such men, it will be no
longer worth supporting.
True hero-worshp is not worship of devils
mot even worship of the least of several
devils. 1t demands truth, sincerity, earnest
ness bravery faith in great principles There
fore it does not take in the poor crea.
lures who have neither faith nor "valor,"
and who cannot get beyond acunning intrigue.
1t is encouraging to notice everywhere that
the Republican party will not accept such men
as its leaders. No sign of the times is more
full of hope and promise than this, for it gives
to us all the certainty that no attempt to be-
tray the party and smothsr its principles can
be successful.