St. Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (St. Charles City [Charles City], Iowa) 1857-1861, 1859-10-13
ALBANY. Nav 25th 1850

SIR At meeting of the Republi-
can National Committee, this day,
held in the city of Albany, the Com
mittee decided to address the follow
ing circular to their republican friends
throughout the Union
In the Judgment Of the undersigned,
members Of the Republican National
Committee. the time has arrived for
consultation and preliminary action in
regard to the approaching struggle
for the presidency and they beg,
therefore, to call your attention to the
suggestions which follow
The Republican party had its origin
in the obvious necessity for resistance
to the aggression Of the slave power,
aud maintaining for the States respect
lively, their reserved rights and sovcr-
eighties. In the contest of 1886. by
the presentation and Advocacy of the
true science Of government, it laid the
foundation Of a permanent political
organization, although it did not get
possession of the power 10 enforce its
principles. When the result, adverse
to its efforts aud its hopes, was de-
clarcd, it unafftctcdly acquicsced, Civ
ing to the victor, for the sake of the
Country, its best wishes for an honest
and fair administration Of the govern
mcnt. How far Mr. Buchanan's ad-
miuistration has realized these wishes,
it now the patent to the world. With
the executive power Of the govern
mcnt in his hands, his administration
has failed, in every respect, to meet
the expectations Of the people, and has
presented the most humiliating spec
taclc of corruption, extravaganza, i'm
becility, recklcssncss and broken faith.
So apparent is this, even to our oppo-
ncnts, that the so-called democratic
organization, always distinguished for
its discipline and party fidelity, is ut
tcrly demoraiized and distracted. with
out any recognized or accepted party
principles, and threatened with disrup-
tion by the rival aspirations and
struggles Of its leading partizans.
While the Administrator has been
thus faithless to the interests Of the
country, and has thus disorganized
the party which placed in power, the
Republican party has been constantly
mindful of the great public necessity
which called it into existence, and
faithful to the fundamental principles
upon which it was erected Expert
ence has only served to strengthen the
conviction of its absolute necessity in
the reformation Of the national govern
ment, and Of the wisdom and justice
of its purposes and aims. Although
some of the exciting incidents of the
election of 1856 have been partially
disposed of by the energy, enterprise
and valor of free people, the duty of
Republicans to adhere to their princi-
pies, as enunciated at Philadelphia,
and to labor for their establishment,
was never more pressing than at this
moment. The attitude of the slave
power is persistcntly insolent and ag-
gressivc. 1t demands of the country
much more than it has demanded hith.
erto. 1t is not content with the abso.
lutte control Of the national govern.
ment-not content with the dispcnsa,
ton of the honors and emolumcnts of
the national administration-not con-
tent with its well known influence, al
ways pernicious over the legislature
at The national capitol, but il demands
fresh concessions from free people.
for the purpose Of extending and
strengthening an institution local in
it's character, the creature Of state
legislation which the federal govern
ment is not authorized to establish or
extend by any grant of delegated pow
er. 1t demands by an unauthorized
assumption Of power after having, as
occasion required, adopted and repu-
dated all the crude theories, for the
extension Of slavery, Of the ambitious
politicians who sought its favor, the
establishment and protection of sla-
very in the Territories by an act Of
Congress and the revival Of the Atri-
can slave trade
Upon no organization, except that
of the Republican party, can the coun-
try rely for successful resistance to
these monstrous propositions, and for
the correction of the gross abuses
which have characterized the present
national administration. 1t is the
duty, then, of all patriotic men who
wish for the establishment uf Repuh-