White Cloud Kansas chief. [volume] (White Cloud, Kan.) 1857-1872, 1859-10-06
lis Success in 1860 a Duty r.

TIE IactS ana ngnreS presented Oy MIN II
so strong light. will have.tne effect o
bringing to reason many Republican
"leaders" who are at present disposed t.
be impracticsble. Mr.. G. sets out By
showing the position of the sham Democ
racy, past and present-how they acquired
J power through Mr.. Pierce promising
J never to renew in Congress ''on any pre-
text whatever" slavery agitation-how
they violated that promise-how, after the
election Of Mr.. Buchanan as a conserva.
tive Statesman. slavery agitation and sla-
J very aggressiors increased and multiplied
and how they are now preparing To
: continue the agitation and extend the in
Auence Of slavery over the free Territories,
and to open up and legslize the African
slave trade. Mr.. c. holds, therefore, that
success is duty. not only to Republi-
can principles. but to our age and coun-
try" The question chow shall that
success be assured" he answers as fol-
lows:
1--WE counsel no surrender Of Principle,
no abandonment Of our Organization. no
overture to unite with any portion of the
| Opposition who NAV profess to be more
pro-slavery than the Democracy them
selves: but we protest. if it can be avoided.
against there being again. as in 1856. a
division Of the Opposition in the States
which arc to decide the Presidential con-
test /; and renewal. thereby, of the lease
of i'll dse1 power which our opponents
have thus obtained. Hundreds Of thou
sands Of voters. no. yet enrolled in our
ranks, sympa;hize with us in our desire
to prevent the extension of Slavery be-
yond it's present limits. AMI. to be more
particular. We aliude to those men of
whom Horace +. Clark. Haskin. Hick-
Can. Broderick. DC, are the type on the
one hand. and Edward Oates, John Bell,
JOY Morris anil Washington Hunt, are
the type on the other. Shall we foster
and promote their union with us in the
work of overthrowing the Democracy, or
shall We repe! all union. and from an
over-estimate perhaps Of our own strength.
hazard a success that with wise counsels
is already in our grasp?
1--WE differ somewhat from those ardent
co,emporarieS who demand the nomina-
ton of their favorite Representative
man. whether popular or unpopular, and
who insist that this must be done. even if
we are defeated We do agree with them
in declaring that we shall go for no man
who does not prefer Free Labor and Its
extension. to Slave Labor and its extern
sion; who, though mindful Of the i'm
partiality which should characterize the
Executive of the whole Union. will not
fail to rebuke all new plots for making
the Government the propsgandist of Sla-
very. and compel promptly and efficiently
the suppression of that horrible Slave
Trade. which the whole civilized world
has banned as infamous. piratical and
accursed. But in Republican National
Convention. If any man could be found
North. South, East or West, whose in
tegrity. whose life and whose avowals
rendered him unqueStionably safe upon
these questions. and who could yet poll
one, two or three hundred thousand votes
more than any one else, we believe it
would be both wisdom and duty. patriot
ism and policy to nominate him by &C.
clamation, and thus render the contest an
assured success from its very opening.
In a word, il heroic old lack Taylor
were alive. although he might not be
technically a straight Republican, we
should most cheerfnlly vote for him for
President, a. we did once before.
"But to this another class of directors
reply. we have Republican majority in
Congress. and have TINS proved our pow
er to elect any one we please But to
this We answer that Of the four battle
ground States. two Of them, Pennsylva-
MIA and New Jersey, were carried last
Fall only BY an union of the Opposition.
and the Republican Senator gained in the
latter State was the fruit of that union,
but which a straight Republican issue
would inevitably have thrown away.
And Indiana and Illinois, the other two.
were really about drawn battles. though
in each of these States We had the aid of
a few Thousand votes outside Of our own
ranks. Nor is it literally true that the
Republicans have secured q majority il
Congress. Even with the two members
from Minnesota, whom we hope for, the
Honse can only he organized By the plu- |
rality rule. as in 1855. or by an union Of
the Opposition. Ont of 237 members.
l19 is majority; and there are elected
thus far 104 Republicans. s North Ameri-
cans. who will probably vote with them.
(Carter and Briggs. of n. Y, Nixon and
Stratton. Of N. j.. and Joy Morris. Yer
rec. Millwari and Wood. Of Penn. all
elected on union tickets. and 8 Anti
Iecompton Democrats. Davis. Of Ind,
Adrisn and Riggs, Of n. j., Clark, Has
kin and Reynolds. Of N. Y. and Hickman
and Schwartz. of Penn.;) not counting
the five Illinois Douglasites and Mont
gomery, Of Penn. whom, as regular Dem
ocratic nominees. we fear will be found
forgetting their Anti Leeomptonism at
the door of the Democratic csuc1s.
When our sanguine contemporaries as
sumo. as is so easy to do. that there is
straight Republican majority in every
District which elected 40 Opposition
Congressman. they forget how large
proportion Of them owed their success to