The Buchanan County guardian. (Independence, Buchanan County, Iowa) 1858-1864, 1860-07-03

ana Dy refusing TO Improve and keep In
order the highways and depots of com.
merce and even now is urging mea.
sure in Congress to abdicate the consti-
tutional power and duty to regulate com
merce among the States. and to grant tc
the States the discretionary power tc
levy tunnage duties upon all our com
merce among the States, and to grant tc
the States the Discretionary power to levy
tunnage duties upon all our commerce
under the pretence of improving harbors,
rivers, and lakes; has changed the status
OF the negro slave by making him nc
longer mere property, but politician
an antagonist power in the State, a pow
er to which all other powers are required
to yield, under penalty of dissolution
of the Union has directed its energies
to the qualification of its lusfs of foreign
domain, as manifested in its persistent
efforts to seize upon tropical regions, not
because those countries and their incon.
gruous people are necessary, or even de-
sirable, to be incorporated into our nation,
but for the mere purpose of making slave
States, in order to advance the political
power of the party in the Senate and in
the choice of the President, so as etfec-
tually to transfer the chief powers of the
government from the many to the few
has in various instances endangered the
equality of the coordinate branches OF
the Government, by urgent efforts to
enlarge the powers of the Executive at
the expense OF the Legislative depart
ment has attempted to discredit and de-
grade the judiciary, by affecting to make
it, at first, the arbiter of party quarrels,
to become soon and inevitably the pass
i've registrar of party DEGREES.
In most, il not all these particulars, 1
understand the Republican party (judg-
ing it by its acts and by the known opin-
ions of many Of its leading men to be
the exact opposite of the Democratic
party; and that. is the ground of my
preference of the one party over the 9th :
er. And that alone would be sufficient
reason, if had no other good reasons,
for supporting Mr.. Lincoln against any
man who may be put forward by the
Democratic party, as the exponent of its
| principles and the agent to work out in
practice, its dangerous policies.
The third party. which, by its forma-
ton, has destroyed the organization OF
the American and Wing parties. has
nominated two most excellent men. |
know them well as sound statesmen and
true patriots. More than thirty years
ago | served with them both in Con-
gress, and from that time to this | have
always held them in respect and honor
But what can the third party do toward
the election Of even such worthy men as
these against the two great parties which
are now IN actual contest for the power
to rule the nation? 1t is made up en-
tirely of portions of the disntegrated ell
ements of the late Whig and American
parties-good materials, in the main,
admit, but quite too weak to elect any
man or establish any principle. The
most it can do is, here and there in par
ticuar localities, TO make diversion in
favor of the Democrats. La 1856, the
Wing and American parties not form.
ing a 'ae,O party, but united as allies J,
with entire unanimity and some zeal.
supported Mr.. Fillmore for the Presiden-
cy. and with what results We made a
miserable failure, carrying no State but
gallant little Maryland. And, surely,
the united Wings and Americans of that
day had far greater show of strength
and far better prospects of success. than
any which belong TO the Constitutional
Union party now. In fact, see no pos
sibiity of success for the third party, ex-
cept IN one contingency-the destruc-
tion OF the Democratic party. That is
contingency not likely TO happen this
year, for, badly as l think of many of
the acts and policies of that party. its
cup is not yet full-the day has not yet
como when il must dissolve in its own
corruptons. But the day is coming. aud
is not far off. The party has made it
self entirely sectional it has concentra-
ted It's very being into one single idea );
negro slavery has control of all its fac :
ulties and il can see and hear nothing
else-"one stern, tyrannic thought, that
makes all other " thoughts its slaves -
But the Democratic party still lives,
and while il lives, it and the Republican
party are the on ly real antagonistic pow
ers in the nation, and for the present,
must choose between them. | choose
the latter, as wiser, purer, younger and
less corrupted by time and self-indul-
gence.
The candidates nominated at Chicago
are both men who, as individuals and
politicians, rank with the foremost of the
country. | have heard no objection TO
Mr. Hamin personally, but only to his
geographical position, which is thought
to be too far North and East to allow his
personal good qualities to exercise their
proper influence over the nation at large
But the nomination for the Presidency
is the great controlling act. Mr.. Lin
coin, his charac ter. talents. opinions and
history will be criticized by thousands.
while the candidate for the Vice Presi-
dency will be passed over in comparative
silence.
Mr.. Lincoln's nomination took the
public 10y surprise because. until just be
fore the event. it was unexpected. But
really il ought not TO have excited any
surprise. for such unforeseen nominations
are common in our political history
Polk and Pierce, by the Democrats, and