Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1860-03-30

age OF the wpfl u acts It's part on tho pub
lie stage, and what are lis predominant IN
stiluions, customs, habits, aud sentiments
doubts that the Republican party can and
will, if unwaveringly faithful to that policy
and Just and loyal in all beside, carry il in.
TO triumphal success? TO doubt is to lie
uncertain whether civiliz ,ion can improve
or Christianity save mankind.
may, perhaps, infer from the necessity
of the case that it viii, in all courts aud
places, stand by the freedom Of speech and
of the press, anl the constitutional rights
Of freemen everywhere that it will favor
the speedy improvement of the rublic do
main by homestead laws, and will encour-
age mining, manufacture and internal COM
merce, with needful connections heween
the Atlantic and Pacific Statcs-for all these
are important interests of freedom. For
all the rest the national emergencies, not
individual influences, must determ ne, as
society goes on, the policy and character Of
the Republican party. Already bearing lis
part in legislation and in treaties, it feels
the necessity of being practical in lis care
Of the national health and life. while it
leaves metaphysical speculation to those
whose duty it is 10 cultivate the ennobl;ng
science of political philosophy.
But in the midst of these subjects, or
rather before fully reaching them, the Re
publican party encounters, unexpectedly, a
new and potential issue-one prior, and
therefore paramount, TO all others, one ot
national life and death. just as if so much
had not been already conceded-nay, just
as if nothing at all had ever been conceded
to the interest of capital invested in men,
we hear menaces of disunion, louder, more
distinct, more emphatic than ever, with the
condition annexed that they shall be exc
cuted the moment that a Republican adj
minstration, though constitutioaally elect
ed. shall assume the government.
do not certainly know that the people
are prepared to call such an Administration
to power. / know only that. through a
succession of floods which never greatly
excite, and ebbs which never entirely dis.
courage me, the volume of Republicanism
rises continually higher aud higher. They
are probably wise whose apprehensions ad
monish them that it is already strong enough
for effect.
Hitherto the Republican party has beer
content with one self-interrogatory- how
many votes il can cast These threats en-
force another-has it determination enough
to cast them? This latter question touches
its spirit and pride. | am quite sure, how
ever, that, as ii has hitherto practised self
denial in so many other forms, il will il
this emergency lay aside all impotence O.
temper, together with all ambition, and will
consider these extraordinary declamations
seriously and with just moderation. II
would be waste of words to demonstrate
that they are unconstitutional, and equally
idle to show that the responsibility for dis
union, attempted or effected, must rest no
with those who, in The exercise OF coRsti
tutional authority, maintain the govern
ment but with those who unconstitutionally
engage in the mad work of subverting it.
What are the excuses for these menaces
They resolve themselves into this, that the
Republican party in the North is hostile to
the South. But it already is proved to be
majority in the North; it is therefore
practically the people of the North. Will
it not still be the same North that has for.
borne with you so long and conceded TO you
so much? Can you justly assume that af'
fection which has been so complying can
all at once change to hatred intense and in.
exorable
You say that the Republican party is q
sectional one. Is the Democratic party less
sectional? Is it easier for us to bear your
sectional sway than for you to bear ours
Is it unreasonable that for once we should
alternate? But is the Republican party
sectional? Not unless the Democratic par
ty is. The Republican party prevails il
the House of Representatives sometimes
the Democratic party in the Senate always
Which of the two is the most proscriptlve
Come, if you will, into the free States, int
the State of New York, anywhere from
Lake Erie 10 Sag IIarbor, among my neigh
bors in the Owasco Valley, hold your con
ventions. nominate your candidates, address
the people, submit TO them, fully, earnest
", eoquently, all your complaints and griey
ances of Northern disloyalty, oppression
perfidy; keep nothing back, speak just a;
freely and as loudly there as you do here
yon will have hospiable welcomes, and ap
preciating audiences, with ballot-boxes oper
| for all the votes you can win. Arc you
less sectional than this? Extend to us the
same privileges, and viii engage that yor
will very soon have in the South as many
Republicans as we have Democrats in the
/ North. There is, however, a better test o
nationality than the accidental location o
parties. Our policy of labor in the Terri
tories was not sectional in the first forty
years of the Republic. Its nature inhrres
1t will be national again, during the thirt
forty years. and forever afterwards. it i
not wise and benefcent for ms alone or in
iurions to you al n. It's eff cts are equal
and the same for us all.
You accuse the Republican party Of u
terror and secret designs. How can par
tv that counts IFS votes in this land of free
speech and free press by the hundreds o
thousands have ary secret designs? WhC
Is the conIurer, and where are the bidder
springs by which he can control its uncon
grcgated and widely dispersed MASSES, anC
/ direct th-m to objects unseen and purposes
nnavowed? Rut what are these hildrr
purposes? Yo1 name only one. TlIa
one is to introduce negro equality among
you. Suppose you had the power TO chang
/ vauP social system; what warrant have yOt
| for supposing that We should carry negro
aana'ify among YOU? We know, and W
will show you. if you will only give herd
that what our system of labor works out