Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1860-10-19

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the national domain for the purpose Of con.
fning the institution Of Slavery to its pres
ent limits In pressing this policy to a
consummation, we but endeavor to realize
the hopes of our Revolutionary Fathels
in demanding that the public domain shall
| be protected from the curse of human bond
age, we but identity ourselves with Wash
| inoton, with Jefferson, with Madison, and
their contemporaries. When wo ask that
masters shall be prohibited from carrying
their slaves into Territories, we do not
discriminate between sections of our coun-
try, but include all masters, whether com
ing from the North or the South; whether
they be shareholders now, or intend to be-
come such hereafter. Not for the benefit
of the Free States to the detriment of the
Slave States do we raise our voice, but we
plead the cause Of Freedom against the
prctensioas of Slavery. In the struggle
for tie possession of the Territories, we de-
sire Freedom to be victorious. ..t
The Republican party desires the enact
ment of a well-digested Homestead Law,
believing it in the interest of the whole
country that the public land should not be
held merely as bank of deposit Tor the
surplus capital of the wealthy Spectator,
but should be devoted to bona fje settlers,
in order that honest industry may secure
the necessaries and comforts of life, and
thus augment. the aggregate wealth Of the
nation
| 1t requires that, in providing revenue
for the support Of the General Go, ernmcnt
by duties upon imports, those duties should
be so regulated as to stimulate our national
industry, and to multiply and develop the
resources of our whole country.
1t advocates the construction Of Pacific
Railroad, in order to provide the means for
national defence in times of war, to facii-
tate communication between our Atlantic
and Pacific States, to strengthen the bonds
Of our Union, and to open new fields of in
dustry and civilization. It requires Con-
gress to make direct appropriations for
River and Harbor improvements OF ma
| tl0nal character, as authorized by the Con-
stitution and justified by the obligations Of
Government to foster the commerce and
protect the lives and property Of the citi-
zens and therefore discountenances the
grant of discretionary power to tie ,Sutes
to levy tunnage duties. .........
It insists on the efectual suppression of
the African slaye-trade, and denounccs its
recent reopening under cover of our nation
al flag, aided b. judicial perversions, as a
crime against humanity and a shame to
our country. Neither wing Of the DE
mocracy" had the courage or the will to
rebuke that infamous traffic ..........
To these principles stands the Republ-
can party pledgcd-to carry them out it
has nominated Abraham Lincoln, native
of Kentucky, now citizen Of Illinois, and
Hannibal Hamln, citizen of Maine, for
the offices of President and ce-President
of the United States. Their acknowledged
honesty, their patriotism and integrity, are
the best guarantees for the faithful dis
charge Of their respective duties. ...
We know we are charged with sectional
ism, not indeed upon fair exposition Of
our principles, but upon the assumption
that our party can poll no votes i'll the
Southern States-that it finds 10 sympa-
thy in this latitude We call upon our
friends to rebuke that assumption; we call
upon them to assert their right Of a free
expression of just sentiments-to enforce
the guaranty Of the Kentucky Bill of
Rights, "That all elections shall be free
and equal ~ Tile cAorye Of secfiona!isos
,ciU nerer cease to be made until ,ce rcmovc
the ground upon eghich 1t res's BY a uni
ted and earnest effort in those Slave States
where freedom is not wholly stifed, we
may poll larger g-regate vote than the
Breckenridge or the Bell party in like
number of Free States We state with
confidence that the Republican vote in the
States of Missouri, Kentucky, Virginia
Maryland, and Delaware, will exceed fifty
thousand at the coming election. There
is no reason why we should throw our
strength into mere choice between other
parties but little differing in their hostility
to ours. The result in Kentucky cannot
be effected by our vote, she Is certain to
60 for Bell and Everett but by our vote
we can add to the national character of the
party with which we are identified by our
! convictions, and the triumph Of uhich is
no'c rendered certain Let the voice Of
fifty thousand freemen from the South be
heard asserting their Independent manhood
at the ballot-box, and the charge Of section
alism will be forever silenced.
With these principles and these candi-
dates we present ourselves to the enlight-
ened voters of Kentucky. In their ten
dencles we can see no danger to the perpe-
tuIty of the Union in the object we can
detect no germ for the decentralization, no
danger to the liberties of the people. But.
on the contrary from their success we
augur the progress of liberty, the vindica-
tion of truth, the increased prosperity Of
our people, the realization Of the hopes Of
our fathers, and the unsullied maintenance
of magnificent Constitution bequeathed
to US by those great apostles of human
freedom ~
Louisville, September II, 1860
EDGAR NEEDHAM, THEo WEnLE.
BLAND BALLARD, HARRIsoX G. OTIs,
LEWIS n. DEMBITZ, JoHN REYMELL,
A. IL, MERRIwETHER, MORGAN FAUBUs,
FRED FRIsCHE, WM. JOHNSON,
J. Il. NHITTEMoRE, Curtis KNIGHT,
Fl. W. HAws, Fl. S. PoRCH,
JouN j. HAws,
Republican State Central Committee.
SINGULAR Pr PENsIrr.-Dr Tyler, su-