Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1860-08-10
Logic n Politics.

uncon0O Ote DaSl8inay succeed and attain its
wrong and Unsatisfactory results hut move
mant which has noglogical connection with
the promises from which Il starts, mast inev.
itahN fail? Thepeople are not always right
but the masses cannot long be Illogical. They
may believe an error and commit themselves
to wrong; but they are never, forAny great
length Of time, guilty of the absurdity ofIook-
ing ore way and rowing another. Logic in
politics is as incxorable as in metaphysics,
and is always seeking self assertion, and never
in vaind Hence, there can ordinarily be but
two parties in FREQ country Public aues-
tions having their foundation in principle
have rarely but Two interpretations! Tn the
popular apprehension nicer shades Of differ
ence are lnstsi To James one thing il right,
while to John the same thing is all wrong
There are but few doubling Peters who can
stand between the two and say-"So much
ofthis theory Is correct, and so much Of the
other is erroneous. gTl balance the two and
find the diffeYence.'' This is the work Of the
stutly y--Of the critic (; and as Americans ara
usually neither students nor critics, tho
sS'wholc hog v is the motto III American pol
itics. Our people are all one thing or all the
tother 9a.8t sia s45a@ 90 aFfaap ilU1 a
Apply these general truths to the present
condition. Of political affairs, and them esti:
mate results, ana no difficulty Is found I'M
correctly predicting what will be the fate of
the parties and factions now III the field
We have only to fnd which has It's founda-
tions nearest the well Of truth, and which
employs the most logic I'M the deductions from
its Fundamental positions, and the problem is
solved Let us see go isae o. a'lT ha'a'.isa
7 II Tho Republicans believe that Slavery ~
wrong y that they are under such obligations
to the Constitution and the laws that they
may not interfere with II where it legally ex-
lists; that, however, they have the right to
prevent its extention to the parts Of the pub
lie domain now free, and this right they open
" declare that they will exercise; that they
will discourage the influence Of Slavery in tho
national councils, and in diplomacy and Leg
isation land that IL is their duty in all con
fiicts between Freedom and Slavery to ai,l
and favor the former to the limit Of their
constitutional obligations stg9R ~
Ii. The National Democracy 1--WE mean the
party in which Breckenridge stands at the
extends by force of the Constitution TO all the
Territories; that II Is their duty to plant it
wherever II viii flourish, and that II is the
duty Of the Congress to protect IL. t's
Now here nrc two propositions, one right
and the, other wrong; from both Of which
perfectly logical deductions arc made n is
not difficult TO aforctell which, in this are &c
the world, in this period Of cn,ichtenmcnt
and progress, viii succeed But between
them are two other factions, both Of which.
Judged by the rules laid down above are 10 Be-
crushed. The first is the He'll and Everett
squad, Its premises are the Constitution
and thc laws, and its deductions- nothing.
Il is an absurdity and can not live---an nh
snrtlity because all other parties profess MI
that it processes. and all others have in addi.
ton positive policy which i'm its greed for
power it has forgotten to enunciate. We
pass IL by as not worthy of further remark
as the hopeless attempt OF a fhction idle
enough to believe that in this free country Il
can get control of power by the cnunciafion
Of few generalities which none DISPUTE -
| Than we have nouvlae;s,n move ;ii,,o;,.,
still The founder of The school ncclects tn
eYpress any opinion of the riehtfulncss or in
Justice of human Slavery but he and his
friends have always welded their assent to
the decision of the supreme Court. which do.
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