East Saginaw courier. (East Saginaw, Mich.) 1859-18??, 1860-03-08
utterly Useless and Positively EyIiI.

vile Journal as one Of the most able and
conservative papers in the country
That press in reviewing the Frankfort,
Kentucky, speech of Cassins M. Clay, in
strong but faithful language, gives it's
opinion of the character, teachings and
tendency of Republican doctrines. Ev-
cry word is true, 1t comes too from a
bitter opponent Of the Democratic party
and sympathiser with those who com
pose the Republican party, which gives
its testimony weight and consideration.
We give the Journals opinoin Of Repub-
licanism for the consideration of the hon
est men of that party, and of the country
generally. 1t says: Nsi
The sole design OF the Republican par
ty, according to the exposition Of Mr..
Clay, is the Inhibition Of the spread of
slavery; in other words, the exclusion Of
slavery from the National Territories
This is admitted to be the exclusive, the
only bond, the hesoltary object Of the par
ty. The Republican organization, on
the express showing Of its own leaders,
has but single flea, and that idea is
hostility to the extension of slavery
It's creed, therefore, is not merely mar
row, but sectional 1t is not and never
can become national party. i'.
Never, for surely no man of ordinary
candor and discernment will intend that
the South or any considerable portion of
it will ever unite with party the whole
end Of which is the virtual exclusion Of
the Southern people from the common
Territories of the Union. Laying com
pletely out of view the fitness or unfit
ness of the thing, its mere moral impos-
sibility is indisputablc. As simple.
question of fact, without reference to the
right or wrong of this subject, it is not
to be controverted. Every rational man,
it seems to us, must perceive this. The
Republican party, from its very nature,
is and will always be, generally speaking,
confined to the North. The scattered
exceptions can serve only to throw the
rule into more bold and exciting relief.
There is no escaping this. The Repub-
lican party is in all respects the party OF
a section. 1t is an anti-national party in
practice as well as in principle, and must,
of necessity, remain so as long as it exists.
1t is idle, even if it were not false and
impertinent, to say that it ought not to
be sectional. The inevitable, indcstruct-
ible, irrepressble instincts of human ma
ture will admit of nothing else. And it
is the duty Of all good citizens and men
of common sense to recognise the fact.
But this is not all; it is only half, and
not the worst half either. Objectionable
as the Republican party is in its avowed
aim, 1t is even more Objectionable on tho
score of its latent tendency. The nat
ural, unavoidable effect Of sectional
party, no matter what its patriotic inten-
tion may be, is to beget sectional auta,
gonism; thus inaugurating pure strife
of sections, which, through mutual cxas-
perations, must sooner or later result in
the dreadful shock of civil war A Sec
tional party, once launched fairly on the
tide of events, loses necessarily the con-
troll of itself, and passes under the tyran-
ny of accident and Of passion. 1t be-
comes, in spite of its original design and
of the conservative impulses of some Of
its members, an organized element of
destruction, which nothing, and least Of
all the energy of its own will, can arrest
Let any man of discrimination, let Mr..
Clay himself, look abroad over the field
of our politics, and tell us candidly, if he
does not see already signs of the dcvel-
opment of this tendency in the Rcpubli-
can party? Are they not manifest?--
Are they not formidable? We conf
IDENTIFY put the case to the dspassionate
Judgment of every sensible Republican
in the country,
: The Republican party however, is not
only sectional, disorganizing, and dcstruc-
tive, but entirely unnecessary. 1t is
gratiutism. The question of the spread
of slavery into the national Territories is
now substantially closed. 1t is not liv-
ing question. The one idea on which
the Republican party rests has been re-
allied. The mission of the party is full
filled. 1t has no longer decent pre-
text for existing Disbandmcnt has in
every point of view become paramount
duty. In common consistency the pnb-
lie avowals Of its own chiefs demand this
as we have repeatedly shown heretofore.
The maintenance of the Republican or
ganzation for another month or another
day is utterly indeiensible. There is no
excuse for it. 1t can not be done with
Out tlc luOSb iliohStlOuS otVtiittO VI lbttt'
otism to partysm. Those who honestly
look for any good to come Of the Repub-
T lican party arc cgrcgiously deceived
i There is nothing salutary about it, ac-
+ tually or potentially; it is thoroughly
T pcrnicious.
EN Mason & Dixons line is The boun-
: dary line between Maryland and Penn
0 sylvania, surveyed by two able English
: surveyors at the expense of the heirs Of
c William Penn and Lord baltimore. 1t
a cost the Penn family in the neighborhood
e Of 100000. Mason & Dixon measured
e an arc of the meridian in the course Of
8 their surveys, and this measurmcnt is
cited now in works on Astronomy, having
been one Of the measurments by which
t the figure Of the earth was ssccrtained.
+ EE Blondin has decided to amusc
o the Quebeckcrs tho coming SEASON.
n After Inspecting several localities he has
c fixed position close to Montnorcnci
y Ec1le pnu,e1;at .lv baloxv thu ootarack -