Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1860-07-14
ORANGE IN THE REPUBLICAN PARTY.

GRANGE IN THE REPUBLICAN PARTY.
THE following article from the New York
World, contains more truth than political aLoli-
,icnists care to admit. The Descent %cm the old
Liberty pSrty ~elatGorm 10 that Of Chicago, has not
been slow, 1aosTsh evTe. Political abolitionists
who have adhered to the organisation, through
rhick and thin, are now wai,o~1ns in the siCogh1
Of WhiRgery. aud while vainly seeking for a foot
ing, sy 10 pc7sroee themselves they are standing
uponSepuieicsu ground. If they have any foothold
whatever, they ure NESTING upon nothing better
than q rotten rail
"The coming presidential campaign promises to
be a rather quiet affair. In spite Of all the efforts
u the fle.leaders, it is very evident that the rank
and Gle itself are not going to be brought up to
any such pitch Of excitement as was exhibited in
1855. There will be no such tremendous mar
Ahalliug as thon-bere and there only a pitched
Aattc. ard those on nn inferior scale. The war
Fucc will be mainly gEejvHe, and but few, compare
lively, wiz actively engage in it.
For This agreeable prospect we are indebted
chiefly to two circumstances;
First, the rupture Of the Democratic party.
1t lisa fatal breach. The old discipline, which
wrought such wonders, is at an end. The "unter.
siied" spirit has vanished. Divided they march
TO ruin, and they know it. Each takes its own
track. and a sad road it is-joyless, hopeless, in
glorious. A party in this plight is no longer ia a
campaigning conditions; it is almost literally hors
du combat. 1t may skirmish in Hy,ng detach-
ments, bot as for making any grand s.snd-it is
utterly out of the question:. This of itself settles
the matter. There can be no great fight without
great forces-no great campaign without some
.L:.. f,u-;JoLlo ., ba nyorcnp, Tho Eenubl-
cans of the North have nothing to do but walk
leisurely along and take quiet possession. They
have no stimulus to excitement. Men do not strain
their nerves needlessly.
"But, second, independently Of this, the Repub.
lican party itself, though first IN number, has
lost much of its rorEee vebemencc. free Kan
sOs" is no longer, a rallying point. The Summer
outrage" is no longer a battle.cry. Those things,
once 20 tremendous in effect, have sunk into the
past, and nothing has come to take their place.
II is useless TO talk of distractions. Abs:ractions
will not do. No party ever lived on them for any
length of time or ever will. The soliG. practical
men, that make up the party bone and sinew, will
not stand such thin food. There must be palpa'
bic, outstanding, matter-Offact issues, or the par
" languishes. The party may resolve to the end
Of time against the extension ct slavery, yet moth
ing will come Of it, SO long as no practical case is
at hand to which to apply it. They might as well
resolve against last summers frosts, The attempt
TO force empty issues never succeeds. The leaders
at Chicago understood this. Compare their plat,
form with that at Philadelphia in SO. At Phila
delphia fye-six,hs Of the structure in some way
bore upon slavery; at Chicago not two-sixths, Ii
quality, the difference is even more marked. A,
Philadelphia, slavery was one Of the twin relics
Of barbarism;" not a trace Of this at Chicago. A
Philadelphia, it was "both the right and the DUTY
Of Congress to prohibi, slavery in the territories;
at Chicago, it is duty only whenever such legis
Iation is necessary" AT Philadelphia. no mention
was made of the inviolatility Of slavery in tn,
states, at Chicago, it was expressly resolved tina
''the maintenance iuviola;e Of the rights Of thu
states, and especially the right of each state Il
order aud control its OWE domestic institutions, j
essential" And so, too, as to new issues, A
Philadelphia, nothing Of a tariff; at Chicago
On out-and. out tariff resolution. At Philadelphia
nothing Of the free homestead policy; at Chicagl
au express demand Of a complete and ~sa.isfactC
r. homestead measure" At Philadelphia, not
word respecting the naturalization laws; at Chic;
60, an explicit declaration against any change
At Phi l~aGelphia, not a syllable respecting extrav,
gance and corruption; at Chicago, a most en-
phatic proclamation that "the recent startling d
velopments Of fraud aud corruption at tho feder
metropolis show that an entire change Of admin
t~ration lie imperatively demanded" This, in fac
is the strongest practical point in the platforr
aud il will serve more than oil things else tn ket
the Republican party united and determined.
There is feeling that corruptions have grow
frightfuily rank at Washington and that 1t is bis
time that the honest masses should interfere. II
great document Of this canvass will not be Il
Kansas Committee report, but the Covode Conan
tee report; and the great watchword will be n
nntagonism to slavery, but "honest Abe Lincoln
There can be no mistake about it. The Republ
can party occupies no such advanced anti-slayeI
position as in 1856. 1t dares not take it.
knows instinc;ively that the majority would n
sustain them in it--that the people will not coul
tenance agitation for mere ngitation's sake-lht
the predominant disposition is to let slavery alon
if slavery let's them alone. To get up. or keep u
- crusade upon any irrepresslble conflict assum
ton, is simply to court desti ucti IN. That poli'
is so completely aud ~palpably at variance with t
principles and spirit with which the union "
founded, that no party could commit itself to
and stand. So far as respects the slavery gu
ton, moderation is forced upon the republic
party. The heat Of 1856 cannot be revived. thu
is no fuel to sustain it. The excitement that pa
leaders succeed in getting up will be only limit
in degree, and will come mainly from eau
which do not really touoh the slavery questi
either on the one side or the other.
"Augbt that presages a return towards the
concord Of the country is to be hailed. The t
dency lie Enthusiastically in this direction, and
the efforts Of those party leaders, who live OIL
by tanning passion, cnnno, make it otherwise"
MORAL POWER.
Al Luther said, God never can do without brt