The River Falls journal. (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1857-1861, 1860-03-21

The n. Y. Independent, one OF the
ablsst journals of the day, although
religious paper, is net afraid to discuss
questions of politics, when politics invades
the realm of morals and religion. The
last number contains an able and peril
nent article on "Parties aud Candidates
in which its views of the Republican
nomination are given. Speaking OF
Judge Bates, it says
We do not at all believe that Judge Bates
will receive the nomination at Chicago fer the
Office of President nor do we, on the whole
desire that he should thus be nominated
We are. therefore, the more free to say that
know him personally, as well as by his pnb-
lie reputation and that there is 40 better
man than he--none to whose religious fidell-
tv. and ar-sighted patriotism. and manly IN
depeI ence of spirit, the great trust OF the
Presidency could be more safely committed.
To us the objection that he was not 2 MEM
Der of the Republican party ia 1856 is OF no
weight 1t is enough that on the great ques-
Ii iii of the day-the quest o of slavery rs re-
lated to the Federal Gonstitutior-he takes
IS 81 CHI men cannot but take-the right side.
He holds the old doctrine in regard to slavery
the doctrine of the Revolution and of the
ordinance of 7S7-the doctrine of Washing
ton and franklin. of jefferson and Madison, IN
the DAYS when Virginia had net yet been de-
graded into 1.-THE slave coast" of Amerlca-the
doctrine of Roger Sherman and Oliver Els
worth AID John Jay. He has done long age
what Washington did only in his last Will
and testament-he has emancipateti his own
r f. fla..S col ut
the testimony which he thereby gave against
the system of slavery. We do not ask wheth-
er he agrees with us on every roint,-lt IS
enough for us to know that he is as heartily
opposed as we are to the new, demorallzing.
an | revolutionary policy rapresc nted by who
ev NAV be made the candidate of The Demo-
cratic lTrtv. And the eoantry ought to
know in advance-as we know that he viii
not consent to be used by any third party as
a means otaiding the Charleston candidate.
Tho Independent, thus alludes to
SEWARD.
We have already intinated our belief that
Judge Bates will rot be nominated by the
Chicago Convention. AS we read the signs
of the times, the choice of that Convention will
fall, inevitably and at lat u, animously. upon
another man. We need not name the man
who s at i moment more conspicuous than
any other citizen of the United States; the
man whose name is more feared ard execra-
ted than anyeother by the upholders of the ex-
isting disagreement and the plotters for dis
union the man whose speeches in In: Senate
are historical events 5, waited for as men wait
for the news Of an expected battle, and read
with the eagcrness with which men read the
telegram of victory the man whose NOM
nation, above that of any other man. would
squarcly meet the issue of the day and bring
it TO trial on its merits distinct from all side
issues. The gift Of proI h cy is not ours; We
can only. like other YaIk ,cs. guess what viii
be but our belief is that the Chicago Conyen-
tion-whatcver may BE- "the first choice" of
the delegates from one state or another-will
find itself compelled to nominate the foremost
ofliving Americans, the wisest and most ma
tional of orr states the most sagacious
and yet most dignifea ofpolitcians. and the
calnest and steadiest Of them in the long bat
tie against the entertainments Of slavery.