Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1860-03-08
Who oush, to be the Republican candi-

Who Ought to be the Republican Candi-
dates.
Under this head the Indiana Journal has some
timely and sensible remarks. which we copy below,
and which we hope every ono opposed to the spread
of slavery will read and duly consider. With the
Journal and other earnest Republicans. we believe
success IS duty We owe to our principles in the
ensuing Presidential campaign, and stand ready to
make any sacrifice required as far as individual
interests are concerned:
I The New York Tri5nne noticing the resolution
of Mr.. Hiclschcr in the Late State Convention.
speaks OF its author in contcmptuous tone that
has no justification either in the resolution or Mr.
Hiclschers clara cter, and moreover MISTAKES the
resolution, which declared that no one should be
supported for President who was not a Republican
N 1855 and not pricr,' TO that year, as the Tri-
baRe has IL. We make this correction in Justice to
Mr. H., annd not n concurring with him. We
don't believe in the doctrine Of excluding such
chances ofsucccss may fairly obtainb by taking
candidates now with u.s. though not So or not avow
eddy so. IN 1855, for we consider the cause of far
more value than the claims of even its most ardent
and luug enduring supporters and would rather see
it advanced though the political grave OF every
leader in it. than to see il follow hOpelessy at the
heels of any of them. IL free labor can he reall,
and substantially benefited, and the progress of
slavery actually checked, by victory under
leader who was no Republican in 1856, and the
chance OF such result would be diminished by
combining our efforts to Republicans of older date,
we hold il TO be virtual abandonment of the cause
to prefer the of any of this older brother
hood to the success of the cause. The idea that
the Republican movement is identified with any
man is dclusion. Ii stands by itself, on a great
and humane principle, and whatever it owes to
those Who have supported it, it owes to itself
that il shall MT sacrifice a chance OF success
to some fincful purity of faith. Mr.. Seward is not
30 dear TO Us as the power TO say to slavery that
"is strength is broken, and hcnccforth its course
must be backward to the limits the founders Of the
Government assigned it," And if the power to
say that can only be acquired by the help of men
who were not Republicans in le56, or are not Re
publicans now, we say ii is the duty of those who
love the cause more than men, to accept that help
either candidates voters, and We have no right
to exclude them from class arl insist on their
help in the other. This is our view. neither
this coveted success will be aided by such sclec
ton as We have alluded to, is another question:
With that do not ourselves, further than
TO admit very serious doubt of it. We are
speaking only OF the principle Of Mr.. Hielscher's
exclusion. To declare in advance that We won't
support any but certain class of men, is deliberate
iy declaring that, however much the We adj
vocatc may be aided by other men, won't use
them. and however much it may be damaged by
those whom We have preferred, We won't take any
others. AID to declare that won I support men
who did not support Us four years ago, though they
nav do so now, fairly involves the declaration that
VIC ,conf hare the support of men who didn't sup
port US before. Ifany Republican is prepared for
such system Of purifcation, he is just about pure
enough to die politically.
For ou- part We want the man who can win, be-
Cause ills a duty the Republican party owes to the
cause which has created it. to stop right now the
advance Of slavery. If il be not checked now i'm
four years it will be past the reach of rcfor-
nation, or anything but reconstruction Of the
Government. Those who will look calmly IT the
position in which the slavery question stands,
will see that another four years like the last four
will secure its permanent predoninancc, and there
will be no remedy but revolution. involving at
leas, the destruction Of the Federal Judiciary
We prefer to do the work now, when it can be
done more easily. 1t is all very well to talk of
'Truth crushed to earth' and "thc :rtain victory
OF Right and Justice at last" and all that, but fine
words won't save n great political movement
"Truth cru ,cN rise again." but she will rise
in TIC midst of desolation thlt nigh. never
have existed If she had not been crushed. We
don't believe in letting good cause be defeated
merely because it stand it. and revive in few
hundred years. Rcpublicanism, if it aims at any
thing beyond embod,ing pretty sentiment in
party organization, aims to take the Government
from the hands of Slavery, and connc tina. blissful
institution where it was meant TO be kept BY those
who made the Gov eminent and il slavery can gain
one more inch of the contested ground. we never
can effect that purpose without revolution. 1t
has carried construction after construction, till il
now claims the whole Constitution. If it defeats
opposition now, who doubts that it will get all it.
claims, lift is defeated now, the vctors can ind
many modes ofthwartinS its movements, even with
the judiciary at its back. Unite for another four
years the Executive and Jud;ca powers for slavery
and freedom will be by law shut up in the free
States, and existing there only BY suiferancc, for
the Judiciary is ready to affirm the right of
STAKEHOLDER to carry his slaves through free States
in spite OF MI laws 10 the contrary We don want
to see Freedom reduced so low, and prefer to see
the reaction against slavery begin now. Where
fore want any for candidate who can
win, for success is a duty.