Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1860-03-12
can sectional Party Be Held Together ?
Tn l.te number Of that excellent able, and

truly oonssrsasivs journal. the Boston Courier,
NAV be soand very sensible review Of Mr.. Sew.
.rd's soeech, in the course of which the follow.
ing interrogatcry Is propounded: ''can the gov
ernmens be psrnsnently. or for any long time.
carried on BY party exclusively confined to the
non ssvehoiding States, organised there solely on
the basis 81 antislavery sentiment, and kept mp
by systematic. unremitted, and passionate anti
slavery agitation 7"
To this inquiry of the Courier, we presume,
there can be but one answer,-No.
Already, the great Republican party IL indca-
ting signs Of premature decay,--showing, unms-
takahly the existence ofinternal disorders that
destined TO produce its disruption and cxtinguish.
ment. Constituted originally of a heterogeneous
mass, called together BY a common sentiment OF
opposition to slavery; u sentiment that was vital
ised by the :oassreet al wieAed agitation efthat
question hy the psf,iti ie .riy aud he repeal
OF the Missouri C.n,, ran.,se - it has bad NJ other
bond of aih,~ion aud held no other principles in
common II is made an II tariff aud anti tariff
uan Of ia,erns, Improvement aud anti internal
Improvement adv ease ard seon, through the
whole catalogue ef living iesnes that separated
lie I'D parties uto which the country was d,yid'
ed. It. chiei representative man in the North.
is William IL. Seward; old Wing, commit.
ted by years Of service in various public sta
items, L. the dec,riocs maintained by that patty.
n the West, it is reprc>enei by Sal,aon i.
Chase and F. p. Blair, Jr. both of whom were
Democrats. The NEST prominent, as well as tho
most able newspaper in the interest Of the party
West, ia the Cincinnati GIsette, long aWhig jour
".
fisi always violent pc'nocra,ic free trade or
ean, IL now ono Of the e of snppor'ers OF Seward
add his party. Il will thus appear that all other
considerations Of political economy were waived
~ the tine benS. or completely absorbed and
swallowed up ly The sinGio, enGrossIns idea oi op'
position to the extension of slavery
IL alluson to this subject the Evening Post, in
a r.cen, issue, observes:
Il is we'll known that orr organization was cal
lei into being hy the aboinatans OF the kansas
Nebraska bill aud the repeal Of the Missouri Com
PROMISE. In Ohio. and mast Of the other states
conventions were called hy the signatures OF M
flu ial pers,n- If all grades Of political opinion,
ard entirely without reference to any pre.existng
party or xation, inviting the people, as such
to meet and choose delegae- Ia conventions Tor ma
king the .ecessu,y nominations, solely on the
ground of resistance ~ these inquiries
The Post, however, whilst battling earnestly in
the ranks Of It's black cohorts has renounced mono
of it's Democratic theories relative to old issues
and now, Z At IN effort is being made in Congress
to modify the tariff with view to incidental pro-
,e.tion,-a measure TO which Peunsy lvania and
New Jersey are especially committed, aud which.
we have little doubt, the House Of Representa-
tives will adopt-the Post enters its most solemn
protest in the following manner:
To come in Mt this late day and toll that we
are pledged to the policy of the deiunct wing par
ty on the. question Of tariff is, at least, wholly
unjust to those honest patriotic democrats who
have responded TO this broad call, and have left
long cherished party. in the midst vi it's trumphs
for the sake OF resisting the encroachncnts OF slave
ry.
And again:
The American people have cviuccd their settled
determination that, whatever changes may here
after be male in the tariff shall To IN tho diroc
ton of tree trade, nnl not its opposite Any po
iitiua .aniLation or accidental combination III
Congress- which shall iunl hardly contraNene TINS
drtet mnatiUn. may rely upon 1t that Their work
will never endure longer thau until the next FOL
loving Presidential election shnll afford tho body
OF the people an opportunity to gave legal eheleh'y
10 their will.
Tue question Of slavery is altogether too great
anu muHlentDus 10 De mus libsh'lu'Sd !" 'ho sph'"
schemes Of speculating capitalists and ,enai poll
ticians and narrow-miDded economical bieots. IL
those who now manage the affairs OF the Republl-
can party e0p,curis'e amy such mahontIe, va
warn them in time thet they had better let 1t alone
They haze not great Grpius oi votes 'hat they
afford 70 drive of the friends ot Tree trade
from their ranks And # they dc commit this
bunder. We tell them that the year 1860 is tho
last IN which the present political party will hg'
ia Presidential election
Thus we see the entering wedge TO division,
aui as it Is qne certain that i maori', OF the
Reyublicans will Commit the blunder" Which the
Iast depreeates aud the Tribune applauds; this
will probably 10 the last year in which the Re-
publican party will figure in "a Presidential cleo
ton"
1t is impossible, in the very nature OF things.
that great party composed of persons whose in.
terests are varied and multiiorm, can be held to.
getber upon a principle of personal conse.
quence to them. They will not give up the bcne.
fits which tariff would secure to them, for tho
empty boon that would be attained by the exolu.
sion If slavery from tho Territories.
The Republicans admit that theynre estopped
FROM interference with slavery in the States, and
have no Territory into which it is likely t.,
b. introduced, what 10 to keep them together
Where Is the fuel that viii nourish Tue fame !:
une.- we of the South furnish it in unnecessari
ly obsrnIiag questions that can only infame tn |,
puddle mind ri the North, and be Of no practices
benefit whatever. II we pursue wise, arm, ami
temperate policy. those disturbing questions an !
this great sectional party will disappear.
The Republican leaders and journals are divid
ID 10 their policy, and even in their views of th
requisites that should be embodied in their can,li
date for the Pfesidensy. In short, they are agree