Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1860-10-15
NinM District
GOLDSMITH F. BAILEY, Of Fitchburg
REPUBLICAN PROGRESS.

The great republican victories in Pennsyl-
vania and Indiana, leave no room for reason
able man to doubt that Abraham Lincoln will
be our next president. He is sure to have the
electoral vote of every free state this side the
Rocky Mountains, and to these may be added
the vote Of Delaware. Lincoln has for some
time been much stronger in Delaware than
either Douglas or Bell, and the inspiring repub-
lcan triumphs in Pennsylvania and Indiana
may have the effect to give that state to the
republicans
We can easily understand that our op.
ponents have not believed it possible for
the republican party to achieve such triumphs
They have not comprehended the movement
which gave the party existence, and therefore
they have talked confidently of being very
sure of its speedy dissolution. Mrs. Parting
ton did not believe the Atlantic Ocean could
prevail against her mop, because she did not
comprehend the power of the Atlantic Ocean;
and our opponents have failed in the same
way to comprehend the republican party and
the reason why it is growing and resistless
power in the land. The Bell-Everett men espe.
constituent. Most of them had not dreamed
of such news. Gradually, but with consider.
able difficulty, these men will be made to UNI
derstand, that the old condition of parties can
never be restored, that it is possible to be ma
tional in politics without defending slavery,
that the republican party represents the ten
denotes and hopes of civilization in our coun-
a.. Il. . Al
times. If the republican party could be dis
banded, another, with similar aims and influ-
ence would Immediately take its place. 1t
was not contrived by politicians and
cannot be destroyed by them. Since
the revolution, there has been nothing
in our politics so worthy of careful study as
the influences which bore down everything
that sought to prevent the organization of the
republican party in 1856, and which have in
creased its vigor and power ever since.
1t certainly Is not something to boast of, that
we have in this republic black barbarism,
powerfully organized, bold, defiant, and busy,
which seeks to exterminate democratic ideas
and restore the dark ages but, it would be
atheistcal to believe this barbarism can tri-
umph over freedom and civilization. The do
ings of slavery propagandism in this repub-
lie are shame to us as a nation, and an in.
suit to the age in which we live. If there
were no protest against them, no uprising of
public sentiment, and no political organization
to beat back and battle such attempts to over
throw the republic by Matchmaking barbarism,
there would be reason to anticipate complete
destruction of the constitution and the Union.
The republican party is the sign of wholesome
sentiments in the people, and promise of safe
ty to the country. 1t is not in this nation that
darkness will triumph over light. Such is the
significance of the political revolution now 60
ing forward
The democratic party will never again be
what it has been. 1t has made a wreck of it.
self on the slavery question. No management
of human ceyerness can restore it. Its man
ayers in the south have not meant to destroy it,
but they did not comprehend their position
nor take due account of the principles and
agencies at work against them and, if it were
otherwise, their unftness to control perma.
nently the destiny of such a nation as this
would have made the perpetuation of the
democratic party impossible. They must
be content to see Abraham Lincoln our
next president, and his administration will
regenerate public sentiment, in all the
southern states. He will show the repub.
lican party to the southern people, not as it has
been portrayed to them by disunon orators,
but as it really is, and with his election to the
presidency will begin new and glorious
era in our history