Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1860-05-19
THE REPUBLICAN PARTY-ITs CAUSE AND
ITS CANDIDATES.

THE REPUBLICAN PARTY-ITS CAUSE AND
ITS CANDIDATES.
The republican party Of the country is again
organized-and organized for victory 1t was
for no idle contest that that large convention,
representing many states, some of them on
such platform for the first time others veter-
ans in the cause which it was formed to pro-
mote, laid its various and conflicting preference
es on the common ALTA, under the inspiration
of a commm purpose and common hope.
Considering the greatness of the questions
involved. the high moral purpose which gov
erned its counses, and the magnitude of the
sacrifices which were made for success, the
political history of the country has rarely pre-
scented so imposing and sublime a spectacle
The platform, as it was finally adopted, re-
cognizes the essential and vital principles Of
neutrality-suspicious. in terms which
will excite nothing but the liveIiest salts
faction, that the causes which called the party
into existence are permanent in their nature,
and now, more than ever before, demand its
peaceful and constitutional triumph. The
controlling power in the convention, forbidding
it even to seem to abandon the position of the
equality of all men before the law, shows that
it is still interrupted, and, like the MEDIEVAL
Franks, holds firmly to the faith that retreat
from just principle would be shameful
flight, and flight, indelible nfamy. While
the democratic party, with audacity scorn.
ing all limitation, is aiming to use the
constitution as the shield of slavery, and
with the aid of corrupted courts to disguise
its outrages upon justice with the formal
tiles of law, the republican party accepts
the constitution as the bulwark and defence of
free government carrying freedom, and not
slavery, to the utmost limit of its authority.
The delegates from Virginia, Kentucky, and
Maryland-republican under circumstances
which commend them to peculiar confidence
and regard-respopded as cordially to the de-
claration of principles on which this campaign
is to be conducted, as any of the states where
it is lat once good policy and good morals to
approve them The diversity of personal pre-.
terences is so far inferior to any essential diff
terences of principle, that the success of any
candidate over the rest does not argue their
defeat. American history will take care of
those statesmen who deserve commemoration
whatever place they may hold in the manage
ment of public affairs. 1t would be vain to
deny that the failure to place in the front rank
OF the movement to which we are now sum-
moned the illustrious statesman, who is known
as the best representative and exponent of its
principles, wherever the English language is
spoken, is cause for every general and we'll
grounded disappointment. His ripe expert
ence, his commanding talents, his comprehen-
sive states manship, and, above all, the mem
orable service he has rendered to the Republi-
can cause, if they failed to enlist the conf
dence to which they seem to have been emit
tied, have, at least, secured to him a place in
the affections of the people, and in the history
OF the country, which is not dependent upon
the uncertain judgment of conventions.
But there is nothing in the Nominations
which have been made, to garry the standard
of the good case th16;;gh the storm of our
oa'tle TO JUSTIFY a moment of distrust or
soiio~. sSALet it be remembered with de
1890 and fervent gratitude that our can
didate for the Presidency succeeded in
an honorable and manly contest, by no
artful and industrious management, but
through the profound conviction that his name
would reconcile all differences, and be the sign
of certain and glorious triumph. In his per-
sonal history, in the record of his public life
in the principles which he has courageously
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worthy of the distinguished position to which
he has been called Commencing life depend.
ent upon his own endeavors, without the ad.
vantage of early education, social position, or
friendly cooperation boatman on the west
ern rivers, and workman in the fields,-he
yet achieved, after arriving at mature years,
conquest over his unfriendly fortune, rising to
distinction at the bar, to a position of com
manding influence in the councils of his own
state, and to be regarded throughout the great
west as the admired leader of the move
ment in which,th republican purity is engaged.
1t is worthy TO be mento ned with no common
PRIDE that during his active career of nearly
half century, he has maintained character
unblemished by the corruption in the midst of
which he has often been thrown, and has so
scrupulously guarded his life, that it has been
said OF him, no enemy, however malignant,
could point to one Of his public or private acts
and say, "rhis is mean,'' or "This is dishon-
est"
The candidate for the vice presidency is not
inferior to him in whatever qualities are
worthy of the respect and confidence of his
fellow countrymen. They go before the coun-
try with hands untouched by intrigue, the re-
representatives. of principles which overtop all
considerations of personal advantage, and ask
to be sustained by those who esteem the gov
ernlnent as it was established by patriots bet
ter than the generations which have followed
them, and who would save it from the fatal
fanaticism which is now darkening its doors
From the platform on which they stand they
appeal equally to the intelligent radicalism
and the rational conservatism of the republic
Hon. Abraham Lincoln.
On Monday evening, Feb. q, 1860, this
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