The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1860-02-25


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ing in our objects which e4oiree ccncealment q
underhand movements The most open policy
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hands q concealed intrignsrs, % ahnu certainly
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trayed By our chosen lesders
The object Of the Republican party well
known and easily Defined = y 20 seOp me en-
crQachments and redress the corruption and cur
tail the political power Of slavery fof tnlS Ne
hare come together out OF daerens politicaI par
tiss, and holding different cseeds on ~ the old
iasues Of the past generation II e thirty years
since General jackson met his hrst Congress, and
the questions that day are either settled Or Tor
gotten, or thrust out Of N8ht oy the great present
question Of tn extension Or repression Of slavery.
We may diner ever % widely IN these Old matters,
and be just g good and true men fnthe kepubii-
can ranks
1--WE merely put down the present pro-slsvery
administration by putting IN one OF another name
just - much controlled by the slave interest, We
shall gain nothing. We have no idea Of leaving
things a. we found them In regard to this matter
If we do not ask indemnity for the past" we
mean at least to get security for the future. -
We want to change the tone OF the federal gov
eminent In all its branches permanently. II is,
therefore, Of the utmost importance that We
should come into power when our time arrives,
in such way rs shall accomplish our object, and
make the change Of dynasty enduring.
The Inauguration Of . Republican government
win of course be followed by the most desperate
atruggle of the defeated party for reaction
We have seen political reaction, under somewhat
similar circumstances, three times successful
in 1898, 1874 and 1852. IF We would not win q
barren victory, We must be wise to learn the les
sons of these days
Two things in particular ought to be kept in
view. The lirst is that there 10 twice a. much
gain In drawing OIL given number Of votes from
the democratic party, 40 In gaining like number
from any other class. The other is that the per-
manepcy of the reform depends upon the extent to
which We can break in upon the ranks of our an
tagonist, 80 as to weaken and disorganize effect
ually the old democratic party. We might win
victory this year, as the wings did in 1910, by
securing the aid Of all the indi6erents, the mag-
nants, the discontents bat what will it amount
to it we have the old democratic organization in
its full strength, and exasperated by defeat no.
won upon the merits nor expressing determined
Judgment of the peoples
The politicians generally speak of the parties
as if they were constant quantities The true
| wisdom is, treat them as merely casual or tenn
porary agglOmerations, to be used while they are
good, to be respected while they are faithful to
! their professed principles, and to be broken up
with will as soon as they degenerate intoa mere
scramble for power. II is easy to prove that
| the democratic party, as now organized, has
abandoned nearly every one Of its old democrat
ic principles, and is devoted to Capitalization and
arbitrary administration. But the democratic
principles, as held by Jefferson and jackson, are
| those of the body Of the people of the United
States, who, will never, under any consideration,
permanently uphold an administration, that per-
sistently tramples on these principles And it will
| be fatal to the Republican party if at any time
they pursue q course, either in the selection Of
candidates, or in proposed legislation, or in ad-
ministr, ton, which shall authorize democrats to
believe that we are to get resurrection of whig-
gerry instead Of and in the name of repression
| Of slavery. A suspicion of such secret inten-
ton will defeat us in the election The first de-
velopment of such determination will dissolve the
party in the very height of its triumph Every
step we take in wing policy will be a step to
wards whig destiny.
1t is evident, then, that the Republican party
ought to select its Presidential candidates from
among its own men, and not to 60 outside of its
own ranks under any consideration whatever If
| those opponents of the administration who have
no stable organization Of their own are in earnest
in what they profess they will have no difficulty
| in voting for such men as we can present But If
they insist upon our taking their men as the sole
condition of their votes. it win show that thew
are not sincere in their co-opcraton. Int in fact
had rather see the democratic marty succeed than
allow truly Republican administration. To Sc.
lect our csn5;datas from, or,o,,r ,haso ,,bo -
decrsd;no ss rre,i a. s,,;a;d.i re- ' "oa lit, ~
to have 1 man who stands upon the same ground
with Fillmore, how can we justify ourselves for
no. having voted Tor Fillmore the last time! But
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