The Hillsdale standard. [volume] (Hillsdale, Mich.) 1851-1909, 1860-03-13

these are important interests oi rTecuoin.
or all the rest, the national emergencies,
not individual influences, must determine,
as society goes on, the policy and character
of the Republican patty. Already bearing
its part in part in legislation and In treat,
les, it feels the necessity of being practical
in its national health and lie, while it
leaves metaphysical. speculation to those
whose duty it is to cultivate the ;enobling
science of political philosophy. 49,
But in the midst of these cubjects, Or,
rather, before fully reaching them, tho
Republican party encounters unexpectedly.
new aud potential issue--one prior, and
therefore paramount to all Others, cne ma
tional life and death. Just as it so much
had not been already conceded; nay, just
rs if nothing at all had ever been conceded
to the interests Of capital invested in men,.
we hear menances Of Disunion, louder.
more distinct more emphatic than ever,
with the condition apue.ed, that they shall
be executed the moment Republican Ad-
mirstration, though constitutionally elected
shall assume the Government. ..
I do not certainly know that the people
are prepared to call such an Administrer
ton to power. know only, that through
succession of floods which never entirel y
discourage me, tho volume Of Republican
ism rises continually higher and higher
They are probably wise, whose arprehen-
sions admonish them that it is already
strong enough for effect.
Hitherto the Republican party has been
content with ono sefin,errogatory-hov
many votes can it castl These threats en-.
force another-has it determination enough
to cast them? This latter question touch.
cs it spirit and pride. l am quite sure,
however, that, as it has hitherto practiced
self denial in SO many other forms, IL viii!
in this emergency lay aside all impaticnce
of temper, together with all ambition, and
will consider those extraordinary declama.
tions seriously, and with Just moderation.
1t would be n waste of nord4 to demons
trate that they arc unconstitutional, and
equally idle to show that the responsible.
ty for disun n, attempted or effected,
must rest not with those who in the exer-
else of Constitutional authority maintain
the Government, but with those who un.
constituiionally engage in tho mad wcrk Of
subserving it. II .r,,.
What are the excuses for these ineuar-
ces! They resolve themselves into this,
that the Republican party in the North is
hostile to the south. Bnt it already is
proved to be majority in the North; it
is therefore, practically, the people of the
North. VIII i rot still be the same
North tnat has iorborne with you so long
AMI conceded to you so mucha Can you
Justly assume that affection which has been
SO complying can all at once change to
hatred intense and inexorable!
You say that tho Republican party is n
sectional one. Is the Democratic party
less sectional: Is it easier for Us to bear
your sectional sway than for you to bear
ours? /, il unreasonable that for once wo
should alternate But is tho Republican
party sectional Not unless the Demo
cratic party is. The Republican party
prevails in the House of Representatives
sometimes; tho Democratic party in tho
Senate always. Which Of the two is the
most proscriptive9 Come, if you will, in
to the Free States, into the state of New
York, anywhere from Lake Erie t. Sag
liarbor, among my neighbors Of the Owas'
CO Valley. Hold your conventions, nomi.
nato your candidates. address tho people,
submit to them, fully, earnestly, eloquent
", all your complaints end griavences of
Northern disloyalty, oppression, perfdyi
keep nothing back, speak just as freely and
loudly there as you do here. You will
have hospitab,a welcomes, and appreciatins
audiences, with ballot boxes open for all
the votes you can win. Are you Jess sec
tionsl than this? Extend to us the Same
privileges. and will engage that you will
very soon have in tho south AS many Re-
publicans as we have Democrat' in the
North There i, however, better test
of nationality than the accidental location
Of paltics. Our policy Of labor in the ter.
ritorcs was not sectional in the first forts
years of the Republic. It's nature inhercs.'
1t will be national again, during tho third
forty years, and for yer aftelward. 1t Is
not wise and beneicicnt for US alone cr in.
juriou, to you alone. Its clIcc. ere equal
and the same for us all.
You accuse the Republican, Of ulterioT
and secret designs. How can party that
counts its votes in the land of free speech
and free press bv hundreds of thousands,
have any secret designs? Who is the con-
jurer, and where are the hidden springs by
which he can control its uncongrcgated
and widely dispersed masses and direct
them to objects unseen and purposes una
vowed But what arc these hidden pur-
poses? You name only Quo. That ono
is to introduce negro equality among you.
Suppose we had the power to change your
social system, what warrant have YOU for
suppoiing that we should carry negro G.
quality among you' We know, and wo
will show you, you will only give heed,
that what orr system Of labor works ont,
whenever it works out anything, ia the e.
quality Of white men. The laborer in the
Free States, no matter how bun:blo his oc
cupatiou, is a Whit man, and he is polti
cally the equal Of his employer. Eighteen
out Of the thirty three states are Free La.
Dor states. There they are +: Maine New
Hampshire, NJ ssachuse,ts Vermont, Rhode
Island, Connecticut, New York, New Jer
sey, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan, Illinois
Indiana, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa, Cal.
iforna, and Oregon. 7 do not array them
in contrast with he capital states. | am
no assailant Of states. All of the states
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