Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1860-06-01

publican administration, win soon dis
cover the error into which they have
been led by these misrepresentation
For myself cherish no hostility against
the people of the Southern States. /
would not deprive them Of a single right
guaranteed to them by the Constitution
nor does the Republican party propose to
do SO. 1t simply contends for freedom
in the Territories, against the Southern
demand TO introduce slavery there. It
believes that freedom and free labor viii
best develop their resources, and con-
tribute most to the welfare and happi-
ness of those who may emigrate thither
from the slave States as well as from the
free. In the former there is compare
lively small class of Shareholders, while
the great majority of white inhabitants
are non-slaveholders and poor.
We contend that the Territories should
be opened to the poor emigrant, whether
from the North or the South, and that
thus shall be perpetuated true popular
sovereignty in which the majority shall
govern, rather than class control. In
the Southern States there are thousands
kept down by poverty and social distinc-
tons who long for schools and churches
and for unrestricted opportunities OF self
culture and elevation in the social scale.
We Republicans propose, by keeping the
Territories in reserve for them. to fur
nish them these advantages; aud II is q
very fortunate and significant circum-
stance that this leading idea of the Re-
publican creed is SO well represented by
our candidate.
The life of Mr.. Lincoln furnishes an
illustration of the operations of that idea.
His grandparents were natives of Vir-
ginia, his parents of Kentucky, and they
were poor. Young Lincoln left the I'M
friendly atmosphere of slavery in his
native State, and removed TO Indiana,
where he could breathe free air and
carve out for himself more favorable
destiny. Had he never made that re-
moval, it is scarcely probable that, ham
} pered by the difficulties that surrounded
him, he would have risen to the high POI
, sition he now occupies before the peo-
: pie of the nation. But be came over
, on to free soil, where generous sympa-
thies awaited the laborer and helped him
on in his upward career. Rising by his
+, own noble efforts, he is to. day the chosen
Presidential candidate Of the Republi-
can party, and on the 4th of March
next will be the duly chosen President
] of the United States.
Of the nominee for Vice President,
can truly say that he is eminently worthy
of the confidence reposed in him.
: have served with him long in public
: life, and have known him well. He has
y been lifelong Democrat-not of the
modern type, but of the school of JEFF
r ferson and Franklin. His Democracy
{ is not of that kind which consists in
Il subseryiency TO the dictates Of slave.
J holding class, and whose highest manifes-
a tation is in the alacrity with which its
devotees will chase runaway niger
. but that Democracy upon which our in
: situations are based; which, towering
i sublimely above the selfish interest Of
q classes and factions, is enthroned upor
Il the solid foundations of true popular
e oovereignty-the expressed will of ar
. intelligent and patriotic people. | car
pronounce upon him no higher eulogiun
than to say that he is worthy Of associ
T. alton upon the same ticket with Abraham
le Lincoln"