The Grand Haven news. [volume] (Grand Haven, Mich.) 1858-18??, 1861-11-27
Future of the Republican Party,


and affording plausible pretext for form
ing new combinations cannot be denied"
Detroit Advertiser.
This is candid confession unlocked
for from such q source. Who can be these
new converts? Certainly not democrats,
for they have always believed that the
republican party should never have form
ed, but that existing it should have been
Immediately disbanded.
These believers then must be of the re-
publican fold, and of some responsibility,
and not inconsiderable in number TO have
forced this humiliating admission from
the lips of the ADVERTISER
But why did it not go on and give its
readers the reasons for this burial of what
il has claimed to be a great party just
upon the heels of its first national victo
ry. Does it mean to say that large
portion of its party believe that the par
ty has proven a failurc-that its frst-born
administration is a disgrace to its paterni-
ty and shame and a standing reproach-
that il has not within itself a statesman
who can administer tie government? Or
does it mean to say that the doctrines adj
vocated by its party have proven worth
less, and their application destructive of
good government and hostile TO the hhp-
piness, peace and prosperity of the peo-
plea If these are some of the reasons
for that belief why does it not 60 on and
tell its readers where'and who are the
men who believe that the party ought to
be disbanded a,-
Why does it not point them to Ohio,
to Pennsylvania, to New York, and tell
them that the republicans of these States
believe the republican party has per-
"formed its mission, and should be dis
banded"l
Why does it not tell them that where
ever republicans have proposed to origi-
nate new party to be called a "Union
party" those republicans believed the re-
publican party should have been dis
banded!
But, no. This would have been hui
initiation too deep, 10 confess that some
believed il should be disbanded; that
those entertaining such an opinion consti-
tuted large majority of the party in the
States named; and finally that, in fact,
the republican party was disbanded.
To make these, TO him too truthful,
confessions, was more than the AdVer-
Users editor could do. His heart chok-
ed him. But would il not have been
well for him TO have pointed out TO his
readers the peculiar missiou..' of his
party, which these new believers think
has been Performed or did he prefer
leaving it to the historianG
Let him look back to lS54 and see the
results his party has achieved since then,
and we shall show what that mission has
been:
II has depleted the treasures of every
township, county and State, over which
it has had control.
1t has squandered the public money for
useless purposes and upon corrupt partl-
zans. 1t has impoverished the people by
the most exhorbitant and unnecessary
taxation. 1t has sought to overthrow
and trample upon the constitution and
laws of the United States by passing
laws in contravcntion thereof. 1t has
stirred civil war in one half of the Union,
melting it to war upon the other, Aud,
lastly, the wing Of it to which the Id
Vertsser belongs, has completed its list of
crimes by unwarranted and unmerciful as
saults upon the Administration it helped
place in power for standing upon the con-
stitution and observing its solemn oath
and refusing to tramplo them in the dust.
This has been its mission, If its ca
reer is ended, it has been completed in
the pouring out of fraternal blood in fra
tricidal war, as the Democracy predicted.
Will the AdVertiSer tell its readers that
this has been the mission of its party
But says that paper:
awe are rejoiced at the evidence we
receive Of the determination of the re-
publicans i'll this city and throughout the
state to preserve and perfect their organ
ization."
For what is that organization 10 be
maintained u The only issue made bv