Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1861-01-04
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PROSPECTUS FOR 1861.

PoIITIcAL.-The great political campaign of 1S60is
closed. The battle has been fought and won and the
eagles of victory perch on the Republican banners
Abraham Lincoln has been trumphantly elected Pres
ident of the United States for four years from the h
of March, 1851
We are entering upon year that will be memorable
in the annals of American politics. The Fire Eaters
of the Cotton States have undertaken break up the
American Union. The people have decided against
them at the ballot box and they refuse to submit to
the verdict unless their demands shall be complied
with, which follows:
DEMANDS OF THE FIRE EATERs.-1st That the Free
States shall pay for all fugityes from labor who NAV
escape. ID. That all State laws against kiduapping
shall be repealed Sd That slavery shall be extend
into all the Territories and protected by Federal
Slave Code 4th. That the Slave traffic shall be rec
shall be passed granting the right to Shareholders to
travel and soiourn in the Free States accompanied by
teeir slaves.
In case of non-complanee with these prosIavery de-
mands the Fire-Eaters threaten to secede from the
Union, and sea up Southern Confederacv re-open
the African Slave Trade. and attempt found great
sIaveholding empire, qy absorbing Mexico Central
America and the Islands of the Gulf Such is the pro-
gramme of the DisUnionsts
In this crisis it behOoyeS every sound patriot and
friend the Union and constitution to stand bv Lin
coins Administration the old Democrats stood bv
The free North must not be bullied nor fright
ened by the arrogant ohgarchV into base surrender
of its dearest rights and most cherished princpIes
OTHER QUESTIoNs-And there are other iInpor-
tant matters to come before the new Administration
Among these Free Homesieads for tbs Landless
improvements of Rivers aud Harbors ; Construction
of Railroad to the Pacific EncO fragment of the
Manufacturing and Farming industry of the country
RetrgDchr and Reform in the administ ration of
Government q restoration, in Short of the earlier
and purer days of the Republic On all these cues
tons, the TRIBUNE will be found earnest COM
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