The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1861-05-18
m. Annlhil.,,on Of Parties.

sss1 AezAdminisggAa icWashows its appeahsnsson o.
the spirit Of the hour and what military men
would call the situation" BY the announcement
that in the post,offce department. there viii be
no further change. except for cause, or for other
reasons than that u awarding the spoils to the
yictors. This is as il should be; for the time is
upon US wien party is lost sight OF in the general
devotion to the government. We are all to-day
supporters Of NJ. Lncoln's administration; and
no man can be prescribed without doing Injury
to friend. We trust that the same decision
may be made in all the departments of the gov
ernment, and that, hereafter, until this great
question shall be settled, VIC may not hear a
party name, save as it relates to history There
is no Republican party-there is no Democratic
party-now, in the loyal States Our porula
ton is population Of patriots We are all flllcd
with one thought; We are all actuated by one
motive; we are all aiming ut, and laboring 'or,
one result. We arc all supporters Of the gov.
ernmenf, in the one work which now engages
it, and which will engage it until it shall be com
pleted. -
Ii the government appreciates the position of
affairs, let the people do SO likewise. Let rs
have no party conventions. Let the people of
every town, county and state, when they come
together for the selection election Of officers,
meet as patriots, as friends of the government,
and make their choice without any regard to past
political associations. The only political test
should be practical loyalty to the government of
the United States. IL will be one of the most
Impressive scenes in American history, when all
LOYAL Americans, of every. political creed, join
hands in the support of men whose sole quaiifi-
cation is that they are patriots. All party watch
words, names, policies. intrigues, ambitions,
must be kicked out of the way, to make q clean
path for the onward tread Of united people,
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monstration Of the power Of the American gov
eminent to protect and maintain itself.
Those who Constitute the party which elected
Mr. Lincoln to the Presidency, should now show
the strength of their principles, and vindicate
their generosity and magnanimity. They have
their President and their administration; and in
this, the most trying emergency that ever btfell
any administration, taey find their own political
toes foremost, or side by side with them, in Its
support. By this noble action--by this ready,
practical patrotism-is every republican bound
to lay down all his weapons of party warfare,
and join hands with them in all political action
on the simple platform OF loyalty to the govern.
ment of the United States. When the republi.
can Governor OF Massachusetts, sends off troops
under the command of his ultra democratic COM
petitor for the Office he holds, when Massat hu-
sets is as much honored by the efficient service
promptness Of her republican administration at
home, it will not do to talk of parties in the old
Bay State, at least.
Far from feeling any pique or disappointment
at this sudden extinction of party lines, just as
the Republican party has become dominant in
the nation, we rejoice in it. Parties are easily
built when occasion comes, but the meeting of a
great people as patriots, on one common and all
subordinating issue, is the event of century.
1t is worth, we sometimes think, all that it has
cost, and is likely to cost. 1t has taught US les
pect for one another. 1t has taught US that by
whatever political name we have known each
other, our differences have all been of the head
and not of the heart. Underlying all our crecds,
there has been an abiding love Of the country
in every heart. We are brothers all; ami not
until we have conquered an honorable peace,
and our country is safe from the hand of treason,
viii We give our thought to the comparatively
insignificant questions upon which our feelings
aud forces have hitherto been diyided.-Spiing.
field Republican.