The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1861-02-28
From the Republican Statesman. I
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| AS Mr. Lincolh draws near Washington, we
| get sire niger and more positive assurances Of hi
! power to grasp the present complications and to
define the duty of The National Government
| AS he once more stands in the presence Of the
people, face to face with the masses he seems
to cast off the reserve the Executive, and 10
appear the natural, frank positive man Of the
people, telling them plan and straight, the pol.
icy which should govern the administration he
is about to inaugurate.
The people will warm to the man that thus
explicitly tells them the objects which he will
seek to accomplish when lie shall be clothed
with the power Of the Union They will hold
him in dear remembrance because they viii feel
| that the heart of the man speaks out 10 them
They will approve his efforts, because they VIII
see in manner and matter an honest purpose.
and a patriotic endeavor.
The country the friends of the Union-wiII
read with satisfaction his declaration that the
| Union is not to be sacrificed to the demands Of
turbulent men, aided By designing politicians. .
| The friends of freedom, ths friends of Free
Soil and Free Labor, will bless him for the ms,
surance SO boldly given, that ''The Chicago
Platform should be regarded as law by the IN
coming administration .
The advocates Of Principles will be STRENGTH
ened by the broad avowal that all subiecfs an
boiled in that Platform should not be varied
from what we gave the people to understand
should be our policy when we obtained their
votes"
The friends of Truth viii be cheered by his
noble invocation, that he ''might say pothipp
to disappoint the people generally THROUGHOUT
the country and especially if the expectation has
been based upon anything may have hereto
fore said"
In these declarations, by these assurances
the President elect has banished forever tho
idea broaclled by demagogues that political par
hes Were formed to carry men into power, and
not for the advancement of principles. He re-
yves the party and electrifes the nation BY the
demand that platforms shall be adhered to
mat Platforms OF parties. upon which the peo-
PIE nave gwen their votes, are to be sacredlv
enforced when the people have clothed the par
W presenting them with power. He lifts the
politician up TO the position of the patriot by
the avowal that what the politician promises
the politician VII perform He casts aside the
Ime-servers who would make party cloak and
demands that party shall be synonym for pur-
pose and endeayor-the purpose to govern the
country truly and well, the endeavor to advance
the interests of all the governed
thanks to the man who dares thus to insist
that our Party-haviDg given assurances to the
Peopie-shali well and truly account for its
stewardship Blessings on the man who pro-
ssthe Republican party is the Union that
the Republican Platform shall be maintained in
letter and spirit, and so the Union be sustained
in substance as well as in form Thanks TO the
man who demands that Party shall mean du ty
that the Union is worth no more than pr inel-
PIES and not worth maintaining when you mus.
sacrifice honor, and belle the assurances upon
which the popular vote has been obtuined.