The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1862-05-17
ALL ABOUT UNION.


The State election is at hand, and the
Republicans of Kansas must prepare for the
canvass. The first question to be settled
is: Under what banner shall it be fought ?
Shall we hoist the "Republican'' or the
Union" flag? Shall we have contest
for principles, or a scramble for spoils l?
No sane man doubts that Kansas is Repub-
lican to the core. Her people imbibed the
principles of the Republican creed under the
sharp discipline of adversely. Why, then,
should they turn their backs upon them,
now that the clear sun of prosperity begins
to shine upon them from cloudless sky ?
Or why should they smother their honest
convictions, out of misplaced Difference to
those who still desire to cling to the loath
some, fostering and sinking corpse Of hun
kerism, which they persist in miscalling by
the once Justly honored name of Democ-
racy? Why should they covet the alliance
and fellowship of the Leavenworth Inquirer
or the Atchison Union? We learned our
lessons of Democracy III the school of An
drew Jackson and Thomas H. Benton, and
we we'll recollect that when the pro-slavery
nullifers proposed to Benton the scheme Of
a"Union" State Convention for the purpose
of making nominations, the old veteran
promptly replied that he would sooner go
into convention with the six thousand men
who had died of cholera in ST. Louis the
summer before -
Now, no man who reads the Leavenworth
Inquirer and the Atchison Union doubts
that the editors of those sheets have far
more sympathy with the Claib. Jackson and
Price, Toombs and Stephens, Floyd and
Pillow, Mason and Slidell, Beauregard and
BENJAMIN, John G. Breckenridge and JEFF.
Davis, than they have with the rank and
file Republicans of Kansas. We say then
in turn, that we would sooner go into con-
vention with the putrid corpses of the ten
thousand rebels who lie buried In the
trenches at Fort Donelson and Manassas
than with the sueaking sympathizers of
treason, who are laboring to give it aid and
comfort through hypocritical and false pre-
lenses on Kansas soil. We believe that
those aUho think alike should act together,
without regard to names, but we also be-
lieve that the conductors Of the presses We
have named, their coufederates and sup
porters have no more sympathy with the
loyal and patriotic people of Kansas than
Turks have with Christians. We intend
20 labor for the Union of Republicans, for
the sake of the Republic. and the Union of
freemeu. for the sake of Freedom.
While we are ready to admit that there
are thousands of so-called Democrats in
Kansas who are good and loyal citizens.
earnestly desiring the complete and unqual-
fled triumph of the Government and the
crushing out of the rebellion; and while we
shall always be ready to welcome the aid and
cooperation of such in convention aud at
the polls, we would as soon partake of the
Christian sacranents with Judas Iscariot and
the herd of swine into which the legion of
devils had entered. as to hold political fell
lowship or association with the editors Of the
presses we have mentioned, and their mis-
guided followers.
Let US, then, cease to dream of union
among opposites, but hang out our banner
on the outer wall, and shout
"For God, for our cause.
For the Union and the Laws,
For the Rights of Man inherent,
And the Greed our Fathers signed.