Sioux City register. [volume] (Sioux City, Iowa) 1858-1871, 1862-02-22
the Spurious UNION PARTY.

The republicans propose to abandon the
party which they organized at Philsdel.
phis ia 1856, AID merge themselves into
"Union Party.'-Erchsnge
This would, IL the movement we're in
good faith, bs the creates. transformation
ever known Of political party. The ro-
publican party. j" its organization and in
al stages Of ito progress, has been = party
Of notification. Its platform at Philadel.
phia vas multiplying platform. 1t placed
one Of the Institutions Of the country. 70
cognized and protected BY he Cons,i.u
ton, side b. side with Mormon polygamy,
denounced them as twin -relics Of bsrbsr
ism, aud proposed to strike At both BY
Congressional prohibition. In ito subse-
quent platforms, National aud State. aud
in its subsequent State Legislation wber.
ever il has held the legislative power. and
in its action through the State judiciary
wherever il could cou;rol the judiciary, it
has thrown of aud repui;A.ed the au.ho.
ri,y Of the Federal const tuition aud laws,
- tina. authority had been expounded BY
the Federal Surrme Court, aud set up
other and nullify authority. Witness the
Chicago platforu. which brushed away
the decision Of tie Supreme Court in the
D.ed Scott case, and oil the republican
State platforms, which have done the same
thing; and witness the ptrsonal liberty
bills Of nearly oil the northern States !;
s,d witness the decision Of the State So.
pr.me Court Of Wisconsin in the Glover
rescue case and witness tho occurrences
in Ohio .. to the case in which Judge
Swan upheld the Federal constitution and
laws, aud for having done which he was
os,racised BY the republican State Con
yent;on.
Fsom this outline Of the history of the
| republican party, which the memory Of the
most juvenile reader will enable him to
| ill up. it will be seen how great would be
| tho transformation of ,he republicans
should they become genuine Union par.
~. Du. they have . good many things I"
do before they can become = genuine
Union party. They have, in the first
place, to repudia,e oil their platforms,
National aud State. They have then to
repeal all their personal liberty bills. They
have then - override al their political
judicial decisions. They have then to
pledge themselves, without qualification or
mental reservation. tas, they will obey the
Constitution rs it has been aud Us it shall
be interpreted by the Supreme Court All
these things they must do ~ indispensa
BILE prerequisites to the formation Of or
admission into any healthf0l political or.
ganizsiion.
And these things they are not going to
| do, according to present indications. To
DO sure. they have in t~o or three States
repealed the personal liberty lave; but in
o.hers they have refused to repeal them
And this is all The re,rea,ing they have
done Of any sort. Il it not = spurious
Union party into which they will merge !!
Do they not contemplate . Union Of their
cwn peculiar kind. from which fifteen
States will be excluded unless such terms
can be imposed upon them A. are not pre-
acribed ia the Constitution : In short.
will they not remain an anti SLAVERY party,
and is it not IN Anti slavery Union whose
especial guardians they propose to become?
There is but one genuine Union party.
and will be but one; aDl upon the unity
and vigor Of that, and upon the resump
ton of power by i, in the northern States,
depends, vastly more than upon The ope-
ra,ions of the armies in the Geld, the sa''
va.iou Of the Union.