The Goodhue volunteer., 1863-09-30
The ISSue.. -.


Republican of this city, for the purpose of
showing that that paper has at last &C.
knowledged tie fact that we have been so
long striving to urge upon the minds and be !
lief of the people Of this country, and for
doing which, We have been most foully
abused by that paper, if abuse can cminate
from such a source. "The issue before the
people Of Minnesota, and Of the whole loyal
portion Of the Union, is simple and definite.
1t is this, and this only Shall the nation.
ul cristan:e be maintained? This is now,
and has been from the CONNIE moment oil
the war, the fundamental question" Pre-:
cisely! We do now, and have, since the
commencement Of tho war, contended that
the maintenance Of the national exis1ancel
was and is the fundamental question-that|
reasonable mon ought to recognize that truth
in tangible way, and strive by all means
in their power to unite all who are in favor
Of sustaining the national existance, in op
position to all, of whatever nationality color
sect or creed. We do now, and ever since
the commencement OF the war have, conten.
ded that party issues, as such, are dead
There remains but the one question OF ca,
tlonal cxistance, i'll which every A merican
citizen is intensely interested, no matter to-
what political organization he may have be-
longed and it seems to US, and he's all the
while so appeared, that by seine means all
loyal men ought TO be united on some com
mon ground, that all could occupy without
compromising or turrendering any political
doctrine or principle they may entertain.
We have been the more strongly impress
cd with this belief from the fact that there
are traitors in the land, as we'll north az
south. The violent hand Of treason is lifted
on high 10 take the life Of the nation
Traitors stalk abroad in the dead hours Of
the night, and they seek their polluted dens
to hide themselves from the gaze Of man in
noon day light. These traitors nre to be
found IN one Of the great political parties -
Not that the party are traitors, but there
are traitors in the party. Hypocrites some
times steal the livery of Heaven to serve the
devil in. So traitors have stolen the sacred
name Democracy to betray their country
Valandisham, Wood, Cox and Voorhies
with their followers are in every part Of tho
land. Yet in the same party to which
these traitors belong there are scores, hun
dreds, yea, great multitudes Of men who
love their country better than their life III
We would not compromise with the traitors
but We would got those loyal men to break
AWAY from them that they may be left alone
in their treason with all the glory there is
in it. Aud how will we doi:. Why let
them come over and join tho Republican
party. say our straight backed party men.
But stop! you dare not hoist your party
name ever now at tho head Of your tickets,
but you have to intcrpolats it with al ex-
preston Of Union, to nuke it 60 down, even
with yourselves; how then can you expect
Others to come over to you !? But you are
not honest enough to drop the party coguo.
mon when you get ashamed or afraid of it,
Gut still keep it stuck up standing in the
way Of those who would gladly go into a.
union movcmcns if they were not continual.
ly bcng forced to the conviction that it was
simply means Of promoting party end.
Now the Republican party, and the
Democratic party, are the representatives
of distinct, and widely different principles.
Loyalty to the general Government, and
love Of the Union. are sentiments common
to both. To unite the loyal men Of this ma
tion on common basis, it would bs nscessa.
ry for all the Republicans 10 join the Dem.
ocrats, or for all the Democrats Is ioin, + tho
Republicans, or, for them both to lay aside
their party organizations and creeds, and to
unite on some other basis. tor instance,
Uhioa. Now it is perfectly plain that one
party canuo' join tho other party in their or
:ytu,isation without endorsing the principles
ST that party, a. well those principles; ,ha,
Ind place in their platforms before the IA.
belEsa broke out, as those that have arisen
since. We cannot cxpcct msn to do that,
while they honestly believe their own parity
rs q party. is as loyal As that Of their oppo-
mont. We would treat such proposition
coming from the Democrats with tho most
marked contempt, and We do not wondsrI
tha. they 80 treat i.swhsa sent to them
from us. sF5sss& a5i It, z45s#& a{ss:s ssrt
We have laborsd long aud hard to gel the
people 10 sss this in the light we hass pre-
sentsd il. and have hssn the ssandiag marx
for much al, s,al,ed for abuse from The Rsps5-
lisan. Hut we rejoios 10 know tha, .shs III
:, las. pen..nlra,sus into darkness. Loas|
ago tse name Dsmossa. .-Rspsh'ieaa shsu.d
have ceased to hare been spoken, and would
hare been. had il not hssn s>'r selfish. anbi-
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