The Portland daily press., 1863-05-29

lican party embraces all the loyal men, we do
claim that all the disloyal men are associated
with the opposition party, and will doubtless
follow, even ithey do not control its fortunes
We do not assertion we do not so believe
that all the members of the Democratic party
are disloyal, or that they should be regarded
with suspicion, but we do maintain that the
loyal men of that party compromise them
selves by association with those OF treasena-
BILE purposes, and we assert that, of whatever
other sins the Republican party may be gull
ty, it cannot be justly charged with the sin of
disloyalty. While we would see all loyal men
acting together, we insist that, in this State
at least, the Republicans being to other loyal
men as at least six to one, their organization
affords the readiest, the most available and
the most natural instrumentality by which to
make their combined power most efficient.
Were the Republican party in small minori-
ty compared with another organization of I'M
questioned loyalty, We should unhesitatingly
advise cooperation with such organization,
and would consider refusal to do so, little
better than open treason to good cause. If
truly loyal men can best subserve the loyal
cause by acting alone, independently OF the
Republican organization, then by all means
let them do so; but do not ask the Repub-
lican party, every man of which is loyal to
the core, to ground arms and allow deter
mined, well-disciplined, thoroughly organized
and INSCRIPTIONS foe to march over their de-
fenseless and PROSTATE forms rough-shod
This is what would come, at the present juno
ture, of disbanding the Republican party; it
is precisely what would rejoice the Copper
heads-precisely what they desire. They ,ciu
not be grdtiied.
One word and we have done, at least for the
present Party organizations are not ends but
means - the means by which to secure ends
If the ends for which the Republican party
was organized were good, and if one OF these
ends was to secure the administration of the
government in accordance with the spirit of
freedom which pervades the Constitution. and
to wrest it from becoming a mere engine of
despotism, then its mission is but just begun:
the accomplishment of that mission is a work
for the future. The Republican party was Or
ganized to give expression to the freedom
loving sentiments of free people. So long as
it is used iegitimately to secure this end and
is made only the instrument for carrying out
the will of the people, its disarmament
should not for moment be thought o. Only
when party is perverted from its rightfuI
use, and instead of being an instrument of the
public sentiment becomes, i'm the hands OF bad
men, an engine to control that sentiment, does
it become dangerous power. or should its
overthrow be demanded. Such had become
the Democratic organization in 1860. Such it
is now. 1t is the engine of despotism. 1t is
no longer the servant but the master of the
masses composing the party. As such its de-
struction is desirable. When the Republican
party becomes as corrupt and as much per-
verted, it will have outlived its usefulness, ac-
complished its mission, aud its death will be-
come public benefit.