The Greene County Republican. [volume] (Waynesburg, Pa.) 185?-1867, 1865-10-04
THE FUTURE Of PARTIES.
From the North AMERICAN.

TO its bow. the abolition Of slavery,
which being gone, the party is done for.
II the Wing founds its adhesion to the
Democrats on the belief that the Repuli-
can organization must necessarily go to
pieces because of the end of slavery, it is
most egregiously mistaken. There new
er has existed in this country more
compact, wel-disciplined or enthusiastic
party than ours, and as in the past its
adherents did not mind defeat because
OF their devotion to principles, SO in the
future no reverse OF fortune and no dis.
couragepent can scatter 80 .'i'suay tnem.
Then. as to having but one principle,
only those Democrats whose whole at
tention has been absorbed in the defence
Of slavery believe anything of that sort.
The first national convention of the
Republican party declared "undying
hostility to those twin relics Of barbar-
ism, polygamy and slavery" One OF
the twins is dead, but the other survives,
and the Republican party does not mean
to 60 into decline until it has sealed
its fate also, Polygamy has been al
lowed to obtain permanent foothold
in an extensive territory, and to rear up
their condition of society based wholly
on it, Tn that community treason is as
rife as at the south. We do not mean to
allow our party to depart this life until
it has doomed this organization of sin
and treason to destruction. On this
question the Democratic party stands
mute, but is well understood to be in
favor OF the admission of Utah as a
State with polygamy. The editor of the
Wing having been out of the Union
for four years, has probably forgotten
this little matter.
Negro slavery!is crushed by the war ;
but peonage is not, and that, too, the
Republican party is opposed to. 1t is
the distinctive feature IN New Mexico,
and the Democrats have as yet given no
sign of being in favor Of Its abolition,
notwithstanding that it is the slavery OF
men, of all (races-white,, ,,1.rI AJIaqqk, qqk4,s and
rsd tnhs 5sus& &sRaN}dlfsn Sae }ds ncsi and means
TO do it. This matter is OF vital import
ance, because peonage exists all over
Spanish America, and should we at any
time hereafter acquire any Of those
countries, we should have slavery reviv
ed unless we now provide against such
contingencies. As to the question OF
negro suffrage, the party has as yet ia
ken no distinct grounds, but it such
blind guides as the Wing can succeed
in preventing the southern people from
granting the freedmen that equality be.
fore the law which is essential to their
protection, then it will not be in power
of any one at the north to arrest the in.
evitable course of events.
But there are several other questions
on which the Republican party occu>
pies distinct and we'll defined ground,
and whereen we find the Democrats ar
rayed against it. OF these the chief is
that Of protection to domestic industry
by means of a we'll arranged tariff, II
the Whig really inherited any share OF
old Wing principles, it would know this
without being told, and 1t would also
know that the Democrats are for free
trade. Ifthe Whig chooses to ignore
it had better take down its
name, for protection was the soul or the
Wing party. Protection is now the
belief Of the overwhelming mass of the
northern people, as it ought to be Of the
southern, in order to build up a greater
diversity of industry than now exists at
the south. The Chicago Convention of
1860 declared for protection in an I'M
mistakable manner, and the Baltimore
Convention of 1864 confirmed the dec.
laration. On this question the position
Of the party is as we'll settled as any,
thing can be.
On the great question of the nations
ality ofthe Republic, the two parties are
as widely asunder as the poles. We
contend that this is an indissoluble ma.
tionality, the land and the people alike
incapable ofseparation. On that ground
we rested our cause throughout the
whole war. and on that we have tri
umphed. The Democrats contend for
State sovereignty, which is necessarily
inimical to nationality, and is but DIS
guise for secession aud disintegration.-
10 assume that the party which alone
contends for nationality is defunct, is to
believe that rebellion has come Off vic.
torious, and that the people Of the north
repent Of having gone to war. Every
Democratic State Convention has square.
ly come out tor State sovereignty