Delaware tribune. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1867-1877, 1867-10-03
PdRTYPOYER.

II is becoming every day more common
for the Democratic press to bring as Il grave
charge against the leaders of the Republican
party the assertion that they adopt this and
that measure for the purpose of maintaining
their party and perpetuating its power, and
the frequent reitcration of the charge and
the grave sanctimoniousness with which it
is made seem to have thrown some of our
thin skinned and exceedingly conservative
contemporaries of the alarningly intellectual
school into violent Mysteries, which threaten
| to end in cold swcats and regular con
niptons."
Aside from the inherent absurdiiy of a
party with such history as the Democratic
pretending to see anything reprehensible in
| such actions, we ask these nervous gentle
men to just stop their shaking long enough
to calmly consider the subject and put to
themselves the question, well what Of it!
What it we are striving to perpetuate our
party and maintain its supremacy? So far
as we are concerned we can hardly con-
ceive of better or more patriotic business,
in which an American can engage, than the
securing of the triumph Of the Republican
party and the principles it represents.
When Democratic politicians assert that
the Republican party favors universal suf
| frage merely to retain power, we rcpc the
accusation not because we should consider
it, if true, a matter to be greatly ashamed
OF. but because we know it to be false, fol
every man OF common sense and ordinary
powers of observation knows that equal
civil and political rights, without distinction
OH account of race or color, is merely til
/. natural logical sequence of the principle
the party has held from the time of its OIL
! ganization, and nobody saw this tendenc
= sooner OF proclaimed il more loudly tia
the men who now say that the Republican
q only favor universal entranehiscmcnt irol
Il motives Of policy.
d To the same howl, with the same accoi
A. panying echo in certain Republican circle
&c concerning the proposition to have Congre
III guarantee to all the States, not alrea'
or possessing it, Republican Form Of Go
~ eminent, wercturn the same answer, thou
~ we deny that the good Of our party is I
n only object sought Tor. We believe that i
TO partial Justice and the official oaths Of ,
~ Congressman require this action al I'll
On hands, and that ii is ms much II natural
suit Of the triumph Of our principles
an universal suffrage itself.
PHI IT, however, no other object were sou
| OF l,np ~ thu Ran
ter lican party and the securing Of the M
complete triumph Of its principles, tina
sufficient reason why such action shoult
taken, for ours is the only party which,
i've party, holds to the faith that We are ma
IN and not mere conglomoration of p
the sovertignties, it is the party which maintai
OF the nations integrity intact, and secured
efai triumph Of that idea OF unity which
flty makes our nation feared and respc
CO. abroad as il never was before.
pun In short, the Republican is the only p
ans which has enough regard for, and 10y
towards the Government Of the Tn
iish- States to be fit TO he trusted with that
ny eminent with any hope Of paying dc
ging regard 10 lis Interests, and ii is the du
'uch those who belong to ii TO use every pos
mn means 10 retain il in power at least uni
MIN opponents become less disailccted tow
Al the National Government than they a
h'ef present.