Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1867-04-19
The End of the Republican Party.

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upon subject of which we remember
to have heard great deal, at inter-
walls, during the last seven years, viz
the extinction of the Republican par
ty. 1t was to be expected that our
Copperhead friends, who, as the say
ing is, have sat up nights, during all
the weary.seasons of the rebellion, to
hate tn e Republican organization,
should embrace any occasion to make
their malign wish the father of their
thought. But several Republican pa
pers are also indulging in such severe
political observation-disclosures moved,
perhaps, by the season of annual fasts
as to create in the suspicious minds
of our foes the impression that much
anxiety is felt in regard to the future.
But this is our way of frank and open
expression, carried sometimes to an
extreme that would prove ruinous to
a party kept together by drill and not
by principles, but one of the inevita-
BILE conditions of our party progress
and existence.
What has kept the Republican par
ty alive and triumphant thus far p
Evidently right and positive princi-
ples-that is, its convictions were not
only just and adapted to the exigency,
but they have been held positively and
aggressively. No man was left in
doubt Of them, and they were never
suppressed or pared down to suit the
other side of the political house
Now to ensure the continuance of
that key to success there must be
among us uDceasing discussion, COM
parison of views, complete fraternal
liberty. Better that Congress should
be. rocked at times with dissension
than that paddock should be put on
any Republican lips. Better that Mr.
Stevens should express his vagaries
on confiscation that Gen. Butler should
advocate his impeachment notions
that our Senators should drop remarks
that can be perverted by copperhead
management in Connecticut-better
any of the indiscretions of patriotic
freedom than the silence of stagnation
Over-policy and fear. By such meth
DDS only is the true line or politial ne
ceSsity hit upon, traced out, and
matched with the requisite measures
It is by that method that the Re
publican party has carried the coun
try safely through the war of the re
6ellion, and has thus far solved all
the dark problems o. reconstruction
The organization is still in the full
tide Of success. Having grounded it.
self on equal rights, and put its enc
mics in the wrong as the advocates
of caste, injustice and ignorance, it
must hold the advantage until the re-
construction era shall have complete.
ly merged into another of different is
sues. That, it NAV be said, has al.
ready come to pass But it depends
upon the obstinacy OF our foes, which
has often renewed and prolonged our
triumphs when our mission seemed
nearly over. Whenever other issues
do take the place of reconstruction,
we have only this to say of the Repub-
lican party, that it will enter upon the
new era stronger and with more pres,
tigc than others, and that if it then
fails, the cause will be due to its own
recreancy, in which case it ought to
fail and disappear. Until, however,
its enemies see it changing its present
habit of free discussion, putting pru-
dence before positive zeal for free
dom and humanity, and postponing
conventions and platforms till it has
heard from its opponents, they may
surely know that "the end is not yet. y
-Boston Journal.