The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1871-03-10
THE REPUBLICAN PARTY.

Now that there is peace in the land,
there seems to be a tendency in the
ranks of the Republican party to disor-
ganization, and the question arises, has
it fulfilled its mission? Is it time yet
to relax its hold of the government and
allow, (tor the sake of peace, shall it be
called p the Democratic party-the
party that sought the ruin of the coun-
try, the party that struggled to make
the Declaration of Independence lie,
and the boast of American liberty the
mockery of all nations, the party that
includes all who may be bought with
whisky, those whose highest idea of
liberty is the privilege to sell and drink
lager, and those who seek to conciliate
the laboring men only that they may
establish an aristocracy with the poor,
the ignorant and depraved as ministers
thereto,-to triumph at last, and nullify
the glorious results of the few years
that honest and true-hearted men have
had control of the government. The
Democratic party for years has been
sustained by men whose interest it has
been to perpetuate every institution
that is destructive to the peace of socie-
ty, good order and human liberty.
Even now it is working vigorously to
nullify the action of the Republican
party in giving the right to vote to all
men without distinction of color, ex-
cept to those who forfeited all claims to
citizenship by their efforts to destroy
the government, and if this party is
be to repudiate the debt incurred by the
war and revoke every safeguard set up
by the Republican party to protect the
government and the beautiful fruits of
victory and right against the agressions
of the mischievous, villainous propa-
gandists of slavery, drunkenness and
crime. And who will say that the null
LITIGATION of the Fifteenth Amendment
will not be followed by an effort to re-
establish slavery in the States lately in
rebellion? With such efforts on the
part of the Democratic party made right
before our eyes, does it not behoove US
as party to preserve peace in our
ranks in order that peace of which all
may have part shall hold in check the
disloyal element and ambitious dema-
gogues who foster and use it.
The announcement is made that Sena-
tor Sumner threatens to make another
speech against the President. Perhaps
it would be well enough to give this
gentleman back seat for a time. He
is becoming little too officious even
for Senator. So long as he used the
confidence of his constituents and the
country honestly to carry out the great
principles of the Republican party,
there was no man in the government
who was more profoundly esteemed
than he, but when he becomes vain of
his success, egotistical because of the
praise bestowed upon him, and the ex-
tent to which he has been trusted, or
supercilious and dogmatical from any
cause whatever, he ought to be made to
understand that he is not indispensable
to the success of the government or of
the protection of the treasury. His war
upon the President is uncalled for, and
the bear that he saw in the San Domingo
affair will probably be very harmless
bug.
The erratic ideas of Ben. Butler, too,
should receive just such recognition as
they deserve, (Which is just about all
they are receiving,) and let the party
stand firmly on the principles of equal
justice to all men, and loyalty to the
constitution and Union. New issues
sprung to weaken the confidence of
the people in the integrity of the Re-
publican party, should not be permitted
to divert the attention of loyal men
from the charge committed to their
guardianship in 1861. The cry of ex-
travagance in public expenditures, high
taxes, ct ceterG, will be howled as long
as there is a government and men who
depend upon government patronage for
support. If all Republicans can not
be politicians, they can at least be loyal
and true to the government and their
fellows, and in this may sustain intact
the party that saved the nation, and if
sustained win promote the best inter-
ests of mankind.