The Cecil Whig., 1871-03-18
The Republican Party.

hampshire mas gone aSdiIlSt "idl 10 i'iiiti-
iary termed the Democratic party. On
Tuesday last that party carried the State,
contrary to the calculations and expecta-
tions of their opponents. and perhaps to
their own agreeable disappointment The
leading oracles and soothsayers of the
Republican party ascribe the result to
apathy in the party, to personal squabbles,
to whiskey disturbances, to the Sumner
onpleasantness the latter happened at
very opportune moment. New Hampshire
has always been close State, and the
above causes had all doubtless their weight,
but none of them, or all of them combined,
changed either the views or the votes OF
the Republicans, sufficient to cause such
result. In States where parties are close,
the outs are ever on the aggressive; they
have nothing to lose and nothing to assail,
but what has been before demolished;
hence, in the very nature of the case, the
majority must change sides sometimes.
Pet men and measures, with certain classes
of the party, are set aside by the party in
it's course, personal affronts are taken, and
personal opinions do not get the credit
from the great majority which their san
guine parents think their views entitled to,
and many indulge their spleen by voting
for the, enemy to punish their friends.
Again, all who have watched politics with
a view to become better acquainted with
its mysterious turning and shifting, must
have become convinced that ten to twenty
per cent. of the voting population have an
irrepressble desire to change their party
every five to ten years.
Democratic successes among the Northern
States have wonderful influence in excit-
ing the organ of hope in that party, and
straight way their prophets and high priests
announce that the death blow has been
struck to the Republican party, the enter
ing wedge has been driven, the "split" " is
irreparablc, the "break- up" is at hand,
&C., &c. All this is doubtless very en-
couraging to the party without godliness
or principle sufficient 10 save even Sodom,
but such hopes as it now INDUCES have
been but the precursors to it, of hundreds
of bitter disappontments, as this one will
be. These forays of the enemy are not felt
at the great heart of the Republican party.
That party is the embodiment of the great
principles of universal liberty. 1t is the
guardian of that spirit which makes the
United States, the light and hope of all
nations whose inmost heart pants unceas-
ingly for more and more freedom-an
untrammeled will, untrammeled thought and
untrammeled speech. Its history is too
grand, its principles too noble, and its mis-
sion too important for it ever to be broken
up, while the Democrat party takes the
field in the interest of slavery, with the
purpose Of regaining something, at least,
of what slavery claims to have lost; and
seeking revenge which that bloody goddess
Graves with such famshing hunger. If
every State in the Union were to give tenn
porary majorities for the Democrat party,
it could not affect the principles or the
organization of the Republican party, any
more than Rebel victories advanced the
shareholders cause or weakened the pur-
pose of the army of freedom. The Repub-
lcan party owes no obligations to any man
OF set of men. 1t can carry any man it
pleases or throw over any man who sets
his individual will in opposition to its
march. 1t does not bargain with men for
their influence or allegiance. They must
proclaim their faith in the undying princi-
pies of equal rights and equal protection to
oil Amnricon pitizans and commit fhepo
selves to its current, which, like a moral
gulf stream, is felt throughout the civilized
world. The party which vanquished the
greatest rebellion of modern times, and the
most stupendous effort in favor of class
legislation and autocrasy, cannot be broken
up while the men who achieved those
unprecedented victories in the cause of
freedom survive; and those who wag doubt,
ing heads, and look alarmed, when Sumner
is quietly deposed from place where he
can work harm, when he shows spirit of
factiousness, and declares his purpose to
Illustrate the Administration in its effort to
adjust in manner honorable to the nation,
the long pending Alabama claims and
fishery troubles with England; and to
prejudge the San Domingo business.
Sumner deserved, and richly merit ID
his fate in Icing removed from the
head of the Committee on foreign relations.
He had declared his purpose to oppose the
Administration in everything, to crafty
morbid spleen which has been every day
gaining control of the mans better nature,
since his unhappy separation from his wife.
Grant did exactly right in insisting on his
removal from position which he intended
to occupy to bring the Administration into
contempt; and the President would have
been recreant to the trust reposed in him
by the American people, had he not shown
the spirit Of Old Hickory, in his opposition
to Sumner, who, without just cause, had
arrayed himself against the head of the
Administration.
While the memory of the great Rebellion
is fresh in the minds of men who fought it
down; while two thousand millions OF debt
piled up by that war remain to e paid,
and the faith pledged for its payment, to
be kept inviolate; while the freedom and
political rights of eight millions of souls,
enfranchsed by that struggle are threatened
by the Democratic party, whose existence
was pledged for the success of the Rebel
lion; while the debt incurred by that war,
the glorious fruits of the struggle and the
legislation enacted to secure this republic
forever against the inroads of slavery, are
all threatened by the Democratic party,
that party can never persuade the Ameri-
can people to trlst it with the Admins
tration of the Government. 1t often ap-
peared on the eve of success in the dark
hours of Rebellion and war, but only to be
plunged into fresh defeat, and so it will
be again.
DIVISIONS OF THE VALE."-Rev. B. F.
Price, late pastor of the Elkton NJ. E.
Church, has our thanks for copy of his
book, just from the press of the Methodist
Book Concern, n. Y, with the above title.
Tho worl, &c biully cnnlyop Of l,, f1,,.o