National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1872-11-26
orR TmIRTEENTm ANNIvERsARY.

hhuhuci VI Nhc REPUBLICAN WIN tue paul.
simple announcement believing that the
time has arrived when the great Republican
party Of the United States ought to lie repre-
scented In the daily press at the National
metropolis, We have embarked in the enter
prise nf supply ling the citizens Of the District
Of Columbia with a daily publication under
the title of the NATIONAL REPUBLICAN
There were a few other sentences to which
we shall refer In another portion Of this arti-
clc-rentcnccs defining the principles and the
purposes to which the REPUBLICAN has since
that time stcadfNstlE adhered.
Twelve years Ia comparatively a short
period, and yet when we look back to the re-
cord which they have made, and to the great
events that have been crowded into them we
feel as Il they extended almost over u genera
tion. Our readers will, perhaps, not he nm
willing to go back with us for few minutes
to those gloomy days Of eighteen hundred and
sixty, when every morning we looked with
apprehension To the Executive Mansion, and
anNiously read the news from South Caro-
lima. In the third number Of the REPUnII-
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that State, declaring that she would not per-
nit himself 10 believe that In the madness Of
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IL nr.sent for renublIcanI.m was not at
that time ma fashionable as IL IA to-day nj the
national capital-arc filled with similar defiant
announcements ON the mart of the secessionIsts.
Mr. Lincoln had been clccted Pre.Idcnt Mr.
Dou,,las ,yas counsclIng peace and unIon and
harmony. telling Virginia from the balcony Of
the Noryeu house al Lynchburg that her Con-
vressmen should resume their seats in Con-
rrcss; that the election Of Mr.. Lincoln W as no
cause for the dissolution Of the Union. From
the Ioyal Northern States we had REPORTS of
lpyal meetInps. resolving that the Union must
he preserved. and patriotic poetry and pas
sionatc appeals to their brethren Of the South
TO stand by the Old flag and not strike a star
from the blue field Of the national banner.
Mr.. Buchanan was weak and timld and vacil-
lating. Around him were Lewis Cass and
jeremiah S. Black, Jacob Thompson and
Howell Cobb, Isaac Toucey and the staunch
aud true Joseph Holt, Of Kentucky. Ills adj
minlstratlon has long ago passed into history.
and how II lives there our readers
fully know. Mr.. Buchanan might have
prevented the civil war but he stood haltng
and hcsltating turning over the pages Of the
Constitution, when the Constitution had bccn
all hut outraged by overt treason. And while
we had on the one hand this palsied Admins
tratlon, standing leehly with tied hands he
tween the North and the South, insOlcntly
threatening war and rebellion, there was an
other class nf our population tn which almost
snlc reference was made In the advertisements
oi the auctlonccrs somewhat after the follow
ing fashions Positive sale Of valuable farm,
slaves, stock aud crops," Ivc. Il was ouly a
little while when the great drama opened, aud
a. the REPUBLICAN had almost flushed the
first six months of lts existence, that In Ia
editorial columns appeared the significant
words; by reference to our Geographic col
umnS IL will DO seen that the rebels have begun
war against the Federal Government, have
fired the first gun. Upon their heads must
rest the responsibility" What followed Is
fresh in the recollectlons of Us ALL
The REpUErIcA. was tie first daily Re-
publican journal printed in this city. Or.
Bailey, who edited the National Era, had
died some time before. and the paper was dis.
continued a short time before the RErunLI,
Can was started. OF all the journals, daily
aud weekly, printed at the capital when W,