Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-09-14
THE FUNDAMENTAL ISSUES.


Why Old Time, Thoughtful Republicans
Support HancOclk--Hon. Lyman Trum-
bulls Presentation of the Case.
The Hon. Lyman Trumbull recently address
ed great gathering at Belleville, Illinois, and
submitted some reasons for supporting General
Hancock that will interest old time Republic
cans. After returning thanks for the cordial
greeting given him, Mr.. Trumbull said:
1t is more than forty years since first set
tied in Belleville, and during all that period,
the greater portion of which has been spent in
the public service, the people of St. Clair coun-
ty have always sustained and supported me.
They first sent me to the legislature of the
State, subsequently supported my appointment
as secretary of State, twice contributed to my
election to the supreme bench of the State,
onse to my election as q representative in Con-
gress, and thrice to that of Senator of the
United States. You have known and watched
my course through all those years, many of
them the most eventful in our country's bisto-
ry,and involving the discussion and settlement
of questions vital to the welfare of the Repub-
lie, in which, may be pardoned for saying, l
acted no insignificant part To receive such
reception as this from You, who have known
me so long, compensates for all the calumny,
misrepresentation and abuse which have at
times . been heaped upon me for
to me me- an honest duty to the
position held and the country served. All
the Offices held while dwelling among you,
and till 1854, when the slavery issue became
paramount to all others, were bestowed by the
Democratic party. Those subsequently, held
came from the Republican party, an organiza-
ton originating in 1885, and made up of both
nd otr so rot nj ono
another during my public career have receiv-
ed the support of nearly all my fellow citizens
of different political parties, the questions
which divided parties having in the mean time
changed. My gratitude is. therefore, due to
all classes of people in this community, to
whatever political organization they may at
the present time be attached; and God forbid
should to-day utter one word which shall CRATE
harshly upon the ear of anyone who hears me,
whether in the present organization of parties
he be political friend or political foe. We
are all alike interested in good government,
and in steering the ship of state over the bois-
ferrous waves which surround her into haven
of quiet and safety.
THEN AND NOW.
Before proceeding to discuss the questions
which now divide parties, it may be useful to
inquire whether there is anything in the pres
emit attitude Of parties which requires Repub-
lican of 1856 or 1869 to support that party now.
This question will be best answered by inquir-
ing what the distinctive char
acteristics of the Republican party
them with its present attitude. The Repubi-
cans of 1856 declared in their national plat
form that they were opposed to the repeal of
the Missouri compromise, to the
extension of slavery into free Territories; in
favor of admitting Kansas as free State; of
restoring the action of the federal government
to the principles of Washington and Jefferson,
most central and practicable route, is impera-
lively demanded by the interests Of the whole
country.
The National Republican convention of 1860,
which nominated Mr.. Lincoln for the Presl-
dency, adopted substantially the platform of
1856, together with these two resolutions:
Fourth-That the maintenance iuviOlate of
the rights of the States, and especially the
right of each State to order and control
its own domestic institutions accord
ing to its own judgment exclusively. is
essential to that baIsnce of power on which the
perfection and endurance of our political fabric
depends and we den0unce the lawless invasion
by armed force of the soil of any State or
Territory, no matter under what pretext, as
the gravest of crimes.
Sixth-That the people justly view with
alarm the reckless extravaganza which pervades
every department of the federal government;
that return to rigid economy and accounta-
bilitv is indispensable to arrest the systematic
plumber of the public treasury by favored par
tisans, while the recent startling developments
of fraud and corruption at the federal metro
polls show that entire change of administration
is imperatively demanded.
So important did Mr.. Lincoln regard the
fourth resolution, asserting the rights of the
States. that he incorporated it in his inaugural
address. These resolutions of the Republican
party of 1856 and 1869 distinctly announce the
principles upon which it attained power. For
the ascendancy OF those principles struggled,
and for all that remain unsettled am strug-
Cling to-day. But how many of them are now
living issues? And of those which remain,
how many does the Republican party of to-day
represent?
The effect of the Missouri compromise, which
prohibited slavery north of Sc degrees and 80
minutes north latitude, and the question of ex-
tending slavery into free territories is settled
forever by the Thirteenth amendment to the
constitution of the United States, which de-
clares that:
Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude,
except as punishment for crime, whereof the
party shall have been duly convicted, shall ex-
list within the United States, or any place SUBJ
feet to their jurisdiction,
Kansas was admitted into the Union nine
teen years ago as free State, and the Pacific
railroad was completed and has been in OPP
Grafton for many years, which ends all those
questions.
PLANKs IN LINCOLN's PLATFORM REPUDIATED BY
THE REPUBLICAN, PARTY OF TO-DAY.
The only things left to be accomplished by
the Republican party. as proclaimed in the
days of ts'purity. are:
The restoring of the action Of the federal
government to the principles of Washington
and Jefferson; the establishment of the right
of each State to order and control its own do
mestic institutions according to its own judy
ment exclusively; the return to rigid economy
and accountability as indispensable to arrest
the systematic plumber of the public treasury
by favored partisans; and change of admin
istration to correct the recent startling devel-
opments of frauds and corruptions at the fed
eral metropolis.
For which of these measures is the Republi-
can party to-day the advocate? Not one. Its
most trusted leaders denounce the effort to re-
store the Federal government to the principles
Of Washington and Jefferson, and to MAINTAIN
the right of each State to order and control it's
domestic institutions according.to it's own judg-
ment exclusively as little less than treason.
The reckless extravaganza of the Federal Gov
eminent. while controlled by the Republican
party of late years, greatly excelled that of
1860, which it denounced, and in it's frauds and
corruptions, notably before the party was re-
strained by Democratic House of Represents
tIves, it far exceeded anything ever before
known in the history of the government.
need not on into narticuIa lara to make poSd theae