Year: 1861

Nearly the whole Of that portion of the United
States now loyal to the Federal Constitution and
the Union, recognized, nine mon4s ago, the i'm
perative necessity of change in the admnstra-
ton of Government, and, by an overwhelming
majority, snatched the power from the hands Vi
the party who had so long abused it, and who
had. by their base subservlency to sectional
interest, brought the country at lcngth, to the
very verge of destruction. The new party, made
up of honest and true men from all previous po-
htcL organizations thus intrusted by the loyal


people Of the States with the administration Of


affairs, was called upon, at the outset, to meet


the most dangerous Crisis that ever has or ever
can threaten the life Of the Nation. How entire
and unsweryiDg their faith and trust were in
their new rulers was proved by the sober second
thought which rallied the country to the de.
thusiasm of April to justify the judgment OF the
previous November. All party prejudices and
passions were forgotten, and the new Admins
traticn, strengthened by an assurance Of popular
confidence, stands before the world the uuques-
toned representative of the whole loyal people
OF the Union.


1t is fit, under such circumstances, that the
party coming into power, and sustained at such
moment with such popular strength, snOuld
forget also on party lines and Names and accept
the trust really bestowed upon it by whoIe
people Accordingly the Republican State Com
mittees of New-York, Ohio, aud Vermont have
proposed to the Democratic State Committees of





those States to lay aside all party Designations
and predictions, and in the approaching cleo
tiOns give to the people popular tick@, pledged
only to a vigorous prosecution Of the war, the
of the Constitution aud the ell.
proposition the Republicans can be moved BY no
other motive than love of country and the
assertion of the rights of popular Government.
They might have asked for support as party
50 fortified a. they have been by events; but
they prefer to lay aside all party name aud
claims, and rally with all their fellow-county-
men as patriots to the nations defense.


To their appeal there has been as yet but one
reply--tbat signed by Dean Richmond and Peter
Cagger OF this State. 1t was, perhaps, expect
ing too much to suppose that Committee OF
which these two gentlemen are the principal Of
ficers, and Mr. Ben Wood person of import.
ance, could even comprehend that for the coun-
try's sake party could be for u time forgotten.
Their answer 10 the Republican Committee and
their call for a Democratic State Convention
show that more and worse than this is true. In
the livery of Democracy they hope more effectu-
ally to serve the cause of treason. Under the
specious guise of party principles they mean to
cozen the people who still cherish the old party
name, aud cheat them into betraying the cause
in defense Of which they are ready to shed their
best blood, to speud and be spent. They cater
50 far to popular enthusiasm as to talk "of the
vigorous prosecution of the war;" but they
mean vigor to be alleyated by the "most lib.
eral proiers of peace ia peace that can only
mean disbOnor. They seek "a restoration
/" Of the Union not only by denying "equal
Justice 10 the States whom traitors have en-
deayored TO force out of it, but by surrendering
to rebels in arms every right that makes the
Union blessing, and by rendering Sectional
/" ism," the sectionalism of slavedrivers, 30 par.
amount that the Union would be curse Be.
cause free people assented in Convention,
seventy years ago. to what seemed harmless
and temporary compromise, these Democrats of
the modern school would persuade us that there
can be no dishoDor in handing ourselves over,
bound hand and foot, the political slaves of these
insolent aud cruel men Of the South, who, fail
ing TO gogcrn US longer by constitutional and
peaceful ueaas would reduce US to Submission