Year: 1859

From the Atchisom Champion.


The Republican Organization.


1t IS needless for us to state that the call
for the Convention to organize the Renub-
| iican party of Kansas meets our hearty ap-
probation. Since we have been connected
with the Kansas press, period over year.
we nave constantly urged the necessity and
importance OF this movement, and We greet
| 1t now with an earnest Welcome It is de-
manded by every hailoBed association of
the past; by the stirring "reminiscences of
our eventful four years history; by graft
tude, by honor, by truth, by manhood, by
every honest impulse of an honest heart
Ever since the passage of the Kansas Ne
braska Bill. the destiny of Kansas, whether
for good or for evil, whether Free or Slave,
has rested in. the hands of the National Re
publican party. Had it Withdrawn its aid
Tor withheld its sympathy from the Free
State party in the early stages of that great
struggle which has just closed; nay, had
/ it, when that party had become a power in
Ksnsas, stood idly bs careing and doing
nothing for Kansas, the hopes of the good
and true men who fought for her would
have been for nought, and the destiny of
Kansas would have been sealed with infa-
my in the Lecompton Constitution. Atev-
cry stage in this great struggle, at every
period in our Territorial existence, when
our soil has been overrun and swarming
with bloated. bigoted and murderous ruff
fans, who knew no law but the behests of
democracy" and "Democratic'' leaders;
when the smoke of the burning habitations
of Free State men darkened the day, and
the rife, the musket and the knife made
hideous the night; when it was crime
punishable by mob law, to be Free State
man--during all of this desperate struggle
we have had but one true, steadfast, sympa-
thizing friend, and that mas been the Ma
tional Republican party. - 7a5 -r1a


To it we owe everything as Territory
our right of speech, our Free Press, State
whose soil shall be unpolluted by the foot
steps of a single slave. To it we owe pow
Ier, honor, importance and all the glorious
prospects of the future. TO it very many
owe even life itself. Shall we be grateful
for this? Shall we honor those who have
stood by us thus firmly? Shall we be true
to the great principles of Freedom we have
upheld during this trying period?4 Or shall
we stife our manhood and every generous
impulse of human hearts by upholding the
tottering, shattered, besotted and crumbling
ruin of Democracy, whose fall its own works
are fastening every day? si'7i @.i "'a'


For ourself we have but one response
Our sympathies have been with that party
since its first organization-we were proud
of it i'm the States, we glory in and re-
we're its course in Kansas. And we believe
that to-day the sympathies and affections of
three fourths of the old Free State party
are with it. 1t may be defeated in some of
the counties may prove recreant-
but the great heart of the Territory will be
with it, and it aUiU triuneph-it cannot be re-
pressed. The smiles of heaven will bless
It because its mission is noble, good and
true, and it will triumph because IT IS RIGHT.
+ Then speed its mission. The good, the
true, the steadfast, the active, the earnest
and the thinking men of the old Free State
party are with 1.-THE vascillating, the tim
i'd, the ishy and shufiing politicians will
alone oppose it. Men ofthe stamp of Good
in, Miles Moore and Currier head the De-
mocracy-who can doubt the triumph of
true Republicanism over such corrupt and
sWindling politicians.