Year: 1859


..fzsd fact, ' possessing aIl she great els-
asnts necessary for IL success and perpetu-
ity, intelligence. pssriotism and cOherency.
The unanimisy of ssntiment IN the party
the intelligent and dignifed tone Of its pub.
lie journals, and the formidable array of
members marshaled under its banner of
freedom, during its short and stormy, yet
vigorous career, demonstrate that the Re-
publican party is the inexorable response OF
doun-trodden. civil and political rights
the uprising Of > free people 70 rspsi the
unjust aggressions of slavery.


No government. however pure may Be
It's fountains of national justice, or free
from the incuFsions of foes without, can
boast of freedom from bosom enemies
These have been Incorporated in all asseci-
atoms of mankind, whether of social sor
political nature. and though they may for a
time seem to blight the influence of the tru-
lY patriotic, this should stimulate to greater
vigilance and fidelity. The right must and
will succeed. UsuFpers and traitors may
endeayor to SOW the seed of dissension, and
they may raise the cry of disnnion, but let
the truly patriotic remember that such
alarms can never dissolve the bonds which
bind rs together, nor Danish from our land
the great magma charta of our liberties.


The Republican party as an organization
in this Territory is yet IN its infancy. oW-
ing to Its kindred organization, the Free
State party. but Its victorious principles are
deeply in6xed in the breast of the great mass
of our citizens. Our greatest care, then,
IN this incipient stage of our Territorial ex-
istence as party, should Be that of forbear-
ance and cohesion, and though every section
may not achieve every point for its own pro-
motion, we must constantly recur TO the
great principle of our party-the non-exten-
sion of slavery that to strike
down one pillar of the edi6ee is to weaken
and endanger the permanency of the whole
superstructure.


We should encourage the spirit of con-
cession and thus secure the unity of the
party SO necessary to the full exercise of its
strength and the promotion of its influence,
for we may rest assured that our enemies
will spare no sacrifice or device to substi-
tute. if possible, the nationality of slavery
for the universally of freedom.


We cannot concur in the policy of the n.
Y. Tribune for the approaching Presiden-
tial contest. Republicans should have re-
-pugnance for the word Opposition as ap-
piled to all the diseordant elements which
at this time oppose the Democratic party
The Republican is the only party based up
on legitimate opposition to modern Democ-
Faey. While one is synonymous with sla
very, the other is the synonym of liberty.
Our party possesses sufficient celebrity to
merit its own name without being classed
with factions sustained alone by the pros
pect of spoils and plunder from holding a
small balance of power. We had better suf-
fer temporary defeat, and stand exclusively
upon our own strength, than to be constant
.ly inviting fusion, thus furnishing pabulun
for the sustenance of these factions which
must otherwise disband, throwing the pre-
ponderanee of power into the Republican
ranks. If we should succeed upon the plan
proposed by the Tribune in electing the
chief magistrate of this Union, our party
must give way to faction and discord would
seize every rein of the government, while we
would consummate the very object sought
by our enemies. Let the Republican party
take bold, independent stand, depending
only upon its own strength, and before an
other campaign shall be upon us, we shall
possess all the powers of triumphant sue
cess. The Republican party is the only
hope of all who are opposed to the extern
sion of slavery. Its triumph is the tri-
umph of freedom, but its defeat is the ma
tionality of slavery. Let all those, then,
who desire the success of our free institu-
tions, and would preserve them intact from
the retrograde tendency of human slavery,
contribute their united energies to build up
and strengthen the Republican party.


1t is but justice to say that it has never
meditated an invasion of the liberties of 9TH
er States beyond the seat of its power 1t
does not propose, nor should it, any change
in their domestic or political institutions /;
it does not aim to iniure, but to make hap
py and prosperous the inchoate States of this
Union.


Slavery we believe to be inconsistent with
the spirit of our free institutions, a great
national and moral evil, yet. it becomes none
# our business to intermeddle with the do
mestic institutions of other States in this
regard, any further than it would to inter-
fere with the internal policy of foreign States,
which, for the sake of self protection, should
form an alliance with as. We are not, as a
party, to retaliate upon a section of our
country which persecutes US with all the
obloquy of malicious hatred, but we are to
consider that they are members with as of
the greatest political fabric ever reached by
the gallant sons of freedom. Equally watch
full are we to be of the great trust reposed
in US by our ancestors, that posterity may
not inherit the reward of infamous negli-
genee, and liberty go mourning all her days.
But while we seduiously guard our own po-
litical welfare and labor for Its preservation,
We are to extend friendly hand to all, to
build the base of our superstructure deep
and wide. to crush in their incipiency those
sectional jealousies which disturb our peace
and prosperity. and to renovate our govern
ment of political corruption: which like It's
fountain evil, mars all The works of human