Year: 1860

capital to labor, African slaves to white fret
men. in the national Territories and in futur
States. That question has never been suff
| GENTLY recognized or acted on by them. TIL
Republican party embodies the popular pre-
test and reaction against a policy which ha
been fastened upon the nation by surprise an
which its reason and conscience, concatrin
with the reason and conscience of mankinC
condemn.


The choice of the nation is now between
the Democratic party and the Republican
party. Its principles and policy are, here
fore, justly aud even necessarily examined.
know Of only one policy which it has adopted
or avowed, namely The saUing Of the Tern
torres Of The United States, If possible, by con
sfitlAionGt dad laqrfta means, from bong home,
for Slape1y and Polygamy. Who, that con
siders where this nation exists, of what race
it is composed, in what age of the world i
acts its part Oh the public stage, and what arr
its predominant institutions, customs habits
and sentiments, doubts that the Republican
party can and will, if unwaveringly faithful IL
that policy, and just and loyal in all besides
carry it into triumphal SUCCESS? To doubt is to
be uncertain whether civilization can improve
or Christian ty save maj kind.


may, perhaps, infer from the necessity of
the case, that it will, in all courts ana places,
stand by the freedom Of speech and Of The
press and the constitutional rights of freedom
everywhere that it will favor the speedy i'm
proyement of the domain by homestead laws
and will encourage mining, manufactures anC
internal commerce, with needfiu connection;
between the Atlantic and Pacific States-for
all these are important interests of Freedoin.
For all the rest, the national emergencies, not
individual influences, must determine, as socie-
ty goes on, the policy and character of the
Republican party. Already bearing its part
in legislation and in treaties, it feels the neces
sity of being practical in its care of the ma
tional health and life, while it leaves metaphy-
steal speculation to those whose duty it is to
cultivate the ennobling science of political
philosophy.


But in the midst of these subjects or, rath-
er, before fully reaching them, the Republican
party encounters Unexpectedly new, and pO-
tential issue-one prior, and therefore para
mount TO all others. one of national life aud
death. Just as il so much had not been al





had ever been conceded to the interest Of cap
ital invested in men, we hear menaces of dis
union, louder, more distinct, more emphatic
than ever, with the condition annexed that
they shall be executed the moment that Re
publican Administration, though constitution
ally elected, shall assume the Government.


| do not certainly know that the people arc
prepared to call such an Administration to
power. know only, that through success
sion of foods which ncver entirely discourage
me, the volume Of Isepublcansm rises con
tnually higher and higher They are proba-
bly, wise whose apprcbenSions admonish them
tlat it is already strong enough for effect.


Hitherto the Republican party has been
content with one self-intcrrogatory-h ma
ny votes it can cast ? These threats enforce
anothcr-has it determination enough to cast
them? This latter question touches its spirit
and pride [ am qnite sure, however, that, as it
has hitherto practiceG selfdenial i'll so many
other forms, it will in this emergency lay aside
all impatience Of temper, together with all am
bition, and VIII consider these extraordinary
deciamations seriously, and with IA just nioder-
alton. 1t would be waste Of words to dem
onstrate that they are unconstitutional, and
equally idle to show that the responsibility for
disanion attempted or affected, must rest not
with those who III the exercise Of constitutions
al authority maintain the Government, but
with those who unconstitutionally engage in
the mad work of subverting it.


What are the excuses for these menaccS ?
They resolve themselves into this. that the Re
publican Party in the north is hostile to the
South. But it already is proved to be a ma
iority in the North it is therefore practically
the people of the North. Will it still be the
same North that has forborne with you 50
long and conceded to you so much? Can you
Justly assume that affection which has been 50
complying can all at once change to hatred III
tense and inexorabL?


You say that the Republican Party is a sec
tioual one. Is the Democratic Party less sec
ti0nal? l. it easier for us to bear your sec
tional sway than for you TO bear ours Is ii
unreasonable that for once should alter
nate? But is the Republican Party section
al? Not unless the Democratic party is
The Republican party prevails in the House
of Representative sometimes the Democratic
Party in the Senate always. Which of the
two is the most proscriptive? =? Come, ii
you WILL into the free States, into the State of
New York, any where from Lake Erie to Sag
IIarbor. among my neighbors in the Owasco
Valley hold your Conventions, nominate your
candidates. address the people, submit to them
fully, earnestly, eloquently, all your complaints
and grievances of Northern disloyalty, oppres-
sion, perfdy; keep nothing back, speak just
as freely and as loudly there as you do here
you will have hospitabe welcomes and appre-
ciating audiences, with ballot-boxes open for
all the votes you can win. Are you less sec
tional than this? Extend to us the same priv
ilegcs, and will engage that you will very
soon have in the South as many Republicans
as we have Democrats in the North. There
is, however, better test of nationality than
the accidental location of parties. Our policy
of labor in the Territories was not sectional
in the first forty years of the Republic. Its
nature inheres. 1t will be national again du-
ring the third forty years, and forever after
ward 1t is not wise and beneticent for us
alone, or injurious to you alone. Its effects
are equal, and the same for us all.


You accuse the Republican of ulterior and
secret designs. How can party that counts
its votes in this land of free speech and free
press by the hundreds of thousands have any
secret d signs? Who is the coniurer, and
where are the hidden springs by which he can
control its uncongregated and widely-dispersed
masses and direct them to objects unseen and
purposes uuavowed You name only oue.--
That one is to introduce negro equality among
you. Suppose we had the power to change
\ your social system, what warrant have you for
supposing that we should carry negro equality
among you? We know ana we will show
you, if you will only give heed, that what oul
system of labor works out, wherever IT works
out anything is the equality of white men,
The laborer in the free States no matter how
humble his occupation, is a white man, and he
is politically the equal of his employer Eigh