Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 3, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 August 1859 — Stand Firm. [ARTICLE]

Stand Firm.

There is but one course for the Republicans to pursue from this time until the election of 1860 and that is to stand firm andhold fast to the Republican principles ns they were enunciated at the last National Convention at Philadelphia. Any change of these principles, any letting down, any alteration of the platform for any purpose whatever, and especially on the plea of expediency, will certainly result in injury, rather than benefit to the Republecan par’y. The platform wus not adopted for one Presidential campaign only. It declares openly and unequivocally the principles, which should be carried out in our government, and those principles, are as applicable to-day, and will be in 1860, as they were in 1856. Is there a word in our platform that is not true in principle and to the letter? We hold there is not. Then why change it? We would not be willing to abandon one of the cardinal principles of the Republican party to gain the Filmores, Winthrops and Everetts and all their followers, even if they were ten thousand times more numerous than they are. It is true that great numbers will give success, and that success is our object, yet success obtained by the abandonment of principles would be merely temporary, and would, m the end, be ruinous to the party and to the interests which we seek to advance. L“t us “hold fast to that which is good,” and not experiment when liberty and freedom is at stake.— Waukegan Gazette. We cherish the Tribune, not only a devoted to “Republican principles,” but a clear: strong, cheerful hope, that confid nee and fidelity will, in 1860, abundantly reward the friends of freedom. What was almost achieved in 1856, can, by a like resolute, manly effort, be fully accomplished in 1860. But if we triumph at all, ue desire to do so as Republicans, under the Republican banner, xoeth a Republican standard bearer. The Tribune has, we are quite sure, labored too long j and too zealously, to be satisfied with anything short of Republican principles, represented by a Republican candidate. That journal would not, any more than this, so far “lower the standard" of R publicanism as to support for President who has not been with us, heartily, in the struggle which has rescued Kansas trom slavery.— Albany Journal. This is the kind of Republicanism we have out here in Michigan, and we are rejoiced to see that the Journal is striving to infuse it into the New York Republicans. It is so seldom, of late, that we hear anything but “union” and “compromises” from the Empire State, that an article which has so clear and ringing sound is doubly musical. Tlie Journal has proclaimed the doctrine which Michigan Republicans intend to practice, i Let others do as they may, as for them and their house, they will go into the contest under the Republican banner, with a well tried Republican leader, upon well defined Republican principles, or not at all.—Detroit Advertiser.