Rensselaer Union, Volume 1, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 October 1868 — What the Republican Party has Done. [ARTICLE]

What the Republican Party has Done.

Tho following -extract is made from the epeoehof Ren. ScHUTLiA :CoL*ifc,at last Friday : > “I lore the Republican party be canso ifttandeby tho rights of men, because it has planted iu«lf on that oternal basis of right in this land. It is the only party evory ono of whoso members can take the Declaration of Independence upou their lips and say that thoy believe that all men'uro created equal, that thoy are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights, that among these rights are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Everyman in the Republican party boIjeves it. There was not a tingle one of Its millions of voters who lifted a hand against tho fiag or pulled a trigger against a defender of the nation. It is tho only party that can say that. It elevated labor because it struck down slavery which made labor a badge ot servitude ip the South for white men as well ss black men. It honored labor, It has been the friend of the poor man, and when tho Republican party camo into power they passed a homestead law. It had been talked of in tho past, the President had vetoed it, but it was finally carried by a trrumphnnt vote in tho American Congress, and ©very Republican voted aye. It is the only party of which every member voted aye. That was a Homestead law inviting to the boundless West every man who is landless to ehooso a borne for himself, his wife and bis little ones, on condition of bis tilling the soil, making the wilderness blossom like a rose. It is the only party that has struck the manacles from tho instUutioii in this country. **lt made living sacrifices upon our Chantry's altar in the conflict, and when, at last, the conflict was over, it determined that treason should not rule in the States, in a laud which bad been devoted to a eourso of outrage and wickedness, and rebellion against tho.national authority. Its whqle history is illuminated with light. It stands for the protection of tne citizens at homo and ahxootL It comes down to the poorest and tho humblest, and the most defenseless, and there is the authority of the law and the constitution over them. For whom is the protection of litrelawT It is noitfirif the rich man, for he can take caro of himself.— But the protection of tho law is for tbo poor man, for the friendless man, for the weak man. It is for the hamble and down trodden man; it is for the man that has nothing to Call his own except that American banner which was bis birth right, or which by adoption belongs to him ; and tho party advocating this noblo and sublime principle which emanates from whence we havo all good impulses-, wifi, by tbo estuhiishiiuiiit Of peace and protection for all throughout the land, commence tor our country a grander career of tri uniph than any which we have seen in the world before; greater and more powerful, putting us forward in tffe ranks of the nations, because wo will be just to all, and will welcome the oppressed of all lauds - to onr doors to enjoy civil and rt-ligioun liberty. Wo have the most magnifTcopt resources of any land hiftjcalh the circuit of tho sun". We exercise the free rightof speaking as we will, with no one to harm,, molt‘3t and mtikeYffraitT We all have magnificent resources given us,agricultural, mechanical and mineral, exceeding (Upse given to any othor land in all €be world’s history ; going forward more rapidly in the striking triumphs of the last three generations than an ea, or that history has written of in ancient or modern times. We shall, with liberty and- justice upon our banners, and with peaco in all our •bordors, with protection for all, have a fain© wide as tho world and eternal as the stars. v _ “I invoke you by the blood of tho sainted dead, by the memories of the sacrifices made for the salvation of this Uhion, by the elevated principles you havo written upon your banner, by these thoughts which lift us above the ordinary plane of politics—by all this, I invoke you to stand fast, and stand firm, despising all prejudice, scorning all opprobrium, disregarding the invective, the scurrility, the appeals to prejudice or to casto, animated by tbo nobler instincts which are ia our organization and our platform, go forward to the magnificent victory for the right which awaits us in November next.”

—Russia, the country ol implacable winters,contains in ita-hothocses the finest flowers in the world. The Czar has decreed an International Exposition of Horticulture to take place the last of May, 1869. —The Prince of Wales contemplates a visit to Egypt, and the Cataracts of the Nile. - —- —The Emperor of Austria smokes cigars made from Virginia ieaf exclusively. _ —John G. Saxe « making a lecture tour through the West. We hear incidentally that-he is translating tho comedies of Aristophanes into English verso. —The blind preacher, Milburn. is iu Paris, recovering from a severe illness. He has abandoned bis original intention of going to Berlin to have his eyes operated on, being persuaded that French surgeons are as re'iablo and skillful. —“Seagram;” to denote a cable .despatch, is the latest atrocious invention of a New "If ork journal. _ —Well executed counterfeit five dollar greenbacks are said to be in