Rensselaer Union, Volume 2, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 November 1869 — A Voice from Mississippi. [ARTICLE]

A Voice from Mississippi.

i If the late lamented. John C. Calhoun tould return and read the platform of the Republican pajty in Mississippi, especially the first fotar resolditions, he would either groan that his country had so degenerated, ar, illuminated by celestial experience, he would join the party and proclaim, its glad tidings rtore' roakfosly than ever ‘Mt preached “Southern rights” against the rights of human nature. In the report of the platfotih, the resolutions of which we .speak go oft', as ft were, like a volley of triumph. First 'The Union first, Ijist, and forever. Seeonil. Freedom of speech and of the press. 7bird. Universal suffrage and universal

amnesty. Fourth. Free schools—their beuefitstp be extended to every child in the State. . The resolutions gd on to declare for all, the constitutional amendments 7 for the hnMediate removal of dispbilidea; and fog the taewr 1. State' Constitution, without ms; fnuichisementor proscription. How mahyof the noblest victims of the war, if they cauld have known that within 3e£ IbAn] tqn years of their death a party w it'll etery prospect of success would proclaim such n|t have felt, indeed, that they did not give their llveatp Yairyr- No? great sacrinto' ever produced mortT immediate and ’vaster results. In the tour Mississippi resolutions "lie . the charms-Wliiqh ato ® redeem tbtrf fftate; an'd* cveri? otner that wfent into rgbelliop—the, policy. , which wouM Save saved them haff it Keen'that of those'States for the last gefaeratiom : . ; l - These principles, and tlie measures that spring from them, and the spirit which accompanies : them,- «re- those of the. Republican party of the Vrtited States everywhere. If the observer ■turn his admiring eye to, the great Northwest, the marvel of progress and prosperity, he is not surprised to learn that those- great States have bepn always faithfall o' these* principles, and are' stead-1 fly Republican. If he look at Naw England, which is not ashamed of her history; he finds that, the Mississippi resolutions hive no heartier echo than from ‘BffnfeeV ■ Hilland the.Greeu Mountains; and he is not surprised that to leave New England out iii the cold was the angry wiaii.pt the tiafighty cnlfift who were not for thrUnton first, last, and forever; and not for freedom of speech and of the press; and not for universal suffrage; and for free schools/ Those driefa the coentry by the Democratic party. Let the same observer lock at any State or section which is in-, disputably Democratic, and ’. &u»rfder whether it is Mwwfltf these as an American; or as a man. The great service of the Republican party in this country is that itjiag yhartg a truly popular republic possible. l Unuef Democratic supremacy, ths (fundamental principles of such a government were despised. Our system had become a vast propagandism of slavery. That has been overthrown, but its spirit and its traditions still linger in the nartv thxouok ■ party lead the van of the L nton first, last, and forever, nor for freedom of speech and of the press; nor for universal suffrage, nor fofr free schools for all cMldren. It dung to slavery while slavery lasted. It would have supported the Southern black laws if Congfesd had not made them impossible. It would Mill matatatn- all bf slavery that tycan, denying the suffrage to intelligent and industrious men, arid tevety wjw/e promoting that exclusive Ipirit of catte and race which will angrily agitate the country untjl it falaid. ri ' ot va>S oouirr be judged. And by tnexn. becansa the general pripoiplea ana policy I

of each aroainchaagcd. -Let any.<*atlid maq answer, tyhifin has Ijcen the |*fity of •«.?, uss s retrogression, of ignorance, of slavery, and inhumanity T The tendencies, the dmpctwtlve rftw*sities : rtf'•a’pblrttcal party are stronger than the hopes and wishes of its member# ByMtofk! Tendencies, by its I unjust and inhuman spirit, by its wanton crimes against liberty, JeVtlie Democratic party be Judged?— LmrpfrA TfczXty.