Rensselaer Union, Volume 2, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 June 1870 — Republican Unity. [ARTICLE]

Republican Unity.

The Republican party, representing so many different jnd widely separated States, and apparently conflicting interests, was never as strong and thoroughly cemented together as at the present time. Based upon immutable principles, having Justice for its motto, and right for iU purpose, it presents the same unbroken front to the enemy that it did during all the long years of open rebellious conflict. Its opponents are a broken and disjointed mass of fragments and fag-ends, representing every line, from avowed treason to affected loyalty tft»-he country. They have no elements Of cohesion—no principles for any section comprehensive enough to cover this wide Union—and no purposes in view to lift manhood to its true place in the scale of being, or to secure the rule of justice in place of wrong and oppression. All their efforts are directed to villifying and misrepresenting every public measure—to sneering’at the President and his Cabinet—and to obstructing laws passed in the interest of f. eedom and humanity. That a great party should leave a wide margin for individual differences of opinion and still maintain a solid organization upon its principles, is an enigma past all finding out to the Democratic mind. That party men are not party slave* to be manipulated by drillsergeants and to surrender up all individual opinion at party dictation, and yet not get disorganized, but actually gain in strength, is a problem so much beyond the comprehension of the opposition that they stand aghast, unable to appreciate, and dumbfounded at the phenomena. And while they hesitate, in doubt, and fume and fret—suggesting nothing and abusing everything—the grand old party goes right along overcoming obstacles and winning victories, entirely oblivious that any such concern as a Democratic party has an existence. Great as the Republican party is in number, it is far greater in its principle* They are the rock on which it has built, and it will abide aa long as it is true to them. The prayers and good wishes of the free-minded in every land bless its mission, and contemplate its success as an ennobling evidence of the progress of the whole human race. —Chicago Republican, May 22,