Rensselaer Union, Volume 3, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 March 1871 — The Work of the Republican Party. [ARTICLE]

The Work of the Republican Party.

We do not insist that the Republican party shall be kept iu operation simply to keep one class of men in power and keep another class of men out. We would Ik* glad to sec public offices divided among nun of different political opinions more than they arc, provided that men having michievioua ami false ]K>litical ideas could lie placed only in positions where their notions could not be carried out. When any party degenerates into a mere officehunting and office-getting machine its further continuance in being has no interest to jvatriotic men. But this is not the character of the Republican purty. ! It has in it, doubtless, many who maintain their connection with it in the hope of getting office, who care little for its cardinal and essential principles. But the orgaui/.atiou itself is based on greatund good 1 convictions of patriotism, of duty to the country, its institutions, and its people. The Republican party is as essential to the safety of our institutions and the maintenance of justice and freedom as it ; ever was. The minds of the people are ' more fully convinced of the truth of its j doctrines, and the purity of its aims than they ever were before. The aims of the | ruling minds of the Democratic party j make the Republican party a necessity to i the well-being of the country. In the | tfouth, the old oligarchy asserts its power, i As soon as they get control of a State j Legislature we-see them sending to the i Senate their most objectionable and ex- 1 treme men. Vance, from North Car- j olina, and Blair, the author of the Broad- j Itcad letter, are their representative men —men of hot and violent temper, and of impracticable aud extreme views. In Ohio it is already given out that Valandigham must lie the next Senator, if that party shall get a majority. Nor can it be denied that these men are the best representation of the general views and feelings of the great mass of the Democratic party. The Democratic party is j hostile to the reformations and results which our party has effected in the past ten ! years. It is perhaps impossible for them j to destroy all the good that we have effect j cd, but they can do great harm if they j once get into power. They will rule with a high hand, when the Vances, Blairs, and Valiaudighams rule their councils. , The Democratic party will leave no effort untried to secure its own supremacy in the future, even if the negro has to be forcibly disenfranchised, and the Fifteenth Amendment declared inoperative. Can we permit this retrogade movement to take place? Never. The triumphs we have achieved we must preserve. The Republican party must keep the credit of the nation unimpaired—see that the war debt l is honorably paid—and all needful reforms jiu our government effected. The Democratic party is not a party of reform. It has no intention to rule except in the ini terest of ignorance, prejudice and caste. ; Therefore it becomes us, as a party, to heal I and reconcile all existing difficulties, and j to close up our ranks for another onset on I the common foe. So long as the enemy is i in front, there must he no dissensions, no ! lUnchi ng, and no desertion of the great j and glorious party which lias done so much for the country and for the interests of humanity. —Toledo Blade.