Rensselaer Union, Volume 6, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 October 1873 — The night to Bolt. [ARTICLE]

The night to Bolt.

—As to the right of bolting—a topic which is likely to lie interesting hereafter—it is one of the inalienable rights. The doctrine that a man cannot go into a convention of his party in order to save it from disgrace, without being under an obiigation to conseiit to the- flivgrace, and uphold it, il' it comes about in spite of his exertions, is too outrageous to be countenanced. Of Course it is proclaimed by the men who wish to make party machinery serve their ambition, and who are quite conscious that nothing but party discipline would induce selfrespecting men to vote for them. It is high time to declare indeptuKle.u&o.., of all such obligations. They are fetters forged Oy demagogues to bind timiil men to their cause. No honorable aspirant for party honors ever makes use ot them. It is only when a man of obnoxious character succeeds in capturing a party organization that the attempt is made to reconcile honest men to his candidacy by crying traitor. Candidates who make no scruple of risking the harmony of the. party to gratify their ambition are those who, as soon as they get. a nomination, demand that everybody else shall sacrifice conscience to party. There is no surer sign that a political organization is growing impofriVt than a disposition to make fealty to the party a paramount obligation. It is plain proof that there is lack of nobler motives. — When the Whig party lost its principles, and the men who bad loved it for the sake ol them left it sorrowing, they were pursued by reminders of tbeir obligations to party. When the Democratic party was captureil by the slavery propagandists, they tried to hold the consciencious protestants by exaltation of their duty to the | party. The fate of these two great ! parties may well be a warning to I Republicans. Independent Americans will not respect, the claim of' any parly to be supported for its own sake. To obtain and keep the favor of the people it, must have higher objects in view than the possession of the offices or the election to power of political adventurers.—Boston Daily Advertiser.