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CLEVELAND NEWSPAPER DIGEST JAN. 1 TO DEC. 31, 1856
Abstracts 2715 - 2719
POLITICAL PARTIES (Cont'd)
of slavery in any direction. And it may not be unappropriate to admonish
him that the Republican members of the legislature will receive with distrust
any advice from such a source." (4)
2715 - L Jan. 19; ed:2/1 - The Louisville JOURNAL says: The twelfth section
of the Philadelphia platform is gaining popularity everywhere, and
the people of the North have begun to recognize in it the true national
doctrine as to the issue.
"From what source did the edi tor of the JOURNAL derive his information?
Lynching schoolmasters, imprisoning ladies for teaching colored children
how to read, acquitting wealthy murderers; all these things may be rapidly
gaining popularity in Kentucky, but pro-slavery Know-Nothingism is not
gaining ground in the North." (2)
2716 - L Jan. 31; e-d:2/2 - We have been called "sectionalists" because we
do not favor a union of the Republican party with any existing political
organization in the South. Every party in the South is pro-slavery and
therefore "sectional," so that we are forced to take a choice of the two
alternatives, either to uphold slavery or to oppose it.
Many anti-slavery men in the South have never formed an organization
and whi Ie we are acting with them, they have never acted wi th us. "Loco­
Focos," "Know-Nothings," and Whigs are all alil>:e on the slavery question
and Republicans would sacrifice as much principle to unite with the one
as wi th the other. (15)
2717 - L Feb. 2; ed:2/1 "Loco-Focos" claim Thomas Jefferson as one of
their apostles. "If he were now living and repeated some of his political
sentiments in the South he would be subject to mob violence. If he lived
in Kansas, according to the Missouri code he would be put in the penitentiary.
What a beautiful thing this modern Democracy is." (2)
2718 - L Feb. 2: 2/2 - The "Americans" of Geauga county resolved to dissolve
all connection with the order and advised all subordinate lodges in
the county to surrender their characters and to abandon the organization.
An address was made setting forth the efforts recently made to convert
the order into an ally of slavery, The great heart of the order in Ohio
is sound, and no effort of cunning political trickeries can corrupt it.
The people of this state were never better prepared to meet the pro-slavery
party. (10)
2719 - L Feb. 11; ed:2/1. - The Republican party was not formed by men who
love power more than principle. Those who make politics a profession opposed
it from the first and those who finally joined did so with questionable
motives in order to reap some reward; others joined the ranks willingly.
Those Rho serve for a price are always ready to serve the party which
promises the largest price, and the party in manhood now has less need of
those men seeking reward than in its hour of weakness.
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