Excerpt from Our Country Versus Party Spirit: Being a Rejoinder to the Reply of Prof. Morse

It is a familiar fact, if several persons combine to shout very earnestly that a dog is mad, his life would be as liopeless as if he had communicated hydrophobia to a Whole neighbor hood. This has been With party leaders considered their shrewdest and most successful method for traducing the prin ciples and party now in power. I did sincerely hope to find you less closely affiliated With such. Without taking the space to repeat and answer them separately, to each question you ask under this head, commencing with, Did not the Republican party, &c. I return arespeotful but emphatic. NO I Did space allow, I would substantiate that negative in each instance. As the best generalreply to your unwarranted confusion of thewhole Republican party with the extremest radicals that may mix among them, I quote your own languaoe further enz Every one of any experience in political movements is aware that 011 both sides, in party excitements, there is every possible variety of character associated together. It is not safe, therefore, to characterize a cause by the character of some few who may be loud and forward in advocating it. Bad men may promote agood cause for bad ends. As confirmatory of your general Views you ask me to look at the state of the country. I do look at it most intently, as I have for years past, and I will tell you what I have seen: I have seen in the slave-holding states a race of men whom I recognize many excellent, intelligent, conscientious men - the exeeptions) - who live chiefly in the atmosphere of politics, Who, from the habit of dominating all their lifetime an oppressed people, have be come imperious and arrogant, and manifest these feelings to wards us in many ways, speakino' in contempt of all our indus t1ious classes as the g1easy mechanics filthy opeiatives. And mudsills of the 1101 th a race of men who, from the prevalent excessive use of stimulants and the common p1ae tioe of gambling, duelling and street brawls7 have become atient and revengeful, - I have seen these men following out the false ideas of manhood thus fostered, and envious at the superior prosperity and progress of their neighbors in the free states, at one time resort to fillibustering raids upon the 11ei0'hbo1i110' teirit01ies of fliendly nations, at anothei time making an cda1med 1neuision into a part of 0111 national te11itorv to pieoooupy and contiol a new state. Failino in these and many other effmts to ietain a political powei bey ond then due they finally settled upon the plineiple of Rule 01 min The wicked strife begun at F01t Sumter was its natu1 al finit.

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