With the future of this party, the approaching city election will have something to do---not, indeed, to the extent of making or breaking it, but still to help or to hurt it.
Last year the city election here was lost by our friends; and none can safely say, but that fact lost us the electoral ticket at the State election.
Although Chicago recovered herself in the fall, there was no general confidence that she could do so; and the Spring election encouraged our enemies, and haunted and depressed our friends to the last.
Let it not be so again.
Let minor differences, and personal preferences, if there be such; go to the winds.
Let it be seen by the result, that the cause of free-men and free-labor is stronger in Chicago that day, than ever before.
Let the news go forth to our thirteen hundred thousand bretheren, to gladden, and to multiply them; and to insure and accelerate that consumation, upon which the happy destiny of all men, everywhere, depends.
We2Open page were without party history, party pride, or party idols.
We were a collection of individuals, but recently in political hostility, one to another; and thus subject to all that distrust, and suspicion, and jealousy could do.
Every where in the ranks of the common enemy, were old party