The daily Minnesota pioneer. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1854-1855, 1854-10-03

Democrats read and Ponder.
The following able article, from the Penn
slrunian, is exceedingly well-timed for Min
nesota just now and We commend it to the
careful perusal of every Democrat. Let
the Wholesome truths it contains have their
proper weight, and the ides Of October will
show the Wing party, with all its phases,
routed before our invincible forces. Let all
divisions that may exist be healed. Att
this crisis, every Democrat opposed to fraud,
to forgery, and to Intolerance, should be up
and doing. Let all minor considerations
be set aside-and this done, to doubt the
result would Be to question the honesty of
the people:
"The Democratic party has been from the
beginning, and always must be, the party of
equal rights. The broad doctrine of equality
is the foundation on which Democracy rests.
How is it at the present crisis? What party,
except the, Democratic, at this time uphOds
the cause of equal rights and impartial protcc-
ton, and bids defiance to the secret as well as
open enemies of the Constitution Not the
Whigs-not the Abolitionists-still less the
Natives. All these parties or factions are cog
infant Of an organization among us, Il grand
oith-bound conspiracy to dsfranchise and pro-
scribe large portion of our iell0w-ctizens, be-
cause they will not ALLURE the religion OF their
ancestors, or were not born within certain lines
of latitude and longitude. And do these fac
lions denounce it? Do they oppose it? Not
one OF them. On the contrary, they are at
this moment engaged in abettng the viainy,
and bargaining with the conspirators for their
votes and influence. If we could suppose for
moment the success at the polls of these COM
bined factions, we should find them proscrib-
ing every Democrat within their reach in eve
ry possible manner socially as well as politi-
cally. Every adopted citizen, whether Catho-
lie or Protestant, and every Catholic, whether
native born or not, no matter though he had
always been an adherent to the Wing party,
would be as completely deprived of all share in
the enacting of laws, and the administration of
public affairs, as if he were a subject of the
most absolute Of despotisms.
1t is the duty of every true Republican to
reflect for himself, and to urge upon his neigh
Dor a consideration of this matter. If the cause
of corruption, ignorance, and bigotry is to tri-
umph-if the Democratic banner is to be al
lowed to be struck down, and the principle of
Republican equality torn from the COnstitu-
ton, or even tempered with without rebuke
from the people, no man living can foresee the
consequences but it is clear that civil war
might readily be one of them The American
people will fight, if need be, in defence of the
equal and inalienable rights of men. Yes it
might in the contingency supposed, cost the
present generation as severe a struggle to re-
store liberty as it did our ancestors to estab.
lish it.
Let every good citizen remember that in the
Democratic party alone is safety. In it alone
is hope. The anti-democratic party, composed
as it is at present, of every discordant faction
is entirely corrupt and cannot be trusted.
The Democratic party can always be relied
upon in times of danger. 1t is the right hand
of the nation in war, and her refuge of safety
in peace. Democrats contemplate the histO-
ry of the past. Think of the Alien and Sedi.
ton laws, and the immortal Jefferson-of the
United States Bank, and the glorious Jackson
Then think of the proscriptive vulgar Know
Nothing tyrants, and resolve as one man to
crush them into nothingness. But we must
cast off all lethargy, and prepare in earnest for
the conflict. Remember the momentous con-
sequences that are staked upon the contest
and doubt not the victory. Be resolved be
firm and above all, be united We shall ther
place our heel upon the head of the foul mon
ster, religious intolerance; crush in the bud al
ignorant aristocracy and scatter to the wind
one Of the most OdOus conspiracies that eve
disgraced free country.