The weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1852-1858, 1854-06-03


Galena the Jeffersonian, notices as follows the
attempt by the Administration to pick quar-
rel with Spain -
The acquisition of Cuba, by fair means or
foul. is the event that lies behind the consum-
nation of the Nebraska scheme. Already the
means by which a quarrel will be picked with
the Spanish Government are shadOwcd forth {.
MIR. SOule demands a monstrOus and unhearti- Of
indemnity for the seizure of the Black Warrior
An indemnity that must he refused if Spain
is not governed by men who are cravens at
heart and imbecile in their acts. The refusal
will be followed by acts of aggression and then
the war begins. The North is to be bribed by
prospective commercial advantages and the
South to he terrified by the unmeaning cry of
the AtrcanizatiOn" of the island; and both
by the pressure ofevents that the managers Of
the plot hold in their hands. are to be crowded
or driven into the support of what either. left
10 act by the dictates ofcOnscience and the OBJ
viOus policy of sound craftsmanship, could only
reject as infamous, and utterly unworthy of the
American name.
The true object of the crusade against Spain,
now preached at the capital, with zeal and
fervOr that shames the harangues of Peter the
Hermit, is the extension of the chattcl slavery.
Among Southern journalists, that object is not
denied ; it is not even concealed /: every public
meeting. every convention, every gathering of
the 'new lights who now control the destiny
of the nation, brings it boldly and clearly into
view. Give us Cuba" cry the Southern jour-
Richmond Examiner, the Charleston
Mercury, and other papers of that ilk--' that
American slavery may bc pcrpctuatcd and sus-
tanned ! Give US Cuba as vantagc-ground.
and we will take the other islands in order as
they come, and in all we will es ablish firmly,
that God-send of this agc-the biblical rela-
tiOnship between master and servant. Give us
these and we will extend the limits of our Re-
public to Brazil; we will establish anew the
slave trade, now foolishly declared piracy we
will defy the morbid fanaticism of the North:
we will control the commerce, the labor, the
power of the world!''
That, democratic reader, is the programme.
When the Nebraska iniquity is consummated,
the second act in the great tragedy-for such it
will prove-will begin. You. who have con-
demned the course of the JeffcrsOnian in its re-
sistance to the Introduction of the entering
wedge. stand by to toss up your hats and hurra
when the curtain rises Douglas is stage mall-
agcr. Young America is in the ascendant, and
the era of democracy that would have made JEFF
fcrson or Madison shed tears of blood, is now
dawning
Great is Douglas, and omuipotent is the
" blessed institution"
THE PRAYER OF THE RIGHTEors.-The follow
ing is very fine passage from good old Jere-
my Taylor, than whom few men have ever
welded more eloquent and powerful pen:
Il have seen q lark rising from his bed of
grass, and soaring upward, singing as he rises,
and hopes to get to heaven. and climb above
the clouds but the poor bird was beaten back
by the loud sighngs of an eastern wind and
his motion made irregular and inconstant. de-
more at every breath of the tempest
than it could recover by the libration and frc-
quent weighing Of its wings, till the little crca-
ture was forced to sit down and pant, and stay
till the storm was over: and then it made
prosperous flight and did rise and sing. as ifi
had learnt music motion from an angel, as he
passed sometimes through the air, about his
ministries here below. So is the prayer of a
good man when his affairs have required bus
mess. and his business was matter of discipline,
and his discipline was to pass upon SHINING
person. or had design of charity, his duty met
with the infrmities of a man, and anger was its
instrument and the instrument became strong
or than the prime agent, and raised a tempest
and overruled the man; and then his prayer
was broken. and his thoughts were troubled,
and his words went up toward a cloud and his
thoughts pulled them back again, and made
them without intention d: and the good man
sighs for his inlrmity, but must he content to
lose that prayer, and he must recover il when
his anger is removed and his spirit is bccalmcd
made even as the brow of Jesus, and smooth
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way he writes every day.
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