The weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1852-1858, 1854-07-15
shut one door against you, while she has room

enough and to spare.
But still further has democracy mission to
perform to the old world. The uncertain and
transition state of all the affairs of continental
Europe at this time. has placed us in differ
ent relation to the world than we ever held be-
fore. We need not put ourself into fits ofpar-
ticular extravaganza, over every refugee that
seeks our shores or we may find ourselves more
than once Mitchelled in the game. We need
not send an army, or furnish material aid and
comfort to any of the belligerent parties, but
as republican democracy, it is our mission,
to let power be felt, wherever float our stars
and strips ON land and sea.
sswherever periIed right
Couches In fettc-s,
Wherever expressions might
Findeth abettors,
Where freedoms pulses beat
Ianguidy, codly,
There let democracy speak
Plainly and boldly"
The missions we have now to perform in the
old world demand there, for our Representa-
tives. as our minister and consul. those who
will not be ashamed of their republican paren-
tage. but can find some better business than
to .dance attendance at the court of fools."-
Thus much for the mission Of democracy i'm ref
erence to annexation, foreign citizens, and for
eign Influence, still further. has she mission
at home, that she must carry out. True to her
declaration of native born right. and to her
own innate principles, she can never give her
assent to any system or form of human sla-
very. Wherever the power of true democracy
is felt there will be the voice of liberty and
death to all oppression. The return of every
Fourth of July is the concentrated voice of the
sovereign Democracy, declaring Liberty and
Union, now and Forever
Fellow citizens, on this glad Independence
day, we should not he true to the genius that
hO~ers over u.s. to the waving banner of our
I
Ocracy, did we fail to pledge here on this wood
crowned height, our strong enduring love for
liberty, and our deep adherence, and eternal
hatred Of all slavery.
| This mission, democracy has yet to fulfil, to
preserve her soil from the further encroachment
of the foe, and lead back to ultimate universal
freedom. This day we have occasion to rejoice
with trembling.
! Fair freedom has but lately received wound,
and on this very hour, in many places in our
land, the people are holding funeral service,
and tolling the bells. as they go to the burial.
But, friends, never yet held to bnrying a
man, while any breath remained in the body.
Nay better is our old New-England custom, to
keep the body, till the third day after life is
entirely extinct, and with all that prccaution,
there are often enough then, premature buri-
| ais.
But liberty is not dead, near her vitals. tho
tilat ->cuIdShd Wedpou NeHt yet, tnank GOu,
she lives, and we hold no funeral service, while
she has power to breathe ON the Fourth of Ju-
ly. She'll not die yet, her time has not yet
come, and the mission of true democracy, is
| to heal her wounds. and make her strong again.
Give traitors to the cause of liberty their be-
fitting DOOM say mass for their souls, and let
them pass to their political grave, for men of
sterner stuff and irucr mind, are on their track,
to take their place.
Requiescat in pace, in Salrato future. The
spirit OfprOphecy breathcs free on Independence
day. Let faith and courage never falter, for
the future mission of the great democracy.
'tmcs great apocalyptic drama. shall yet wind
off. in victory to the cause of man, and glory to
the rule of God
FeiIov citizens Of .Nnnesota-Hcre on this
bright valley of the West. on the bank OF this
beautiful Lake, have we gathered to-day, to
celebrate this joyful hour. Here, where but
so lately. these bluffs gave back the echo of
the red man war-whoOp. and the track of the
Indians birch canoe has hardly faded from our
waters.
Here have we raised our country's flag, and
peacefully gathered under its waving folds, to
shout our songs joy, and wake the echoes of
these sandstone bluffs. with the loud huzzars
of Independence day. Long may that banner
wave. Long may the return of this glad day.
find gathered on its banks the peaceful deni-
zens OF our valley, Independent, free and hap
Ply.
Throughout this glorious West, let the mis-
sion of Democracy be full and complete
Citizens of Minnesota, are you ready! Then
let the shout go up till the genii of the waters
answer, and the slOping banks of Wisconsin,
send back the sound, "Liberty and Union, nov
and Jorerer, one and inseparable.'
WOMEN LAwYEEs.-The New-Bedford Mcrcu-
ry, after chronicling the fact that one of the
female spOuters in the late Woman's Rights
Convention, said she was studying law, with
view to practice it, says, quite humorously:
"Wc wish this new Portia all possible sue
cess. though VIC cannot help thinking she would
do better with little 'un than Lyttleton with
cap than capias. All women like declar-
alton, though most prefer another kind to that
in writ. Still. our Blackstone in skirts NAV
succeed wonderfully in counting, and win silk
gown in advance of all her competitors. The
only injustice is that her rhetoric NAV be height
ened and rendered more heavenly by a pretty
countcnance. the present race of lawyers being
by no means beautiful as to the phiZ In that
case, as SapphO tilchcd the laurels from Pindar.
not ny the force OF her poetry, but by the fair
ness of her face. SO Squire Nancy or Polly NAV
carry off decisions from our soft headed Judges
when the law and the evidence are both on the
side of some long-nosed. ill-favored, special
pleater in pantaloons."
Ess~ 4 missionary thus relates his experience:
Travelling alone in buggy, l overlook an
elderly, honest looking German, a member, as
he afterwards told me, of the Lutheran church.
invited him to take Il seat with me, and after
little hesitation he did So On my asking him
where he was from, he said he was just from
Arkansas, and that it was sickly country he
had taken great deal of calomel and quininc,
and had suffered great deal. Thinking it a
favorable time to spritualizc little, said
these things must he expected more or less in
this world. But. said !, there is a land where
the inhabitants never say, l am sick.' After
thinking little, he looked up and said, Ifinh
dat nlusht be minnesota"
SHIP BUILDING. BATH DIsrRICT.-Since the
present year commenced. there have been re-
turned to the Custom Honsc at Bath, thirty
Vessels. making an aggregate of over twenty
thousand tons of new shipping. built in this dis
trict during that time. This is large build for