The weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1852-1858, 1854-10-28

ihau III view VI tuc Sieos issuS yS"i oC-
fore the people, met in convention recently,
and voted to make no nominations, but to
unite in sustaining the candidates of the Re-
publican Convention previously nominated,
who were uncxccptionable to them. The cleo
ton occurs on the 7tll of next month. That
the Wings do not intend TO dsband or to lose
their identity, by the course they have adopt
cd for the approaching election, the eloquent
and able address issued by them to the peo-
pie of that State clearly proves. Below we
give an extract
We are sincerely attached to the Wing party,
to its name and it's principles. We reverence
the memories of the great men whose patriot
ism called it into existence. and whose purity
wisdom and courage mark its career and en-
blaZOn its history.
Formed to administer Onr government in ac-
cordancc with the principles Of the COnstitu-
ton nervcd 10y a determination to prevent
its Suppression from the high and legitimate
designs of its founders-the Wing party has
ever stOod-a reSOlute foe to violence, cor
ruption and despotism the defender of the
Federal Constitution and the Union and the
friend of liberty and Justice Its weapons has
ever been those of truth and reason, and its
laurels have been won beneath the banners of
right and freedom. lis constant purpose have
been for the common good of the whole Repub-
lie. Its influence. its achievements and its re-
uown. will survive forever. They are as i'm
mortal as the principles which gave it birth,
and to which it and they are indissOlubly unit
cd.
Had its councils but prevailed. and its voice
been obeyed, instead of the harsh and angry
discord now rending the land. sounds of har
mony and union alone would have been heard;
instead of the hot fever that now scOrchcs our
couutry's brow, and pours its lava through her
brains-the casin of peace would smooth its
front and the pulse of friendship beat through
out its utmost limits.
Towards such a party-onc strong in its
moral power and radiant in its course, we can
ever turn with proud emotions, and solacc our
selves with the thought, that our devotion has
been equal to its greatness, aud that we have
chung to it with unchanging devotion through
all its varied but high career.
Thus feeling. and imbued with undiminished
admiration and regard for, and faith in our
party and its principles. We cannot abandon
its organization or surrender the flag beneath
whose ample folds We have so often fought the
battles of Constitutional liberty. Still fondly
attached to both, we must retain our prefer
ence for them.
But in view of the great issue now before the
country; seeing, as we cannot help but see,
that the struggle between liberty and SLAYER y is
nigh at hand--and can no longer be deferred.
We believe we best vindicate our party and its
principles by avoiding every act which might
tend to sever or distract the friends offrcedom;
by inducing all to unite in the great common
cause and thus by patriotic union, achieve
a sublime and enduring triumph. To this end
and with this view, We deem it best to make no
nominations.
THE SANDWICH IsrANps--In the days of Capt
Cook. these Islands contained a population of
10000 people but contact with the whites
the introduction of small pox and other discas-
es among them, has reduced the number to less
than 100000. Every year notwithstanding the
labOrs of the missionaries, who have translated
the English Bible into Hawaiian language and
striven to cure somewhat the modern l;ccnti-
business of the natives, the population has been
steadily diminishing.
There arc twelve islands in the Hawaiian
group-cght of them Notwithstanding
l.S0O square miles. They lie between 10 deg.
so min and ~ deg 20 north latitude. and l5l
deg SO min and l60 deg Il min longitude west
from Greenwich. The productions of the diff
ferent islands depend upon position and eleva
ton above the sea- All the tropical fruits and
plants either indigenous or introduced from
abroad are abundant. On Hawaii Kanai, and
oOHS Ful 10 VI "Hcdt, IIlSu DOtdtOcS,
peaches Strawberries, &c, of fine quality, are
easily raised. Grapes abound but the manu-
facturc Of wine is prohibited. Sugar and cot.
fee arc likely to be the great staples of the is
lands. The plantations are generally worked
by Chinese colonies, who are employed at the
rate of three dollars per month in China and
bound to service for II specified term of years
The indigo plant grows wild in the greatest
prOfIlSion almost everywhere, and is as much
,Nf 81,
in Virginia. The climate is mild and com
paratiyely uniform. The ordinary yearly
range at Honolulu is twenty degrees the OK
tremcs 65 and 81 Fahrenheit. The mean TEN.
pcraturc during the last two years was - 5.
AMERICAN JrSTiCE.-There are now confined
in Southern prison. in one of the more mod
crate and less fanatical slave States, a free cit
izen of a Northern State, undtr the following
circumstances:
A poor, forlorn, sick colurctl wowan, fleeing
from outrageous cruelty ard dcspotism, ap-
piled to him for shelter, food and medicine. -
Her afflicted aud deSolatc condition 80 wrought
upon his sympathics that he granted her re-
quest. admitting her as an inmate of his fami-
ly. He cured her ola violent and dangerous
fever. About this time. her legal owner learn
ed where she was, came after her and took her
home, neither paying nor II arking the Good
samaritan who had saved her life. Her cruel
treatment was renewed and became SO ntoIcr-
able that she fled again. and was again treated
with humanity by her former prcserver. The
master pursued her not knowing exactly where
to look for her, and as soon as he came within
reach of her, lcvelcd his pistol and shot her
dead where she stood. From this deed the
murderer went about his business as coo.y as
ifhe had only shot thieving dog, nobody
seeming to think any judicial inquiry ncccssa
ry or proper but the Good Samaritan was
thereupon arrested and imprisoned in a dun
geon, to take his trial ON charge of"Harborinp
a fugitive slave" He will probably be con-
vlctcd and set to hard labor in a State Prison
for ten or fifteen years, as Torrey and other
such criminals have been before him.
The Tribune enjoys the honor of being reject
ed and dctested 10y majority of the protesting
Christians of this metropolis for openly OK.
pressing its adherence of such internal perver-
sions of the machinery of Justice as that out.
lined above. 1t is widely accounted an enemy
Of the South for openly declaring and urging
that the South can never be truly prosperous
civilized nor Christian, till it relieves itself
cr,nl ol,r. AMI, e.,