Minnesota weekly times. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1854-1859, 1854-06-06
For the Daily Times.

Mr.. EDITOR The recent passage of the nefari-
Gus Nebraska and Kansas Bill by Congress has
covered the North as with a pail of darkness, and
filled the breasts Of all true friends of our inst-
tutions with gloom and fearful forebodings. The
most painful apprehensions cannot but be enter
tanned in regard to its ultimate results. Good
faith between the different sections of the Repub-
lie has been broken, and confidence has been de-
stroyed. The Union nominally remains intact,
but virtually we are rent to pieces; different in
terests have long existed between the free and
slave portions of the country, which have been
reconcied by the spirit of compromise; but the
truce has been broken, treason has triumphed and
the barriers between the North and South have
been overthrown. So long ias the Slave States
chose to preserve their peculiar institutions with
in recognized limits guaranteed to them at the
adoption Of the National Constitution, although
those institutions were offensive to other portions
OF the country, the greater proportion Of the peo-
pie OF the North, excepting very few fanatics,
acquiesced in them, feeling that whatever disgrace
was attached to them, belonged only to the con-
tracing power which chose to retain them. But
the feeling of the Free States has always been
decidedly opposed to any act, which should throw
upon them any portion of the burden of that dis
grace which puts the lie upon our sacred Decls-
ration of human rights. Southern men had no
right to ask of us that we should endorse slavery
as positive good. All they could in Justice de-
mand was that it should exist where solemn COM
promises left it, and that the North would let it
alone Almost the universal sentiment of the
Free States has been in favor of that course. It
is contended by Northern traitors chained to the
car of power, and subservicnt to those from whose
favor they derive their daily bread, and the re-
wards which false ambition seeks, that this in
famous Bill receives more attention than it de-
mands; that no important results will arise from
its passage; that it will reconcile differences:
quiet the country, and that slavery never can ex-
exist within these newly organized Territories
II the first argument be true, why should all this
excitement have been created by the introduction
OF the Bill? Why should a compromise sl.ich
(fobserred) set this sectional difference forerer at
rest, be disturbed, by act ,cl,ic Mey sny is of
so little consequence, and bal bug bear TO fiqt-
ten old aoo'nen' Why should hundreds of thou
sands Of dollars be squandered and questions Of
interest to individuals, and to the whole country
be delayed by the heightened agitation. of this
question? Why should the bitter feelings which
filled the halls of Congress and every hamlet
throughout the country, have been engendered?
1t is fmsy excuse, and an insult to the intelli-
gence Of the people, who although long suffering
will not always submit. Whatever may be the
practical results in this particular case it shows
that the South is determined to open the question
which was supposed to have been long since at
rest, and to bully the North into their own terms.
Thank God that though there may be political
dough faces" in the Halls of Congress, the
mass of intelligent, energetic, and determined
mon will not be driven to the wall by men who
affect to despise them because they work with
their own hands and not by these of human be-
ings, whose bodies and souls they hold in absolute
bondage. Men Of the North though not easiyex-
citcd.when once arouse I'd seldom shrink from duty
throughfear of consequences. Though but little
prone to boasting, they are not backward when
the time for action arrives. Those representatives
who have so basely betrayed their constituency
will find that they cannot triac with their inter-
ests, but will meet the rebuke'they deserve, and
left to the mercy Of thost'to whom they have sold
their honor, and to the consolation they may de-
rive from the fruits Of their treason. They we'll
know that in the whole North not one Congress
sional district can be found whose people are in
favor Of this BILL of any bill by which the area
Of Slave Territory might by any possibility be OK
tended. Permit me here briefly to refer to one
argument used by the friends of this bill, Viz
that sc Southern men should not be excluded from
taking with them to the common Territory of the
Union, their slave property recognized as such by
the constitution. The sophistry of this argument
is too transparent to deceive any but the grossly
ignorant SIaves are nowhe,e recognized as prop
erty by the Constitution, or by any tar Of Con-
gress 1t has been conceded in the spirit of com-
promise, that the slave States might legislatc in
regard to slavery without interference mit,in the
boundaries oft,eir own States and also that "pcr
sons held to service'' by them should be delivered
up in case of escape into free States If brought
there by their masters they become frecmen. It
requires positive law to make slaves, and wherc
no law exists to the contrary all men are FREQ
If the people of the slave States could not or did
not choose to make tho original compact strong
enough to enable them to introduce slavery be-
yond it's recognized limits, that high sense OF hon.
or upon which they en- much pride themselves sho'd
induce them to stand by the s'bond." regret Mr..
Editor to so much luke warm indifference exist
ing within Territory in regard to this question
Our dependence upon the general government for
the miserable pittance we receive 1T their hands
and the patronage, at its disposal seemy to mako
some of our prominent men fearful Of offending
the "powers that be-" believe, however, that
the great mass-those who prefer living by honest
toll, rather than by Office obtained through sub
serviency and the sacrifice of principle and truc
pride, think correctly and feel warmly upon tho
subject, and will not be misled or silenced bv
constituted leaders, who are instructed or ex-
pected to "whip them into the traces" and COM
pei them to close their eyes to the true interests
of the country. ee
am glad, gentlemen, to find you taking such
bold stand on this subject, and sincerely hope as
sincerely believe that the citizens of this city
and Of this territory will support you in your
BE defence Of right. A NoR1HERx FREEMAN
Rror-MA. SHor.-Michal Werner, James
Green and John DAILY, boatmen, were arrested
yesterday afternoon, while stoning the hotel Of
s. DemaTais, on the corner of Main and Warren
streets. In srreting them they resisted the Of.
fcers with stones, when Constable Melvin fred st
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