The weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1852-1858, 1855-11-24
UMBER 10.
From the New York Tribune.
The nforaI.

"Down with the Pope p is pretty efec-
I'VE partisan cry; so available that we rather
marvel that it was not earlier and has not
been oftener appealed to: aDown with the
negroes and negro lovers % is even better.
because, while the Pope is afar off and to
most of. US an invisible abstraction. the ne
groes are around and among us, and not us,,-
ally regarded as either fragrant or otherwise
enchanting. But let "Down with the Popen'
be coupled with "Down with the negrces!"
and we have a double-team that will draw
almost anything till the traces break. OF
this our city-indeed, almost every city in
our State affords present example. The
State itself affords another hardly less strik-
ing,
We have steadfastly believed that a COM
pact political organization Of those who de-
sire that Kansas shall be a Free State, and
that no new Slave States shall be admitted
into our Union, is essential to the liberties,
peace, honor and even the perpetuity of our
Union. This conviction we have labored to
impress upon others, we believe those who
are accustomed to heed our counsels gene
rally concur in this view. If other and adj
verse views prevail, those who PROFOUND
and those who adopt them will bear the re-
sponsibility.
Meantime, there are some incidental re-
suits of the Know Nothing triumph which
we contemplate without dissatisfaction.
The Adopted Citizens and European Immi-
grants among us have been uniformly taught
by their journals and political leaders to re-
gard the Wings of the last twenty years as
the implacable though often skulking ene-
mics of their rights as freemen and citizens.
"They may sometimes pretend the contrary"
say these misleaders; "but give them chance
and they will all combine to disfranchise, if
not ALLEVIATE you. Your only reliance is on
the constant, invincible support of the Dem
ocratic party" And this the more ignorant
immigrants generally believe.
Well: here has been fine chance for us
old Wings to unite In prescribing and dis
refuse to profit by it. We might have VIC
joining in the cry against the immigrant and
the Catholic, yet many thousands of us ut
terly refuse to do it, while thousands Of
Democrats swell the hoarse halloo and share
the comfortable spoils. And while doing
this, we make no appeals for Irish or Ger
man votes, but understand perfectly that
they will nearly all be cast against us. We
pretend to no peculiar love for or sympathy
with them; we "fraternize" with them neil
ther in whisky nor lager beer; we simply
stand by our first fundamental principle that
the non-criminal, rational human adult who
is taxed to enforce the laws and required to
obey them shall have an equal voice in maxi
ing and mending them. We stand not up
for the Irish nor the Germans but for the es-
sential base Of our Declaration of Independ-
ence.
The Irish have been especially bitter upon
us. A season of systematic prescription will
probably enabled even them to comprehend
that devotion to equal rights is not necessar-
lily based on any particular affection for ne
gros, any more than for those contemptuous-
ly but improperly designated as Foreigners.
We have great hopes that some of these will
now be able to comprehend that some of us
regard each man as entitled to mans rights
without esteeming crooked shins particularly
We can easily see how Whig should be
ured into the Know Nothing trap. He has
been accustomed all his life to confront the
great mass of the Adopted Citizens at the
polls-to be resisted, brow-beaten, decried
overborne by them. To his view, they are
always voting contrary to the best interests
of the country. But how Democrat-who
believes that the votes of the great mass of
our naturaliZed citizens are cast in steady
conformity with the best interests of the
country, and that a large majority of our ed
ucated native citizens vote just the other way
should unite in movement to limit and
reduce the number of those who (he thinksJ
vote right, while he proposes nothing of the
Kind with respect to those who usually vote
wrong, we do not so we'll see. However, let
us live and see.