Minnesota weekly times. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1854-1859, 1855-10-09
SATURDAY, OCT. ID, 1856.
THE RIGHT. sPlRIr.

THE RIGHT SPIRIT. - annaat
The Minnesotian follows up our leading arti.
ole in the TMrs of Thursday in the following
strain: - :, -.,,.e..s -. 49,. $
The war Of principle is began. The day OF
coalitions has passed. Tho sun Of homogeneous all.
ances, of diseordant elements, simply for success,
is SGT for ever. The period OF bush-whacking
politics is ended. The Republican Party disdsin,
all alliances not founded on fundamental princi.
pies, all coalitions not the result Of community of
thought and ideas irrespective of placs or power
-all bargains with material interests, with peck
ct patriotism, Or with tho reckless mOnsy-gettcrs,
whose only go | is the Almighty Dollar, and who,
having come to oar Territory to make their for
tunes, would have hooted ut Christ when he turn
ell their prototypes, the money changers out of
the temple just as they now SCOT, (because not
conducive to their objects Of migration, hither. J
at the mission CT Republcanism to arrest the tide
of slavery and restore the idea of liberty to its
prcmacy in the Constitution of our land. Is IL
That such men have not sustained us--On the
contrary they have voted in body with the pro-
slavery Democracy for Ric,, causes Republicans
no regret but tho reverse. The RepublicGn
Party hare just taken its census, and knobs IN ly
tmre ON ,Dh0m to count. ssIle that is not for us
is against u.s. These members of the late Wing
party, who claims to be opposed to the extension
Of slavery, to the repeal of the Missouri ComprO-
mise, and to the Kansas outrages, AMI who yet
voted for Henry NJ. Rice, the right hand man Of
Stephen Douglas, AMI who himself ut midnight
congratulated crowd from his balcony, at Wash
ington, on the repeal of the Missouri restriction
such Whigs, so protesting, and 50 acting, are but
hypoc'i!es and traitors of whom the Republican
Party is well rid. Let tn I'm go where they really
and properly belong, with the pro slavery Demo-:
racy !; and We will know how, in tn. future to
battle with them as with other enemies Of our
principles, and of the country. The Republican
Party desires none but true and reliable men in
its ranks: men who look one way and row an
o her arc the stuff ont of which mo lem Demo-
Gratis are made the kind of material out of
which the sllve-holders manufacture their tools.
The Republican Party di>cards them from its
ranks. a f-@' 1859 ~ i'i'. -1i7'
No party can exist with slcf men in its ranks,
and the sooner they return to th'ir omnibus
the better. For our part, We say, that for men
man or men who belong to the party of slavery
and that too, when Republicans. duly nominated,
are running for the Office, is not only snicid
al to the cause, but species of treachery which
should receive no mercy. ssCould yc not endure
for one little hour" Our duty under such cir
cumstances. as sentiae! on the watch tower of
is just what we have been perform
ing: and that is to s'shoOt the desertcrS'who thus
betray us to the foe.
The practical result of the election Just closed,
arc nevertheless highly suspicious to the final
success of Repuhl canism in Minnesota, though
temporarily defeat has. perhaps, befallen us. As
we before sid we have tlken the census and we
know our men. We know too, we are true, who
have grit and back bone, and who can be relied
upon in future contests. For future contests, and
hard fought contests. we can assure the Pro- Sla-
very ID ymocrlcy and their pocket allies, are in
store for them in plenty anl that they will be
victorious battles for us who can doubt ?--for
80 ''' s.Freedoms battle once begun,
'i.lo ~IN B.queaihrd bleeding son, .'f'tli
~" l0 ia Though BATH Il oft, Is 70 = nr sf