The weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1852-1858, 1855-10-13
From the Chicago Tribune.
"a Blast from a Democratic Busle."

From the Chicago Tribune.
"a Blast from Democratic Busle."
The Washington Union writes with dicta-
torial emphasis, when addressing the Admin
istration organs, and rarely finds one of them
honest enough to question its infalliblity OF
fearless enough to slap its brazen face. Fol
once it has received its deserts. The Albany
Atlas gives it blast which will make its
ears tingle and its cheeks burn.
This central organ, the Union, undertook
to read the New York Democracy lesson
and to declare what it must think and do
"The basis is, the great principle of the Kan
sas Bill; that must be upheld-it is the only
solution for the safety of the Republic and
the final settlement of the Slavery Ques-
ton"
Says the Union:
"We have again and again maintained that
the principle of the Kansas bill furnishes the
only sure and peaceful solution of the slave
ment final and conclusive, the people must
pass judgment on the question in the Presi-
Dental contest of 1856. In that contest,
where will New York stand ?''
The Atlas repudiates the specific and de-
nounces the charlatan who offers it; it recalls
also, the Compromise Measures and the ex-
ultant tones with which the so-called Democ-
racy solemnly resolved hereafter to eschew all
agitation of the Slavery question Gin Con-
gress and out of it," and tells the Washing
ton Union, that for the renewal of this agi-
tation, the Administration and its Congress
are responsible. 1t dares to say to it, ital-
cising its own words, that SIauery abides no
truce and kept no faith nhen its interests may
be adcanccd by q breach Of either.
Hear it further
The Democracy of New York are anxious
and willing to "stand by all the compromises
of the Constitution" But they believe that
instrument to have been adopted for the pro-
lection and diffusion Of Freedom, quite as
much as for that of Slavery; and when they
see its provisions wrested to the advancement
of the latter-when they see the faith and
practice of the Democratic. fathers repudia-
ted and new principles engrafted upon their
creed-when they find determination
evinced to turn the Democratic party into
mere ;'hewers of wood and drawers of wa
ter" for the Slavery ropagandists-when
they see that institution extending itself In
to the Free States, and under color of fede-
raj jurisdiction claiming to hold its victims
wherever it shall please the master to carry
them-we may well pause and inquire to
what consequences, both to ourselves and
L 70 fha OH oofo ~,
stitutions of our country, these proceedings
are tending.
The Democrats of New York are loyal to
the Constitution and to the just rights OF
their Southern brethren; but when they see
wrong and outrage perpetrated without re-
buke-when they witness the whole power
of the Government called into requisition to
deliver over one poor fugitive into bondage
and to this end, what should be the temple
of Justice, surrounded by an armed soldiery
ready to stay any gushing of popular sympa
thy with ''lead in the morning and steel at
night"-when they behold a citizen of free
state without indictment, without trial, with
out conviction, consigned to prison upon the
mere ipse DIRT of federal judge-when they
mark the administration of their choice as
wholly devoted to slavery as ever Athens was
to idolatry-when they see that the arm o
federal power is only palsied in the defence
of Freedom-it is to be wondered at if they
should hesitate no longer to give countenance
to such eventualities, or support to those by
whom they are produced.
Hence we say to the Washington Union
in all sincerity, that if it wishes New York
to stand upon the right side in 1856, it must
cease to expect the Democrats of the State
to make platform upon the slavery question
which shall be acceptable to Virginia, Sout(
Carolina and Mississippi; it must cease to up
hold the doctrine that Southern men may
adopt the most ultra resolutions in favor o
slavery, and be eminently national and dem
ocratic; while it ostracises Northern demo
Gratis for adopting resolutions in favor OF free
dom and against the spread of the "peculla
institution it must repudiate the outrage
Gus vilainies and violence by (which the elec
tive franchise has been rendered mocker.
in Kansas; and the Administration which W
have aided to elect, must show stronge
devotion to Freedom, and more vigorou
determination to enforce right, and evince
conviction that Northern men are not al
slaves and parasites of power, before ther
can be any well-pounded hope that the dem
ocrats of this State will be found acting har
moniously with their brethren in other State
under the present party organization in 1856
The principles of the Kansas bill may do a
platform in some localities; but unless thos
principles are developed in more pleasin
aspect than they have yet furnished, it wi
require much of amplitude and beneficer
operation before it can be made into plat
form that will answer for the democracy {
New York.
This promises we'll. 1t is direct and
telling reply, and if its principle and spir
were put in action, the Atlas and it's friend
wouldsesist, and embrace quickly whoevt