The weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1852-1858, 1855-10-13
FRIDAY MORNING. OCTOBER 70, 1866.
The Late Contest.

L
Well, the election is over, and sumebody is
elected our Delegate in Congress whom
we know not-perhaps it is Mr.. Rice, per-
haps Mr.. Olmstead, hardly Mr.. Marshall
be the result what it may, however, the Min
nesotian, and the Republican party, whose
views it endeavors to reflect, have nothing to
reproach themselves with. In the contestjust
ended we have made principles our beacon
star; and have tried to do our whole duty,
to them and our country, uninhuenced by
considerations of gain, regardless of all ap-
peals to our material interests" throwing
behind us those sordid, mean, base, mercena-
ry motives which have formed the staple ar
guments of Mr.. Rice and his friends; turn
ing neither to the right nor to the left to
count, on the one hand the foreign vote, as
did Olmstead and his supporters, nor on the
other to palter in double sense like the
Rice men did, with Know Nothing lodges or
Know Nothing leaders. The broad princi-
pies inscribed on the banner under which we
have fought-that the Constitution of the
United States is charter for freedom and
not nursing manual for Slavery: that the
territories of our government are consecrated
to white freemen and not to the uses Of south
ern nabobs, living on the sweat and blood of
hundreds of slaves-and that slavery is sec
tional, and liberty only, national-these great
fundamental principles of American liberty,
are what we have just been struggling for;
and if we are beaten now-if Rice, the Indi-
an trading jobber, the town spectators Rep
resentative, the pro-slavery friend of pro-
slavery Douglas and Breckenridge, the man
great on tricks" as his friends claim-if he
is elected to be our Delegate, in Congress;
| or, if David Olmstead, who secured the Ger
man vote in body by his joint declarations
against slavery extension and the Maine liq-
uor law. while he obtained another foreign
clement on religious grounds, and was sus-
tanned also by our bitter pro-slavery Terrific
rial officers, from personal hatred to Rice
an incongruous mixture badly blended-if
either of these men are chosen to Congress,
it will make no difference in the action of the
Great Republican Party of this Territory in
the future.
The war Of principle is begun. The day
of coalitions has passed. The sun of incon-
gruous alliances Of dscordant elements SIM
| ply for success, is set for ever. The period of
bush-whacking politics is ended. Tie Re-
publican Party, disdains all alliances not foun-
ded on fundamental principles-all coalitions
not the result of community Of thought and
ideas irrespective of place Or power-all bar
gains with material interests with pocket pat
riotism, or with reckless money -getters,
whose only god is the Almighty Dollar and
who, having come to our Territory to make
their fortunes, would have hooted at Christ
when he turned their prototypes, the money
changers out of the temple-just as they now
scott because not conducive to their objects of
migration hther,) at tic mission of Republ-
canism to arrest the tide of slavery and re-
store the idea Of liberty to it's supremacy in
| the Constitution Of our land.
That such men have not sustained us-on
the contrary that they have voted in a body
with the pro-slavery Democracy for Rice,
causes Republicans no regret; but the
reverse. The Republican Party has jpst ia
Ken its census, and Lnoacs in future on uhom to
count. "He that is not for Us is against u.s."
These members Of the late Wing party, who
claim to be opposed to the extension Of sla-
very, to the repeal Of the Missouri Compro-
mise, and to the Kansas outrages, and who
| yet voted for Henry NJ. Rice, the right hand
man of Stephen Douglas, and who Himself
at midnight congratulated crowd from lis
balcony, at Washington, on the repeal of the
Missouri restriction-such Wings, so pro-
Tossing, end so acting, are but hypocrites and
traitors of whom the Republican party is well
rid. Let them go where they really and pre-
perly belong with the pro-slavery Democra-
cy; and we will know how, in the future to
battle with them as with other enemies Of
our principles, and Of the country. The Re-
publican party desires none but true and re-
liable men in its ranks: men who look one
way and row another are the stuff out of
which modern Democrats are made; the
kind Of material out Of which tie slave-hold-
ers manufacture their tools. The Republi-
can party discards them from its ranks.
Another class Of men, who had better re-
sumo their old omnibus in which they rode
SO long without being crowded by numbers,
are the fanatics who harbor up about St. An
thony, whose intolerant and insulting course
in the Republican Territorial Convention dis
gusted all true Republicans. These are the
men who pertinaciously thought themselves
wiser than the Great Republican Party of
Ohio and other States, and so thrust into our
platform side Issues, that lost us hundreds of
votes that were all right with us on the
great question of free Territories. The class
of people, who claim to have struck the first
blow in the formation of the party. in this
Territory, who obtained the leader in the
canvass that they preferred, and who shout
ed most loudly their devotion to principle,
and their anxiety to form firm, compact Or
ganization which should be able to resist bv
It's disciplined ranks, the old cohorts of Pro-