The weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1852-1858, 1855-04-28
MONDAY MORNING, APRIL 90, 1856.
} A DEMOCRATIC VICTORY AT LAST!
kanzas In Chains !!

p A DEMOCRATIC VICTORY AT LAST!
Kanzas in Chnins!!
4 Well $50 seems slavery with all its chains
IS fast moored' upon the fertile soil of hith
erto free Kanzas.
This is the news; confirmed; beyond doubt.
Yes-the Democracy have at length
achieved, ONE glorious victory--the first since
their midnight triumph more than a year ago,
when the Kanzas-Nebraska bills were rushed
through Congress by corrupt appliances dis
graceful to tie nation and its rulers.
A "Democ,atic" victory is it? Aye--chains
and slavery manacled soil the privilege OF
whipping men, women and children the right
to separate families, tearing them, as it were,
limb from limb these constitute the fruits of a
Democratic victory in this age Of the world
these are the kind of popular rights il cherish
es and maintains in the present days of pro-
gress this is the species Of human liberty Of
which it is now the peculiar, defender and adj
vocate!
God save. the Commonwealth Shades OF
Jefferson and the Republican fathers, defend
us from such Democracy!
-" But are not the People sopereign2n hyp-
locritically inquiries Pro-Slaveryite All, tru-
ly!
popular Sovereignty" forever!
The will of the majority under the Consttu-
tion the rule or Government
Great, glorious principles are these--lying
at the foundation of (not sham Democracy but)
Republication, and ever to be cherished by all
true "REpuBLIcANs." No; it is not the princi-
pie of Popular Sovereignty, abstractly consid-
cred, about which there is any dispute in this
-ountry. 1t is merely the kind of Popular Sow
ereignty-the quality of the article of Popular
Sovereignty the mode of its operation--the
manner of its development-th that divide radical
ly the Republicans from the Democrats.
In fine, the Popular Sovereignty of the Re-
publcans is bright, cheerful, generous, cath
Ollie rule for the preservation of freedom for
mankind universally, without regard to race
or color, or sect or nation.
The Popular Sovereignty OF the Democrats is,
on the other hand, of quite different complex
ion; it is a dark, narrow, contracted platform,
with this inscription upon it 1.-THE overseer's
lash for a part of the people, and the rule OF
the Slaveocracy over the balance
1t was with this Interpretation of Popular
Sovereignty that the Democratic leaders have
just been enlightening the benighted and igno
rant people of KaDzas. 1t was on the 3Oth day
of March--election day in Kanzas--that these
" yelled prophets of Khorassan'' degned to
lift the veil; permitting their dupcs throughout
the free States to behold the real features of the
Popuar;Sovereignty of the Douglas, Pierce and
Atkinson school of Democrats behold them
in all their naked wickedness. On the election
, day aforesaid to assist the People of Kan
zas to comprehend the true Democratic
reading of the words Popular Sovereign
ty;'' drunken mob of several thousands
from the State of Missouri was in attendance,
as expounders of the Constitution of the Union
and the inalenable Rights of Man to buy and
sell and whip niggers.
The people of Kanzas were given to under.
stand by these constitutional lawyers, that
Popular Sovereignty in Kanzas meant, not the
will of the people of the Territory, but the i'm
perial mandates Of the slave holders of the
States. .. ......-.,-~ -..
! Yes--on the 30th day of March aforesaid,
the people of kanZas witnessed at their own
threshold, the proper climax of the series of
outrages on justice, good faith and public law,
commenced by Douglas and the Democrat
ic Administration when they carried through
Congress the repeal of the Missouri Compro-
mise-when they destroyed solemn compact,
having moral obligation, binding force
equal to the Constitution ITSELF ~ Q
Yes-the duplicity and hypocrisy at first
used to justify that bad measure had their prop
err sequel in the bold, unblushing impudence
and rascality of the Pro-Slaveryites On election
day in Kanzas when, throwing off all masks.
laying aside all pretence of fair dealing,
these Popular Sovereignty" advocates took
possession of the ballot-boxes of the Territory:
exhibiting what was their construction of the
doctrines of ''Popular Sovereignty" by shame
lessly nullifying the ACTUALsErTLERs, by means
of an armed mob from Missouri, who establish
ed reign of terror around the election polls
Selling poll notwithstanding all legal re-
quirements--lynching editors--threatening to
hang any who dared oppose them--and then
going through the exquisite farce of depositing
votes in favor of slavery, to more than double
the actual census of all the men, women and
children in Kansas, let alone the legal voters
thereof. '-' rre
>, But to the evidence: Below, we present from
the Chicago Daily Press of April IL, the state
ment of an eyewitness Of what came under his
own observation on election day. He writes
from Kansas under date of March 3lst-the day
after the election-as follows:
1.-THE election ESQ called by way of courtesy
which was expected to provide this fine Terri
tory with Legislature and special laws. was
held yesterday; and enough returns have come
in to enable me to present the whole thing with
out naming single majority. In fact figures
have nothing whatever to do with the result,
unless it may be such rhetorical ones as are
necessary to describe adequately the fraud
again practised upon the citizens Of this Terri
tory and the Union. Hereafter, it seems to
have been decrecd by the slayeocracy, that the
ELECTION returns shall be prepared beforehand,
andithe programme be carried out by brute force
II matters not what may be the views OF the sim
pie citizens who were weak enough to suppose
that the popular sovereignty" of Southern
men could mem anything but abject submis-
sion to their dictd; the only material fact now.
entering into the political calculation, need
only be what number of marauders shall be
detailed from Missouri to bring the pro-slaverl
NO &c =, =, In tho y,pceScorv roipf