The daily Minnesota pioneer. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1854-1855, 1855-07-03
The Delegate Question.

The Delegate Question.
On the 25th day of the present month,
there will assemble in our city, in accord
ance with the call of authorized Committees,
delegates from the several Counties in the
Territory, to attend two different Conven-
lions, each having in view the nomination
of candidate to Congress. The Repub-
lican" Convention will have for its object,
professedly, the selection of man to repre-
sent the Territory in the National Legsla-
ture, who is prepared to raise to the
breeze the banner of freedom so long OBJ
scured by the clouds of human bondage -
who will do his part in renovating" our
"local government who will be the in
carnation of the prohibitory liquor law
who will be expected to rouse the dear
people to the danger of longer leaving the
administration of government in the hands
of " selfshly ambitious men and trading
politicians" and to persuade them to place
the Republican Committee and their CO.
workers, in the high places of the political
temple-these modest gentlemen being of
course neither "sel6shly ambitious men nor
trading politicians" Here we have the old
Wing party under another guise, with such
additional planks to its platform as will
suffice to hold all the fanatical dreamers of
the day, while they will have the effect to
drive off the old and honest National Wings,
who must, from feeling Of self respect,
refuse to be associated with so motley and
homogeneous an assemblage.
1t is worthy of remark, that the call of
this self-styled Republican Convention con-
tains no reference to the Know. Nothings
Perhaps this may be accountedf for by thefact
that no authorized enunciation of principles
had yet been made by the National Conven
ton with reference to the Slavery question,
and therefore it would not answer for the
Republicans" to commit themselves prema-
turely to an alliance with the new political
sect which has just now been broken into
fragments in Philadelphia To doubt that
the Republicans" have determined to put
forth net which will ensnare all who may
venture into it, no matter how foul or I'M
clean, would be to ignore the history of the
Wing party, which has been ever ready to
adopt any name, or espouse any political
doctrine to secure votes. In justice to the
National Wings, we admit the fact, that
they have heretofore refused to enter into
An alliance with abolitionists of the Garri-
son school, or to affiliate, as the Massachu-
sets Know-Nothings have done, with those
who hold opinions tending directly to re-
pudiation Of the constitutional obligations,
and if carried into practice, to conflict
between the National and State Govern
ments.
We have not now before us copy of
the proceedings Of the st. Anthony meet
ing, which called into existence the present
Republican" Committee but we recollect
that there figured most conspicuously in
that body, men who have not been one whit
behind Garrison in their ultra-anti-slavery
proclivities, and who, during the sittiugs of
the Republican Convention, avowed their
intention of pursuing a course with reference
to certain existing laws Of the United
States, which, if adopted by any considera-
BILE portion of the Union, must inevitably
lead to anarchy and civil war.
With such mischievous doctrines as the
basis Of this new political party, and with
such men as its leaders, we very much mis-
take the temper Of the people Of this Terri
tory, if members of 10th the really National
parties, but more especially those belonging
to the Democratic faith, are not found bat
Ting side by side against it. While the
North is opposed to slavery with almost
entire unanimity, and regard it as political
ana moral evil, sober and thinking men will
remember that it existed when we became
nation, and that the obligations of the
Constitution, which instrument is our only
ark of safety, preclude them from in any
wise interfering with the peculiar institu-
ton where it exists by virtue of State
legislation. They oppose, and will continue