The weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1852-1858, 1855-09-29
Sec tiOnalism.

'The moment the people divide into Sec
tons, they divide the government into sec
tons. The very moment the people vote
sectionally, they act sectionally-and Sec
tionalism is the very opposite of unity and
union. To make taco people of one people is the
i'aecita3e result Of a Northern or Southern Par
ty."-M. Y. Ezpress.
Admit every word of this as TRUTH and
what does it amount to- The South has ar
rayed itself as sectional party against the
North for years past. The game eliminated
on the repeal of the Missouri Compromises
That was openly and VIGOROUSLY Southern,
or rather pro-slavery movement. Wings
and Democrats, with a very few honorable
exceptions, forsook their old party friends of
the North, and united to perpetrate this foul
wrong. The aggression thus begun has been
kept up. The conduct of the Missourians
has been most infamous. And yet it has been
and is sanctioned by the South. If the his
tory of the country can furnish parallel to
the intense sectionalism as manifested in this
entire movement, we have failed to discern
it. Southern party was formed. 1t was
in the field, openly and VIGOROUSLY. The
North must either submit or resist. 1t chose
resistance. But, how was this to be done?
Was it to be effectual by voting for and sus-
tanning the men and the party that upheld this
sectional, this disunion movement? Ger
tainly not. The North must unite to repel
the aggression. This is what it has DONE
This is what it will do. 1t has become a
question whether Slavery or Freedom shall
rule. The South has united to force this is
sue upon us. If it tends to disunion, upon
the South rests the guilt. Does any man in
his senses suppose the Freemen of the North
will rest quietly, while this political power
OF Slavery is thus welded against them, and
all their interests? Does the South suppose
we are so cowardly and so base as to fail to
unite to defend ourselves? When we do thus
fail the South may well regard us as fit only
for vassals.
Ii there is any one thing that is more hui
initiating and disgracefu1 than all others, it
is to see and hear Northern men and news
papers deprecating the union of the North
to repeal the aggressions of the South
What would these traitors have us do? This
sectionalism has existed for years, on the
part of the South. 1t still exists. Where
is the alarm of the Express, and its kindred
sympathizers, at this notorious fact2 Did
they see visions of dissolution of the Uni
on, when they saw the South almost unit
to extend and nationalize Slavery? Where
was their protest, their warning, their sup
plication for the safety of the Union them
They know they looked on calmly, and saw
the danger, so long as the South was the Sec
tional aggressor. Not a note of remonstrance
was heard from their lips or their pens. All
was well because it was the South that did
it. But when the North feels the iron hee
of despotism-when the people, aroused and
indignant, seek, not aggression, but resist
ance, when they propose to unite and act as
common sense men, behold this is sectional
ism, and sectionalism is the very opposite
of unity and union" Wonderful discovery
DISTINGUISHED patriots Let them know that
their cry of disunion is fully understood and
properly appreciated by the Free millions Of
the Free States-Ohio State Journal.