The weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1852-1858, 1855-05-26
FRIDAY MORNING, NAY rs. 1856.


The Repsblicans ard the DslAeerAt.r
The Democrat still continues to hurl it
wrathful maledctions upon the heads Of th
Republicans. The call for the Convention ha
stirred up its bile anew; and while professin,
to believe that those engaged in the movement
are triAing in numbers, and unimportant il
influence, it betrays its fears to the contrary
and gives vent to the anger within its heart, By
heaping the most unmitigated and inexcusabl'
persnoal abuse upon those who stand arrayed
from principle, against the pro-Slavery party
of which it glories in being the organ.
We would advise our neighbor to keep cool
"Soft words turaeth away WRATH" and ht
should long since have learned that personal
abuse Of his fellow citizens and editorial breth
rem is not the way to win--eveD in Minnesota
There is no one as yet who has become identi
fed in this Republican movement in Minnesota
that the Democrat had the least particle o.
reason to suppose would be found elsewhere
when the proper time for action arrived. He
certainly could not have expected the Mime
sotian, and the old Wing interest whic' has
sustained it from the start, to abandon princi.
pie, and follow him over into the Slavery Ex-
tension camp Of Brigadie~ General Frank
Pierce. Yet his tone and manner Of writing
would seem to indicate that he expected some
such action On our part. Does he expect that
merely because we have agreed with him upon
certain local measures-highly beneficial to
the Territory-that we are to abandon princi-
NJ fhro, co in tho Cd
ministration Of the affairs of the Federal Gov
eminent! Because we have sustained Mr..
Rice, still sustain him, and would sustain him
hereafter under the same circumstances, in
carrying out as Delegate certain great meas
ures, calculated, in our opinion, to rebound to
the highest interest and glory Of Minnesota
measures that do not at all involve any ques-
tion Of national politics-does he expect US to
fall in with and support the obnoxious political
views of Mr.. Rice's party! If so. he must at
once see the absurdity of expecting any such
action on the part of the Minnesotian or its po-
mind of that hallucination. the better for all
concerned. He and his party are for Slavery;
we for Freedom. The National Administration
which he supports would set no limits to Afri-
can bondage on this Continent, and to accom-
plish its ends violates a national compact; we
now possessed or to be possessed, to the do
minion of the slave-driyer. He glorifcs a
President who approves acts of Congress to
facilitate the ends OF commerce in the Savsn-
nah and Cape Fear rivers of Georgia and the
Carolinas, and vetoes or pockets bills propos-
ing to improve the navigation of the Upper
Mississippi and Lake St. Clair; we would have
President to approve aii-treating the North
and West with the same favor that be shows to
the South. So the Democrat must see, that we
are separated as wide as the polls upon nation
principles and measures.
1t is evident from the tone OF the article be-
fore u.s. that the Democrat is anxious to contin-
ue in Minnesota the old hackneyed game of
personal politics. instead Of meeting his oppo-
nents upon the ground of principle. Individ-
uals are siagled out aud held up before the
public in e0ntemptuous and ribald language.
instead of discussing the principles which these
Individuals espouse. This has long been the
the time has now come when it must certainly
cease SO far as we are able to set and enforce
an example to that end. IL is perhaps for the
interest of the Democrat to have this unpleas-
ant and highly improper and undignified mode
of political warfare continue. Under the ban
of Executive displeasure here at home, and that
Executive an officer possessing the entire con-
fdence Of the National Administration, the
Democrat is in an anomalous position with the
rank and Gle of its party at this time; and
nothing but "fusion party" founded upon
personal grounds of opposition to Gov. Cor.
man, can answer its ends successfully in the
coming campaign. We rejoice that the contest
is to be upon principle, and not upon those old
personal grounds with the chiefs of this or thai
faction as leaders, and editors, politicians, and
people arrayed in hostile personal strife against
each other. We have long and anxiously
awaited this propitious day, and we are rejoic
ed that it has at length arrived.
The editor of the Democrat does US quite toe
much honor in placing us as the chief origina
tor of Republicanism in Minnesota. We came
here six years ago. holding the same principles
Ia regard to slavery extension that we now do
and hare never denied or concealed the fact
But the new party originated, and came forth a
q united, organized party among the people o
the North, after the violation of the Missouri
Compromise. The wave of Republicanism ha!
swept over every free State of the Union, bear
ing down all before it; and is now beginning t.
surge and swell in Minnesota. The cid fogiei
and political cliques about the capital cannot re
tard its onward progress. The people who will
decide the contest for Delegate 10 Minnesots
this year, were not within our borders at the
last election. They have cast their lots among
us since; they are all intelligent. honest, think
ing men; they want no editors or politicians t.
instruct them in their duty to their country ani
the cause of Human Freedom. They came from
the land of the Church and the Free School
and they can all read and write.
So far as the other editor who is named il
connection with US a. a starter" Of Republi
canism in Minnesota is concerned, he can speal
for himself His views, in the main, We hav'
been led to believe, if be be in position Il
freely express them coincide with our own up
on this Slavery question. But we are not hi
leader nor he ours. Personally, it is matte
of the smallest Indifference to US what cours
he or any other editor in the Territory takes il