The weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1852-1858, 1855-05-19
MONDAY MORNING, MAY IA. 1855.
Still Flounde ring and squirmins

of trouble' because he cannot drive the oppo-
nents of the present national administration
into the support of the repeal of the Missouri
Compromise, aud the doctrine of popular SOW
ereignty" as recently illustrated by the inva-
sion and conquest of Kanzas. The Democrat
man twists and founders about--turns up the
whites OF his eyes-rolls first on his side, then
on his back. then on his other side, and then
again on his bclly-much after the fashion OF
antics we have seen practiscd by Southern
chattels" at negro camp-meetings in those
States where that peculiar institution" which
our neighbor is so anxious to establish in Kan
zas, exists. Without the least shadow of proof
that we sympathse in common with the "Know
Nothing" movcment-in fact, being fully aware
that we have repeatedly held up the position
and sentiments of William II. Seward "a sim
gular kind of Know Nothing" he y on this
slavery question, as embodying more nearly
our views than those of any other American
Statcsman-aftor accusing us, only few days
SINCE of adhering to the st. Anthony Plat
FORM which distinctly repudiates know
Nottingham he now asserts that We stand
forth the avowed champion of principles, one
Of the main planks lin whose platform is de-
nuncation of foreigners!"
Then he flies off On another tangent--endor
scs Gov. Reeder's Correspondence to admire
him hugcly-says the Administration will sup
port him upon the stand he has taken in Kansas
--(ccho answers when?) and dcnounces the
Missouri mob as Know Nothings.' Why,
man, don't you see what beautiful "muss''
you are here getting yourself into? We, who
oppose the aggrcssions of slavery in Kanzas
and elsewhere, you denounce as a 'Know
Nothing" and in the same breath y ou denounce
the Missouri invaders as members of the same
order! What could he more inconsistent?
But why this sudden and holy horror on the
part of neghbor Emerson against know Moth
ingism?" If Know Nothingism ever existed as
an element in any election in this Territory, it
was at the election in st. Paul last October ;
and if any X. ow Nothing ticket was in the field
at that time, 1--WE do not know or say there
was) he supported it with all his ability. Can
he deny this?
pear that we include certain Western Demo-
cratic members of Congress in our condemna-
ton of the Administration as being inimical
to the interests of Minnesota. He cannot point
to single instance of the kind ; and he must
have been aware of the fact that he was max
ing q wilful misrepresentation when be wrote.
He cannot make Messrs. Douglas, Stuart, John
son. &C.. the scape- goats of Pierce & Co.. in
this matter Neither had our advocacy last
winter Of the right of the people Of this Terri
tory to make their own laws anything to do
with the sacrilegious act of repeating the Mis-
souri, Compromise. and breaking down the bar
rer between Slavery and Freedom. One of our
grounds of opposition to the Kanzas Nebraska
act is and has been, aside from its violation Of
national compact, that it was calculated to
operate directly antagonistical to popular sove:-
eighty in those Territories. by quasleg
cation of aggressive slavery mobs who would
advance from the Slave States and attempt to
control the legislation of the Territories. The
Missouri mob in its conquest of Kanzas verified
our worst fears, and proves the whole thing so
humbug and a cheat, got up for the aggrand-
izemcnt of the slave pOwer--just as the people
of all the Northern States have pronounced it
at the ballot boX aid just as the people of Min
nesota will pronounce it next October. And
notwithstanding the assertion of the Demo
not lift its hand to sustain Gov. Rccder. Mr.
Marcy aad Gen. Cushing are the only known
friends that Gov. Rs course has in the Cabinet
The others are either neutral or side with
AtchisOn and his Missouri outlaws. To the
latter class belong Col. Davis, who holds the
army in the hollow of his hand, and Mr.. Dob
bin, who does as he plcases with the navy. If
Davis had sufficient inauenc: with the Pres:-
dent to prevent him from appointing General
Shields Brigadicr, after he had promise
Douglas and others that the appointment
should be madc-and Davis had-it will be a
long time before the President will dare to
make up an issue with the Secretary of War by
directing him to place troops at the service Of
Gov. Reeder to protect popular sovereignty"
in Kansas. Pierce is with the Missourians on
nothing to check their reasonable acts. He
may not remove Reeder, but he will leave him
and the people of Kansas to the mercy of the
border cut-throats
Under this state of things, how disgusting it
is to find an editor here in this Intelligent
community, claiming the repeal Of the Missouri
Compromise as the triumph of pure prnc-
pie! If that unholy deed had never been con-
without the least difficulty. and the people
would have been able to make and execute
just such laws as best suited them-thus estab-
fishing the real doctrine of popular sovereign
ty in that Territory. But no! The class of
politicians which the Democrat loves to wor
ship aud cringe to, "that thrift may follow
tawning," had ends to answer of another char
acter. The gro breeders Of Virginia and
elsewhere South, must have fresh market for
their surplus and rapidly increasing stock the
free and fertile plains of Kansas were chosen
as the spot to be accursed and stained 10y the
damning institution" even though the black
flag be planted on those broad prairies at the
point of The bayonet! And this is all right in
the eyes of the Democrat. This is the "grcat
principle; aud this the way to carry it out.
according to the Democrat-and its par y lead
ers. Out upon such vile impostors and by
pocrites. .......-'...,.
The Democrat glories in believing that the
Railroad grant lis ou:s" notwithstanding we