The weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1852-1858, 1855-10-06
The MASSACHUSETTS, pla,fss,r,.

ter on The 2oth inst, laid down the following
strong and sound platform .0s-Ila-.aG
Rssotced, That slavery, as State Inst;t,-
ton, Is not within our power or respons;h;i-
ity but SLAVERY, in its relation to the nation.
Is the concern Of every man ia the nation
IN its relation to the free States, is the con-
Germ OF every man in the free States y, 2
ReSoLucd, That the increase and advance of
slavery, the additions to the number of slave
States, the successive triumpls of slavery in
the political contests of the last half centur.t.
the control Of Slavery over all departments
OF the Government, the experience of the
last few years in the legislative, executive and
judicial departments, and more especially the
repeal of the Missouri Compromise, have
made. slavery, in its national relations and in
Its relations to The free States, the practical
paramount question in the politics of the
country sffa, i s}rl1
RtSotoed, That Massachusetts,, tie earliest
battle-ground of freedom, gives her heart and
hand to Kansas, the last battle-ground of
freedom @ ss8Ai .gt
Rsso'rea, That the repeal of the Missouri
Compromise makes every inch of the ma
tionai domain battle-ground between free
dom and slavery. 1t makes the admission Of
every new State conflict between freedom
and slavery. The issue thus forced upon us
We accept. We commit our cause to God
and our country. Let it be no fault OF ours
II another slave State is added to the Union
or any of its Territories left open to the pos
sibility of slavery. ~ -,
Resotced, That we tender no geographical
or sectional issue, nor will we be deferred
from our duty by the fear of one. The re-
peal OF the Missouri Compromise has erased
the geographical line. Our principles are
national and general. Our spirit is national
and liberal. We seek sympathy and Co
operation from all parts of the land (; We look
for members and candidates from South and
North, East and West. Our princioles do
not justly lead to a sectional issue, Ii the
slave power raises one, the fault is theirs let
the victory be ours.
Restred, That we require no conformity Of
opinion on other subjects of national or State
policy. No man surrendering or qualifying
his opinions on those subjects, we all recog-
nize the duty of making the question of
Freedom paramount. To secure unity of ac-
ton here, we attempt no unity of opinion
elsewhere.
Resoloed, That we accept the name of the
REPUBLICAN PARTY, which has been
adopted by our friends and fellow laborers in
other States. We unite in that party to as
sert the great principles for which we con-
tend, and to carry them to a triumphant is
sue. ~ -,
...s.. BALTIMORE, Sept. q
The steamer from Norfolk brings us news
to Saturday noon. The weather had been
unfavorable, and nothing can be more appalI-
ing than the present condition of affairs
The President of the Howard Association
died on Saturday morning, and his death ad-
ded greatly to the dependency of the peo-
pie.
AT Norfolk on Thursday there were forty
interments; and ON Friday twenty-eight;
while thirty orders for coffins had. been left
with undertakers up to ten o'clock Saturday.
AT Portsmouth on Thursday there were
thirty-two, Friday twenty-five, Saturday
thirty. The acting Mayor was taken to the
hospital yesterday. 1t is estimated that
there are about 2,20O persons in Portsmouth
of whom 1000 are still sick, but GONZALES
cent. Acclimated physicians and nurses are
much needed, but the authorities hope no
more will come from the North who have
not had the fever, as they will furnish fresh
victims for it..
The SARsAPARILLA WAR.-Every body
recollects the story of the Kilkenny eats,
which, being tied together by the tails and
hung across line, bit, scratched, and chewed
each other up, until there was nothing left of
either but the tip ends of their tails.
A SIMILAR catastrophe seems to have be-
fallen the Sarsaparilla combatants who were
keeping up such a sharp warfare, few
months ago. The Bulls, Sandses, and the
Townsends have entirely demolished each
other, and left the world for Mr.. Thomas A.
Hurley to hustle in. His pure and concen-
trated Sarsaparilla is rnpidly monopolizing
the patronage of the whele West, and will in
short time supercede all others. 1t is pre-
pared by superior process, by which all
the virtues of the root are extracted, and
may be relied upon whenever the services of
this valuable medicine are required-&.
Louis hteuigencer.
OAKLAND BANK.-This is the name of a
new Bank, with $500 capital, just estab-
lished at North Pepin, Wis. B. O'Connor,
President, A.C. Allen, Cashier. This is the
first Bank established on the river, above
this city, and we hope other towns will soon
have their Banks, with State securities, in
stead of being flooded with Georgia Wild
Cat as heretofore. 1t is the intention of the
owners to soon increase the capital to
500, ,OOO-Galena Adc.
GSoUATTER SovEREIGNTY."-W under
stand by this term, that the people of State
or Territory, have an inherent and an inaliena-
BILE right to govern themselves subject, how.
ever, to all the restrictions aehtch the Federal
Constitution Imposes. Croiz Union. .l,
Yes sir; you may construe the term in
this way, but therein. you differ materially,
from your "Democratic'' co-laborers, Doug
Las, Stringfellow & Co. We have to do with
their Interpretation of the term-not yours.
The FEVER TO TRAVEL NoRTH.-A Dr.
Knott, who has been examining into the
Norfolk plague, has broached theory, ac-
cording to which, the pestilence may be ex-.
pected at Washington and at Baltimore and
Philadelphia next year, and the following
season in New York, Boston and Portland,
thus completing the ranges of dsSolation
along fhe Atlantic seabord. DR.. Knott be-, be-
lieves it has been travelling northward by
regular stages ffrom Janeiro, where it reap
peared with great virulence as an epidemic
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