The weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1852-1858, 1855-07-21
From the New York Tribune.
The Storm 10 Coming.

stronger that the selfworking Democrats of
these United States will no longer consent as
they have done for the past thirty, not to say
the past fifty years. to allow their country to
be ruled by little oligarchy OF shareholders.
1t is the natural course OF every oligarchal .ule
to run into great abuses. With whatever pro.
LESSONS OF regard for the good of the whole an
Oligarchial body may set oat. and however they
may thus scduce the too credulous and thought
less multitude to trust the reins OF power in
their hands. no sooner do they feel themselves
firmly installed in authority than they begin to
employ that authority for their own exclu Sive
and selfish ends. OF this the progress, very
gradual and silent ut first, but of late years so
rapidly accelcrating, Of our American slave
driving oligarchy affords a striking instance,
till at length the GROWING outrage of the Kan
sas perfdy has fully opened the eyes of the re-
publican people of this country. That outrage
has reused every thinking man to the necessity
of overtbrowng the Slavery extending and ne.
gro breeding dynasty which has of late years
controlled our affairs at Washington-now un-
der the name of Wings, and now under the
name of Democrats; but however called, still
apd only Slavcry-extending and negro breed
ing.
This great approaching political revolution
has long been foreseen by sagacious observers
of the sky of politics. Now every body begins
to see it. The cloud for long time no bigger
than mans hand. and which of late had seem
ed to grow smaller instead of larger, has sud.
denly so overspread the whole horizon that the
most stupid and unwilling are constrained to
admit that the rain is coming at last Surely
our thirsty political earth, dried. baked, scorch-
ed and scOurgcd under the brazen sky of Slave
ry till it looks for all the world like wcrn out
and abandoned Virginia tobacco plantation,
needs all the rain it is likely to get. So per-
isbed and withered have we been that even the
forty days shower of Noah's time might now
not more than suffice to re~tore to the earth a
wholesome moisture, and to our political land
scape decent degree of verdure. The sky is
growing blacker aud blacker. In the North,
the East and the West, clouds are pling upon
clouds. There is to be storm--not a
doubt of it-but as that is Natures way of
dissipating noxious masms and of restoring
life and fertility to that which WAS DIR ed up and
nearly dead. we for our part shall welcome the
rain, even though it may chance to wet us to
the skin and so will every man in the country
who fully deserves to be called a man.
Still it is not everybody who can contemplate
with equanimity an approaching thunder storm
whether in 'he physical or the political world.
GA such occasions women will faint, and the
sort Of men $50 called) of whom doug hfaces are
made will turn pale-whch indeed is but the
natural color of doughfaces. There is some
terings of thunder. As the flashes of the light
ming begin to be seen in the far-off horizon,
smitten with sudden terror, they huddle Shrek
ing, into the middle of the room. They are
sure tnat lightning will strike somewhere. they
are in an agony lest it strike them, or set their
barn on fire!
Such at this moment is the condition of a large
number of eminent politicians and antiquatcd
political journalists in different parts of these
United States. Nor can it be denied that so far
as the said politicians and journalists are them
selves personally concerned, they have Occa-
sion to be frightened. Take the Washington
papers for example. Those exemplary journals
with the National Intelligencer at their head
as captain and pioneer, have been remarkably
distinguished, as even their enemies, if they
have any. must admit. for industriously making
hay while the sun shines. That slave-drivng
sun which has dried up the very springs and
fountain head o! Freedom, leaving but here and
there a solitary green tree in the whole edi o.
rial field of the country, has however enabled
them to cure and garner up some pretty rich
gleanings of crops cultivated by labor not their
own. If the barns in which these crops are
snugly slowed away should not happen to be
struck, it is at least pretty certain that the
coming rains will interrupt. at all events for a
season, that profit able and comfortable kind OF
| hay-making Still worse the thorough wetting
which these ancient and now rather stif-jointed
political veterans will be sure to get. If they
venture their heads out doors in this iuclemcnt
weather, will more likely than not prove the
death of them. or at least lay them up for life
with the political rheumatism. The approach
ing storm will. in all probability. prove very
unwhoesome. perhaps fatal, to the whole race
of old political debauchees, with water in their
blood and carries in their bones. We fear it may
sadly frighten good many amiable and well
intending, but rather nervous and timid indi-
vduals. Some few houses and shops may he
blown down or washed away, and some rash
and venturcsome persons drowned by the rising
of the waters; but whatever may happen to in
dividuals, we will undertake for very mOder-
ate premium TO insure the country as whole,
against any essential or permanent damage
from the approaching political tempest.