The daily Minnesota pioneer. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1854-1855, 1855-07-03
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to oppose its extension by every proper and
constitutional means but they will neither
seek to engender civil war, nor to drive
the Southern States ont of the Union, be-
cause our brethren who reside South of
Mason and Dixon's line do not concur with
them in opinion on this particular question
We do not deny that Kansas has been
the scene of high-handed outrage on the
part of the proslavery men, in their inter
ference with the elections in that Territory,
and that the popular voice has been con-
troled and stifled by importations of outside
votes. We regard such interference as
reprehensble in the last degree and if
attempted in our OWL Territory from any
quarter whatever, we should deem it our
duty to resist it even unto death. But
there is scarcely doubt that the unwise
declarations and proceedings of certain
prints, and of certain societies at the North,
after the passage of the Nebraska and
Kansas bills, were the direct cause Of the
pro-slavery excitement in the last named
Territory. Had Kansas been permitted to
fulfil its own destiny, there is every reason
to believe that the Territory would have
been principally peopled from the Northern
States, and ultimately have sought admis-
sion into the Union as a free State But
the bowling of the New York Tribune, and
it's kindred abolition prints, reused spirit
of alarm and resistance in the slave-holding
State of Missouri, lying cOnterminous to
Kansas. If bands of armed emisSaries were
to be raised in New England, at the instiga-
ton of abolition organs, with view to keep
back the Southern man with his property
from entering upon the soil of the newly
organized Territory, and convert it into a
place of refuge for slaves fleeing from their
masters, it might have been expected that
the latter would strive to forestal any such
endeavor, by the employment of similar
weapons If, therefore, Kansas does be-
come slave-holding community, (Which
we fervently hope it may not, the respon-
sibility must rest with the violent abolition
lists OF the Northern States, who, by their
absurd and premature intermeddling, have
forged another link for the poor slave
In our Judgment, there is little to be
gained in bringing forward such topics of
controversy as we have noticed, and we
have only alluded to them in consequence of
the prominence given them by the leaders
of the Republican movement. Asa matter
of fact, they should have nothing to do with
the political contests in our Territory, and
they would not be allowed to enter into
them but for the very class of "selfshly
ambitious men and trading politicians SO
hypocritically denounced by the Republican
Committee, who cunningly and Inscriptions
ly strive to turn the honest detestation of
slavery by the masses at the North, to their
own personal and political advantage
Hence the overshadowng Importance given
to the question of slavery in the councils of
these self-styled Republicans. Does any
candid man believe that these slightly-veiled
Wings have any greater dislike to the
peculiar ms titutiOn" than have the masses
of the Democratic party in Minnesota
We trow not. 49,.
The Democratic platform is broad enough
to hold all who are honest in their convic-
tons that the Jeffersonian and jackson
policy is the true policy of the country, and
that it has brought this Union to it's present
pitch of greatness and prosperity. We
trust that our party Convention will be
content with the simple enunciation of
Democratic principles, and not allow any
discussion Of side-issues, or of matters not
germane to the purpose for which they were
called together No friend of the party,
either in or out of the Convention, will
counsel the Interpolation, into our time
honored creed, of any topics which, having
no practicnl bearing upon the interests of
the Territory, can Only have the effect of
producing irritation of feeling among mem
bers of the party, and of giving the enemy
an opportunity to profit by want of har-
monious action among us. We know that
large majority of the people of this Terri
tory are Democrats in principle, and we are
satisfied that the candidate of the Demo
cratic party can, with proper efforts, be
trinmnhantlv elected no matter who NOV