The weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1852-1858, 1855-10-27


slant, decisive effort, and you can determin,
what States shall be admitted.
The will exists because tie evil has bc
come intolerable, and the necessity of :
remedy is universally acknowledged. What
then, is wanted? Organization Organiza
ton! Nothing but organization.
Shall we organize Why not q? Can VIC
maintain the revolution so auspiciously begun
without organization Certainly not. Are
you apprehcnsive of failure because the revo-
tuition is not everywhere and at all times
equally successful Was there ever revo-
luton that was equally successful at all
times and everywhere? Certainly not. Do
the privileged States We have no need,
to do SO. Providence has devolved that
duty on others, and the organic law leaves
it wisely to them. We have power to avert
the extension of Slavery in the Territories
of the Union, and that is enough. Do you
doubt that power? Did not the statesmen
of 1877 know the bounds of constitutional
power? Somebody has municipal power in
the unorganized Territories in the Union.
Who is it? 1t is not any foreign State it
is not any of the American States it is not
the people in the Territories. 1t is the Con-
gress of the whole United States, and their
power there is supreme. Are you afraid
that the privileged class will not submit
The privileged class are human, and they
are wise. They know just as we'll how to
submit to just authority firmly and constitu-
tionally exercised as they do how to extort
unequal concessions by terror from timid
men. Can the privileged class live without
a union any better than you can? They
would not remain and wrangle with you an
hour if they could do so. Can they ever
hope to obtain another Union so favorable to
them as this one, if this should be over
thrown? Will they destroy themselves
that they may simply do harm to you? Did
ever any privileged class commit such an alb
surd suicide as this ? Are you alone the
keepers of the Union? Have not the privi-
legged class interests as great to maintain in
the Union and are their obligations to
maintain it different from your own?
Hoa0 shall we organize The evil is ma
tural one. The power and the influence and
the organization of the privileged class per-
wade all parts of the Union 1t knows no
North, no South, no East, no West. 1t is
stronger to-day Oil the bay of San Francisco
surrounded by freen.en, than it is on Chesa-
peake bay surrounded by slaves. 1t is not
sectional but national contest on which we
have entered. Our organization, therefore,
must be national one. The means of sue
cess are national. We must restore the de-
moralized virtue of the nation. We must !
restore the principle of equality among the
members of the State-the principle of the
sacredness of the absolute and inherent
rights of man. We want, then, an organiza-
ton open to all classes of men and that ex- |
cludes none.
We want bold, out-spoken, free-spoken,
rganization-one that openly proclaims its |
principles, its purposes, and its objects-in
fear of God and not of man-like that army
which Cromwell led, that established the |
Commonwealth of England. This is the or
ganizltion We want.
1t is best to take an existing organization |
that answers to these conditions if we can /,
find one: if we cannot find one snch, we
must create one. Let US try existing parties |
by this test. Shall wo take the Know No
thing party, or the American party, as ii |
now more ambitiously names itself? 1t is
purely sectional organization. In the privi-
legged States it scouts the principle of equali-
y of man, and justitieS the unbounGed
claims of the privileged class. In the I'M
! ri LEGGED States it stiles its voice and sup
presses your own free speech, lest it may be
overheard beyond the Potomac. In the pri-
vileged States it iiustincs all the wrongs
committed against you.
In the unprivilegcd States it affects to con-
denim them, but protests that they shall not
be rcdressed. | speak not now Of its false
and prevaricating rituals, its unlawful and
;lnchristian oaths, it's elandestine councils
and it's dark ccnsriracies, its mobs and its
murders, prescribing and staying men for
their conscience sake and for the sake Of
their nativity. l have spoken of them often
enough and freely enough heretofore. l say
now only that all these edeally unfit this So
called American party for any national duty
and qualify it to be what it has thus far been
an auxiliary Swiss corps, engaging the friends
of Freedom in premature skirmishes at one
time, and decoying them into ambushes pre-
pared by their enemies at another. Let it
pass by.
Shall we unite ourselves to the Democrat
ic party2 If so, to which section or faction?
The uards, who are so stern in defending the
aggressionS CT the privileged class, and
in rebuking the administration through
whose agency they are committed 2
or the Softs that protest against these
-aggressions, while they sustain and invigor-
ate that administration? Shall we suppose
the Democratic party reunited and CONSOLE
dated? What is it, then, but the same par
ty which has led in the commission of all
these aggressions, save one, and which urg
ed counseled and co-operated in that, and
claims excessively the political benefits result
ing from it? Let the Democratic party
pass.
Shall we report ourselves the Wing party?
Where is it, Gentle shepherd, tell me where?
Four years ago it was a strong and vigorous
party, honorable for energy, noble achieve
5nents, and still more for noble enterprises.
In 1852 it was united and consolidated. and
moved by panic and fears to emulate the De-
mocratic party in its practised subserviency
to the privileged class, and it yielded in spite
of yolfr. CIRCUMSTANCES aid mine. The priv
ileged Class who had debauched it, abandoned
it, because they khew that il could hot vie
with its rival in the humilating service it
proffered them, and now there is neither
Wing party nor Wing south of the Poto-
mac ?
How is it in the unprivileged States p
Out of New York the lovers of Freedom,
disguised with prostitution, forsook it. and
marched into any and every organization
We have maintained it here, and in its pu-
rity, until the aiders and abettors of the
privileged classes, in retaliation, have woun-
ded it on all sides, and it is now manifestly