The weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1852-1858, 1856-08-09
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| Col. Fuller, of the New york Mirror, VIII
has been strongly inclined to Fillmoreism
has boldly struck in for Fremont and Day
ton. Hear what he says in his issue of th
10Th ult:
It is due to our readers that the Miro
should define its position on the question o
the Presidency We have waited, watched
inquired, observed and deliberated calmly OF
the subject; and have decided to vote fo
FREMONT. The reasons that have led t,
this conclusion, we will briefly state:
| In the first place we like the MAN-hi
character and career. We like him for wha
he is and for what he has done; and are viii
ling to take the record of the past as as
guarantee for the future. With his politica
principles, as indicated by his votes ant
speeches in the United States nate, and al
set forth in his recent letter of acceptance, W.
have no fault to find. And we have private
reasons for believing, that, in the event o
his election, he will prove as good and al
promf President as Gen. jackson.
But, other and stronger considerations
than these have determined the election we
have made. After fighting the battle of the
South for twelve long years, defending its
political rights, domestic institutions, social
character, manners and habits on all occa-
sions, recent occurrences has convinced us
that the time has come for the North, with
it's superior numbers, intelligence, wealth
and power, to take stand, firm and fixed as
the granite hills, against the threatening,
bullying, brow-beating, skull-breaking spirit
ofche South-a spirit that tramples on COM
promises violates the sacred freedom Of
parliamentary debate and murders the set
tiers upon our common soil, for simply oppo-
sing, by voice and vote, the fastening of
Slavery upon free and virgin Territory.
1t is not necessary to re-assure the read
ers OF the Mirror that we have no sympathy
with political abolitionists- Greeleys,
the Giddingses and the Van Burens of the
North, who have been riding the niggerhob-
by for fifteen years, seeking Office while
"shrieking for freedom" But, however mis-
chieyons and detestable the sentiments pro-
mulgated by these sectional demagoguesm may
be, they have never resorted to bullets and
bludgeons to carry their points, or to silence
their opponents. They have even made a
virtue of necessity, by submitting to the OPP
erations of the Fugitive Slave Law, (the BIT
terest pill eyer swallowed by the North for
the benefit of the South, and even the re-
been quietly acquiesced in, had "fair play
and no gouglng" been secured to the settlers
in Kansas.
As the representative of Northern feeling,
aroused by series of unwonted outrages on
the part of Southern politicians, and counte-
nanced by the Pierce Administration, John
G. Fremont has been selected as Candi-
date for the Presidency. In the great emer.
gency of the nation the eyes of the free States
turn to- him, who has waved the flag of his
country upon the top of America, as to the
rising Star of the Republic. The hour and
the man have come together, as they always
do como, in the right time of nations need.
1t is not now our purpose to prophesy -
we have not even m"de an arithmetical cal
culation of the chances of this complicated
The question with US is not one
of policy, but of principle not Of politics
even, but of patriotism. In the event of Frc-
mont's election, the very triumph would sug-
gest course of magnanimity towards the
South. The Republican Cabinet and Foreign
Missions should fairly represent every section
of the Union. And as it is the strong assu-
rance that such generous and purely Ma
tional policy would be adopted, more thana!l
other considerations, that has decided the
step we have taken.
Against the other candidates in the field
Fillmore and Ruchanan-the Mirror has no
thing to say. They are good men, both
But the platforms on which they are mount
ed; the alliances and associations which they
have formed; and the measures to which
they are committed, are not broad enough,
free enough, grand enough to accommodate
the progressive, independent and go-ahead
spirit of Young America. Old Fogyism may
lift its spectacles, shake it Silver Gray locks,
and warn US against yielding to this sudden
hurricane which is sweeping over the North.
But so long as the breeze blows in the right
direction, it better to go with it than against
it; and without throwing overload single
principle hitherto advocated by
the Mrrior, we can 60 into the fight for FIRE.
mont and Dayton; for the Union of the States
and the Constitutional right of both the
North and the South, as conscientiously as
ever crusaders battled for Jerusalem. In
times like these, to be neutral is tobe cow
ard.