Minnesota weekly times. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1854-1859, 1856-08-23
TUESDAY, AUG. 10, 1856.


f. TUESDAY, AUG. 10, 1866.
THE SOUTH IN BONDAGE.
It Is really true that those who vould speaI
on the side of Right, Justice and Humanity at th,
South, afraid to do 50 because Of the existenc
of the "peculiar institution The New Yorl
Tribune has pertinent article on this subject
which we copy for the benefit Of the thoughtful
The principal objection urged by the Border Ruf
fan Ostend-M Manifesto presses, says the editor
whether in the North or the South, to Fremont .,
candidate for the Presidency, is, that no tickel
of electors to vote for him can be formed in any
slaveholding State. With respect to tho larger
part of the slaveholding States the truth Of thia
statement cannot be denied; but, 50 far from be-
ing an objection to Fremont, it only goes to show
how imperatively necessary his election is.
What is the reason that no ELECTORAL ticket can
be formed in the slave holding States to vote for
Fremont? We know perfectly well from numer-
ous communications that reach us through the
Post Office, well as from other reliable sources
Of information, that there is in every Southern
State, even in South Carolina itself, very con-
siderable body of voters who ardently desire the
election of Fremont as the only means by which
they can be delivered from . despotism most in
quisitorial and oppressive. It is not that Fremont
has no friends in the Southern States who desire
to give him their votes; it is not that the great
party Of intelligent and Christian men, hostile to
the further spread Of Slavery and DESTROYS rather
OF its contraction than it's expansion, which for
merly existed in these States, has become extinct.
The opinions of Henry, of Washington and JEFF
ferson, on the subject of Slavery, are still enter
tanned by the most intelligent and enlightened of
the Southern voters. Even among those who
think Slavery no evil, there are men of honor and
good faith at the South who look upon solemn
compacts as binding, and who, however under
other circumstances they might have regarded
with Indifference or with favor the erection of
Kansas into Slave State, yet abhor the repeal of
the Missouri Compromise as gross breach of
faith, detest the pitiful fraud attempted to be
practiced on the North by setting up the doctrine
of Squatter Sovereignty, and regard with all the
indignation proper to Freemen and Republicans
the atrocious outrages inflicted upon the settlers
of Kansas by invasive rufians from. Missouri,
Georgia and South Carolina, and the still more
atrocious outrages practiced upon them by Shan
non, Lecompte, Donaldson and other officials, IN
der color of law, with the connivance and consent
of President Pierce, with the appreciation and
promised support of the Cincinnati Convention by
which Buchanan was nominated, and with the ap-
plause Of his supporters in both Houses Of Con-
gress and throughout the country.
To suppose that the Southern States have not
citizens who, if they were allowed free express
sion Of opinion, would condemn these outrages
with all the emphasis of honest indignation; to
suppose that there are not in all the Southern
States very respectable number of men, who
would delight, if they dared, to vote for candi-
date whose accession to the Presidency would put
period to all these outrages and to the faithless.
aggressive and usurping policy in which they have
orlgnated-such superstition would be libel
upon human nature. But the truth is, there ex-
lists at this moment no political liberty at the
South. The forms of Republicanism are pre-
served; but France, Austria, Russia, or Naples
allows quite 40 much of political freedom az can
be exercised at this moment by any citizen of vir-
ginia or South Carolina. Is not Mr.. Underwood
an exile from Virginia, merely because he exer-
cised his undoubted political right of taking a
part in the nomination of Fremont for the Pres
idency? Is there, at this moment, among all the
political exiles from Europe to be found in this
country, one whose case can compare with that of
Mr.. Underwood, obliged to abandon his home.
though not even charged with the violation of any
law, and merely for having exercised an undoubt-
ed and unquestioned political right? The case
Of MIR. Underwood, thus driven into exile because
he assisted in nominating Fremont, helps US to
zee very clearly the reason why no Fremont cleo
toral ticket can be former in that and some other
Southern States. Freedom both of opinion and
political action, is totally suppressed in those
States. The Rufisn rule which it has been at
tempted to establish, and is already partially es-
tablished in Kansas, exists in full force and
energy in almost every Southern State. 1t is true
that in these States it has not been necessary, as
in Kansas, to call in a force of invasive rufians
from abroad; nor in general have the politicians
of the Atchison and Stringfsllow school, predom-
inant now in ell the Southern States, found it
necessary to resort to the same atrocious acts of
outrage by which they have sought to establish
their rule over Kansas. Enervated and emsscu-
lated by the influence of Slavery, the Southern
States, We are sorry to say, have produced in this
crisis of their fate few heroes and few martyrs.
But though the yoke has been submitted to with
but faint and feeble struggles against it, for all
that it is none the less bitter and CALLING.
ca Rufus Choate has gone over for Bucban.
an. Glad of it; we don't want such dough-
faces in the Republican party.
G. The correspondent of Tribune says there
is report current, that the President and Csbi-
net have been in session to-day, and Eve were in
favor of removing Judges Lecompte and Cato,
and releasing the Free State prisoners Of Kan
sas, and three against it. as 6e4
"a The German vote here, says the Keokuk
Gate City, seemed at least full half Of It TO be
given for the Republican ticket; and yet many
Fremont men among them voted for the Demo-
cratic State ticket, but viii vote for Fremont in
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