Minnesota weekly times. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1854-1859, 1856-08-30
VOL III, NO. Is.
Correspondence Of the Times.

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Dear Tsmes Having visited the great indus
trial shops at Wilmington, (Del.) - Reading,
Pottsyille and Hasrisbureh, (Pa. - Baltimore,
Wheeling, Richmond, and several other places
Farther South, am agreeably surprised to find
the natural sentiment Of the people SO thoroughly
informed and so united in the issues of the pres-
ent csmpaign.a Hearty good feeling peryades the
minds Of the people in the shop and field as they
declare FRExoxr their choice of the candidates
for the next President. Unbounded confdenceis
met with everywhere in regard to the future,grow-
ing out of the certainty of his election. Sell
dom, indeed, do you find any one who feels en-
thusiasm respecting Buchanan. All the attempts
to create common zeal for him, wherever have
been of late, terminate in signal disappointment.
It seems to be q general, admission, as was the
case with Scott, that the party hare made greaa
mistake. Not only in taking up snch pettifog-
ger a. Buchanan, and trying to make passible
Governor of him--with such lead horse, as
Douglas to pull them into this niger agitation,
hoping to gain power for future benefit but in
patching up the odds and ends of old platforms,
if possible to bridge the gulf Of perditition TO
which they seem fast Fastening. ISIS
Recent overtures to the Fillmore party, by some
of the leaders of Democracy par ercellence-
most certainly show the desperation to which
they are driven. Rather than not su:ceed, they
will run the hazard of destroying the party and
all its hopes. For several years rast they have
courted and fawned around the old line Wings,
to secure their assistance in saving the Union .
and bringing " agitation" to :" inality;" and
now they are willing TO bargain and sell old
Buck for the sake of getting the Know Nothings
to cast their might Of influence into their baskets,
if by any possibility they may cheat j: G. FRE-
MONT out of the votes of the American people,
But it cannot be done. The FIAT has gone forth.
The great Western Republican party Of Progress
must have the ship of State, and guide our ma
tion to safety and satisfy tho expectations Of the
world. The nigger-worshipping Democracy must
90 out of Office. And their deeds of darkness
must be brought to light, and their villiany and
crime be exposed to the vision of all people in
all time to come, who will stamp their actors with
eternal infamy. hoaaso se58 ins d.iau sss
f Even in the metropolis of Virginia the people
breath freer at the sound of FRExoNr's name;
the prospect of his election to them seems go
clear and inevitable. It is of no use for any ono
to attempt to disguise it, the fact stands forth
undeniably, that there is charm about the name
of FRExoSr which will carry the mass of the
people with him. He may be villi6ed and abused,
but the attractive power by which he holds the
great masses of the people to him, as if SPELL
bound, cannot be broken thus. A visit to the
great workshops of the Old Dominion will show
how the people feel about it. You may bind
girdle o, chained negroes about the heart of the
State, yet you cannot quench the spirit of Lib
erty. Still the spirit of q Henry lives-still the
words Of jefferson are read and approved-as
their bronze statues are viewed and admired by
the people at the Capitol. Ay, even where "WIsE
the stupid' reigns Governor in the land, there is
love Of liberty still, far greater than love of
mammon or nigger. Great changes have taken
place within few years past, enlarging the right
Of suffrage and making the officers of the town
and counties all elective BY the people. Already
fogyism begins to find fault with this license Of
universal suffrage. This feeling is not general,
but is limited to a class who would like to rule
through their own families the State, exclusively
for their own benefit. In few years more many
inequalities of taxation will be removed, and the
sstOhite bass - of representation come up for
final settlement. At present the white popula-
is not fairly represented in the Legislature.-'
You know that the negroes equal to five whites
in the appointment Of representation, and hence
theunfairness and inequality of this arrangement,
in the same State. where the rights, taxation and
representation should be perfectly Republican
and equal toward all the citizens. Another fea-
ture of this state Of things is in the system
of taxation incident to the " institution" which
border rufians of the niger Democracy wish to
engraft upon the system and policy of Kansas.
For instance, mechanic opens shop, say with
81 600 in money, which he expends in forge, an
vii and bellows, and other materials to workwith
lis assessed at 91, 600 by the Assessor; while
his neighbor, who pays 81 900 or more, for me-
gro, is only assessed at $500! and pays taxes
less than one-third what his blacksmith neighbor
has to pay. Such is the premium now paid BY
statute to slave holders in Virginia over those
WHO are uOt. ulAo meCnauiC uao " poy ~
property tax on the 81, 900, in the State of vir-
lginia, slave trader, who buys and sells negroes
Ias cattle bought and sold at the shambles, has
only to pay 90 cts. for each negro over II years
of sge-eyen should he cost $1,000. This is
is equality" and 6 Democracy" with ven-
geance. This is one of the rights Of the South
SO, clamorously yelled about by the Buchanan
rufians- s-right to tax the industry and produce Of
the land to support the oppressed and slave own
er. Examine the system in any form-trace it
in all its rami6cations through society and gov
ernment, and you will find that it places . load
upon free white mems shoulders, which those who
claim to be &c gentlemen,'' and above labor or
anything useful, would not touch with forty
foot pole. What right has such q thing to exist
in land claiming to be free and republicans--
And yet it is so.isaiea uollal vyas Zen ssel y
Look We one moment and sec what . few OF
your worthies of st. Paul are about: Ssc'yA
Rosser is flying around worse than Q hen after .
lost chicken. o dear, what can the matter bsf
The Earl !" looking as sleek a. ap eel on 2 sun
shiny morning, seems watching some delicious o'
sort Of bait. Mercy hopes he may yet have =
nibble. No one doubts bat he will save the
Union, ss he keeps 50 near Mases and Dixeds
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