The weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1852-1858, 1856-07-19

out the State. His sympathes, however,
have always been on the side of Freedom
1t is not strange, therefore, that he now
takes rank with the great mass of the old
friends OF Silas Wright, in support of the
principles and candidates of the Republican
party.
John Hazlstt, Esq, the Fillmore Elector,
nominated fer the GAINESVILLE (Ohio) District,
has sent his declination t. the National
Council, and avows his determination to SUD-
port Fremont and Dayton,
The people of St. Lawrence county, New
York, had grand Fremont Ratification
meeting at Ogdensburgh. The Albany Jour
nal says, 'sthe Freemen of st. Lawrence will
honor draft of 5000 majority for F.e-
mont"
The New Orleans Deutsche Zeitung, a
German paper with the largest circulation in
the Southern States, goes for Fremont and
Dayton. The Louisville Anzeiger, has pull
ed down the Buchanan flag. Two German
papers in Pittsburgh, the Courier and the
Freiheitsfreund, heretofore Democratic, have
hoisted the Republican flag. The Catholic
Republicaner supports Buchanan.
F. P. Blair, Jr., the Benton Democratic
candidate for Congress in the St. Louis Dis
trict, will not be maze doughface Of even
to 60 to Washington. He has recent y pub
lished card, in which he denounces the Ne
braska | w, and declares that he is not in
any sense in favor of the extension of slave
ry. Blair deserves to be, and probably will
be, elected.
The religious press has generally stood
aloof from Presidential contests. The cause
of Freedom, however, is now SO perled as
to force all men at the North to take posi-
ton for Freedom or Slavery. TIE New York
Independent, widely circulated religious
Journal, of last week, says:
The Independent will enter the fell side
by side with all wlo desire to do battle fol
truth, justice and Humanity. With all tie
power Cod may give it, it will urge the Chris
tan public to do wit their might va theil
hands find to do to save our beloved country
from the death grasp of Slavery. 1t will
advocate Freedom of Spe CHI, Freedom OF
the Press, Free Soil, Free Men, and-FRE-
MONT for the next President Those who
think religious paper should not thus free
ly join with the secular press in doing this
extraordinary work, are informed that the
matter has been calmly considered, the cost
counted, and the conclusion deliberately and
conscientiously arrived at, that duty to God
and man Ereciudes moments hesitation as
to the course which ought to be taken by
this paper.
The Oberlin Evangeli also says:
We rejoice that at length this issue is
fairly made-and SO made that anti-slavery
men of every various creed may honestly
unite. The struggle is to fail between Blu
chanan and Fremont; the one for, and the
other against, slavery. We hope no strength
due to freedom will be lost by scattering
votes.
AS to John G. Fremont and the platform
of the Republican party-a very few words
only.
We did not nominate Fremont yet we
freely say, we accept his no rlnation. We
see nothing in the man to forbid our union
with the party which has raised his name
That he unites the masses of anti-slavery
men-that he is believed to he honest, ca
pable;-in principle, in heart, and by long
settled convictions, opposed to s!ayery;-
these are sufficient reasons for our suffrage
| not only, but for our earnest advocacy
The platform on which he stands embra-
ces perhaps as much anti-slayery as car
wisely be embodied in the present contest
To embrace SO much as to ensure defeat
would, Gin our view of the matter) be trea
son to Freedom