Minnesota weekly times. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1854-1859, 1856-05-31
TIWIH tIIG AiOdIIy JUurIIdIs
A SLEEPY OPINION.

The South does not NEEDLE with the social
system of the North, and if the North would
follow her example, we should be the happiest
and most contradiction. Cass' speech.
Gen. Cass' Senatorial Chair is roomv, easy
and wide. 1t is padded up the back, padded in
the seat, and padded at the sides. The back has
gentle inclination, the arms a luXuriant curve.
1t stands about midway in the Senate chamber,
and is not exposed to the buzz of the galleries,
nor the cold draught of the door. On the Gen
erals left is daily poured forth the eloquence of
4 Weller. while from short distance in his rear
comes the soothing sound of Mason's linked
sweetness, long--very long drawn out. If under
such circumstances, portlv, elderly gentleman
accustomed to dine On canvass backs ard terra
pins, occasionally lapses into somnoience should
the public Judge him harshly? No! Requ;escat
in pace There then he sits and mods. There he
sits and dozes. There he sits and sleeps. Plea
SAINT dreams beguile the old gentlemans slumber,
and he murmurs with drowsy complacency, ''rhe
South does not NEEDLE with the social system of
the North. We are all happy.''
One of the old gentleman's former neighbors
was shot the other day in Kansas. He, North
ern man, on Northern soil, had said he OPP
posed to slavery. Another, for number of
years a warm supporter of the General for Presi-
dent, has had his Office torn down over his head,
and his types and printing presses thrown into
the river. Squatter Sover irns, emigrants from
dered of their arms, mobbed and beaten for a.
tempting to exercise the commOnest of privileges,
that OF casting vote. But the General has
slept through it all. He could not have woke up,
even when the doors and windows Of the houses
of Northern judges were broken in, and revol-
yer presented through the hole, bidding them
ssresiyn or die.'' For we have his repeated as
surance that the ':South never NEEDLES with the
social system of the North.''
Why, General, who is it that stations pilots ON
the wharves of Norfolk, armed with loaded mus
kets, and with orders to bully Northern sea cap
tans, and search the cabins AMI holds Of Northern
ships? Who goes aboard every Northern
schooner that casts anchor in Charleston Ilarbor,
grabs the black cook, takes him ashore, and puts
him in Jail till the time comes for selling him to
''pay the expenses 20 Who swagger in Northern
cities, invade our houses with search warrants,
chase runaway black women and children through
the streets, and order us to turn in and help the
sport under penalty of ST 900? Who shot Bill
in the river at Wilksbarrc, and chained up Bos-
ton Court House. to keep in Anthony Burns?
Was it Northern men? The General does not
say, but he pacidly settles himself for another
nap, in the full enjoyment Of that most comfort
able doctrine that 1.-The South never NEEDLES
with the social system of the North -
1t was right before Gen. Cass' closed eyelids,
in the Senate chamber that the South repudiated
its plighted honor anil thrust social bondage into
u Noftuern territory ana among NOftnerH men.
But the General, it seems, has never heard of it,
albeit the General took prominent part therein.
But probably was only as sonnambulist. Ii he
did not that. how could he be expected to
know that Dow was shot. for being Northern
man, that Brown chopped to pieces with
fendish brutality, and that his wife is IA raving
lunatic? But, to chop man to pieces: and to
fling his mangled body into the midst of his fam
lily, does not according to Gen. Cass, in the least
NEEDLE with the social system of the North.
Not forty miles from where we write, there
lives a man who was deeoyed from his native
town, kidnapped and sold in the South. Twelve
years, the best part Of his life, he spent among
those innocent, kind hearted folks who do not
NEEDLE with the social system of the North, and
he carries the marks of their ashes and brands
to this day. Not much beyond him live beg
CARED family, whose father, likewise kidnapped,
is, God knows where, on some rice field or sugar
plantation. 1t is poor consolation to them to
assure them that ''The South never NEEDLE with
the social system of the North!'' Let General
Cass prove it to them. Let him prove it to the
widow of Brown, to De!ahay, Branson, Philips,
Sol Northrup, and to Passmore Williamson, and
if he can make them believe it, we promise him
ue will.