The weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1852-1858, 1856-06-14
Presidsntial strussls---Parties, Positions md
Prospects.


We know of nothing 30 full of warning to
the people of this Union as the pains and
labors, the fuss and lummery, the disgusting
exhibitions of corruption and depravity, and
the motley gathering of the filthy birds of
prey and carrion crows which attend the ac-
coachemet, in these latter days, of one of
those modern political monsters known as
national conventions.
For example, the Cincinnati Convention,
assembled for the modest purpose of dicta-
ting to the democracy of the Union their ex-
elusive candidate for President CT the United
States, meets under the impressive auspices
of pistols and bowie knives, bludgeons AMI
terrorism, and is graced by the company of
five hundred gamblers and blacklegs, and
from three to four hundred women of the
town, gathered from the stews of most of
our large cities, and all revealing together as
in the festivities of a common jubilee. Such
is the revolving spectacle now exhibited to
an insulted, enlightened and intelligent peo-
pie by the once venerable and heightened
democratic party. In fact, this party, SO
pluming itself as the party of the Union and
the constitution has fallen at length under
the control of the niger drivers of the South,
as completely as the broken fragments of
both the old parties of the North have sunk
into the dirty schemes of the niger worship
ping demagogues of this section.
This Cincinnati Conference of the Niger
drivers will, of course, give us a high sound
ing platform, full of windy distractions and
unmeaning rubbish with which to gull and
hoodwink tie honest yeomanry of the count
ry; whereas, if the principles of this niger
drivers convention were truly expressed.
they would he given in some such platform
as the following, to wit =
1. Resolved, That niggers, pistols, bowie
knives and bludgeons are the fundamental
principles of tie democracy, as reconstructed
under the administration of our warlikc
Franklin Pierce, by our dear friends, the
Southern niger drivers.
2. Resolved, That the freedom o! speech
is liable to abuses even in the United States
Senate, abuses which can only be corrected
by the application of gutta percha to the
naked head Of the offending party as he sits
in his chair and that in thus beating an
abolition Senator we are righteously vindi-
eating the true policy Of the untcrritied
democracy"
3. Resolved, That the killing of con-
temptible Irish waiter holding the position
of a niger, for neglect of duty or impudence
to democratic guest coming down to late
breakfast, is a proper warning to the whole
Irish race that they can no longer expect to
ride rough shod over the democracy of the
Union.
4. Resolved, As the constitution, as in
terpreted by cur Southern teachers. the mig
ger drivers, has already established African
slavery in all the Territories of the United
States, that "squatter sovereignty" is a
humbug, that General Cass is a humbug
considerably behind the age, and that all
abolition or free State squatters should be
expelled from Kansas, if necessary, by fire
and sword, &C., &c.
This, in whatever DISCUSSES of high sound
ing verbiage the Cincinnati niger drivers
democratic platform may be written-this
we dare say, will be its Interpretation
IN. Y. Herald, 4M.