Minnesota weekly times. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1854-1859, 1856-01-26

tained good sound Democratic doctrines to the
core no would xote for, but he would not vote for
Bunoombe resolutions.s = a.
Mr.. Galbrai( FOLLOWED Ar. Wilson. He ~
he did not wiiIgo make : speech, but a. ID
was ~ eeert Stde - ppah Iris. QUESTION atsSl
ha,ard'' q dS6edss w itdligd6lyEe md III
that purpose 3 would ysnsure I lew r(sarkj
1t we true, The sBlsek 'Rspublicans" q eallsd,
were in miaority Sn@tbat aoor, thsf~sSs Is
doubt Of that, but they were not afraid to meet
thesissus boldly, and being in a minority, they
ought, at least, to have opportunity to express
themselves. They asked to be heard on this sub
ject-they wished to put their names on tho re-
cord - sithsr fosaor aeainst the rsaolntions Re.
ports Of both branches Of the Democ party
had been made, and gentlemen had, expressed
themselves at length, and ii certainly wase right
that the Republicans should be heard. Mr.. G.
stated that. the Republicans would be- Obliged to
vote against the resolutions. He reiterated what
he had said before, that this report contained no
distinct principle. It falsifed history, and if sent
out into the world, would disgrace those who CALI
ed it into being. He asked the committee to vim
dictate the truth Of history, and not let the report
60 forth as the ignorance of the Legislature Of
Minnesota. While it endorsed the Compromise of
1871; it claimed that that Compromise excluded
Slavery fromrthe Territory Of Mipnesotas which
was false. What was that Compromise? Is Sim.
ply that in all territory lying north Of the Ohio,
and east Of the Mississippi, Slavery or inyolunta-
~ servtude therein, should be forever prohibited.
All the land therefore lying ,oest Of the Missis-
sppi in the Territory of Minnesota, the ordinance
of 'S7 did not apply to; and the idea therefore,
that Slavery was excluded from Minnesota by that
ordinance, was one which should be secuted at by
every school-boy. Dare you Democrats come mp
this falsehood staring you in the face? If you
vote for the resolutions, you endorse the Wilmot
Proviso,-will you do it.
Mr.. Galbraith continued at some length, in
which he laid bare the ignorance of the commit
tee in drafting the report, and repeatedly asked
the members Of the House if they wished to dis
grace themselves by sending such report out in
to the world. Apretty conglomeration Of incon-
sistences and blunders. He wished the truth Of
history indicated, and he you'd say, that either
the majority of the committee wrote that report
for purpose or through ignorance. ,t,,ss....~
MIR. Bradley followed Mr.. Galbraith in speech
which covered nearly the whole ground. He COM
menced by remarking that the real question at is
sue, stripped of all extraneous matters, is the
tension or non extension of Slavery. He then
proceeded to remark, that, t'The ayowed object
of the Slave power, in repeating ths Missouri
Compromise, was the extension of Slavery into a
territory largeenough to make twelve States as
large as Ohio, ard the consequent exclusion of
free laborers and free institutions from the same.
The politicians and the press Of the South, do
not resort to the beggarly pretense Of popular
sovereignty" to cover up their nefarious object
that is the pitiful dodge of Northern dough-
faces. proof of this assertion he read extracts
from Buffers and Atehison's speeches, and from
the Charleston Courier, St. Louis and Mobile pa
pers) Viewing the question in this light, it's a
matter of deepest interest to every man, woman
and child in the whole country. 1t is the quss-
ton of Freedom or Slavery-a question that un-
derlies all the great movements and revolutions
of the race-it is part and parcel of that mighty
struggle between might and right-between the
mass Of the people, and the arstocratic, privileg
ed lev; between capital and labor, which has
marked the progress of the race from its earliest
records to the present hour. As such wish to
discuss it, and upon this high ground of princi-
pie, it becomes us to discard men and party names
and decide in accordance with justice and reason.
The majority report endorses the principle OIL
Slavery restrictions in the ordinance Of '87, and
then contradicts itself BY endorsing the Kansas
Act, the main feature of which repudiates such
restrictions; it out Herods Herod himself il its
insane haste to endorse popular sovereignty so
absurd, that wayfaring man though fool, can
understand and appreciate its utter worthless
ness.
The report of the minority, declaring the re-
peal Of the Missouri Compromise necessary in
order to carry out the doctrine of popular sever.
eighty, shows conclusively what kind of popular
sovereignty the National Democracy contend for.
1t is popular sovereignty, based upon the right
OF one man to hold another man as property
property held by the same tenure that horse OF
IN OK is hcld-a doctrine, need not say, at war
with the fundamental principles of true Oemocra.
cy as embodied in the Declaration of Indepen-
dence-at war with the Constitution, which instru.
ment Mr.. Madison declared did not recognize the
idea that there could be property in men. Will
this nc~-light Democracy, allow the people Of the
Territories, in the exercise of their inaleniable
rightto life, liberty and property,to form their own
domestic institutions? No sir; if one thousand
men of mature age and sound minds reside within
the limits of Kansas and nine hundred of them
be held az slaves, and a majority of the remain
ing one hundred be then The fifty
one or sixty men, as the case may be, shall have
the power to determine the laws and institutions
of that Territory. This is the practical working
of this new-fangled doctrine Of popular sover-
eighty.
The minority report alludes to the Hlong
cherished principle of the National Democracy of
non-interveution' on the subject Of slavery.''-
This principle, sir, wac unknown to that. great
apostle of Democracy. Thomas Jefferson. As
Chairman of q Committee appointed By the Con-
tinenta Congress 70 draft and report an ordinance
for the government Of the North Western Terri
tory, be reported q proviso forever prohibiting
slavery or involuntary servitude except for crime
mot only in the Territory then owned BY the
United States-but in all territory hereafter to be