The weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1852-1858, 1856-10-04
Doughfaces.

HC0 PrlHCipieS, anu WIN HOIu up tueH Ha"u
in holy horror lest free institutions should b
|extended. They consider the triumph o
Republication virtual dissolution of ou
Union, and with quaking hearts tremble TO
its safety. So restricted is their angle o
vision and so narrow their channels O
thought, that beyond the mere desire o
party triumph and the propagation of it!
power, they behold no real good while t.
their excited fancy every breath of liberty
contains the seed of foul contamination, and
the incipiency of dangerous disease. Like
that gallant knight of old-Don Quixote-
they mount their old party hack, and flu.
riously charge on the windmills conjured uI
by their fancy or like his noble and chival-
rous squir,, Sancho Panza, act as master OF
ceremonies or dancing puppet to every whim
and caprice of their party leaders. Their
plastic countenances undergo every change
of party desire and behold, as the string is
pulled by party leaders, they jump about
with all the alacrity of " dancing jacks
Their woolly heads are positively electrified
with the fire of Unioti-saving propensit;es
for you have but to touch them on the great
question Of the day, and they emit the most
furious flames of steadfast adherence to the
glorious Unlon."
With hearts as soft as their heads, and
filed with the " milk of human kindness"
they weep with plying tears, and sigh in
heart-rending "grunts F" over the danger
GUS prospect of severance of the States.
With emphatic gesture would they impress
the great idea on their dear fellow-citizens,
and warn them to flee the wrath to come"
With sanctimonious pretensions they mourn
over the sacred Union, and under the flimsy
We of this pretence would seek to cover the
iniquity of their course.
The name of Doughfaces has been aptly
applied to those who not only lengthen their
faces but stretch their conscienccs in COM
passing any unjust end. Now let us for a
moment lift up this assumed veil and wit
ness their Ubiquitous proceedings. Who are
the disunionsts Are they those who fight
Nor the FORMULATION of freedom, free speech,
and free institutions Are they those who
consider I" Life, liberty, and the pursuit CT
happiness" an emanation from the very
name of Freeman Are they those who
resist an unjust exercise of authority, and
who frown down all unconstitutional pro-
ceedings If so, we ask you, freemen,
would you have the name of liberty per-
| verted to slavery Would you have us
abandon the principles our fathers fought
and bled for Would you have us lick the
dust in PROSTATE submission before tyranni-
c,l sway and power
But, on the contrary, does not the vilest
| form of disuniOn exist in the hearts of those
who would force on free soil tyrannical in
stituton gin those who would eradicate
every vital throb of freedom and plant upon
its ruin a prescription which yet outlives the
dark forms of Jesuitism ?
Does it not exist among those who pro-
scribe free speech and personal liberty g
who uproot the very form of trial by impair
tial juries, and would ride over every form
of liberty and freedom Most emphatical-
ly do we say it does. Most emphatically do
we brand you, We Northern Doughfaces and
plant tools, with the name. Who upholds
such institutions but your very selves
Take up a Southern or even Northern Dem
ocratic organ and you will find disunion a
watchword and cry. Take up the most pal
try of their press, and if you believe them
A." the Union will not exist" Read their
LEADERS, and behold the Union is tottering
to its base A-'
We remember, as a matter of history,
South Carolina at one time preached the
same doctrine, and with flying colors sought
| to remove herself from the Union. But how
weak was its power, how imbecile its de-
| signs-like a collapsing bubble it burst in
the enlightened sun of freedom and melted
| into thin air. . ''
Take example by this ye Union-savers
| A>o OppoSitiOH VI oNdhC ItS
foundations in proud defiance it will rise
superior to party passion and wave its EN-.
blem in undiminished brightness over every
party prejudice.
But another thing would we say t.
you, Doughfaces Why if Free Soil, Free
Speech, and the other free institutions ex
isting in the North, are so uncongenial t.
your enlightened minds, why stay ?-Why
remain where everything is contaminated
and diseased by the Sun of Freedom? Why
not among the mild zephyrs of the South
and basking in the light of its "peculiar in
stitutions," seek ye that congeniality o
spirit so desirable to your tender souls
why would you drag on a miserable exist
ence in the North, when in the pure and un
contaminated airs of the South, bloom.
Everything that is beautiful in domestic in
stitutions and everything honorable in hui
manity b ''it .'.'''1 -''i 10 77
Oh! We Doughfaces, your emphatic ges
lures avail nought. Your wild cry is passed
by as the idle wind-your holy horror de
spsed, and yourselves looked upon with sus
picion and dstrust We would advise yo,
to forsweaf such folly and not continually
ring in unwilling ears the silly cry of vair
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