The weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1852-1858, 1856-02-16
TERRITORIAL
REPUBLICAN, MEETING!

territory, was held at the Hall OF the House
of Representatives., on Monday evening, Feb
II, 1885,, Hon. John G. Ide, of Rice county,
was appointed President; and Hon. Ferdi-
nand Knauft, of Ramsey county, and Hon.
G. F. Buck, of Winona county, were ap-
pointed Vice Presidents; Mcssrs L. A. Bah
cock and Henry Buel were appointed Secre-
taries.
The call OF the Central Committee was
read by the Secretary, and Messrs. Owens,
Marshall and Balcombe made remarks stat
ing the objects of the meeting.
On motion of Mr.. Owens committee of
were appointed to present the names of
delegates to the National Republican Con-
vention; also, to draft resolutions expressive
of our thanks to the National Republicans in
Congress.
The chair appointed on tie committee
Messrs. Owens, Pierce, Thorndike, Marshal,
and Mobiles.
In the absence of the committee Mr.. Will
kinson was loudly called for. He said that
when he came to the House he had no idea
of being called upon to address it-but lie
was very glad meeting had been called to
nominate delegates to the Republican Ma
tional Conventional was due to the people
of Minnesota and the Republican party that
delegates should be sent there.
There is an attempt now being made in
the United States by the Democrats and
Know Nothings to stigmatize the Republi-
cans as sectionalists; this cry would win no
longer. The very party who denounced the
Republicans as sectionalists, were the very
ones who had proved themselves as SUCH
1t was also true that tie Know Nothings
their sectionalsm. A cry had been raised
in the Democratic camp that if Banks was
elected the Union would be lost. The Re-
publican principles were honest and the
Southerners respected them. AS an illustra-
ton: when the election of Mr.. Banks was
announced, Mr.. Aiken, his bitterest South
ern opponent, jumped from his seat and ask
ed for the privilege of conducting Mr.. Banks
to the chair. An honest man is always res
pected, and the bitterest shareholders were
the first to bow the Speaker to the chair
The people both North and South were be-
ginning to find out that the Republican par
ty was THE party that stood true to the
Constitution and the country.
He was pleased to find that the Know
Nothings had voted with the Democrats, for
it had been one of the greatest hobbies of
the Democratic party to accuse the Republi-
cans as being connected with the Know
Nothings-but the recent vote in Congress
clearly proved that a secret understanding
existed between the Democracy and Know
Nothings.
The Know Nothings received severe cas-
tigation at the hands of the speaker, and he
clearly demonstrated how Know Nothings
who had been elected to Congress as anti
Nebraska men had made coalition with Ne
braska Democrats.
He alluded to the manner in which Pierce
was bidding for votes for the Presidency
that he had written one of the most degra-
ding and insulting letters ever presented to
an American Congress, in which he said that
the South was never wrong in its demands
and that its rights had been trampled upon
by the North. Pierce knows that he cannot
get the Northern vote-not single State
so he cringes and makes plant tool of HIM
self to subserve the interests of Southern
shareholders. Pierce at one moment advo-
Gated SQuatter Sovereignty, and in the next
breath called for an appropriation to raise
ammunition and bayonets to put down the
Squatters of Kansas.
The speaker referred the administrations
of Jackson and Taylor, and said although
they were both from the hot-bed of pro-
slaveryism,s they had never, as Pierce had
done, so insulted the North or cringed to the
South. When Calhoun raised the cry of Sc
cession, jackson issued a proclamation CALI
ing upon the citizens Of the United States to
arm and march to South Carolina;-but when
a mob of border ruffians with Atchison at
their head, were overrunning Kansas, Pierce
asked for an appropriation to assist the mob
in their villainy. He did so for the purpose
of promulgating Slavery, and substantiating
Southern institutions. This so-called Popu-
lar Sovereignty was nothing when popular
liberty was suppressed was mere blind
"a sham-a miserable lie. Laws should be
made for the protection of the minority and
the restriction of the majority. But the laws
of Kansas allowed mob to control it's Gov
eminent; it was the same kind of Popular
Sovereignty that was prevalent in France
during the Reign of Terror.
| He called the attention of the meeting to
the fact that the Republican party was yet
in its infancy-it was scarcely one year old
there never was a party formed in the Uni
ted States that had performed so much in so
short space of time it was grand and
sublime.
During his remarks, Mr.. Wilkinson was
frequently loudly applauded by the multi
tude.
The Committee appointed to draft resolu-
tons here made their appearance, and VIM.
r. Marshall, Esq, on their behalf, submitted
the following resolutions, which, on motion
of Mr.. Owens, were unanimously adopted:
| Whereas, The Republican Party has achiev-
| IL al of ~