The weekly Minnesotian., 1856-12-20

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day mornings paper.
Our closing remark, in that article was
that Mr.. Pierce could, with far more propri
city, and we now add, with some apparcn
truthfnlness. have declared that the Demo
cratic party were not only disuaionists bu
rerolusioaaists, than that the Republicans wer,
either rerolationists or abolitioais,s. The rea
son we assigned was, that, while at the No,t1
abolstaon'sm is confined to strong minded
women 's-rights-women, and very few weak
minded .fasaatics, destitute Of both nolitica
character and influence, and who have dis
tinct political organization of their own al
the South, it is the leading Democratic states,
men End politicians, Governors, Senators and
Representatives Congress, men of charac.
ter and influence in their respective states
who openly advocate, and who, during the
recent political contest, especially, were in
the habit of continually threatening scces-
sion end a dissolution of the Union, Not
only this, but Mr.. Pierce we'll knows that
the Republicans are as obnoxious to the
Northern Aboltionists as the Democrats
and that some of their leading men, those
most rabid in their denunciations of slavery,
W, re among,t the first, in the recent strug-
gle, to ally themselves with the Democratic
party because the principles of that party
were more congenial than those of the Re-
publicans.
Still this man Of truth, this man of un-
sullied integrity, while leading members of
the Southern Democracy are openly advo-
eating secession ; while for the last six
months there has gone forth from the South.
ern wing of this same party one continual
and almost universal howl of disunion /,
while leading members of the Abolition par
ty were abandoning their own organization
to unite themselves with the opponents of
Republicanism while all this and more was
still fresh N his memory, Mr.. Pierce pro7
claims to the world that these men are the
only true friends of the country, the Union
ard the Constitution, and that the Republ-
cans are an organized band of revolutlonists,
and what is still worse in his estimation,
Aboltionists resolved upon the destruction
Of the Government.
We are obliged to pass without comment
over much of the pulling twaddle Of his dis
eased mind. and to omit his horrid pictur s
of "burning Cities" ravaged fields,''
slaughtered population g servile war;
&C forcible disruptica."" " mutual devastation p
fratricidal carnage" armies of people,
: standing face to face as enemies, rather
than shoulder to shoulder as friends" and
and other agreeable impressions which his
solitary lucubrations brought to his mind ;
and to follow him to his alleged acts of ag-
gression by the North upon the South, and
see how far history will sustain Lis partisan
denunciations Of one section of the country
and his eulogies Of the other
The first act of ''ISDIREcT aggression i is
tie g strenuous agitation" by citizens of the
Northern States, in Congress and out of it,
of negro emancipation in the South. This
act Of "iadirect" " aggression, he attributes to
the Republican party; not in so many words,
but he follows up act upon at, seeking TO
make the Republican party responsible for
all.
| In the first place, the Repnbticaa party was
constituted and organized seAAin the past thirty
months, and, within the same period, has at
tanned its present extraordinary strength and
power; while the Abolaion Party is nearly
contemporary with the somewhat aged Dem
ocratic Party itself. Besides this, many
years have elapsed since there was any re,s
strenuous agitation of the question OF negro
emancipation, either in or or. of Congress
and that which has, at any time, within ten
or dozen years, existed, has been created
by one or the other, OF both of the two classes
we have before referred to-thc members O
which united, We scarcely think, will at any
very immediate period, produce : dissolution
of the Union, by abolishing negro slavery ir
the South.
| We do, however, remember, that the las
time this question was g strenuously agita
ted in Congress, it was induced by the
senseless and unconstitutional conduct of tn.
Hotspurs of the South, who made violen
attack upon Mr.. Adams for Offering to pre-
sent petition praying for the abolition o
Negro Slavery, not in the States, but in th'
District of Columbia.
We remember, also, that it was then will
the Hotspurs as it now is with Mr.. Pierce
who in their phrenzy made no distinctions
but denominated every man an abolitonis
who favored the sacred right of Petition
And We remember still further that most o
the Hotspurs who entered the list agains
the cold Man Eloquent" left the field Will
spurs and comb both as cold politically, a
Eng.and's Hotspur left the field of Shrews
bury physically.
Thus we see, that although Mr.. Pierce ha
assumed and essayed to prove the Republi
cans Abolitionists, he has failed most sig
nally, Notwithstanding lie manufactured his
tory to suit his peculiar wants.. 30
"The second step in the path of evil con
sisted in the citizens of several of the North
ern States, having adopted measures to Ji.cili
tate the escape of negro slaves from their mas
ters, and to arereat their extradition. Thi
lis . serious charge upon Independent Soy