The weekly Minnesotian., 1856-12-20

"0''0', the honor of sovereign states.
r'e"eea through their Representatives in
'.sS' was perhaps invested with some
~ "Ae perpetuity. We supposed that a
{: compact founded on the good faith and honor
o' states was in itself thing perpetu.I nm.
less dissolved by mutual consent
! but 1t seems wc have been mistaken and
'na' a new system of honor has been inaup.
urated under the administration of Mr.. Pierce.
and that honorable pledges are only kent
un''i they can be violated with impunity.
nls is the doctrine taught by the message.
we should be glad to follow this bad man
through each paragraph Of his Me, sage. and
expose his faisehoods to the country but
We cannot spare the time or the room. Ink
but before quitting the subject we must
reply TO his charge upon the Republican par
". lie has laid at their door all the evils in
the whole political catalogue. He accuses
them with being the first to violate the pro-
visions OF the very compromise, of the re-
peal OF which they now complain. He ac-.
cnses them of seizing held of the repeal of
THIS compromise as a means of stirring up
reasonable excitement-of arraying one
section OF the country against the other and
OF ieed'ng the flame of civil war in Kansas.
lie denies that the Kansas act was passed
with a view to the extension of slavery, and
alleges that all the troubles in that unhappv
Territory were brought upon it by the
Republicans while he lays the whole of
these things to them, he has not found a sim
gle cause OF censure against the Democracy
of the South. ...... 80
The great and leading principle advocated
openly and uniformly by the Republican par
ty, isa firm and unyielding opposition to the
extension of slavery and while they will
not give an inch upon this ground, they will
steadily and at all times respect the institu-
tuition of slavery where it now exists. They
have always done SO; and the charge of aim
ing at abolition, under the pretence of re-
sisting the extension Of slavery, made in this
Message, is cool, deliberate and wanton
falsehood--an Infamous SANDER upon the
good name and fair fame of this newly Or
ganized but powerful party. 1t is equally
false that the Republican is sectional party
-on the contrary, We're it disposed to
recriminate, there are an hundred instances
Of sectionalism imputable to the Democrat
ic party where there one that could be PROV
ed upon the Republican. ....- ..
And we desire to add, that notwithstan1-
ing this miserable hireling, to whose trash
We have devoted too much of our time, does
occupy the Presidential chair, he is far too
puny to effect the rum he aims at. That he
wrote this paper with view of widening the
breach between the North and South, there
is no doubt ; bit he might just as well at
tempt to remove the Rocky Mountains from
their base, as by his miserable falsehoods
and empty declai,ning to effect such pur-
pose.
1t is we'll he avoided in his Message any
of those subjects which it should have been
his duty to comment npon, particularly our
foreign relations as the probabilities were,
had he attempted it, his propensity to per-
vert the truth might have involved us in
foreign difficulties. Nothing he can say can
effect domestic ones-as knowledge of the
man prevents all possibility Of evil amongst
an intelligent people. .