The weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1852-1858, 1856-09-27
The ISSUE.

1t is useless on the part of the Democratic
press of the North longer to deny the great
question at issue to be between Freedom and
Slavery-the spread of Free Principles or
the propagation of Slave Oligarchy. Indeed
among their leading journals in the South no
leading editorials we perceive more rabid
fanaticism than was ever ascribed to the adj
yocates of Freedom in the North. Their
press teens with eulogums on involuntary
bondage and servitude, while bitter denun-
Citations and vile objurgatiens age hurled
against such men and suck presses as dare to
lift dissenting voice against their arrogant
assumptions And they stop not here. In
the very halls of Congress do they enact
their infamous scenes, and exhibit the das-
tardly spirit which eharacterizes their pro
ceedings. Bullies are sent to disgrace its
venerable shades and rufEans hired to chas-
tise the iusoleace of free speech.
They boast of their power and require
most meek submission to its dictates. They
praise Executive authority as plant tool
yet lau Oh at its imbecility. They threaten
to extend the eflete Institution /" to the
North, and on the heights of Bunker to
" call the roll Of slavery" Over the liber-
ties of the people of the North would they
ride as on whrlwind, prostrating beneath
its blasting influence every sprouting hope
of Freedom, and uprooting every tie VIII oh
clngs to the blessed influence of free ins,i-
tutiOns.
The crack of the slave-driver's whip
would vibrate on the cars of Freemen, and
the damning curse of slavery weld its letters
over the vital throbs of freedom of sentiment
and opinion. The system of espionage pur-
sued by the tyrants of the Old World would
with redoubled vigor lend its aid in support
of this solemn mockery, and the very wills
per of ennobling thought be crushed as dan
gerous and inimical to it's safety.
Freemen, be We not mistaken! Let not
false appearances deceive, or specious
promises betray. Let us ask, would you
not preserve that independence of thought
and action purchased from tyranny by the
effusion of 's seas of blood 2" Would YOU
not preserve inviolate the great truth en-
bodied in our Declaration ?-Remember
" Eternal vigilance is the price of Liberty
Slavery has already advanced too far; like
the leech, it is continually crying for more
Not cafiSfio6 NTH f1o
by the constitution, it overleaps all barriers
and threatens to exterminate every hope Of
Freedom. Look at the laws tyrannically en-
forced on Kansas. Where is Free speech
where exists a free press Or where is life
and liberty secure ? Yet the administration
shutting their eyes to the existence of un.
constitutional and tyrannical power, waving
every consideration of justice and humanity
as cringipg and plant tool of slavery, com
mands freemen to obey.
The whole Democratic press lauds the &C
ton and calls it just. The tickling sensa
ton of the public money has corrupted theil
minds and prostitutcd every noble aspra
tion. Leagued with the Slave Power of tht
South, our immaculate Democracy (who Sc
much love the dear people, and are SO sus
ceptible of their interests,) unblushingly
comes forth and calls upon all freemen to ar
ray themselves under such disgusting, suct
disgraceful proceedings.
Every infamous and outrageous actor
committed by the Slave Power in Kansas
has been connived at by the administration
and consequently the Democratic party
Every atrocious deed has been winked a
and passed by every unnatural murder jus
tilted. They are now to be arraigned before
the bar of public opinion.