Minnesota weekly times. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1854-1859, 1856-09-06

First: Because it has approved, for the last
four years, the appointment Of an avowed disun-
ionist as secretary of war.
Second: Because it is supported by the only
political party and political organization that has
ever threatened to secede from the Union.
Third: Because its leaders deny the right of
the majority to rule, and encourage the spirit of
anarchy, by publicly asserting that if their op-
ponents should succeed the South would dissolve
the Union.
Fourth: Because it sustains the right of q bo.
gus legislature. elected by invaders from Mis-
souri,, to enact laws for Kansas.
Fifth: Because it has stirred up sectional strife
by wantonly violating a compromise of thirty
years standing.
Sixth Because the admission of Missouri as a
State was part of the same legislation which for
ever prohibited Slavery in Kansas, and the repeal
of portion of that legislation virtually implies
the right to repeal the whole. 81
Seventh: Because it refuses to admit Kansas
with constitution which is approved by large
majority OF her actual citizens.
Eighth: Because the whole course of its policy
for the last four years. and of the policy to which
it is committed by the Cincinnati platform, tends
to sectionalize the country or make civil war, or
dissolve the Union.
Ninth: Because it repudiates the doctrines of
Jefferson, jackson and Wright, and tends its aid
to the advocates of Slavery extension. s .H.
Tenth: Because it openly or tacitly acquiesces
in Outrages on freedom of speech and freedom of
the press, in Kansas and in Washington.
Eleventh: Because the candidate for the Pres
idency signed the Ostend manifesto.
Twelfth Because it has prostituted executive
patronage to force measures through Congress in
violation of the will of the majority of the peo-
pie of the United States.
Thirteenth: Because it has denied the right of
the majority of the people of the Union, through
their representatives. to make laws for the govern
ment of their own territories. M "a
Fourteenth: Because it allows, without rebuke,
the desecration of the National domain bv open
and unblushing polygamy and incest. ..a-l.l
Fifteenth: Because it has endeavored BY arbi-
trary judicial decisions, to establish Slavery ire
vocably in all the States. A %
Sixteenth: Because it is willing to give addi-
tional strength to the only element that has ever
threatened the stability of our government, by
allowing its unlimited extension. -,
/ Seventeenth: Because it favors sectiouaiism
and the aristocracy of wealth, by courting the
favor of 100000 shareholders, with their capital
of tour thousand millions Of dellors, rather than
the interest of ten millions of free laboring men,
Eighteenth: Because it has not only violated
plighted faith, but ;s has also broken all the
pledges against the disturbance of previous leg
islation, with which it came into power. s
Nineteenth: Because it has been tried and
found wanting, and no peace or security can
reasonably be anticipated If it is continued longer
in power.
Twentieth: Because the election of Mr.. Bu-
chanan will be regarded as an approval of the
policy of Jefferson Davis, Caleb Gushing and
Franklin Pierce.