The weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1852-1858, 1856-07-19

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the sone-idea" upholders of a worse tyrar-
ny in St. Paul will now applaud any reverend
mental of Slavery who essays to disobey
This Master insofar as to use his influence to
weld the chains of bondage, instead of doing
the opposite, as commanded by that Holy
Master.
We are therefore upholders of Free Speech
in the st. Paul Pulpit, as we'll as everywhere
else; and will defend the propsiety OF Dr.
Van Ingen's Slavery haransue OF Sunday
night week, as readily as we would MIR.
Tvnp's noble voice for Freedom in the Phil
adelphia pulpit We have no doubt the Doc
/ tor is honest just as honest as any Ameri-
can "subject" of King George who preached
against the Declaration Of Independence in
'76; therefore he and his friends have right
to be heard in our columns, or any other ed
itor's columns-at least at this stage of the
new revolution.
Our correspondent in his zeal to censure
the editor of the Times for entertaining but
s;one idea," forgets that he himself, as well
as his clerical friend, are precisely in the same
predicament. The worthy Doctors discourse,
according to the showing of his apologist
above, was strongly condemnatory of the
political action of those of us who entertain
the zone idea" that Slavery is sectional and
Freedom national; those of US who think we
owe it to ourselves and poster ty to plant
Freedom all over the broad domains of the
West instead Of Slavery; that it is better
and right to devote this fair portion of Gods
footstool to the building up of Free Labor
and Free Homes than to curse it with Slave
Labor and Slave degradation. The Doctor
embraces the zone idea'' on the opposite side
and here the issue is joined. Cannot "M.'
see how unfair and unreasonable he and the
Doctor are? Mr.. Tying breaches for Free
dom-Dr. Van Ingen for Slavery. Mr.. Tying
is Zone idea" msn-Dr. Van Ingen is man
of broad views! Oh, Mr.. "M.;" Oh, Doctor
Van Ingen!. What wide difference it makes
when our bull cores your OK! Mr.. lying
must be put down, you say, for preaching
Christ's doctrine in favor Of "breaking every
fetter" and "setting the bondsman free p
while our wo; thy pastor of st. Paul is to he
extolled to the seventh heaven for disobedi.
ence to the teachings of his Savior, perhaps
made-Bishop Of Minnesota! Wise reason.
ing and 'sfaith" for men of Gone idea," truly
and that idea human bondage, in opposition
to human freedom
We have all heard of the man who was an
inmate of a lunatic asylum, and imagined
himself the only sane individual in the world
The world, he said, was crazy, end hence
the reason of his confinement. So with the
learned Doctor, and the apologists for his late
doughface discourse. We who differ with
them are crazy upon the I" one idea " of es-
tablishing Freedom in the Territories but
ah they are maryelously rational men
| Then hold to the one idea" of substituting
therein the eternal curse of Slavery instead
of the sacred boon of Freedom Marvelously
sane men with :" broad views !"
"M." might as well have saved the ink he
used to inform us of what the Clergy and
Bishops of Virginia are doing. Perhaps they
have taken Gov. Wise's hint, and gone into
the negr> trading and negro-breeding bust
ness, seeing that the value of that proper
ty" is to increase in that state one hundred
per cent, if Buchanan is elected. At all
events they must save their g bread and
butter" and that they cannot do in Virginia
without crawling on their bellies and eating
dirt at the bidding Of the slave oljgarchy.
The personal sheer at " Be(chtgism " is
also uncalled for, Il, as appears from the
tone of Ms" remarks, men Lere in Min
nesota must draw distinction between
q Beecherism and Van Ingenism-alas old
fogy doughlacism-the may be need of q
second Episcopal congregation in st. Paul
ere long, with minister possessing the free
sentiments Of '7G-such an one, for instance
as Mr.. Tying of Philadelphia. At all events
we 20 in strong for Beecherism in opposition
to Van Ingenism, upon this question OF
Freedom and Slavery.
DESPERATE VILLANY-Affidavits arepub-
lished in the Tampa (Florida) Peninsula.
disclosing the fact that band of whitemcn
have heen O,van:zed in HilsbOrO,rsh and