Minnesota weekly times. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1854-1859, 1856-05-31

1t is time for action and not for talk The
die is to be cast, and shall the hearts of those
noble men who now occupy the soil of Kansas,
cease to beat in the cause they have espoused,
with no one to aid them? Shall they fall
weltering in their blood, with no one to avenge
their deaths? The battle is between Slavery
and Freedom ;---let us no longer pause, but
show by our actions that we are in earnest in
our determination to make Kansas Free
State, even though it be at the sacrifice of
many lives and dissolution of the Union.
"Accnrsed be he who helps such Il party into
Power. until that blood is lawfully puraed
away.'
lrishrnen!-ye who belong to the Demo-
cratic party !--ye who foryears have aided that
party TO obtain an ascendancy in the Coun-
ellis of the nation !---ye who have been duped
by designing demagogues! and then thrust
aside .---ye who have seen some of your own
number shot down in cold blood by the hand
of Southern bully !---ye who when needed
the aid of the Democratic party to bring that
bully to justice was deserted by that party -
We who even in this territory, have been brow
beaten by the would-be champions of Democ-
racy !---lrishmen ---men of sense Of feeling !!
of manhood 1--we ask you to peruse the above
quotation from the pen Of one Of your own
countrymen, and the article that follows, and
then say who were your friends in time of need,
and who are your friends now. The artaIe is
copied from the American Celt, and breathcs
the true Spirit of patriotism which should ac-
tuate the bosom OF every Irishman who has
running in his veins one drop of blood that
beats for his countrymen.
From f1le American Celt.
The Murderer before Consress-The Democrats and
the Republicans.
When Concannon. Callan, Dogherty and Nc
Dermott, inhumanly slaughtered for no
other offence but their Irish birth, in broad day.
light, and no trials followed we were told that
bad rs was the spirit manifested, it was the spirit
of Maine, New Hampshire, Rhode Island and
New Jersey, not the spirit Of the country. When
the aged Mr.. Quinn and above twenty of his
counrymen and women were savagcly put to
death in Louisville, on Monday, August 9th, "a,
we were told again that the country was not an
swcrable for Louisville; that the river rufIians
were beyond all control of law and opinion !;
their deeds ought not to be charged upon the
country in general. We answered to that argu-
ment that ''the country" had never discaimed
these outrages or denounced their authors, vet
we were quite willing to let it 90 to the world,
and be believed by as many as could command
credulity enough for its reception.
A sad and conspicuous case has at last arisen
to test the justice of the country where the guilty
party is native and the victim is Irish. At the
hour of eleven in the forenoon, a Member of
quentcd hotel in the Federal Capital, assails a
waiter as ''damned Irish son of b-h,, be-
cruise he will not violate the rules of the house !:
then draws a pistol from his pocket, holds the
waiter with one hand and shoots him dead with
the other Here is as plain case of MONDAY
murder ever stained the calendar. 1t is COM
mitted by Member of Congress, by one chosen
and sworn to uphold the legal Constitution of the
country, by one who represents the character, as
well as the legislative authority, of the country,
by one who. if abroad, would justly expect to be
treated as representative Of the American peo-
pleas one of the rulers of this Republic.
What follows? Do the officers of the law, so
conspicuously outraged, use their best efforts to
punish the high-placed criminal? Does their
civic courage rise in proportion to the standing
of the formidable offender No such thing. The
very officers of the law instantly combine to pro-
tect the murderer and defeat the ends Of Justice.
The Marshal QIoover) lodges the ''bonorable''
criminal in his own house, thus taking him at
once out of the common category; the prosccu-
ting officer (Key) is missing during the prelimi-
nary examination the two Justices agree to ssbe
divided but neither tells us which were for, or
which against committal without bail finally,
$4,000 is taken for the Californian Thug, who,
the very next day, with his ungloved blood-stain-
ed hands, walks into the hall, and takes his seat
among the legislators of the country.
But the most atrocious circumstance is still to
come. Had Herbert been caught picking pocket
on Pennsylvania Avenue, he would have been in
stantly expelled from the House. As it is, some
of the members, DESTROYS to do their duty and
save the credit of the country, move an inquiry
into his offence. A shameful debate follows, and
which resulted in inquiry being voted down by
70, against 10 for.
Now, in relation to that division on Herbert's
case, we have duty to perform, and we shall not
shrink from dscharging it. That duty is, to an
nounce in unmistakable terms to the adopted cit
liens of Irish birth throughput the country THAT
THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY IN CONGRESS, have shame
fully deserted their duty, deserted their own pro-
LESSONS of impartiality between different classes
of citizens. and that they have, plainly as
deeds can speak, declared the murder Of a man
of Irish birth by one of their colleagues to be
trife wholly unworthy even of inquiry. Is the
Democratic party mad, or is it only rotten, that
it should so belle itself? With BALI dozen
exceptions every man of this majority for Keat-
ing's murderer is professed '1Democrat.'-
What then does it mean? Or can it mean
ANYTHING but one thng-that an Irish born, how
ever peaccable or loyal, is only fit to be used by
the Democratic party, and when used, set up for
n target, and shot with impanity. This is what
il means, and to this meaning shall hold the
entire party. We hold Mr. Pierce. Mr.. Douglass,
and Mr.. Buchanan, responsible for this conduct
of their con6dents and supporters. They were
all in Washington it was for days the topic of
the town; if their friends have taken side against
the victim and against common justice, they are
not wholly above suspicion. A few DAYS ago the
blood of Thomas Heating was on the hands of
but one Democrat; it has spread since then,
and it is now upon the souls of the 20, who re-
fused all inquiry. 1T Is ON THE DEMOCRAT
&c PARTY, AS a PARTY, AND ACCUSED
BE HE WHO HELPS SUCH A PARTY INTO