Minnesota weekly times. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1854-1859, 1856-08-23
THURSDAY, AUG. 81, 1856.
WINK THERE is REPUBLICAN PARTY.


In theIpresent aspect of politics-when every
avenue to the public mind is flooded with misrep-
reservations Of the Republican party 80 when
wicked and designing men are at work to deceive
the people with reference to its aims its objects
and principles, it becomes the duty of the friends
OF freedom to offer few words in self-defence.
In doing so, we appeal to no man who holds an
Office, to no man who is an expectant for Office,
to no man who hangs his hopes Of personal in
terest upon the success of party. But we APP
peal to the calm judgment of the honest masses of
the American people---to men who ask for moth
ing---to men who seek for nothing - to men
who hope for nothing but the welfare and
glory of their country. It is to such tribunal we
appeal because it is before such tribunal only
that we may look for an honest judgment of our
principles.
The Republican party is composed purely of
REPUBLICANS, in the strictest sense of the term.
Among the thousands who have rallied to its
standard are many great men, and many good
men of all parties and denominations but they
are all Republicans born, and born with all the
impulses of patriotism common to the Republic
can heart--they have been educated to love and
cherish the free institutions of their country, and
to look to them and to them alone, as the true
palladium of human liberty, as the hope and ref
uge of down trodden humanity all over the world.
They strictly adhere to the sacred and time-hon-
ored doctrine of Jefferson and his compatriots,
that /" all men are created free and equal" and
will look upon any threat of abridging their
rights as direct stab at the vitality of the Con-
demned wherever and whenever to be found
The repeal of the Missouri Compromise, which
secured to the Territory of Kansas the inestima-
BILE blessings Of liberty, and which the Democrat
ic and Wing parties at Baltimore and the Free
Sellers at Pittsburg declared in National Con-
vention to be part and parcel of the Constitution
itself, and s6nality" to all further agitation
on the question of slavery, has been the most Sc
we're and bod stab the cause of human freedom
has ever received on this continent.
The great political storm in regard to this vexed
question had subsidized into quiet calm, and to
express the deep and heartfelt satisfaction of all
classes, North and South, the endorsement of this
great national tranquilizer was deemed necessary
and proper by the representatives of each of the
three great parties of the day, manifesting at
least, so far as regarded that measure, a COM
plete and perfect reconciliation. The people
gave in their appreciation to the constitutionality
of this measure, and hailed it as the harbinger
of brighter and better day. The storm that
had shook the Union from centre to circumfer-
ence. had given way to sunny calm as beautiful
and serene as the brightest May-day morn. IN
der this amicable adjustment, Franklin Pierce
was chosen by almost unanimous consent, to pre-
side over the Executive department of Govern
ment, and 80 we'll convinced was he that he owed
his elevation to this exalted position through the
unanimity of feeling brought about by this wise
adjustment of sectional grievances, that he took
particular and special pains 20 impress upon the
minds Of his couutrymen in his Inaugural Ad-
dress, that no act of his administration should
disturb thepeace that then happily existed through
out the land.
Not single cloud could be seen on the politi-
calhorzon-- sectional feeling had been buried
---the North and South was a unit, and the hap
piest and brightest political future predicted.
The machinery of Government throughout its
whole ramifcation, had been placed in the most
perfect wording order, and with the greatest con-
fdence in the ability, integrity and patriotism of
Franklin Pierce, was placed in his hands. The
people returned to their homes as joyful as chill
dren, under the Aattering hope that the primitive
days of the Republic had at last returned, the
North and the South clasped hands, the East and
the West, like loving twin sisters, stood up and
blessed the re. union of once distracted family,
and with the North and South joined in grand
frolicsome, nerry-making, national jubilee
Never in the worlds history, had it witnessed a
happier, brighter day, not even the smallest SEM
blance of cloud appeared to dim the clear,
bright splendor of the political sun.
What historian, then. can imagine, in coming
years, the surprise and terror, the deep felt an
guish of this happy. contended people, as sud-
den clap of thunder burst upon their ears from
an unclouded sky, and all their fond dreams of
peace and tranquility scattered like morning mist
before the sun? At first, even the most timid
could not believe the reality--but the truth soon
became too apparent for contradiction, and the
sad reality that Franklin Pierce, whose oath, OBJ
sequious to his interests, who had promised but
to betray, had sold himself and freedom, to am
bition and the slave power. The Missouri Com
promise was repealed Yes, before the echo of
the voice that pledged Franklin Pierce to sustain
it had died away, the treason had been conceived
and the infamy consummated!
And this, reader, was the origin of the Repub
lcan party; this violation of plighted faith this
utter disregard on the part of the Government to
the well-kaown and oft repeated wish of the peo-
pie, was the leaven that caused the North and
West to ferment with indignation at the intoler-
able wrong committed administration in its
humble submission before the slave power, and
which has caused as great an uprising of the
masses now as there was quiet then. Then, the
sentiment Of the country was expressed through
delegates in the different party national conven-
tions; now, it is to be expressed individually at
the ballot box, and expressed, too, in manner
that will not so be forgotten, either by South
ern agitators or Northern doughfaces.
CO Among the patents granted last week was
one for setting and distributing type and one
for slaughtering hogs.
G. Polygamy is now sustained by the author
ity and treasury of the United States. A recent
letter from Salt Lake City, from credible
source, reports that the Governor Of the Terrific
~ of Utah under Frank. Pierce, keeps sixty con-