The weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1852-1858, 1856-03-15
Chas. heemeliu, Of Ohio.

1ne DOlQneSS with winch this gentleman
has come out of the Pierce-Democrati ranks
and joined the Republicans, is one of the
significant signs of the times. He is known
throughout the West as being perhaps the
ablest and most talented speaker and de-
batter in the ranks of our citizens of German
birth and education. No man in Ohio has
ever welded SO powerful political influence
among his countrymen as Mr.. Reemelin I;
and that influence is no less great to-day
than it was ten years ago.
The Cincinnati Times, rabid Know
Nothing paper, and not at all friendly to Mr..
R., gives the following report of his recent
speech at Pittsburg:
Loud cries now resounded for Charles
Reemelin, when that gentleman appeared and
made powerful speech-confessedly the
ablest yet made in the Convention. He de-
nounced the administration of Franklin
Pierce and Caleb Gushing.
He said that the insolence Of accidental
administrations, such as theirs, should be
crushed. He thought that the time had
come when the question of reform should be
met. He thought that administrative power
should be controlled. Diminish executive
patronage of every kind. Another point
must be rebuked. We Northern men hare
erred in allowing the South to charge US
with Sectionalism. We ought not to say
that we are striving to establish North,
but that we wish to inaugurate Freedom
an anti-National foreign policy. The Demo
fn iCh
of j. G. Calhoun. Freedom is our guiding
star, and Slavery is doomed institution.
He hoped that this Convention and the Re-
publican party would guarantee to the peo-
pie of Kansas their "Popular Sovereignty"
President Pierce and the administration talk
popular Sovereignty" but they are acting
the vilest kind of tyranny.
He then proceeded to speak upon the sub
ject of Slavery, and denouncing it bitterly,
said that no human authority has right to
hold property in human blood. There are
certain inalienable rights of which human
society cannot divest man. He was no
mans man. He nor no other man derived
his liberty from the State of Ohio, the Union
or from the Pope. He had liberty because
he was human being.
He didn't want to deprive the South of
any right, and he favored "popular sover-
eighty" and would hold that chalce to the
lips of the South. Let them have it in its
true sense. Slavery has no right to exist,
much less expand. 1t had stolen into the
nation. Judge Mclean had said truly that
there is not single State in the Union in
which Slavery exists by statutory enact
ment.
He alluded to Washington, to whose me
mory he paid an eloquent tribute, and re-
marked that he considered his anniversary
glorious day on which to inaugurate new
era in human freedom and liberty.
He spoke of Americanism or Know Moth
ingism he said, with hesitarcy, but gave it
as his opinion that the Republican Conven-
tion must declare itself against the princi-
pie. He hated Know Nothingisim most for
compelling to ask himself if he was an
American. He thought he was: He loved
our institutions, he revered our great men,
and he would defend the Union against all
foes, foreign or internal.
He thought Know Nothingism had done
more to strengthen Catholicism than any,
thing else in the world, and proceeded to IL
lustrate by saying that upon the organization
of the order, Catholics had Immediately
taken their children from Common Schools
and placed them in their own. He said
twenty-five had left one s.hool in Cincin-
natl. Know Nothingism absolutely tended
to dissolution of the Union, because it
excited internal dissension, arraying one class
of citizens against others.
The speaker proceeded to give his senti-
ments upon the issues of the day, and con-
cluded by saying that he had cried away all
his tears, mourning because the Democrats
had read him from their party. He thought
he should cry the last time to-day, for he
had at last separated from them.
Mr.. Reemelin's speech was hailed with
tremendous applause. He made many ad-
mirable hits at defunct parties, the dying
democracy, and at the present Administra-
ton but report would consume too much
space He may now be considered Re-
publican.