The weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1852-1858, 1856-08-16

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| TOLEDO, July 28, 1856.
Eaaor Blade A'copy Of the enc'ossa ar
ticle was sent to the Delta Press with q re
quest to have it published in that paper, bu,
the Press being a neutral paper, its editor
did not feel at liberty to publish it. .raai.e:1s
now send it to you for publication, IN Or
der that my reasons may be known for de.
clining to have my name further used as a
candidate for Congress, (although had pre-
viously assented. and as my justification for
separating from many Of my political friends
with whom have long acted and for whom
Ientertain the highest regard. But prefer
ring the approval of my own conscience to
any other consideration, 1 am forced into the
position now assume, position which
believe to be consistent with the Jefferso-
nian Democratic principles and sntecedents
Of the Democratic party. I cannot support
any party whose organization am satisfied
is used to aid the extension of slavery into
free territory. , sg...s =, .l.'.,s.e.
The article for the Delta Press was writ
ten in great haste, in order to have it pub
lished in time to relieve my friends from any
embarrassment in the choice of delegates to
the Democratic Congress onal Convention,
Being out of the state, circumstances be-
yond my control delayed its publication.
f15 1l.a - - ie1 svs JAMES MYERS.
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asa-a' ss1ao5' 3qif fFor the Delta Press
aa, SARATOGA SPRINGS, July 9, 1856.
B Editor Delta Press On the eve of my
leaving home, was informed that by the
partiality of some of my Democratic friends
of Fulton county, and other portions of our
Congressional District, my name had been
announced in your paper AMI others, SUBJ
ject to the approval of the Democratic Con-
vention. .-..
While I feel grateful to the Democracy of
Fulton county, Ga more intelligent or patri-
otic Democracy no county in the st te can
boast and other portions of the district,
for their confidence, the present attitude of
political parties in the United States, forces
upon me the conviction Of the impropriety
OF my being canidate for Congress, as pro-
posed. - 4a sss .,,r s..s -
Although am satifed that majority of
the Democracy of the Fifth Congressional
District, agree with me in sentiment on the
all-absorbing subject of slavery extension,
yet am equally satisfied, that there is
minority who would expect candidate so
nominated to approve and defend all the
measures of the present administration, and
the Cincinnati Platform on the subject of
slavery, and also the inconsistent and un-
principled course of Mr.. Douglas, backed I'D
by the United States Senate and to vote
for the admission of Kansas as slave state
should she present a constitution recognizing
it, even though such result was brought
aboutby fraud and violence, as it now ap-
pears will be the case. These things I
could not conscientiously do.
have become satisfied beyond all doubt
that the Democratic organization is now
used by ambitious and unpricipled men for
their own aggrandlzement, and to effect their
object, they have (as far as in their power)
thrown the Democratic party into the hands
of the slave power, to be used as they may
direct, na, a,,s b,
Believing, as I do, that their measures are
calculated and intended to make Kansas a
SIaUe &ate, cannot sustain them wi hout
doing violence to my own principles.
The late acts cf Mr.. Douglas, sanctioned
by the United States Senate, have removed
every remaining doubtand hope, upon which
/ rested my justification in adhering to an
organization from which could never be
separated ,swhile it represented Jeffersonian
Democratic principles. .,f.. ~.
What has been and what is now theaspect
of the Kansas question
Mr.. Douglas and his followers, after claim
ing popular sovereignty as the great virtue
of the Nebraska-Kansas act, and the justifi-
cation for the repeal of the Missouri Com
promise, pretended to adhere to that princi-
pie, while all the fraud and violence was
being committed by the Border Ruffians.
By such means they forced upon the ac-
tual Sc: tiers, an illegal Legislature, which
passed laws not only Unconstitutional, but of
the most unjust, oppressive and cruel dispo
sition, tenfold worse than all the enactments
of the British Parliament, from which the
fathers of the Revolution revolted and
SO odious that even a Southern Sc
nator declared they would justify revoin-
ton, and General Cass characterized them as
disgrace to the present age. IL .ro3E
Yet the Senate, of which those gentlemen
are members, has been in session seven or
eight months, without doing anything to re-
lieve the actual settlers from those cruel
grievances, but on the contrary sat silent
and saw the President proclaiming that those
laws should be Obeyed, and to that end he
would use all the means at his disposal,
while Mr.. Douglas was asserting that the
Free State men must be subdued.n 'ea,
All this was Cone under the plea Of car
rying out popular sovereignty. &C -
But now q different card is to be played
for the benefit Of slavery. Popular sover-
eighty is to be abandoned. It appears to
have served the purpose of those who used
it as justification for the repeal of the Mis-
souri Compromise. %. ss7al's ~ TT
Under the spretence Of carving out its
principles, the q. S. troops were allowed to
disarm the Free State men, and the. Border
Ruffians permitted to drive them out of the
Territory, destroy their presses, burn their
houses, steal their property, murder their
men, sindict and imprison their leaders, and
now when all the practicable avenues into
Kansas are guarded by Missouri arms to pre-
vent the entrance of Free State men into the
Territory, and after Atchison, Stringfellow
q Co, have got everything prepared to have
a majority of Pro-Slavery men in Kansas, on
the 4th day of July, Mr.. Toombs, an ultra
Pro-Slayery Senator, .(who boasted ON the
| floor of the Senate that he would yet cali
the roll Of his slaves at Tho foot of the Bun
ker Hin Monument) introduces d bin into
the Senate; Mr.. Douglas sdopts it, and the
Senate passes it with Geyer,s and Adaus5