The weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1852-1858, 1856-12-27
Chicago Tribune
A New tune.


| What's in the wind now? The Richmond
Enquirer slaps the Message indirectly, and
directly recants its abuse of the Republican
party before the election. Verify we live in
strange times.
| But what is the meaning of this change
1t was a blow before it is kiss now. The
blow fell harmless; it failed to frighten it
was unfelt and will the kiss be more etiec-
tive? We shall know.
The Enquirer says:-
| During the canvass we often spoke in very
round terms Of the universal moral. potiti-
cal. social and religious skeptcism of the
Biac'; Republicans. We asserted the party
To be Il mere coneeres of isms. We were
/ sincere in our assertions. We are now I'M
/ deceived. We respect Americans too much
North and South to believe for a moment
that a party so large as that which voted for
Mr.. Fremont is composed wholly, or indeed
chiefly, of fanatics, infidels, or skepics The
North believes the South is arrogant, over
bearing and aggressive. The North is mis-
taken, but sincere. The change of opinion.
policy and position about Slavery, if more
marked at the South than elsewhere, has
been universal. and it is to this change of
public opinion throughout Christendom that
we owe TIE new policy of our Government"
The Enquirer is undeceived-and LOac?
By an article in the Edinburgh Review
This will not do no! it was the ''whackng'
vote in the Free States-it was the lifting up
of the North in its own majesty and might.
which opened its eyes, or rather compelled it
to confess what it knew before. Suppose we
quO'e from it before the election, when it
Said -
"The career of Slavery is rapidly pfomrss-
ne. Cotton, sugar, rice, toba co. tea. molas-
ses, and other slave products, are kinqs-not
the South. Hunger and cold and nakedness
rule tina world. They are aggressive and i'm
portunate-not We
What could be palmer or more direct ?
The new policy is aggressive-the old policy
the policy of the Fathers-humane inst.
constitutional, national, and it is for that Re-
pubiicans contend-it is that they mean to
reestabli h. But let this pass for we wish
to look at this subject in another point Of
view Just now.
The South-no, not the people of the South,
for they are true to the Union as a whole. pa
triotc and just in aim-but a portion of the
slaveholders-that portion controlling party
organZatons-has been "arrogant, ovcrbear-
ing, aggressive" And it will continue to be
SO. The system it seeks to uphold and ex-
tend produces this result necessarily, and we
shall have it until that system is limited to
its present bounds. Nor is this arrogance,
intolerance and aggrcss on confined to Wash
ington They are practiscd by those ruling
Shareholders in the Slave States with fierce
dcspotism over the whites outside of the IA
vored class. And they will continue, too,
till the People of the States resolve, as they
u,il TO oh eL a.
mischief
The Enquirer talks of the new policy of
our government on the subject of slavery,''
That is simply, the right to extend it: the
rghc to take it wherever the constitution
goes the right to claim an equality of States
on this basis. Mr.. Fitzpatrick, Senator from
Alabama, and Mr.. Mason, Senator from
Va, on the second day of the session of Con-
gress affirmed this, and on this ground con-
graduated the country upon the success of
the democracy. Now Slavery could not ex-
, list for twenty years if the Government
were administered as the Fathers dies gned it
should be it would fall, unless it received
outside or artificial help. Hence the new
policy But let us say to the Enquirer, that
this new policy will never endure Not only
is it sectional, but it is based on local
wrong on desp0tic idea, at war with the
principle of the Constitution and the spirit
of our people. The North cannot submit
to it. The South will not, in the end.
But the Enquirer means hereafter t. be
conciatory. 1t has n blows to give now.
1t would fondle and kiss. All this is wise
the safer and wiser course-for though it
may protect or delay the downfall of the evil:
1t cannot prevent It. This the Enquirer un-
'lerstandS. 1t understands too that the Of
feet OF this course will bc to prepare the
South for change which must come, and to
induce the North to help it, when that change
dos come, as brothers should help each
other, in Kidding the country of a common
curse. Well, the North will be iust-gen-
erous, as we'll as just-but it will never per
NIT the extension Of Slavery for any end
no blows can drive, no kisses per uade it, to
sustain or tolerate a policy so fatal alike to
our common manhood and peace
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