Minnesota weekly times. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1854-1859, 1856-06-07

poitic.' Pray, Sir, by what title does he indulge
in this ogotism Has he read the history OF ''the
State" which he represents lie cannot surely
have forgotten its shameful imbecility from
Slavery, confessed throughout the Revolution,
followed by it's more shameful assumptions for
Slavery since /! Ile cannot have forgotten its
wretched persistence in the slave trade as tho
very apple of its eye. aud the condition of its
participation in tho Union. lie cannot have for
gotten its sttutiOn, which is republican only
in namc confirming power in the hands of the few,
and founding the qualifications of voters on 'sa
settled freehold estate and ten negroes" And
vet the Senator, to whom that estate" has in
part committed the guardianship of its good name,
Instead of moving, with backward treading steps,
to its nakedneSs, r1shes forward in the We
ry ecstasy of madness, to expose it by provoking
| IL comparison with Kansas. South Carolina is
| old ; KanSas is yOung. South Carolina counts
| bv centuries where Kansas counts by years.
But benefcent example may be born in day;
and venture to say that against tho two centu-
rics of the oil Ter estate may he already set the
two years of trirl, evolving corresponding virtue,
in the younger community. In the one, is the
| long wall OF Slavery i'll the other, tho hymns
Of Freedom And if glance at the special
achievements, it will be difficult to find anything
in the history of South Carolina which presents
| ST. much of heroic spirit in heroic cause as APP
pears in that repulse of the Missouri invaders
by the bcleaanered town Of Lawrence, where
women gave effective efforts to Freedom. The
matrons of Rome, who poured their Jewels into
the treasury for the public defence--the wives of
Prussia, who, with delicate fingers, clothed their
defenders against French invason--the mothers
OF oar own Revolution, who sent forth their
sons, covered over with prayers and blessings, to
combat for Human Rights, did nothing Of self
sacrifice truer than did these women on this oc-
caSion.
We're the whole history of South Carolina
b.ottcd out of existence, from its very beginning
down to the dry of the last election of the Sena-
tor to his present seat this floor, civilization
might lose i do not say how little; but surely
less than II has already gained by the example of
Kansas i'll its valiant struggle against oppression,
and IN the develo pement OF IL new science of emf
grafton. Already, in Lawrence alone, there are
newspapers and schools, including High School,
and throughout the whole Territory there is more
academic education than in all Missouri outside
OF st. LOUIS; and more far, in proportion to its
inhabitants, than in all South Carolina. All, sir,
| tell the Senator that Kansas, welcomed as Il
Free State, will be a administering angelo to the
Republic, when South Carolina, in the cloak of
darkness which she hugs, ''lies howling.'' The
Senator from Illinois, Mr.. Douglas, naturally
joins the Senator from South Carolina in
this warfare, ana gives to it, the superior in
tensity of HIS nature. He thinks that the Ma
tional Government has not completely proved its
the occasion requires, he hopes there will be no
hesitation; and this threat is directed at Kansas
and even ut the friends of Kansas through
out the country. Again the paral-
lei with the struggles of our fathers, and [ bor-
row the language of Patrick Henry, when, to the
cry OF the Senator, of ''treasOn.'' ''treason," |
reply, ''if this be treason, make the most of it''
Sir, it is easy to call names but beg to tell
the Senator that if the word "traitOr'' is in any
way applicable to those who refuse submission
to IL tyranncal Usurpaton, whether in Kansas
or elsewhere, then must some new word, of deep-
er color, be invented, to designate those mad
spirits who would endanger and degrade the Re-
public, while they betray all the cherished sem
timents of the Fathers and the spirit of the Con-
stituton, In order to give new spread to Slavery.
Let the Senator piocecd. 1t will not be the first
time in history that a scaffod erected for punish
ment has bee PEDESTAL of honor. Out
of death comes life, and the ''traitor'' whom he
blindly executes will live immortal in the cause.
For Humanity swe.p onward; where to-day the martyr
J,das, with The silver in his hands
Will the he,tns Ao9 of yesterday in silent awe turn,
To CLEAN up the silent ashes into sorys golden
Among these hostile Senators, there is vet an
other, with NIL the prejudces of the Senator from
South Carolina, but without his generous i'm
pulses, who, by bis position this floor, and
the rancor of his opposition deserves to be
named. | mean the Senator from Virginia, Mr..
Mason, who, the author of the Fugitive Slave
, Ditis WIFI Sppclai act
inhumanity and tyranny. Of him shall say lit
tie. lie holds the commission Of Virginia, but
he does not represent that early Virginia, dear
to our hearts, which gave the pen of Jefferson
by which the equality of men declared, and
the sword Of Washington, by which Independ-
ence was secured but he represents that other
Virginia from which Washington and Jefferson
now avert their faces, where human beings are
bred us cattle for the shambles, and where IL dun
geon awards the piOus matrOn who teaches little
children to relieve their bondage by reading the
Book OF Life. 1t is proper that such Senator,
representing such State, should rail against
Free Kansas. Senators such these the
natural enemies of Kansas, and introduce them
with reluctance, simpl v that the country may I'M
derstand the character of the hostility which must
be overcome. Arrayed with them, of course,
are all who unite, under any pretext or apology,
in the propagandism of Human Slavery. TO
such, indeed, the time honored safeguards of
popular rights eHn be name only, and nothing
more. WI hat are trial by jury, habeas corpus,
the ballot box the rights of petition, the liberty
OF Kansas, your liberty, Sir, or mine, to one who
lends himself, not merely to the support at home,
but to the propagandiSm abroad. of that prcpos-
ferrous wrong, which denies even the right of a
man to himself. Such cause can be maintained
only bya practical subversion of all rights. 1t
is, therefore, merely according to reason that its
partisans should uphold the Usurpation in Kansas
10 overthrow this Usurpation is now the special,
| lmportunate duty OF Congress, admitting of no
hesitation or postponement. TO this end it must
hit itself from the cables of candidates, the ma
ch'natlonS OF party, and the low level of vulgar
strife. 1t may turn from the Slave Olgarchv
which now controls the Republic, and refuse to
be Its tool. Let its power be stretched forth to-
ward this distant Territory, not to bind, but to
unbiad; not for the oppression of the weak, bat
| Tor the subversion of the tyrannical not for the
prop and the maintenance of a revolving Usurpa-
ton, but for the confirmation of Liberty.
'Thcse imperial acts, worthy of thee .,
Let it now take its stand between the livinr
and the dead, and cause this plague to be STAYED
All this 1t can do and if the interests of slavery
did not oppose, all this would do it at once, in
fevcrent regard for justice, law and order, drv-
ing far away all the alarms of war; nor would
1t dare to brave the shame and punishment of
this Great Refusal. Why the Slave Power dares
anything, ana it can be conquered only by the
united masses of the People. From Congress to
the People, appeal. Already Public Opinion
gathers unwonted forces to scourge the agrees
sors. In the press, in daily conversation, wher-
ever two or three gathered together, there
the indignant utterance finds vent. And trade
by unerring vindicaions, attests the growing
| energy. Public credit in Missouri droops The