The weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1852-1858, 1857-12-26

j open to merit alone, and not to blood. Line
age had no claim upon it, and ancestry could
show no royal title to it. The free voice OF
a free people was the only certificate to the
office, and we could all respond to the toast {;
s.The President of the United States" what
ever might be our feelings toward the man.
But concerning the present occupant Of the
Presidential chair, there was grave charge
to be brought. He was an inveterate old
bachelor and therefore ought to be ineligible
| to the Office.
"Bachelordom never grayly before
| Filled an arm chair on the Presidents door
"Never did blessings so one and 50 shse :mr.
| At the White House with respectable people 0onn"
| gle."
However, the Presidents own experience
must have visited upon him sufficient pen
alty for his grave offence. The speaker closed
with an apostrophe to New England.
| a., TIA st,ts of Minnesota-The substance Of
tangs hoped for
Responded to by j. W. TAYLOR, Esq, who
said that Minnesota from her situation was
destined to develope the destiny of human
character. 1t must have occurred to every
rejecting mind that the East nor the South
nor the Middle States could stamp its ex-
elusive character on the West. Our charac-
ter was a type of all these. He pointed to
Ohio which was settled by Connecticut and
Virginia, where there was mingling of pu-
ritanical manners of the one with the hospi-
tally of the other. He argued that from
the character of the emigrants, the peculari-
ties of our climate and the situation of our
country, our State would never represent any
extreme provincialisms.
eth. The Ladies'
The only sovereigns freemen own;
Their sceptre's love- and homes their throne
Responded to by G. H. HORN, Esq,
who said he app reached this subject with a
great deal of difidenee. On this subject he
knew no North, no South, no East, no West.
The speaker then glanced at the history Of
the Pilgrim Fathers, and showed that dur
ing the long, tedious voyage of the Mayfow-
er and the debarkation of the Pilgrims at
Plymouth Rock on cold December night,
they were cheered on their way and fortified
by the smiles of woman. He related an incl
dent from history of colony of bachelors
who came over from London soon after the
settlement of the Pilgrims. and founded a
colony near them. In six months they were
not to he found-they had literally "dried
up" He would say nothing concerning the
ladies' dresses, however expansive or expen-
sive the subject, for it was matter on which
he was supposed to be intirely ignorant. To
show that the ladies were sovereigns, it was
only necessary to contrast an exclusive la
dies circle with bachelors club. He closed
with an elegant tribute to woman, saying
she was first at the cross and last at the
grave.
sth The Uergy of Minnesota-not Monks, but men
with all the pety and good works of the Puritans
Responded to by Rev. E. D. NELL, who
said that he was not a New England preach
er, but he knew that nowhere did people re-
spect their pastor so much as in New Eng
land /; and nowhere else does the Clergy give
such practical evidence that they are the
true successors of st. Peter. Mr.. N. then
paid glowidg tribute to the first resident
minister who was ever in this Territory. A
son of New England, graduate of Dart
mouth College, the Rev. w. T. BOUTWELL,
had come to this Territory thirty years ago,
and had been here ever since, living exam
pie of the piety and good works of the Puri-
tans. The Speaker then took rapid glance
at New England two centuries ago, and show
ed that while Connecticut hung two witches,
England had put to death 10000. The
speaker contended that the men of New Eng
land of to day were the equals of the men of
former times-the Websters, the Winthrops.
the Choates and the Everetts.
9th. The Press-the great dissemination of knowl-
edge truth and civilization, the proud champion of hui
man rights health to the corps editorial.
This was responded to by j. A. WHEELocK,
in his inimitable style which kept the audi
ence convulsed with humor. His allusion to
the various uses to which newspapers were
subjected created much merriment He said
that if, as had often been stated, the Press
was the lever which m owed the world, the
fulcrum might be found at the corner of ST..
Anthony and St. Peter Streets.
The regular toasts having all been read,
vari Gus volunteer sentiments were offered, to
which responses were made by Hon. S. S.
BEMAN, Of Winona, and Col. WATKINS, in an
appropriate manner, but the leugth of this re-
port, will net permit to give sketch Of them
The company separated about halfpast
II, in the best Of humor, after singing some
appropriate verses to Aud Lang Syne."-
The music from the Old Gents Band added
much to the pleasure of the evening.
Buchanan and the Washington Union
| moro Consistent than Douglass and
his Backers!
We haven't been saying much latterly-
for other matters have engrosscd our pen
but like the Irishman's owl, we have not
withstanding been keeping up deal of think
ing-about the relative advantages of the
position occupied by President BUCHANAN
and his organ, the Washington Union, on the
one hand, and the position also occupied by
STEPHEN A. DOUGLAS and sundry northern
Democratic papers, and among them the Pho
nser q. Democrat and the Chicago Times, on
the other, upon the Kansas question, the &C.
ceptamce of the Calhoun Constitution, and up
on the present startling doctrines. put forth
by the Union upon the right of Slavery to
progress land the right Of Shareholders to
carry their property" into the free States y
and the insulting as we'll as unconstitutional