The weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1852-1858, 1857-09-26
"DemOcratic,, History.


The slave drivers party are extremely
fond of referring to the history of the coun-
try, and boasting Of what the Democratic
party has done. We propose to "improve"
upon that matter little by new table Of
contents for the yet unwritten chapters of
their history-space allowing nothing more.
l. Though fond of quoting the names of
Jefferson and Jackson, the party has become
SO apostate that neither of those men could
or would retain position in it for an hour,
or hold fourteenth corporals commission
in it.
2. 1t has so debauched the popular sem
timent that its traitorous leaders already
sheer at the vital principles Of true democra-
cy, and their own adherents have been kept
too ignorant 10 perceive the imposture.
3. Begin ming as the anti-s!avery party of
the countr y, anu supporting Jefferson's poll
cy of universal liberty, it has now become the
mere poltroon life guard of Southern slave
breeders.
f. 1t has repudiated Jefferson's doctrine of
Territorial liberty, and given the country Bu-
chanan's doctrine of universal Territorial
Slavery.
s. 1t has disarmed the nation of the pow
er to protect the dearest rights of the people
in the Territories and denies the existence of
any such power on earth. (Mr. Buchanan's
Lottery
6. 1t has compelled the nation to blot
from its creed the principles of equal, inal-
ienable, God-given rights, and substituted in
their place the internal code of pirates and
bandits. (See same letter.
7. 1t has ruthlessly torn down the barriers
oiliberty erected by our fathers, and spread
slavery over the heart of the continent.
s. 1t has exalted State crime into a Ma
tional Conspiracy against the rights of man.
9. 1t has expanded the field of bondage
from narrow limits where it would have be-
come extinct, to three quarters Of the wlole
area Of the United States
10. Under its patronizing influence despo-
tism is now the leading power in the whole
Western Hemisphere.
IL. 1t has increased the number of Slave
States in the Union from six to fifteen, and
is already preparing seven more for admission
hereafter.
II. 1t has so currupted the highest Court
in the land, that its lreest, ablest members
are abandoning its bench in disgust.
II. 1t has converted the whole machinery
Of the federal government into a police Of
the barbarous slave power.
IA. 1t waged war with Florida In'lians to
SEE ure the right of slave hunting, costing us
thousands of lives, and $5O,OO0,0OO to pay
the bills.
Is. 1t recklessly plunged the courtry into
war with Mexico to extend the boundaries
of human oppression, costing the life blood
of 10000 human beings, and S2O0,0O0,0oO.
16. Under its auspices the liberty of
speech and freedom of the press are abolish
cd in one half the land, and the habeas corpus
is set aside in the whole of it.
II. The ballot-box for its purposes has
been corrupted. till good men trembe for the
ark of our liberties.
Is. 1t has allowed and encouraged sys-
TEN of the most disgusting heathenism to es-
tablish itself in Utah, disgracing our civiliza-
ton and preparing infinite mischief for the
future, lest interference with one domestic
institution" should lead to another nearer
home.
10. 1t has fostered violence and outrage
within our own borders, and beyond them no
people arc safe except by their own strength.
20. BY lis policy the labor of one half
the country is in chains, and the other has to
bear the heavy load of its pauperism.
81. Finding its own dependence upon the
lowest strata of American society, it is war
ring upon the moral virtue of the country to
bring all else down to its own level.
o. Under its administration three mil
lions of native American population are mere
cattle in the market;--half million mothers
wall for their children, not their own;-half a
million fathers embrace not their families, but
masters stock ;-one sixth of our whole
people plundered- whipped-doomed-sold
-gambled- sport of tyranny and lust;-
the smoke of that bottomless pit darkening
our skies, and Eternal Justice laundering
along our track to vindicate the rights of the
poor.
Such is brief but true sketch of what
American democracy has done for the
country, and we earnestly commend it to the
consideration of all who think still to abet
its guilt. For humanity's sake, for honor,
for justice, for liberty, for future peace, for
our native land, for Gnd's sake stop