The weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1852-1858, 1857-03-21

From its accustomed place,
And set beside my fathers
younger, fairer face;
They've made her dear old chamber
The boudoir Of another;
But will not forget thee,
Ny own, my angel mother!
(From the St. Louis Democrat, Feb. 26)
A Voice from the South---The Republic
can Party the Working Mans Party.
A majority of the United States, and a
majority of the American people, have s0illed
the limitation of slavery. With power
greater than that attributed to the royal
Dane by his courtiers, they have successfully
forbidden the advance of the fierce wave OF
slavery propagandism which threatened two
years ago to sweep over all territories
Reckless of the logic of politicians, and the
threats of incendaries against the Union,
they said in their hearts that the territories
should be the bowers of their sons and
daughters, and not the heritage OF few
Southern capitalists and their hordes OF
slaves, and they have set about fulfilling
their faith; fulflment, sooner or later, is the
destiny of every great thought which has
found an abiding place in the heart OF the
people. 1t does not matter what triumphant
arguments about the rights Of property your
chivalrous son of the South, or National
Democrat may urge against them, they have
come to the conclusion in their heart OF
hearts that it is better the earth should be
replenished with men of their own kin
and color than with the children of an
alien and servile race, the sweat of whose
brow smites the soil which they cultivate
with barrenness and decay. This being
their sovereign decree, is fact OF magnl-
tude, and cannot be abolished by any weapon
in the extensive arsenal of politicians. Edl-
torials in the "organs of the party" parlia-
mentary strategy in Congress, caucus nomi-
nations, and political platforms, are as waves
against the rock, when placed in opposition
to the slowly matured resolve OF the people.
Their determination to fence in the terrific
ries against the intrusions of slavery extern
sionists is living fact; no platform or any
other thing which has name in the mouths
of politicians; no curious collocation OF phra-
SEES by virtue of which the men OF cunning
faculty keep or get their places, but spirit
ual force which will make way for itself in
spite of everything. Men and parties may
withstand it, shadowy spectres may haunt
its path-a path which may possibly lead
through the region of the unknown, but it
will advance nevertheless, until its purpose
is accomplished. The imprisoned winds
bursting from Pelorus or the shattered side
of Etna. is but feeble manifestation of force
compared with the efforts of new purpose
antagonistic to existing things to embody it.
self as an institution. This purpose is preg-
nant in the mind of the people. The terri
tories will be barricaded against slavery as
effectual as the golden gardens set apart for
the royal children Of Assyria were barrica-
ded against the contaminations of the outer
world.
Hardly any argument is necessary to prove
this doctrine Indeed it is one of those
truths which can be only learned by watch
ing events and the significance of many and
not unfrequently minute occurrences. The
acts from which the induction is made are
too numerous to be recounted, and too OBJ
vious to require specification. Yet the re-
markable phenomenon that the slavery ques-
ton has rent in twain every national poiti-
cal organization bears its interpretationupon
its face 1t has not, perhaps, cut the Ma
tional Democratic party into two equal parts,
for the dividing line at present is not Mason
and Dixon's line, but the Northern boundary
line of Pennsylvania and New Jersey. In
1853 the dividing line will coincide with the
line which separates free and slave soil, and
in 1860 the working men of the South who
feel the degradation and injustice OF negro
competition in the field and workshop, will
recognize the Democracy OF the North as
their allies, and make common cause with
them against the perpetrators and extern
sienists of slavery. Thenceforward the in
ternal contest in the slave States will be
fought on one side by the sons of free labor,
on the other by the powerful compact and
able class, whose possessions embrace capt.
tai, land and labor, and who are consequent
ly the most privileged aristocracy now SUBJ
sisting, their rights transcending those en-
ioyed by any European order, even in the
most hourishing period of feudalism. This
association is susceptible ofeasy proof though
it may seem little startling.
The foregoing reflections have been sug-
gested by a series of resolutions which were
recently adopted by the Republican men,
bers of the Legislature of Illinois, assembled
in Springfield. We print the resolutions
elsewhere. We chiefly regard them for their
bold avowal of the rights of white labor,
and the emphasis with which they assert the
prior claim of white labor to the ownership
Of the land. Nothing more thoroughly dem
ocratic could be expressed, than the princi-
pies embodied in those resolutions. Relig-
GUS and National equality are laid down with
emphasis and precision, and in fact, if we
were called upon to give another name to
the Republican party of Illinois, we would
call it the working mans party. As most
men in this country are of that order, the
working mans party will be very power.
full organization in 1860. Mr.. Buchanan's
Presidential term will be the transition pc
Rod to the new order of things which will
then be inaugurated.