The weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1852-1858, 1857-05-30


Dem ocrat,c admin stration was ever ready t.
give all necdful assistance to his efforts te
disarm and punish free state men, not pro-
slavery act of violence has been punished 10y
them; that they appoint to high official sta
tiOn, men whose hands are reeking with the
blood of murdered free state citizens of Kan
sas; that the mails are robbed and overhaul
ed by the border ruftians, and the federal
administration lifts not hand to prevent or
/ punish; that the contents of his dispatches
to the administration are known by the pro-
slavery party before they leave the territory;
that their dispatches to him are known and
talked over by the same party, before reach
! ing himl in short that the Democratic (as it
styles itself) administration of Franklin
Pierce, lent itself in every way to the pro-
slavery party, to crush out freedom in Kan
sas. This is testimony that they cannot
gainsay; the testimony of their own witness,
appointed Governor of Kansas by Franklin
Fl rec. at the special instance and request oi
Mr.. Buchanan.
Has the administration of Mr.. Buchanan
pursued any different course2 Judge for
yourselves. Instead of refusing to accept
Gov Geary's resignation, and sending him
back with sufficient force to back his hcnest
efforts at doing justice and restoring peace,
they coolly accept it, and appoint in his
place the slave-propasandist,R Robert j. Walk
er, with Stanton, the Shareholder, for Secrc-
tary, and Governor, pro tenn. Mr.. Stanton's
first act is to inform the inhabitants that the
laws passed hy the present selfstyled leeis-
lature of Kansas will e enforced by the
whole power of the United States. This
legislitu is composed in good part of Mis-
souri, men; was electe by votes, four fifths
ot which were cast by men then resident
in Missouri, at an election at which free
state men We're by violence. and mob force
prevented from voting, and its acts have no
more rightful validity, than Wisconsin laws
have in Minnesota.
SoGn an election Of members cf q consti-
tUtional convention is to be held in Kansas.
lily the law authorizing it, the pro-slavcry
officers get up a list of persons allowed to
| vote thereat. On that list are already the
names Of thous ands of Missouri men, never
residents of Kansas, while the names ofthe
| free-state men are almost entirely left off,
Even the name of the Mayor elect of Leav-
enwOrth, resident there for two years, is
not ta be found on the list. None whose
names are not on the list. are to be allow.
to vote, and thus every thing is arranged for
an ca sy victory. for the adoption pro-slavery
constitution by the convention. No provision
is made for submitting this constitution to
people; the Democratic majority will pass the
in both branches Of Congress a bill admit
ting Kansas with this pro-slavery constitu-
tion, and Mr.. Buchanan stands ready and
eager to sign it. Thus the programme is
marked out; thus it will be carried out
ft,o II Df ha
peal of the Missouri Compromise was the
first act, and thus will succeed, we very much
! fear, tho plot contrlved bv Atchison, and
carried on by Douglas and his Democratic
supporters. of making Kansas slave state.
Bt,t the Democratic party is not content
with making Kansas slave State. nor with
extending slavery throughout the Terrific
ries. They now seek to establish it in all
the States at present free. By patient, dill
gent effort through a series of years, the
slave power, through the and of tue Demo
cratic party have secured control of the
United States Supreme Crurt, and now
brings the authority of that body to aid i'm
the neEarious scheme of extending slavery
throughout the length and breadth of the
land.
In the dicision of the Dred Scctt case,
the Court in its cagcrness to go all lengths
to do the bidding ofthe slave power, proceed
ed to hold that slavery, property in man, is
specially guaranteed by the Constitution of
the United States; that neither Congress nor
the people Of Territory can exclude it
therefrom; that therefore the Missouri Com-
promise was imperative and void; that a
STAKEHOLDER has the right Temporarily to
take his slaves into any free State, and
that the Slaves do not bee me free thereby;
in short the doctrines laid down in that
monstrous decision, if they are law, estab-
lish slavery beyond the power of the states
to prevent it over every square mile of this
Union. For If the Constitution of the Uni
ted States, which is paramount to any
State constitution. does recognize and guar
antee the right of property in man, no State
constitution which Minnesota can form pro-
hibiting slavery, can be of any force to pre-
vent slaves from being owned and held here
under the United States Constitution.
And yet the Democlatic party, and the
Democratic press, even of the North, are
ready to submit to and sustain this doctrine.
Their papers in this Territory, and at its
capital tell you that this decision ''is the law
Of the land" and claim that no one shall
question it,. that it must be submitted to
without questioning its validity, as our law
for the future.
Against such tyrannical doctrines as are
contained in this decision, and the still more
tyrannical doctrine that tie Supreme Court
can make or unmake the law of the land, the
Republican party most solemnly protest.
While they admit fully, that in cases proper
lv before it, the decisions of the Supreme
Court of the United States is final, they
deny that beyond the case in which such de-
cision is made, the decision of that Court is
any more the law of the land, than decis-
ion of country Justice of tie Peace. Its
only weight outside Of the case Immediately
at issue, is such as is given to it by the in
tellectual power, and honesty of purI ose OF
! the Court, and the strength Of reasoning
used in support of the decision itselr.
Congress is one law-making power; the
| Supreme Court has no such duty to rer-
form. No law made by Congress even, is
/ irrepealable, when the people will its re-
peal. Neither Congress, nor the Supreme
! Court, nor the President arc above criticism
free discussion, and responsibility to the peo-
pie. The people should hold them all to a
strict responsibility. This is one of the
card:na! Doctrines of the Republican party
| In contradiction to these acts of the Dem
ocratic party, through their partizan Presi-
dent, their partizan Congress, and their par.
tizan Supreme Court, the Republican party
take the broad ground If LIBERTY, EouALI-
TY, FRATERNITY. While they will not in
ttrmcddle with the reserved rights of the
several States, they are determined that the
power of the Federal Union shall not be
welded to support and extend slavery
Their demand is no slavery in the Terrific
ries of the United State No more slave
/ States They believe "that the laborer i.
worthy of his hire;" that no man has rieh,
by force to take1 the labor Of another fol
his own benefit, and without compensation
They claim that there shall not be establish
ed by law a wealthy and privileged class, tt
ride rough shod over the laboring many.
They will not consent that labor in th'
free States shall be degraded by proximity
to and competition with slave labor.
Nor will they endorse another doctrine o
the Supreme Court in the Dred Scott case
Judge Taney there lays down the doctrin
that no one can be entitled to the benefits G
the Constitution, and be a citizen OF tn
United States, except those who were cit
zens at the adoption of the Constitution
and their descendants. This doctrin
must be law if the rest of that decisio
is, as the Democratic party claims, and thu
|, by this Democratic Court, every foreign Dor
person who has landed on these shores sine