Minnesota weekly times. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1854-1859, 1857-03-21
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On The Asss Monday in June, tho people q
This Territory vim be called upon to elect dsls-
gates. vhs viii eenvsne in this city and form :
State Cpnstit)Sn, preliminary to admission q Z
State. INN such an important event before us,
it becomes all the friends Of Free Territory ~
look around them, organise for action, and send
the watchwords Of encouragement along the ranks
Of the great Republican army in Minnesota.
A contemporary (Black Democracy says in the
midst Of red.hot exhortation :-"It is fact,
which even the Republican prints will hardly deny,
that large majority Of the population of our
Territory are Democrats" That sshardly" is
we'll put in, but We should emphatioally protest
against that, II the assertion did not bear re
diculous falsity in it, very utteranoe. Its easy
to state platitudes- easy to plunge into whirl-
pool of sophistriss, sbsurdities and humbugs-
but to coax the Public to plunge in too, is not 90
easy. The people Of the Territory knos0 that Re-
publicspism is in the ascendant; they know that
q year ago the Administration had the major
ity in the House, while the last session of the
Legislature thoy had no majority, and they feel
that the Douglas Democracy in Minnesota is
doomed! Then again, the great mass Of the in
flowing tide of immigration here last summer
that could not vote at the Legislative election
in November, will have acquired the right Of fran
chise, and will exercise that right, at the coming
election of delegates. OF this great body of 70.
tiers, more than four-6fths are from the Free
States and Germany, very large majority of
whom are sterling Republicans. So that we can
safely assume-and facts will sustain the posi-
tion-thst, of the very large body Of men who
have sought this Territory within year, and
who have now acquired the right to vote, three
fourths will to-day be found enrolled in the Re-
publican ranks. We look with all confidence to
the success of our party at the delegate election,
and expect that our Douglas Stringfellow cotem.
porary will whine and shuttle Immediately after
wards, and lay it's defeat to the lethargy Of its
party, caused by ga consciousness Of superior
strength"
But with our evident numerical advantage, we
must not forget the necessity Of retaining it.
Schisms and contentious will defeat US. Let not
spark of discord be nourished and kept alive !;
or, like kindled blaze on the prairie, it will en-
velop our hopes and consume our strength. A
family of ants, working in harmony under the or.
ganization of joint stock company, build a city
of hillocks united swarms of the little ocean in
sect rear their magnificent castles, and heave up
islands of beauty and fertility into the sunshine;
but whole armies of men, at war, leave behind
them nothing but disease, desolation and death.
Nothing but distraction can defeat US nothing
but union can give US victory.
Our enemies-in the Territory and outAare,
for once, divided and COMPOUNDED. Democracy
is down at the heel. 1t is slip-shod and uneasy |;
stiff in the joints and weak in the back. What
with Bully Brooks achievement, the Kansas diff
6cuties, and the election of wster-gruel Feder-
alist by the representative vote of 1000 900 mig
gers Democracy is completely sick Of its own
medicine. Even the Nebraska bill--the great
embodiment of Democratic principles-seems to
be an enigma. One of the organs explains the
difference between "squatter sovereignty" and
spopular sovereignty )" another thinks the 'sov-
ereigns' ought to rule under the Instructions 81
Congress, and subject to its dctation, and yet
another insists that there's no sovereignty about
it unless the people can govern themselves indie
pendent of all Congressional action. So the Un-
terrified are fussing and fighting over their own
darling, and the squatter philosophy is so strange.
ly distorted and disfgured and jumbled together
that it's nearest friends cannot identify it. The
desperate recklessness with which the Democracy
pushed their measures in the last campaign, are
re-acting with doubled vengeance upon them
selves; while the principles of Republicanism are
widening, and deepening, and strengthening in
the hearts of the whole American people.
An ardent Republican is chosen U. s. Senator
over the fllibuster Forney in Democratic Penn
sylvania; few dozen doughfaces have been
passed over to the undertaken; 'sabolition''
newspapers are being started in oil the frontier
Southern States, that will be the fearless Repre-
sentatives of the black and of the no less degra-
ded and oppressed poor white slaves who sit SER
vile and dumb beneath the shadow of reckless
Usurpation.
Franklin Pierce dealt death.blow to the Dem.
ocratic party. Like blind Titan, be has struck
his arrows deepest in the hearts Of his fondost
friends, and the throne is filed now with anoth.
or, from whose administration We may not ex.
poet much better fruits. He is squint-eyed time
alone can determine whether he is squint-brsined
and squint-heartsd as we'll. He is disappointed
in love and grey-headed in years il be does not
prove grey-headed in sins we shall be disappoint-
cd also. But the People remember his Ostend
Circular and his tapping of ''Democratio blood, !"
and they expect the same feeble, sickish, water
Cruel imbecility the Same dilly-dallying and
doubls-shufaing which tipped Frank Pierce up
side down, and turned rs into two hostile ma
tions, North nnd South. t
Republicans of Minnesota Shall we meet our
Free State brethren halfway? Shall we present
ourselves at the gate of the Union with a Consti-
tuition which recognizes no distinction of creed
or eolor-nothing but broad platform on which
al mankind can stand in the light of universal
brotherhood? We can do it! But we must have
% many eyes as Argus, and as many arms as Bril-
areus, to conquer the iniidious foe which has
ut.generalled Us go many times, and defeated US
through its very subtlety. If we will be earnest,
il We will be united, if we will be consistent,
con6ding and courageous, we can add glorious
star to the Free American galaxy, beneath whose
warm rays the oppressed of all nations can bask,
and in the light of which Humanity shall grow
strong! Then, Republicans all, let US resolve
to press forward to the front ranks of religious,
personal and political freedom! Let US forge
bright link in our country's history! Let us