The weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1852-1858, 1857-09-19
A democratic Opinion

The st. Louis Democrat, one WV 49,
intelligent, and, doubtless, the 'o'' ~, D.,
Of all the journals that SUPP .eu ~. 49,
chanan for the.Presidency, !cfn0tendorsc inc
doctrines of that gcntlemss letter 10 rrol'
Silliman and the forty NJ Ens'anu Clergy
men. The Democrat, tim DC re'ne,hoe''''
is one of the papers'f its party that mas
maintained unifor record. When 1t was
good Democratic 3ctrine to avow the right
of CONGRESS- to lake needful rules and regu-
,.t;ons FOR tbeIerritories, and when MIR. Dou-
plas declare. the Missouri Compromise to be
q b.l,o,va thing which no sacrilegious hand
,ro,,,d disturb. the Democrat was founded,
and trough all the changes and transmuta-
t;or, Of the last few years, it maintained It's
consistency, insisting upon the integrity OF
the old Democratic faith. Hence, though 1t
surported Mr.. Buchanan, with the mistaken
ida that he would restore the old dogmas
O. the party, we are not at all surprised to
find it arrayed in opposition to his ultra and
anti Democratic doctrines. 1t says:
The reply Of Mr.. Buchanan to number Of
gentlemen of New England, who addressed
him in behalf of the cause of freedom in Kan
cas- will be found in another column. We
have DELAYED its publication until now, hop
ing almost against hope that the official copy
would turn out somewhat different from the
telegraphic report; but that has been receiv-
cd and we find ourselves disappointed. 1t is
no;tber more nor less than solemn act Of
submission to the nullfiers at the South
Instead of being addressed to Mr.. Siliman,
= should have been addressed to Mr.. Keitt,
for it bears evidence in every line of having
been intended for the latter rather than the
former. The President is said to labor under
an obliquity of vision. If this be so, we can
well picture that in penning it the clear and
straight eye was leyelled at New Haven; the
cooked and sinister optic was cast upon
Charleston With nothing about it charac-
teristic of State paper, unless it be diplo-
matte combination of plausiblity and hypOc-
racy, it has yet the grave and deplorable as
| pect of document which reflects the cow
ardice and not the courage Of the country
1t shuns the facts which it processes to eluci-
date; it lodges behind conventional forms to
palIiate and uphold gross enormi les it is
oblivious to all the natural rights of men and
citizens; but yet can see the divinity of slave
ry clearly apparent in every syllable of the
constitution, and whilst it might exude with
propriety from the merest tapeworm in some
circumlocution Office, it is not fit to be put
forth as the voice Of the First Magistrate of
this nation. If it were simply a compromise
in advance with The .~.~eeIo.i Wing OF the W.
mocracy in the coming Congress, we might
treat it with lenency and contempt; but it
amounts to surrender to them of the fact,
the right, the doctrine, the government, and
what is more important still, the destiny and
liberties of all the territories of the Union,
and such breach of confidence should not
be passed over in silence. 1t was urged by
Mr. Buchanan's fiends as a reason why he
should be nominated by the Cincinnati Con-
vention, that he was compelled to cheat
somebody, and as matters stood, there was
none he could cheat save the disunionists-
his enemies' He has more than fulfilled ex-
pectaton. He has cheated both his enemies
and his friends. He began by deceiving the
radicals in his appointments he has ended
by deceiving the liberals in his administra-
ton. Even Brigham Young has been treat
ed to touch of duplicity in passing, for he
will find all his preparations to resist the
United States. and maintain his polygamous
kingdom in defiance of federal authorities, to
be labor thrown away, as the expedition to
Utah has been abandoned. The army will
be quartered for another year from Kansas