Saint Paul weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1858-1859, 1858-08-28
A German Editors Platform of Primer
pies.

Hdu TtCtuttN duOuSSe VIC
ed German writer orator, and editor ha'ne"
SAMUEL THEoPHILUs LUDvIGH, WHO mas '"">'
charge of the first established "ein''" "e"'
paper Of Minnesota-the Stda'S
published in St. Paul. As TINS se"''e'r""
will no doubt WELD in the future Il vast 'niiu-
once over the German mind OF this STATE
both tbroush his ability and honesty, we nave
obtained translation of a portion OF his
platform of principles; which VIII oe r'au
with interest. Notwithstanding the translation
is not very free one, but imbued more OF
less with German idloms and pecullartles Oh
expression. We subjom the translator
OUR PLATFORM
Victims speaks the Emperor, the King
by the Grace of God'-thus actresses the
NJ, march his subjects. rs an Individual III inc
first person of the plural. Thus speaks the
Journalist in bis paper TO the public. And
thus also. myself have fallen again, after
long pause, a victim under that rule of ad
dressing my readers with the modest plural
of WE-Therefore, zoe SAMUEL THEoPHIL
Lrpv1GH by the Grace of God, Journalist and
Editor since twenty-one years in America. as
a Democrat Of the Old stock, and as Material
Isl Of the ''Ertreme Lett we'll known to the
German public of our glorious Republic;
much beloved and much hated, falling in love
with the beautiful Minnesota have resolved
to settle in the City of st. Paul, after TWEEN
ty-eight years travelling in three parts of the
world-for pleasure, for adventure and in
business-to put down the wandering staff
for ever, for the sake of dedicating the rest
OF our DAYS to the education of our children,
and of publishing apaper-after having played
the part of a RetOrmer eleven years-a pa
Pc, the contents of which shall be Literature,
Politics and Macs; paper that although not
written :" for every man and for every woman,
and thus not calculating for the sympathy OF
the blind and rude masses, still shall be writ
ten in such style and manner that it may
be entitled TO count for large circulation
among the more intelligent and honest Ger
mans in these United States.
The press is mighty vehicle, and in the
hands of the Editors in free country there
are placed in high degree the public opinion,
the happiness ard the zoe of the State, erudi-
tion and ignorance, rirtue and corruption, com
fort and porerty, Independence and Narery of
Individuals "As the shepherd so are the
Sheep"
Whilst in Monarchies, with very few eXcep-
TONS the Press lies in letters, it was declared
free when this Republic was created, and so
also Speech. And free and honored has not
less to be here, "Labor" This declaration
constitutes the Alpha of our Platform upon
which our paper shall stand
Free speech, free press, demand freedom of
opinion for each indipidual IN politics as we'll
a. in Jeiief or disbelief, just as the notion of
free labor is Incompatible with the notion of
slavery and serfdom. Therefore, whoever
tries 10 suppress the Freedom Of the Press, of
Speech, and of Labor, does not know the
Alpha of Liberty and whosoever is forcing
the authority of his single will upon others, or
with the rights Of others in regard Of their
religious, political and social opinions, must
be considered Iyrant. Consequently, gene
raj liberty of opinion and of conscience is the
fundamental basis of this our Republic and
the State has in the only case of man in
fringing by acts the honor: the person, the
property and other rights of his fellow men
the authority to come forth as Judge and to
dictate punishment in the way of the law.
When, in free country, the Press, Liberty
of Speech, Labor AMI the Polls, have been de-
graded in the public 'pinon to slave; when
individuals must fear openly to express their
opinions, or to make the best of them at the
polls. out of consideration for their business
interests; when the worth of money is more
when labor is despised or debased to slave
work: when injured honor can find no right,
and the poor no justice; when neither persons
nor their property are sufficiently protected,
or the public councils are so corrupted, that
the citizens are obliged to take refuge to vigil
lance committees-wo then to that country
Liberty is there but an empty sound; and
alas, our own model Republic has entered
this phase
When we undertook the publication of the
"OH and Ner ITorld,7 at Philadelphia, in the
year of 1887, we were induced, by the crisis
brought on by swindling banks, as we'll as by
the compromise which should prevent the
extending of slavery in the western territories,
to adopt and defend the principles of the
Democratic party. Whilst we were publish
ing the "Herat," at Baltimore, in 1912 and
1943, We continued the same platform, aud
though we patronized the theories of the diff
ferent agitations of enthusiastlcal workmen
and their radical platforms expect
ing from them, practically, gratifying result
remained nevertheless true in word and
writing to the Democratic party, until the
year 1854, when the Democrats, by abolition
of the Missouri Compromise and the passage
of the Kansas Nebraska Act, as we'll as by
the Dou las squatter doctrine of sovereignty,
gave up their own platform in regard to slav-
cry
=. - ne has the least right to stigmatize as
faithless and treacherous the many friends OF
Jefferson's principles, wao at the time of the
mighty change of public o.; ION, during the
last disputes at election cat with the new
Republican party that adopted in their plat
form those principles which the Democratic
party. headed by Douglas and consorts, had
marked out of their old platform. Facts may
be denied or COMPOUNDED by sophistry, but
cannot possibly be refuted by reasons.
As long as there is shade of freedom in