The weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1852-1858, 1858-02-06

The Spell DissOlving-Gov. Wise and
the South and North.
The Charleston Mercury is the welLknown
leading organ of the South Carolina Democ-
racy. This paper seems powerfully ard
painfully exercised at the recent letter OF Gov
WISE Of Virginia, to the Tammany Democ-
racy. in which be took ground against the
Administration on the Lecompton Constitu-
ton. 1t is rebellion against the ultra South
ern factionists from new quarter, as unlock
ed for as novel. The Mercury thus groans
over the Virginia Governors delinquency:
"This erratic politician has recently written letter
to the Tammany Socie ty OF New York. His theme is
Kansas affairs the position he takes is almost den-
with that occupied by Douglas whom he undertakes
to defend in all hi, unprincipled demagogusm ana
treachery. Douglas desired to hold fast to his Senaor
al seat Wise is an asprant for the Presidential chair
and In the great national caucus to nominate Demo-
candidate the party however broken down at the
North represented fully from each Northern State
and the gift of Office is In their hands For It
is necessary to pdnder to Northern feeling. Ireach
cry to the South T. the nigh road q grssrnsnt The
| the Emgrant Aid Societies and the accomplishment Of
their work in Kansas, telling mocs against the po-
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bring In Kansas under the Lecompton Constitution. 1t
affords aid and comfort all the shutting icksters and
trimmers Of the Southern Democracy in Congress. II
Kansas II lost this letter Will have had its eject In pro-
ducing that result"
There is a world Of meaning in all this
When in this Union it ic for even once con-
coded, that to gain political success, it is pol
icy to ''pander to Northern feeling the
times are indeed out Of joint-s new era
has arrived. 1t is we'll known that for years
past no politician has sought the Presiden-
tal chair except over the shoulders of the
South. To do something for the South was
sine qua non to prcierment To be suspect
ed of the slightest aversion to slavery, or to
utter doubts as to its divine origin, was to be
denounced as an Aboltionist; and no Con-
vention would nominate, nor President ap-
paint nor Senate confirm to Office any man
who ever so slightly incurred the odium of
this dreaded cognomen. The South was ev-
erywhere master. 1t waved whip over not
merely black slaves, but myrads of white
ones, whose faces 1t moulded into expressive
men as easy as the baker shapes dough to
ii, purpose. The South had but to speak
and every Northern politician implicitly
o.c.ei, Aud Why was thi> >o2 BE a;,se
tie. Ia,t,r wanted the ,tic,s o. the hattie
ana the savei OILERS by their uiity aid o"e-
ness of action f., med The balance IF power
in the nation which invariably brought Vito
tory to the standard they esp use'i. They
moved together in a consolidated form, sort
of Greek phalax, with their peculiar iisti-
tuition in the center. At the North it was
different. The North had no common object,
but was divided by questions in nu wise Sec
tional. 1t was not a power by itself. 1t oc-
cupied no positi IN, politically, commensurate
with its population or its wealth. Is it sur
prising, therefore, that to the South all aspi
rants for every high office, but especially for
the highest office in the gift of the people,
should obsequiously bend the knee?-or that
the degree of serviiiy and sycophancy some
Of them exhibited was most disgusting to oil
right minded persons The god Of Malnmon
has always had the meanest as we'll as the
most devout of worshippers. The South it.
self has acknowle lged that Northern dema-
gogues were often more ultra in their South \
ern views than their own fire-eaters-they
out Heroded uerod
All this while, however that the tricksters
and dough faces were playing their game that
thrift might falow fawning," absorbed in
the moves of this or that piece on the poll
teal checker-board, they forgot there was a
great community behind them that had re-
served the right to think-and II necessary
to act for themselves and that this commu-
nifty were not slaves nor greatly in favor Of
such an institution for others; and might
not foreuer tolerate their leaders in fostering
for personal ends, the slavery element in our
country spreading itself over whole CONT
nent that was BY Gods plain decree the
rghtful domain of freedom only.
But at last the denouemem came. Long
suffering brought at length its reckoning of
wrath. The political gamblers at Washing
ton were Weakened up on the 4th of Noyem-
Der, lc56, by the astounding vote of millions
in favor of Fremont, to the fact, that there
was North in this country as we'll as
South, that the North had formed phaIanx
around its "pecaliar institution" liberty!
and that hereafter there were two deities in
the land-God and Moloch
Here was plainly the commencement of
new era in the growth of our country. 1t ,
was the advent Of new geological age in
our politics. There was sedimentary de-
post over the land from the ebulition of pop-
uar rage in consequence of the Slavery ex. =.
tension schemes of the South, which over
whelned thousands of politicians in its de pths,
10 be known no more except perhaps AS Gu
Gus TO sis to Succeeding generations. Here
mi there IN 10 litjes there were tremendous =
iparavcs Of tlc political >tr,t a4l tnc
nounainouS cllnal AMI ait-cli mi axis If DO :
lar ndi,nttl1n startled into outward re-
en- ance many hundred sinners. am
et many others inqnirng diligently what
hey should d. t. be saved One of these
after Was STEPHEN A. DOUGLAS HIMSELF
n the former age, with the old notion OF
Southern invincibiity in his head. he deter =
mined to farther than the fartherst in SER
lity to the South, seeing his way, as he :.
bought, clear to the doors of the white \
ouse. Alas, the futility of human hopes! I"
The experience of the past Was Of no avail :"
4 new power had entered upon the field of y
'attle. Might and Butcher" had both ar
lived. A something had been at work in