Saint Paul weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1858-1859, 1858-11-06

the free white citizen into amalgamatiOn with
his wronged and despised race.
The Democratic party condemned and de-
posed John Quincy Adams, because he ex-
pended twelve millions year, while it justi-
hes his favored successor in spending seventy
millions, eighty Millions and even an hundred
millions year. 1t denies emancipation in
the District of Columbia, even with cOmpens-
alton to masters and the consent of the peO-
pie, on the ground of an implied constitution
al inhibition, although the constitution eX-
pressly confers upon Congress sovereign leg
lslatlve power in that district, and although
the Democratic party is tenacious of the prin-
clple OF strict construction. 1t violated the
express provisions of the Constitution in sup
pressing petition and debate on the subject of
slavery through fear of disturbance of the
public harmony, although it claims that the
electors have right to instruct their repre-
sentatives, and even demand their resignation
In cases OF cOntumacy. 1t extended slavery
over Texas and cOnnived at the attempt to
spread it across the Mexican territories, even
to the shores of the Pacific Ocean, under
plea OF charging the area of freedom. 1t alb
rOgated the Mexican slave law and the Mis-
sour Compromise prohibition of slavery in
Kansas, not to open the new territories to
| DuC IcW idSClll-
| ating theories of NOn-lnterventiOn and POpu-
lar Sovereignty and finally it overthrow both
these new and elegant systems by the English
LecomptOn bill and the bred Scott decision,
on the ground that the free States ought not
to enter the Union without a population equal
| to the representative basis of one member OF
Congress, although slave States might come
in without inspection as to their numbers.
Will any member of the Democratic party
now here claim that the authorities chosen by
the suffrages of the party, transcribed their
partiZan platforms; and so misrepresented the
party in the various transactions have rect
| ed? Then ask him to name the Democratic
! statesman or legislator, from Van Buren, to
Walker, who either timidly or cautiously, like
them, or boldly and defiantly, like Douglas,
ever refused to execute behest of the slave
holders, and was not therefore, and for no
| other cause, Immediately denounced, and
| deposed from his trust, and repudiated by
the Democratic party for that contumacy.
| think, fellow citizens, that have shown
you that it is high time for the friends of free
dom, to rush to the rescue of the Constitution,
and that their very first duty is to dismiss the
| Democratic party from the Administration of
| the Government.
Why will it not be done? All agree that it
ought to be DONE What then shall prevent
its being done? Nothing but timidity or di-
vision of the opponents of the Democratic par
ty.
Some Of these opponents start one objection
and some another. Let US notice these objec-
| tons briefly. One class say that they cannot
trust the Republican party, that it has not
! avOwed its hostility to slavery boldly enough,
OF its affection for freedom earnestly enough.
| ask in reply, is there any party which
can be more safely trusted? Every one
knows that it is the Republican party, or none,
| that shall displace the Democratic party. But
! | answer further, that the character and fidel-
ity Of any party are determined, necessarily,
not by its pledges, programmes and platforms,
but 10y the public exigencies, and the temper
of the people when they call it into activity.
Subserviency to slavery, is law written, not
only on the forehead Of the Democratic party,
but also in its very soul-so resistance to
slavery, and devotion to freedom, the pOpOpu
lar elements now actively working for the Re-
publican party among the people, must and
will be the resources for its ever renewing
strength, and constant invigOratiOn.
Others cannot support the Republican par
ty, because it has not sufficiently exposed its
platform and determined what it will do and
| what it will not do, when triumphant. 1t
may prove too progressive for some and too
conservative for others. AS if any party
ever foresaw so clearly thescourse of future
events as to plan an universal scheme for flu
ture action, adapted to all possible emergen-
cies. Who would ever have joined even the
Wing party of the Revolution, if it had been
obliged to answer, in 1875, whether it would
declare for independence in 1776, and for this
noble Federal Constitution of ours, in 1887,
and not year earlier or later?
The people of the United States will be as
wise next year, and the year afterwards, and
even ten years hence, as we are now. They
will oblige the Republican party to act as the
public welfare and the interests of justice and
humanity shall require, through all the stages
of its career, whether of trial or triumph.
Others will not venture an effort because
thew fear that the Union would not endure the
change. Will such directors tell me how long
Constitution can bear strain directly along
the fbres of which it is composed? This is a
Constitution of Freedom. 1t is being convert
ed into Constitution of Slavery. 1t is Re-
publican Constitution. 1t is being made an
Aristocratic one. Others may wish to wait
until some collateral questions concerning tenn
perance or the exercise Of the elective fran
chisc are properly settled Let me ask all such
persons whether time enough has not been
wasted on these points already, without gain
ingany other than this single advantage, name
ly, the discovery that only one thing can be
eifectually done at one time, and that the one
thing which must and will be done at any one
time is just that thing which is most urgent
and will no longer admit of postpcnement or
delay Finally, we are told by the faint heart
ed men that they despond, the Democratic
party they say is unconquerable, and the do
minion of Slavery is consequently inevitable
| reply to them, that the complete and univer-
sal dominion of Slavery would be intolerable
enough when it should have come after the
last possible effort at escape should have been
made There would in that case be left to us
the consolng reflection of fidelity to duty.
But | reply further, that ! know-few |
think know better than 1.-THE resources and
the energies of the Democratic party, which is
identical with the Slave Power do ample
prestige to its traditional popularity. know
further-few | think know better than THE
disadvantages and difficulties of organizing a
new political force like the Republican party,
and the obstacles it must encounter in labor
ing without prestige and without patronage
But notwithstanding all this, know that the
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Republican party must rise into its place.
The Democratic party derived its strength
originally from its adoption of the principles
of equal and exact justice to all lnen. SO long
as it practised this principle faithfully, it was
| invulnerable when it renowned it, and since
that time it has maintained itself, not by virtue
of its own strength, or even of its traditional
merits, but because there as yet appeared in
the political field no other party that had the
conscience and the courage to take up and
avow and practice the life inspiring principle
which the Democratic party had surrendered.
At last the Republican party has appeared.
1t avows now, as the Republican party of
1900 did, in one word, its faith and its works:
equal and exact justice to all men," Even
when it first entered the field, only half Or
ganzed, it struck blow which only just fail
ed to secure complete and triumphant victo-