Preble County Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1857-1859, 1858-05-20
n-Mippesota. though to all interests

Bay Minnesota, though TO all interests
and purposes a member of the confed-
eracy, is denied by certain members of
the House that representation which, as
a State she is entitled to. Her two Sem
ators have been admitted into the SEN
ate but she is denied on the most un-
tenable and fimsy grounds-indeed, on
no grounds at all-her due and legiti-
mate representations in the lower brach
of Congress.
Now it will be borne in mind that
MINES, ia knocks for admission, and is
admitted into the Union not as a slave
State. IF this were so, the opposition
which she has met with from certain Re-
publican members, first against her adj
mission, and second against the admis-
sion in the House of her representatives,
could be reconciled with their former
declaration, that they would not vote to
admit any more slave States. They can
not get off on this Plea; but speak and
vote against the admission of a free
State with as much fervor as they did
but a short time since against the admis-
sion of slave States. This perhaps is
one step toward the nationalization of
the discordant elements of Republicans,
Know-Nothingism, &C., about which We
have heard so much of late. The most
ultra Southern ire-eaters could do no
more than to speak and vote against a
new State coming into the Union be-
cause she does not endorse the peculiar
institution" We know comparisons
are said to be odious, but we ask gen.
tlemen to compare their votes for the
admission of Kansas as a Stare STATE
with their recent vote against the adj
m ssion of Minnesota as a free Stade =
\ cursory view of their positions for
the last three months is certain :
y abusing to say the least. First
they deslare they will not vote to
admit any more slave States, second,
they vote to admit a slave State, and
third they vote to keep out a free State,
and when foiled in this vote to prevent
her having her Legitimate representation
in Congress.
These republicans are willy dogs, how
ever. The past has taught them that
no sectional party can hope to succeed
as long as there is 4 uni IN of Stltes,
and with the facility of old expeli,n'ed
t %rcticia ms, accustomed to ''chop round"
to suit the wind--they divest them
selves of every vcstage of their former
opposition to slavery and people now to
organize into a new party, based upon
o her n | distinctive grounds hun those
Of 1856! What the marked principle
o. prin ip!es of this new political mOl-
ster, now as it were in embryo, will be,
we confess we are unable to divine, but
from their recent actions We should
;hink they iced no fears of winning the
South over. All they have to do is to
point them to the record of their vote 10
admit Kansas as Il slave State and their
EOtc 10 eActuue Hllhhesota DccduSc shc
was Il free State. If the South ''refuse
20 be confortcd because they are not"
satisfied with such Southern principles
is these, then they are an ungrIteful set
Of dogs, that's all. To the North they
can point TO their persistent" and"con-
sistent" hostility to slavery and their
firm adherence to principle" and this
cannot fail to satisfy the most fastidi-
Gus Dayton Emp.