The emigrant aid journal of Minnesota. [volume] (Nininger City, Minn. Terr. [i.e. Minn.]) 1856-1858, 1858-01-13
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eessary TO have larger quarters provided. The change
ol room will not take place. however, until after next
meeting night; the socie.y wi therefore meet as usral
in Fremont Block, next Monday evening.
Sca,e delay occurred in opening the meeting by the
unavoidable absence OF the worthy President and Vice
President. After calling the society TO order, and
the tfansassiag mnai~A hs~ usual preliminary business,
the chairman announced ths: an essay would he read
BY Jos. HnA*ouse!.a Esq~ 1fhc gentleman then came
torw' sd lapd without any offshe usual common place
and silly excuses, usual on such occasions, stated that
he would iavite the attention of the audience for \ few
minutes 80 some remarks on, 8 Human Nature and / u
man Passions
The subject WAS kaudlcd with great ski, and its
prac zeal hints were Of a kind to be usefully applied IN
everyday life the gentleman sought rather to instruct
than amuse his hearers, ard the satisfaction expressed
By them justified his expectations, that his efforts were
appreciated. We came. speak OF the subject just now.
but expect to present. it in full at some future time.
The debate followed the reading of the essay the
question for the evening, g Is the Doctrine Of Popular
Sovereignty i'll its extreme bearing, tenabie = was then
stated, and tie chair called Mr.. Donnelly to the aoor
As the leading ~disputant on the affirmative side. MIR.
D.. preferred 10 assert, jiu opening the debate, that the
position he was to ma'n'ain was impregnable, and. was
the foundation stone Of our government, aud inherently
iast and right, ana in maintaining this, it was for his op-
pouents, and not him, to show that the doctrine he ad-
vocated had any extieme bearing that was ~antenable,
Mr.. Beswick, then led off on the negative side, TAX
M ground that popular Sovereignty in its extreme
tendency was q falaoy--an ahsardity,; he cited tie
position Of Kans.s where the majority at one time had
made laws to maintain their authority after another and
larger influx of ~emigrants should have placed the con-
troll in the hands Of their opponents. In this case an
accidental majority might make laws that should give
the power forever thereafter in the hands OF a minority
and they could by enacting odious laws drive from
their borders the large class who might seek to enter
and form different institutions. Concentrating vices
and vile practices could at any time be established by
an extreme Interpretation of the doctrine Of Popular
Sovereignty, by a few misguided Or wicked parties, and
forever hold in lawless subsection a large territory
cases that were to be cited in the career Of Kansas
and Utah. These, he held, were instances Of the doc
trine that were untenable. - .7,.e} e8i .a e~aq
- Several gentlemen followed on either side, but they
had evidently left the main weight of the argument to
be advanced by their respective leaders what they did
say was to carry Out the points already stated, without
aiding in the exposition OF the question.
Mr.. Donnelly reioined, and with adroit language ap.
peared to have disposed of all the objections and from
them even sought to strengthen his own side. A new
speaker, by permission, gave 1t as his view, that a mob
might override constitution and laws, because in a tenn
porary majority, and were j~usti6able, if the doctrine OF
the Affirmative were right. This and kindred lllustra-
tions were disposed of by the Affirmative as excrescences
warts and wens ON a we'll formed body-and not pro-
perly pertaining to the system. y7l@a t'4.
But a declaration of one gentleman on the affirmative
could not be overcome he thought that the abclitionists
should not be allowed to rule even if they were in the
majority, When the question on the merits OF the de.
bate was put to the audience, it was given to the mega
tive. g. rs .rehsf 4t ."
Some fine sallies of wit and repartee enliyened the
debate, and caused peals of laughter from the audience.
So delighted were they all that the hour Of eleven ar
rived before they broke up. Seventeen new members
were added to the Society. -
The following question was selected for next weeks
debate, 81 Is Capital Punishment ~justi6able 2 Dispn-
tants-J..H: Garlic, affirmative Anthony Reed, mega
tive-with six assistants on each side. H7t3a H<
Henry Calef was invited and accepted to deliver an
essay at the next meeting. .
Among the audience were some ladies, many others
were deferred from venturing ont on account OF the
snow that had just fallen. ~
+ Mean Temperature at ST. Paul, i'm Dec. 1857,
ehs compared With the last 81 years.
We cut the following paragraph from the Philadel,
paia Ea9x;rer, which first appeared ia The New York
Tribune, and is going the rounds of the Press at the
East: .,.ts .l t.e.E ST. tn
nat St. Paul, Minnesota, the thermometer on the Sd
inst had sunk to "2.o below zero, and there had been
good ~sleighipg for q fortnight. The Mississippi was
frozen into hard highway
On looking oyer our files, We find the temperature on
Thursday, Dec, 3, recorded as follows : 6 A. NJ. ~ de.
|kTees, | r. M. s32,6 P. NJ. 26-averagc temperature on
That day, 1856 degrees. So far from the mercury sink
ing below zero on that day. it was 10 above in the
morning, the coolest part of the day. At no time DUR
ing the past month has the mercury fallen below zero.
coolest period was on the morning Of the 22d, when
The mercury was one above zero. The warmest day was
the 18th when twas 46 degrees. Average temperature
during the month a. 6 A NJ. 1909 degrees, at 6 P. NJ.
p .29-gegeral average &c. 40 degrees. IL
In 1856, the coolest day in the month Of December
was on the Goth, when it was 20 degrees below zero,
sand the warmest was on. the 10th, 80 degrees above
sAsersge temperature at 6 Am. Ii deg. below, 'atl II I.
N. Is. Is, at 8 P. M.ll064--gcneral1 average S.44 de-
grees. tsa ~.o9s as la3sdt W. AHs sa.sfsa. .aj
: In 1856 the coolest day was December "a, when it
was So below the warmest on December 4, AZ degrees
above. Average temperature at 6 A. n 2'3S, ut / P
r. 1906, at g. P. NJ. III .294@gencral average 99l de-
grees. as1gue 4 S. tgs4 s6J 81 taiag tsgIi9 abaa 4tl
l. We compile the following table from the Army Me.
teorolegical Register; showing the temperature during
the month Of December, from 1919 down to 1854, as
indicated by the thermometer at Fort Snelling. six miles
from St. Paul.. We have supplied the years of'55, SO
aid 81 from our own recosd. 80 h 1lF@ 1929
Dec, 1879 5000 deg. Dec; 1889 22.05 deg
h " 1920 . 1883 I "'}a!'.4 1910 d 24H I"
3" s1s2rsseo 1855 p" .@:'".lS4l~ 1878