The weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1852-1858, 1858-02-06
The Spell DissOlving-GOV. Wise and
the South and North.

leading organ of the South Carolina Democ-
racy. This paper seems powerfully aid
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 factonists 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 Soc iety of New York. His theme Is
Kansas affairs the position he takes is almost den
tical with that occupied by Douglass whom he undertakes
to defend in all his unprlnciPled demag1gu ism ana
al seat. Wise is asprant for the Presidential chair
and in the great national caucus to nominate Demo-
cratic candidate the party however broken down at the
North is represented fully from each Northern State
and the gift of Office is in their hands For success it
is necessary to pander to Northern feeling Treach
ery to the South is the high road of preferment The
stand taken by the Governor Of Virginia in behalf Of
the Emgrant Aid Societies and the accomplishment Of
their work in Kansas, is telling more against the po
sition and efforts of all true Northern Democrats to
bring Kansas under the LecomptOn Constitution 1t
affords aid and comfort TO all the shung icksters and
trimmers Of the Southern Democracy in Congress II
Kansas lost this letter will have had its effect In pro-
ducng that result"
There IS a world of meaning in all this
When in this Union it ic for even once con-
ceded, that to gain political success, it is pol
icy to 'pander to Northern feeling" the
times are indeed out of joint-a new era
has arrived. 1t is we'll known that for years
past no politician has sought the Presden-
tial 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 Abolitionist; 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 myriads of white
ones, whose faces 1t moulded into expressive
appreciation of its schemes Of aggrandise-
men as EASY as the baker shapes dough to
j.. purpose. TIE Sou,h had but t. spe k
and every \ 'lthcfn iuit'ciaa rap 'clly
."tei, .lni Wy was tnI> % lie aliC
tur Ltt,r wanted tAc 'lirr> tnc hattie
an the siaNct OILERS hy iheit atty a;.d uie-
nrSs II action, + med !he balance uf ;y;wer
in tie nation winch invariably 5r"noht vito-
tory to the standard they esp use.i. They
moved together in consolidated form, a sort
Of a Greek phalax, with their peculiar in,ti-
tItiOn' in the center. At the North 1t was
different. The North had no common object,
but was divided by questions in No wise sec
tional. IL was not power by itself. 1t oc-
cupied no positi m, politically, commensurate
with its population or It's wealth. Is il sur
prising, therefore, that to the South all aspi
rants for every high office, but especially Tor
the highest office in the gift of the people,
should obsequiuusy bend the knee?-or that
the degree of serviliiy and sycophancy some
OF them exhibited was most disgusting to al
right minded persons ? The god Of Mammon
has always had the meanest as well as the
most dcvout 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-th they
out IIeroded llerod
All this while, however, that the tricksters
and dough faces were playing their game that
"thrift might falIow fawning," absorbed in
the moves of this Or that piece on the poll
teal checker-board, they forgot there was
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 .toreuer tolerate their leaders in fostering
for personal ends the slavery element in our
country spreading itself over whole CONT
nent that was b, Gods plain decree the
rightful 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 wakened up on the 4tl of Novem-
Der, 1c56, 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 "Eecaliar institution" liberty!
and that hereafter there were two deities in
the land-God and Moloch
Here was plainly the commencement of a
new era in the growth of our country. 1t
was the advent Of new geological age in
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posit over the land from the ebulitlon of pop
ular rage, in consequence of the Slavery ex
tension schemes of the South, which over
whelmel thousands ofpnliticlans in its dc, ,ths
to be known no more except perhaps AS GU
Gus 70 Ills To Surcrc ling ,ener ,tiou>. II re
nj t.crr nt 10 ',lit;s th-rc :,tie trcmcl dous
'',.a-av-, of ;Iy political ~tr4t t.r
niol al ,r,,s cnll .nl IA IT eli al aXi- Il 30 =
la n'iI n tl.n Sa ti,d ntO oltwari r.
~ ancc man q hn.drcd >inuers. ani
st many "tncrs isQuiring diligently what
they shOnlI d. t, be saved. One of these
latter WIS SrAPHEN a. DvuGLas himSelf-
in the former age, with the old notion OF
Southern nvincibility in his head. he deter
mined to farther than the fartherst IN ser
Witty to the South, seeing his way, as he
thought, clear to the doors of the VIII te
house. Alas, the futiity of human hopes !!
The experience of the past Was Of no avail
A new power had entered upon the field of
battle. Might and Blucher" had both ar
rived. A some hing had been at work in
the bosoms Of the yeomanry of the North
that had not entered into his cacuations-a
something he had never counted upon. A
something which could neither be bought,