Saint Paul weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1858-1859, 1859-03-12

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Acertain large manufacturing firm in Phila-
delphia, write to the President, that if he win
force the Secretary Of the Navy to give them
. contract, in defiance Of law Of Congress,
they will use means to elect to Congress his
friend, Mr.. Florence. The President sends
for the Secretary; the gentlemen get the con-
tract, and Mr.. Florence is elected through in
fiuences thus procured yet this is not trea-
son. The rights of the people are invaded,
the elective franchise becomes mere mock
ely, the public funds "buy out the law" and
the executive candidate, though obnoxious to
every good citizen, finds seat in Congress.
This is not in our country treasonl Less
than this, however caused Anglo Saxon blood
to rebel, drove James II . wanderer from his
country. The very parliament which he At
tempted to corrupt with money, and place
Sent him an outcast into France.
In our Republic, under the Constitu-
ton, all power resides with. the peo-
pie; hence the policy of our political dem
agogues to corrupt and demoralize the source
from which this power emanates. Millions of
the public treasure are annually disbursed
broadcast over the land for this express DUR
pose; for the purpose of enabling the minor
ity to rule and trample down the rights of the
majority. How far this work Of, corruption,
and ruin of the national character has sue
ceeded let the universal complaint of thecoun-
try respond
With all these facts before the country, and
pressed home to each individual until he feels
his own humiliation in the national degenera.
cy, is it not time for the country to abandon
that old political fiction of denouncing foreign
governments! This ancied hatred of some
imaginary enemy, constantly preached by
democratic clergy, has been the most endur-
ing, popular and cheap capital for the rank on
o file of their army, that could have been in
vented. This is the common peoples plank
in their platform, and is usually sufficient to
cement them together, while as John G. CAL
houn remarked, the cohesive attraction of
public plunder" binds their leaders. Grotius
said, long ago, that his country was, held up
by inflaming the common people against Aus
tria, and similar cheap trick is played off by
democracy upon her numerous votaries.-
They are driven in bits and binders manu-
featured at Washington, and when harnessed
to the political car, are never permitted to see
the real driver. He calls in his vassals to
curse tyrants, Britishers, everything foreign,
and they curse vociferously, Thus favoring the
intriguer in political fctions, and unconscious
~ aiding in the destruction of Republic
their posterity will never be able to restore.
The present so-called democratic rule. is a
system of deception, intrigue, perfdy and
every Infamous quality that the baseness of
human nature has ever developed. Firmly
believe that rather than loose power, and in
this assertion 1 include the President, the par
ty would spread fire and sword, havoc and
devastation to every section of the Union
The party is now many-headed tyrant, that
rules in anarchy, disorder, and confusion. It
sets at defiance the will of the people, admits
Senators in violation of the Constitution, and
against the protest Of a sovereign State; it
makes new States and rejects others in disre-
gard of all law of justice or right, and yet
calls itself demos krateo-the people govern.
tits farce, a lie, a scandals.and outrage upon
the intelligence of the world. Let us under
stand, that we may have no more imposiIons
from this demos krateo,- this miserable bur-
lesque and fiction upon the good sense and
confidence Of the people. Institute the right
words dsoide ct impera, and then we recognize
the enemy under his true colors Aye divide
and ruh,-break up the confederacy, destroy
all the landmarks of society, bring on dis
cord' dissentions, animosities, local jealousies,
war, pestilence and famine, and out of these
coin modern definition for the so-called de-
mocracy.
tell you sir, that it will come to this, (ae;
averti) unless the people arouse themselves in
time, and resume that power of which they
have 80 long been defrauded, and sweep from
the Pagoda these filthy mock idols, the off.
spring of heresy and treason, and prove to
the world that the principle demos krateo-
the people. governs redeemed and restored
to the Republic in all its original vigor.
MINNEsoTUs.