Saint Paul weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1858-1859, 1859-09-03


4. A Territory is an inchoate and incon
plete government. The Sovereignty rests
the government of the Union, which has pow
er of appointing the chief officers.
.. Therefore, as the government OF tn
Union, in which rests the real Sovereignty
according to the latest judicial constructio
OF the Constitution, recognizes slavery as
Nationafinstitution, the Territory, its creatur'
must recognize it, and recognizing it, mus
protect it!T !fr { .ou- ...-.- b.. .l...
6. Therefore, it becomes the inperitiv
duty of Congress, in the absence ofthe Terr
torial protection, to pass Code for the Pro
lection of Slavery in the Territories, whethe
the people Of the Territs ries ask for the inst
tuition or not. HaL '
"To this complexion you must come at last"
Slavery, under the Constitution, will,
Democracy is successful, De forced upon eve
ry foot of Free Territory, and the Congress Q
the United States will become the instrumen
to spread, not Freedom, but Perpetual Servi
tude!
But in the progress of mind, intelligence
virtue, religion, the South-you may pause
fellow citizens in astonishment-the Demo
cratic South, has, in regard 70 the abstrac
fieht of their peculiar institution, gone stel
backward in the path principle. "Thos
whom the Gods would destry they first max
mad" The South has now discovered tina
the Institution of Slavery, instead of being
subject for palliation or apology, as in the past
is Great and Noble System! They pro
claim boldly that it is the natural condition o
the labOring men of all races and colors; tina
the poor white laborer of the North would be il
better condition if reduced and sold into sla
very,-that the ''institution" should be spreat
and that one universal millennium and jubile,
will follow. Read the following extract show
ing the views Of Southern Democratic presses
and Democratic Statesmen:
"We have to say that so valuable is South
ern slavery, in itself, so wholesome and salu
tary in an industrial and social point of view
and so conservative ofrational, true and sounC
Democracy, that we believe it's defence, it,
propagation and extension, should be required
as an essential part of the Democratic Greco
in all sections We spurn the idea that it is
sectional." ."-Neao Orleans Delta, 1857.
Andrew johnson of Tennessee lately spoke
as follows in the United States Senate:
"When you form community out of indl
viduals, they commence at once production
intellectual and physical; and as society
moves on through time, we find some occupy
ing the lower places and some occupying the
higher places. | do not care whether you
call 1t slavery or servitude; the man who has
menial Offices to perform, is the slave or the
servant, care not whether he is white OF
black. 4ervitude or slavery grows out of the
organic arncture of man. All the talk we
hear in depreciation of slavery is idle, and a
great portion of it mere twadde. Slavery ex-
lists; it is an snxredient of society, growing
out of mans mental and physical organization
and the only question for us to discuss is,
what kind of slavery shall we have. Will
you have white or black slavery? Shall it be
voluntary or involuntary2'
Take next the following extract from the
speech of Governor Hammond of South Car.
olina in the United States Senate on the 4th
March, 1858:
In all social systems there must be a
class to do the menial duties, to perform the
drudgeries of life; that is class requiring
but low order of intellect, and but little
skill. Its requisites are vigor, docility, fidel.
ity. Such class you must have, or you
would not have that other class, which leads
progress, civilization and refinement. 1t con-
stitutes the very mudsill of society and of po-
litical government. And you might as well
attempt to build house in the air, as to build
either the one OF the other except on this mud.
sill.
The Senator from New York said the sfher
day, that the whole world had abolished sla.
very. Ay, the name, but not the thing. All
the powers of the earth cannot abolish that
God only can do it when he repeats the .fat,
"the poor you have always with you;" for
the man who lives by daily labor and scarcely
lives at that, and who has to put out his labor
in the market, and take the best he can get for
it; in short, your whole class Of manual labor
ers, operatives as you call theza. are essen
tally slaves. Our slaves are black, sf another
and inferior race. They are happy, content,
and utterly incapable fren intel.
leetual weakness, ever to give us any trsable
by their aspirations. Yours are white, oi
you own race you are brothers of one blood.
They are your equals in natural endowment OF
intellect, and they feel CALLED by their degra-
dation. Our slaves do not vote. We give
them no political power. Yours do vote, and
being the majority, they are the repositories
Of all your political power.'
The sum and substance of these doctrines
is thus expressed by the Charleston STANDARD:
"Slavery is the natural and normal condi-
ton of the laboring man, whether white or
black"
Or equally well by the Richmond Eram-
sner, thus:
"The South now maintains that slavery is
right, natural and necessary, and does not
depend upon the difference of complex
ion." Theexperiment Of universal liberty"
says the Richmond Enquirer, ''is failure
and free society insufferable." "It is con-
glomeration," says Democratic paper in Al
ALBANIA, ''of greasy mechanics, filthy opera
tives and small-fsted farmers" "Free farms, u
says the South Side Democrat, "free labor,
free society, free will, free thinking, free chill
dren, free schools, all belong to the same
brood of darnnable isms!
Fellow citizens, in view of this long series
of aggressions against Freedom, and the origi.
nal principles underlying the American gov
ernment, on the part of the South, supported
by the Democratic party-in view of the ag-
gressions now plainly in preparation, let us
ask you, is not the Republican Parity Necss-
sity? Does any other party represent resis.
tance to the encroachments of the South and
extension of slavery? Is there any other
party to defend the principles of the Declara.
ton of Independence, Liberty, Equality, and
Humanity? Is not the Democratic party, il
not the avowed stand-bearer of the South, al
least totally Indifferent to the fate of the slave
of liberty, of the white race, of everything ir
short but Its own sordid success? AS the
Democracy would have allowed Kansas te
have been sacrificed to the South, in like man
ner would it allow all the liberty of the North
yes, the North itself, to sink under the Slave
ocracy!
Let not the Democracy of Minnesota shirl
the national issue. Let them not seek to cas-
the responsibility upon the South. Holc
them to the facts. So long as the Democratic
party have had possession of the government
so long has the South and slave power ruled
The public Offices in the Civil, in the Military
in the Naval service, are almost all filled by
;1opc tho So,fh Noporooco