Minnesota Staats-Zeitung. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1858-1877, 1859-09-24

KINDS OF dlSnOneSt means Tor obtain
success of the Ticket, and moth
ing less but the whole Ticket, but we
condemn nobody without evident
proof, which is often hard, and also
in our present Canvass, very hard to
get. We know that the sovereign
People are only playing a secondary
part in the great Dramas of Elections;
we know that Politicians by profess
sion are working behind the curtain,
influenced by self-interest and expedi-
ency, and woe to him who dares to
doubt any of the Party-dogma woe
to him, who is displeasing one of the
so-styled Leaders, who have favors to
give and favors to take, not without
high interests we know that honesty
and sincerity in Party-politics are
sooner impediments than promoters
of "trust and favor" Therefore we
never have asked for favor at the altar
of Canvass-leaders, perfectly satisfied
with the approval of our own con-
science, and the esteem Of some in
telligent and good men.
AS Partizan we ought not to doubt
the least about the infringed character
OF MI. Baker, one Of our Candidates;
instead of this we have written to our
friends in Columbus, and are anxious
to receive their answer, if they will
find it proper to answer: AS Partizan
we ought to trample on MI: Baasen,
one Of the Democratic Candidates, for
having been accused Of an act that no
honest man ever will perpetrate. W.
are not convinced Of the truth, and
thus we hesitate to believe, for our
own part.
AS Partizan we had to punish the
New-Ulm Republicans for the disap-
prevail of the Minnesota State Plat
form, in regard to Slavery, according
to their Resolution that says:
Whereos the Declaration of Inde-
pendence declares that all men are
created equal, therefore it was made
the sacred duty Of the States to extend
the benefit of free schools upon all
their inhabitants, rich and poor, high
or low, white or black;
Wereus National Slave Trade is
not less detestable than International
Slave Trade;
WereasF Free Press and Free Speech
is one of the fundamental institutions
of the United States, and whereas this
Constitutional Right has been tram
pied upon by some of the Slave States;
Therefore, we, the Freemen ofNew-
Ulm, Minnesota, do herewith DECLARE:
That the so-called Platform of the
Republican Party of Minnesota, as far
as it disclaims all interference with
Slavery where it already exists in the
States, does not meet our approval &c.
They farther do declare that they
abhor all mingling of Religion with
Politics that they condemn all legis-
lation in behalf of all Sunday and
Temperance : Laws whatever; that
men, with any or without any Creed,
Protestants, Catholics, Jews, Infdels
or Atheists are entitled to equal rights,
and deserve equal protection.
Now these declarations and resolu-
tons Of "Republican Germans" will
most certainly not please many Of our
Republicans, and displease also many
of our Democrats. Why? Because
they do not suit their purposes ofEx-
pediency and petting the Masses, and
because "Truth" is a bitter pill in
general, however it might be covered
with sugar. And while we approve
the sound Logic Of our Republican
friends in New-Ulm, exposing the in
consistency of our State Platform, we
are of the same time perfectly con-
WINGED, that many voices will exclaim:
Cruelty! Cruelty! He has violated
the name Of God! He does not suit
our purposes! We must chain his
tongue! We must look out for better
men! We must have done our work
by cheaper ones! Cruelty!
Well, there + many nails in Min
nesota there is wood enough on the
lands of Spectators; you may erect
the Cross! But, verify, l say unto
you: "Moral death is worse than
physical DEATH" Who believes in
the God Of Truth and Justice, has a
Father on earth and in heaven who
w forsakes him.
"To be half well, is whole sickness;
to be half free, is whole servitude. -
To reaso on false Premises, leads to
error: To proclaim Equality for all
men, and divide them by religion or
color, is PROCLAMATION, and to assail
slavery, under such PROCLAMATION, is
absurdity: To leave Slavery where it
is, we may take for a political expedi-
ency: 1fslavery is an evil, or a crime,
1t can be a blessing, or a virtue no.
where. If you declare the colored
man to be really a man, you have to
take him for your Equal; if not, you
are void of sound Logic, you are de-
flaming natural science and one of it's
greatest Apostles: Humboldt, and, as
politicians, you are exposing your
doctrine to the South for ridicule, and
sharing with the same fate of repug-
nance. which orr eminent German