Saint Paul weekly Minnesotian., 1859-11-12
The Repeal Of the Missouri Co'"P'o.
mise...Old n...MerrlmSc'~
s. Sectional AgiGatiOn." r ...

s. Sectional Agitation" r .4..
Mr.. j. w. McClung otherwise Mern
nae" had an editorial in the Pioneer OF Fri
NV morning, touching the Harper's Ferry
i,t and the connection of the Republican
arty Herewith. He insists that Old Brown
is natural consequence of the
Sectional Agitation of the Republican par
v. and occurred because that party will moi
owe slavery, nor let shareholders extend the
institution Just as far as they please
Mr.. McClung forgets, that the "oect'onai
A citation" he speaks Of was commenced os
he South, which, using Stephen A. Dousias
IS tool, broke down the Missouri COmpro
mise. and carried war and bloodshed into
Kansas. Before that, the agitation was
confined to few crazy fanatics like BROWN
or " Merrimac," whose efforts did not make
even a ripple on the political waters. Who
does not recollect that after the ADOPTION ol
the Compromise. measures OF 1891, all war
ueace-all vas calm on the slave question y
How the North "acquiesced" in these meas
i,res-the infamous and unconstitutional Fu-
.i,iye Slave Law included How this very
,,uiet induced the Slave "Oligarchy" to
think the North would tamely submit to more
ncroachments would stand anythlng-wa>
like Issacher of old, ian ass that bore bur
r!ens!" How without call from the
people-without any possible circumstances
my public exigency, demanding the measure
suddenly the country was astounded by the
proposition to repeal the time-honored Mis-
souri, Compromise Of ls2O!!
The question naturally arises, what dicta'
ted that repeal? Can any man say II "aS
ought else than to open the door for Slavery
10 acquire another Slave State in the Union
That was the simple, sole reason why the
Compromise was repealed-why civil war wa>
leyislatcd into Kansas by the South, and b!
its ally, the Democratic Party, led on by
Stephen A. Douglas-why the "sectional agl
t,tion" he now complains Of, was renewed IN
its worst and dlrest form! But for the re
neal ,.f the Missouri Compromise, there would
have been no pecuniary ruin OF Old brown
no murder of his son-no insanity OF MS
daughter-no raids by him into Missouri to
release slaves, and none of this last insane ex
petition Of his, to retalliate the civil war they
,nausurated in Kansas, by lighting the toic
Of civil war in the heart Of the Slave States
ihe,nselves-all certain sequences OF the re-
neal of the Missouri Compromise! 1t Is APP
parent to every reasonable man that ha' II
not been repealed, there would have been H.
renewal of Sectional Agitation no CIV
war in Kansas-no Republican party-nf
rld Brown-no Harper's Ferry insurrection
Mr.. McClung refers to the brutal aSsaui
upon Sumner by Brooks as All event that was
not justified by the South! Why will he st
belle history? Di rot the whole S'uth II
conventions, at public dinners, by her presses
and by her speakers, everywhere endorse ah'
,oprove of that brutali,y 1t Is notorou
that she did so. But when Old Brown recent
| invaded Virginia, do GU tind a single pres
| n public man in the North expressing an.
| DtleT Stlitlttciit tii.tii SOtiS.S'AA'N-'''
,orrence? Not one.
Therein consists the iference between tn
Republican friends of freedom and the Demo
cratic friends of slavery. The former, fight
no for the great principles OF freedom, Sc
nat in peacc in free discussion, in argumen;
,dllreSsed to the reason and moral sense q
the whole community, lie the best and trues
prospect for redeeming the land from tn
curse of Slavery They deplore and depre
cate the war of muSket and bowie-knife, a
being the proper resort Of wrong doers, cor
scious their wrong admits no other d fenct
while our weapons are rather the sword
the spirit-"the sword Of the Lord God an
Of Giieon."'
Our strongest weapons are those of Sent
nent-in this, that Slavery is Robbery, a
immortality, a Social Eviland Physical Curs'
therefore, Slavery shall go no farther; tn
influence Of the Federal Government shall nj
ne given to its encouragement or aggrand'ze
nent Liberty is the Great Idea Of our For'
# Government Liberty, therefore, shall b
10 longer prescribed nor made secondar!
But to bring buck the Government to its orie
i,al purpc cses-to restore this Idea of Llbert
and represS the Idea of Slavery, as controllin
forces in the American Union, the Republica
Party proposes only to use peaceful means
means that are honest deductions from ou
obligations under the Constitution and Law
of the Union; and, above all, we do not pro
pose allowing Slavery and the "Oligarchy
to again catch us mapping, as in the repeal !
the Missouri Compromise: but, we inten
that they having commenced this ''Section;
Agitation" we shall keep it up until the "Ag
itation" shall become National, and SLAYER
shall retire in shame within its local limits
"a monster of so frightfula mein" that its at
vocates will keep it hid from the gaze of ci,
itized and Christian humanity; and then, s
long as they keep it so, we shall "let it alor
severely
But, doubtless, on this entire subject {
Slavery, Mr.. McClung would like to put
paddock on the lips of the North. Doubtless
his fellow pro slaveryiteS, now that the batt
thus began is going against them, would liS
to stop "agtation like to adjour
the issue, and try over again their still hurt
tactics once more-but, crazy" Old Brow's,
pro slavery Merrimacs, frightened Virginan
and badly beaten Democratic party to II
contrary Notwithstanding, the "Agitation'' vi
still 60 on, until Slavery is driven back in'
its original dens; until every outpost # ii
National Government is in the hand of tt
friends of freedom; until the triumph of tt
Republican !'arty. its possession of the Pre-
iIency, of both branches Of the Nation
Congress and of the Supreme Court of ii
Union, shall show to the world that on II
opinion of the American People, our memoir
| h.. D,cl ,r.tion nf Iudapppdenca was not