Saint Paul weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1858-1859, 1859-10-29
South must have it.-Open the food gates,
and let in Africa!

South must have it.-Open the Hood gates'
and let in Africa! --....
Aquestion assuming such practical shape
as this cannot be dropped or avoided. In the
contest for supremacy and power it becomes
of the first Importance to the South. 1t Is
rodical for all the fnture. There can be no
more Slave States without the reopenlng OF
the slave trade. This is already admitted by
the South, and the South is practically the
Democratic party.
The Democrats of Minnesota, pretended at
first to sneer at the notion Of the revival OF
the Slave Trade. They denounced it as
Republican deception and denied its probabil-
ity vehemently. Proofs, however, have
poured in. First, came Stephen A Douglass
letter showing that he, high authority among
his party up this way, deemed it probable
that such plank woul be inserted IN the
Charleston Platform! Next, the late Demo-
cratic State Convention of Minnesota were so
impressed with the importance of the subject
that they felt called upon, for present policy
sake, to devote one section of their platform to
its denunciation. But, last and best, there
was one Democrat, leading delegate, in that
body, who, looking far into the future, and
seeing the probability that the bloodshed and
murder of humanity involved in the revival OF
the accursed Trade, would yet become Demo-
cratic principles, expressed the opinion, that
the manner in which the Slave Trade was
stigmatised in that section would prove in the
end mistaken pocy-that it was entirely
unnecessary and unjust!
81 have no objection, gentlemen" said this
Democratic worthy to those around him,
"that you should pass resolution saying
that the agitation of the subject at this time
is lMPoLIrIc, but there is no use of ABUSING
it in that manner!"
This worthy was Gen. Wagner, U. S.
Land officer at Cambridge, lsanti county.
lie was one of those mountainous minds that
catch the light sooner than their less acute
brethren.
Yes, gentlemen, of the Democracy, " to
this complexion you must come at last "
Your State platform said, that states of
the Union are souereign and equat." If they
are equal in the southern sense, what right
have you to favor emigration from Europe
to the North and prevent emigration from AT
RIGA to the South? If they are sovereign,
have they not an equal right to say where
they will obtain their "labor supply?" Why
permit trade in slaves between one state and
another, and not between a state and for
egn country? Why shall the " sovereign and
equal" state of South Carolina be compelled
to seek its "labor supply" in Virginia, while
the whole world is open to the North? This
kind of argument will be good Democratic
doctrine in very short time. Prepare for it.
This new touch-stone of Democracy will be
speedily applied. Doughfaces to the right
Fair play to the South ! No sectionalism
The gelorious Democratic party;-the same
in Minnesota as in New Orleans,-th same
in Maine as in California ! will yet be
found rallying around the banner inscribed
Justice to the South-the Slave Trade not
Piracy-Let us murder, rob, and starve the
natives of Africa, for their own good-im
port them as slaves to civilize them, and sc
extend the area of our Democratic Freedom.
Therefore, as General Wagner said, "Dem
ocrats, don't abuse the African Slave Trade. ,