Saint Paul weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1858-1859, 1859-03-12
mocracy Caught i'm Its Own Trap.
WASHINGTON, D. c., Feb. %.

mocracy Caught in Its Own Trap.
WASHINGTON, D. c., Feb. %.
70 tie Editors eftas Ainnesotian:
DEAR SIR: You will recollect the restriction
which the congressional majority of Demo
Gratis last year imposed upon the admission Of
Kansas A constitution for that State was
made up, and attempts made both of bribery
and threats to impose it upon the people no
lens volens. In order to obviate causes OF
future trouble, it was by common consent de-
termined, that the application of no Territory
for admission as State should be entertained
by Congress unless the population amounted
to o4,ooo,-equal to one Representative.
This representation was specifically imposed
upon Republican Kansas, but mark the con-
sistency of Democratic rule. Oregon applies
with population of about 10000; not one
third the required number, and her Senators
having first sworn fealty to the administration
is instantly admitted.
The Republican minority in the Senate were
determined that this opportunity for exposing
the oppression, and arbitrary party legislation
of the majority, should not pass un-exposed.
Mr.. Hale moved that the prohibitory restriction
which shuts Kansas from the Union of States,
should be at once removed. Democratic
Oregon was admitted with a population of
10000. Why not Kansas with 10000? Did
Senators profess to follow the rules of justice,
or impose the tyranny Of arbitrary power "
What argument, but that Of Democratic op-
preston, and party violence, could any longer
support this Infamous restriction?
The majority, taken by surprise, and intim-
idated by the boldness with which Republi-
cans pressed the cause Of equality of rights,
rallied as best they could, under the lead of
Mississippi Brown, the noisiest and weakest
man of the opposition, who renewed the old
threats of disunion, and was met by men as
fearless as he is reckless. Painful as it was
to the majority, the picture of their own con-
duct was brought before the Senate and the
Countrywide facts laid bare, and the despica-
bic, narrow, sectional party legislation of the
Democratic majority, wholly regardless Of the
welfare and rights Of the people, was put fairly
upon the record.
I have said before, and now repeat it, that
l believe the country to be in the midst of
revolution; passing through all those prelim-
mary stages which in the declension of all
Republics have preceded the final resort to
arms. James Buchanan was made President
at the expense of our national character
Gold flowed from the National Treasury, and
bribery and demoralization-twin sisters fit
offspring of corrupt progenitors-went upon
their destructive missions to every hamlet in
the Union. This internal ruin of private and
public character, destroying all respect for
law, order, or purity of government, preceded
the downfall of every Republic which has
ever existed. These devils incarnate are
daily working out their Internal mission. I'll
you could discover their prototypes, read.
They corrupted, weakened, and finally sold
Poland. Where are the seven United Prov |
nces, with their Congress, and Stakeholder
ike President of the United States? Such |
lewis destroyed that Republic; they destroyed
Republican France, and political demagogues
not equal in infamy to our own, destroyed the
Republics of Greece and Rome.
1 say we are passing nov, just now, through |
he preliminary stages of ultimate ruin. A |
ew so called Democratic leaders rule the !
country, and their means of sustaining their |
power, is not the voice, confidence, and re-
'pect of the,.nation, to which they know it would
,e in vain to appeal, but to the combined in
luenoes of public Office and public treasure.
The President foreseeing the approaching |
condition of things, the universal dissatisfac-
ion, if not alarm throughout the country, in
iduously attempts to guard his party against
lefeat by inviting Congress to bestow upon
i'm the unlimited control of the army, the
var making power, and of $50, 0OO, 900 of
reasure. .--J ..- - .-.
hold that our domestic revolution has adj
anced far, very far already, or the President
f United States never would have dared to
ut forward such preposterous claims. This
) done in violation of the spirit of the gov
rnment, in time Of out,oard peace, to the
disturbance and even alarm of the country,
nd no one calls it treason. !,