St. Cloud Democrat. [volume] (Saint Cloud, Stearns County, Minn.) 1858-1866, 1859-10-06

But this was not enough. The uubounde d
stomach Of slavery had no limit. 1t was not
satisfied with region for it's development as
large as oil the Atlantic States put together
It must have all or none! The willing instru.
n,ent is found in Stephen \. Douglas, a dis
tiRguished Democrat and U. s. Senator from
tho State Of Illinois. Anxious, by cxcelline
all his predecessors in suhservicncy to the
Soul to elevate himself to the Presidential
power, lie became the Northern instrument OF
United South, to obliteratc the Line which
gave even part Of the National Domain
exclusively and undoubtedly to Freedom! The
kansas-Nebraska Act was Introduced by him.
the Missouri Compromise line ras abrssatcd
And the Territories were all ,hown open to
the adv auces OF Slavery
In con; unc'io! with this, the Power Of the
Supreme court Of the United States, cr>vio;s-
~ regarie'! asi:hc highest and u..,st <iis,:!e.:
tribunal IN our Lana, is lrough! into ac,icr.-~-
That Court, t. the a: l;:i2o,cnt Of mankind,
decides that Freedom an,l Slavery are Twin
lnheriters Of the N*,oi!-joint posSesso:s 9!
she Inheritance Of the Revolution
brothers whelped in the same hour,
And Slavery the elder and more terrible w.
That wherever the foot Of Freedom can TO-
the manacled foot Of slavery can follow. That
wherever Liberty can rear its temple, Slavery
can build her mart That no spot in our broad
Territorial domain, from the Kootonais to the
Neuces, can be interdictcd to this protcge Of
the Institution, slavery !-(Cooper.)
A great, startling revolution is thus effected
in the policy Of the country. The Declaration
becomes 80 string Of glittering generalities;"
our Liberty" 4 thing depependant upon the
shades of tho complexion!
The north is to be hemmed in by tho barrier
Of slave states on the south and west Uni
versal liberty pronounced by the south ga
failure" is to be allied up against NIL future
growth. The pure, worldwide sentiments Of
the Declaration, crossed by southern logic, are
TO bring forth progeny Of monsters moro
fearful than those which followed the inter-
course of sin and death.
But great wrongs bring bold remedies. The
south was unconsci Gus of the dormant power
Of tho north The first field Of strife was
Kansas. Here northern and southern energy
met, and the conflict was a long and fearful
one. But the yeomanry of the north triumphed
over the aristocracy OF the South. While the
strife still ragged and tho south held the power,
laws were passed that would have disgraced
the most barbarous nasion in The world.
It was at this fear full crisis for Freedom in
Kansas that the Rep ublican Party for the first
time, appeared on The stage in an organized
form since the days of the Fathers. The
revival OF the old Republican Party in the
land was occasio ned by the fact that the en-
croachments and aggressions Of the South for
the extension Of slavery met with no opposi-
tion from the servile Democratic party. Its
himsy logic was by that party rather defended
expla incd, palliated. Both the Democratic
South and the Democratic leaders in the North
forgot there was a power behind the throne
the over Of an indignant people! Within
the realm of spacious reasoning the South
was omnipotent-it could build up pretensicn
on pretension- wrong on wrong-but when
the elimination was reached beyond which
the evils endured were no longer siderable
the intelligent and free masses Of the north
were aroused to action; the schemes Of the south
and of the Democratic politicians were broken
up; and the very instruments they had used
were div erted 10 their confusion and defeat!
Instead Of the kansas-Nehraska Act giving
new territories to slavery, as its projectors and
support ers had intended, it has opened under
the Prov idence of God, through the organization
and energy Of the Republican Party, New
States to Freedom; the surface argument Of
Popular Sovereignty, with which Douglas had
CLOSED over the real intentions Of his course,
became to his surprise a most unpalatable
medicine to the south when it was found that
under til at doctrine, through the movements
che plough, the rife, and the principles Of
civil and religious freedom, the Day of Slavery
Extension was likely to lie forever at an end.
That Kansas is Free territory and will be
Free State is due, not to Stephen a. Douglas,
nor to the Democratic Party, but solely to the
exertions of the Republican party Of the Ma
ton. If that Party had not been in existence,
Kansas would undoubtedly have been made
slave state; Nebraska would have been cut up
into several slave states; and the objects aim
ed at by the south and the Democratic Party
which it controls, would have been achieved.
The Republican Party alone stood i'll its way.
The Republican Party, born Of the sentiment
Of Freedom, stimulated that sentiment; it
urged forward the Emigration of Freeman from
the North to Kansas; 1t fought the battles of
Kansas in Congress; it lent the people Of
Kansas meterial 'tAid and Comfort 1t is
sometimes querulously complained by orr en-
emies that as Party we have no mission. and
Have as yet performed nothing. Let us ans
wer by pointing to Kansas! On that field
the Republican Party-though Invested of pc
ltical power-opposed by the Administration
newly organized disciplined, -
yet rolled back the full torrent Of slavery, and
erected in the Liberty of Kansas Barrier of
Protection against Slavery for millions of un-
settled acres. Nations yet in the womb of
time, will commemorate with thanksgiving the
day when Our Party, instinct with the spirit
Of the Revolution, fought there against the
united Slaveocracy and Democracy Of the
Union the great battle which, like the battle
of Charles Martel on the frontiers of Spain,
turned away Rarbarism forever from Whole
Realms, and changed the Destiny of vast
masses Of Mankind. To perform this work is
in itself Mission. The Honor Of this Labor
is in itself q Destiny. We might here lay
down our arms and retire amid the acclama-
tons Of mankind.
But there is Great Future still before u.s.
The Democratic SOUTH have learned no wis
dom from defeat. IT IS STILL AGGRES'
SIVE! We have told you of the encroachmen:s
IT the Post. But you must be prepared fol
new Encroachments Of the Future. Not
>ncroacbments Of Colonization and Physical
competition. for these would prove, as they
- have nrnved futile &Rut Nc of old ENCr0ach-