Saint Paul weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1858-1859, 1859-09-03

hi'iiSy ioSiS WaS ny tilaI party IdIncI ucicuu
3 ed, explained, palliated. But both the Demo
cratic South and the Democratic leaders in tn
North, forgot there was power behind th'
throne; the power of an indignant People
{ Within the realm of specious reasoning th'
South was Omnipotent-it could build up pre-
tension on pretension-wrong on wrOng-bu
when the elimination was reached beyond
which the evils endured were no longer suffer
able-the intelligent and free masses of thu
north was aroused to action; the schemes of the
South and of the Democratic politicians were
broken up; and the very instruments they
had used were diverted to their confusion and
defeat Instead of the Kansas n Nebraska Act
giving new territories to slavery, as it's projec-
tors and supporters had intended, it has OPEN
ed, under the Providence of God, through the
organization and energy of the Republican
Party, New States to Freedom !; the surface ar
gument of Popular Sovereignty, with which
Douglas had CLOSED over the real intentions
OF his course, became to his surprise q most
unpalatable medicine to the South when it
] was found that under that doctrine.s through
the nl0vements Of Free White Emigration, car
ryiug with it the plough, the rife, and the
principles of civil and religious freedom, the
Day of Slavery Extension was likely to be for
ever at an end ..-.
That Kansas is Free territory and will be a
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 a
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 in it's way.
| The Republican Party, born of the sentiment
| of Freedom, stimulated that sentiment; it
urged forward the Emigration of Freemen from
the North to Kansas it fought the battles of
Kansas in Congress; it lent the people of
Kansas material {" Aid and Comfort" 1t is
sometimes querulously complained by our cne-
mics that as Party we have no mission, and
have as yet performed nothing. Let us an
swer by pointing to Kansas! On that field
the Republican Party-though divested of po-
litical power-opposed by the Administration
-newlyorganized, -irregularly 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
united Saveocracy and Democracy of the
Union the great battle which, like the battle
Of Charles Martel on the frontiers of Spain,
turned away barbarism forever from Whole
Realms, and Changed the Destiny of vast
Masses of Mankind. 10 perform this work is
in itself Mission. The Honor of this Labor
is in itself a Destiny. We might here lay
down our arms and retire amid the acclama-
tons of mankind.
But there is Great Future still before us
The Democrotic SOUTH have learned no wis
dom from defeat IT is STILL AGGRES-
S1VE We have told you of the Encroach-
ments of the Past. But you must be prepar-
ed for new Entertainments of the Future
Not encroachments of Colonization and Phys
ical Competition, for these would prove, as
they have proved, futile. But, as of old, En-
croachments springing from the fertile soil of
Perverted Constitution
Listen to the arguments new urged by the
South -
l. The U. S. Constitution, they say, recog-
nises the existence of slavery
g. Therefore, the Constitution recognises
the Right Of the People of the South, to hold
Slaves.
3. The right to do thing, implies the right
to all the means of doing it.
4. Therefore, as the south have the right to
hold slaves, they have the right to buy slaves,
and having the right to buy slaves they have
the right to buy them wherever they can buy
them the cheapest; therefore, in Africa, if
they so choose
5. Therefore the law of the U. States
which makes the Slave Trade Piracy, and in
terferes with the purchase of slaves in Africa,
is unconstitutional and void
Hence our representatives will soon have
to debate in the Halls of Congress the pro-
priety and right of re-opening the slave trade
There is no deduction the south cannot draw
from corrupt reading of the Constitution
There is no wrong so fearful or so plain that
we may not expect to have to meet it with ar.
guments. Two and two make four, may yet
need demonstration. Who among us ten
years ago could have believed it possible that
the revival of the slave-trade, so universally
reprobated, so unmitigatedly terrible, would
ever be made an element in the politics of the
country, and yet, it is now upon us. All
through the south we learn that members of
Congress make it chief topic Of discussion
in their speeches and circulars The newspa-
pers, with such bold and fimsy logic as we have
recited, advocate it. Southern Conventions
formally pass resolutions in favor of it. Som
late letter defining his position and the terms
upon which he would take Presidential nom-
ination by the Democratic National Conven-
ton at Charleston, S. G. The following is an
extract:
eff it shall become the policy of the Demo-
cratic party, which l cannot anticipate, to re-
pudiate these, their time honored principles,
on which we have achieved so many triumphs,
and in lieu Of them, the Convention shall in
terpelatc into the creed of the party such new
issues as the revival Of the African Slave
Trade, or the Congressional slave code for the
territories, it is due to candor to say that in
such an event cannot accept the nomination
if rendered to me-"
Mr.. Douglas expressed fears that the Re-
newal of the African Slave Trade will "be-
come the Policy of the Democratic Party"
are well founded.
We shall have it, in all its glaring enormity,
on the floor of the next Congress claimed as
constitutional right by the South-as a sine
qua non of the Union; and we doubt not that
the Supreme Court will be found to throw new
light upon its constitutionality and original
meaning.
Is it necessary for us to address human be-
ings upon the barbarity of the slave trade e?
Lao SiAo PoiSou VI CouIueIH SOPL1SIIy peIietTa.
ted already to your minds? Are the horrors
of |" the middle passage,"-the crowded YES
sci, the heaped and groaning masses of men,
women and children, the numerous deaths,
the naked burials, are they all forgotten p
We hope not. We believe not II the day
ever comes when this government bowling it's
noble head to the demands of that fearful in
iquity, slavery, throws open its ports to the
slave trade, may the navies of every christian
nation on the face of the globe drive back up
on us, our piratical crews and hem us in with
a Gordon of civilization.
But the south does not propose to stop here.
While it looks to the re-opening of the slave
trade on the one hand it is also preparing to
possess itself of the territories Of the Union
on the other. Hear its logic as detailedat the