Minnesota Staats-Zeitung. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1858-1877, 1859-09-17

whereby AlDerty Is IN danger; to
chain Liberty, is a crime against Lib
erty itself a satyre on human rights.
Suppose Nj. Schefer has said, what
he never did, that it is the moral duty
of the Slave to murder his master -
have not the Colonial subjects, the po-
litical slaves Of the British Colony in
North America, murdered the soldiers
OF their masters, and do you not praise
them for their bravery; do you not
extol the glory of our Revolutionary
Heroes, do you not esteem, and almost
worship your Washington, their gallant
COMMANDMENT Chief?
Sound Logic never commits plum
der, as you have done, Sir, in your
party-zeal. A free agent, an educated
and thinking man, lever will submit
to slavery; but brutes, as the Southern
Slaves are, will carry their yoke with
out reluctance, will not murder their
masters, whom many of them love,
because fed and Dad by them. We
do not hate the South, we only pity
them for their Negro-burden, and for
their moral error: A country where,
IN a great part, the Despotism ofKing
Lynch is ruling over speech and press,
has forfeited the title Of a free Country,
or OF a model Republic for oppressed
people in Europe, that scorn it.
The South is a great country, a hap
py country; its citizens are intelligent
and chevelieresc men, but an olygarch-
ical form of government can in this
age of progress never be called a
model government of a free country,
based on human rights in general.
"Shoulder the musketfor Germany"
- if Scheffer said this, he has said it
conditionately. Do you know, Sir,when
we would think it our duty to shoul-
der the musket for Germany, for Eng
land, for France, or any other Coun-
try? | tell it to you most candidlv,
Sir. When those countries would
rise against their tyrans, establish a
blood-tinted Republic, based on hui
man rights in the true sense of the
term, and you would upset, by a per-
verse party-power, the Liberty of the
people, uniting State with Church,
prescribing men for their religious be-
lief or disbelief, and for their birth -
then, Sir, we would most certainly
unite, in case of war, with such a free
Nation of Europe, shoulder our arms,
and fight against you so long, till up
on the ruins of such a Mock-Republic,
the grave of the peoples Liberties, a
new system of a truly free form of
government would be restored.
Farther. That Scheffer has ever
issued n Dollar of worthless Shin
plaster, is not only untrue but a per-
feet I've, if you will not confound the
term of endorsing with issuing. If
you talk about shinplasters, you ought
to look into the Contracts of Mr.. Sib-
ley for the benefit of the Cedar Valley
Bank, to the greatest injury of the peo-
pie, and speak about it the truth to
your Democratic readers.
On the same foundation as the above
statement rests also your accusing of
Schetfer being a Knownothing. What
nonsense! 1t is true, he and we may
feel the danger hat threatens the Re-
public by the blind obedience ofmanv
naturalized citizens to certain inhuen-
tlal Individuals, but to curtail them
In their rights would be an attempt,
equal to the act of splitting in our own
faces. Liberty for all, and education
for all, that is our call and remedy for
the evil.
At last, Sir, MI. Scheffer was not
accompanied by us, by the veteran
Ludvigh, as you please to call us, on
his tour to 81. Cloud. Would he have
been accompanied by us, would we
have addressed the people, we certain
ly would have discussed the true uud
genuine Democratic Principles, and
convinced the Catholics of that Re-
gion, that they have nothing to fear
from the Republican Platform, which
is clear enough in point Of Religion
and of Birth, to be understood by ev-
cry man of common sense. 49,
"This Ludvigh, you say, has become
somewhat timid. When last here lin
Saltwater to address a meeting cele-
brating the birthday ofThomas Paine,
he insisted on his friends being pres
ent to protect him while delivering
his stale rehash of the teachings of
eminent infdel philosophers" You
may, as our political enemy, call u
genuine Grafton a stale rehash, we will
not object it, but we can assure you,
that timidity has never been and is
not a trait Of our character, which
fears nothing but internal lies of po-
lltlcal Demagogues. We have not
asked for protection, the least at Still
water, where many ofyour best Amer
lean and German citizens were pres
ent at the celebration of a mans BIRTH
day whose works: "Common Sense"
and cage of Reason'' surely entitle
him to the respect of every lover of
Liberty and Truth, to which class
you, Sir, most certainly do not belong.
AS Mentor has been a useful guide
to Ielemach11s th11s ScheHcer would