Saint Paul weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1858-1859, 1859-08-13

versal stir, as if moved, as they are, bya
common sentiment, some for good, others for
evil; obeying the impulse Of some underlined
necessity, which all feel and none has yet ex-
pressed. It is a premonition, heaven-sent,
warning the country of a common danger,
which must be met and conquered.
No times these for palavering, much less
for dishonesty These are days for sober
council and prompt action. Some may think
that democracy, having completed its work of
corruption in bankrupting the nation, and
making merchandise Of public Office, and the
elective franchise, will now, like monster
constructor with buffalo in its belly, coil up
in sleep. But not so. Democracy, like Sat-
urn, is always devouring and ever hungry
1t has the breast of the Republic for supply
ing nourishment; has long had it; and milks
the food it feeds upon, and to which it will
cling with such desperation as to devour the
very vitals of its foster mother, and perish in
a common carnage, before the nipple can be
wrenched from its ferocious grasp.
These cloudy, presaging times are not to be
regretted, nor evaded, but welcomed. The
strength of the Republic must be tried, and
the remaining measure of public virtue guag-
ed. If we are weighed in the balance and
found wanting, we must 60 the way of all
sin. Public matters must mend, or end.
The French Republic, with the model Of
the American Constitution in full working
condition boldly before them, lasted, under
various forms, some four or five years and
ended in despotism under Napoleon, and
cost the nation about 2,OOO,O 900 of lives.
The Venitian Republic lasted some centu-
ries, and so popular was the love Of public
virtue, so intense the sentiment of patriotism
above every other passion or consideration,
that, though her officers were changed every
four months, and were ineligible to second
i, election, there was found no scarcity of good
men to preserve the honor, dignity and free
dom of the nation.
g Patriotism, or rather the no-Patri0tism, is
f the question now at issue, and that which
4 concerns and agitates the country. Those to
r. whose care was entrusted the guardianship
!. of the Goddess of Liberty have treated her
UNANIMOUSLY; have desecrated her temple and
abused her person; they have spirited away
the Brazen Serpent which guarded her por-
q tails, and divided her treasure as spoils.
1t will be the remaining measure of patrir
otto virtue in our country that the next cleo
l. ton will guage. Then comes the contest OF
e. the better against the worst; of public honor
N against venality; Of integrity against crime !;
Y of wisdom against ignorance Of experience
a against wild folly. A new order Of men
he real men-are being brought forward, pre-
t. serving that high standard of public worth
the long want of which has so sadly depraved
Il the country. The day is past when Socra-
w ties shall be put to death by public clamor
IS. against his virtues. This kind of ostracism
a. is at an end. No more quoting from the pro-
~. life catalogue of mans crimes and folles tc
a prove his qualifications for Office. Thank Goo
va. that dark day is passing away.
mt "Out, damned spot! Out, say! One,
9o' Two: Why, then It's time to do ~"
ne Aye, and it is being done, and the revolution
Us will be complete.
Let the storm rage, that the solidity of tn
d. Republic may be tried, and we may lear
ny whether, like the French, we slumber upon
ed volcano, that may in an instant engulph us il
10 despotism, or, like the Venitians, are restin
III securely upon sound basis of undevelope'
e" public yirtus.
'P Let these questions be pressed now, Will
some pious Lot may yet be found before it /
ed too late to discover the fifty or even ten right
'ht eous men to save the country.
KY If we lack courage, or upon these princ
"A Piles hesitate about the contest, let us at one
OF abandon the field to the adversary, that re
ny pine and plumber, treachery and despotisn
'"' may reign supreme.
'"' Barbaroux wrote to headquarters Sem
-, me six hundred men who know how to die,
w. (qui sauent maourir,) and they came, followe
by thousands of other patriots. To die 70
''e what? To save the constitution, the order
WV, society, life, liberty and property. Men ret
"'O dy to make selfsacri6ce. even lec -: :,,seif
defence Of the principles of republicanism.
There is no middle ground between Repul
lie and Despotism; and it is our work no
to restore the former, or degenerate into IL
]. latter. No government, not even that Of
, to Dictator, could rest securely upon these ev'
. to shifting sands of political Generalization.
non Let the naturalized citizen contemplate f
hat an instant the ridiculous attitude of the Cal
hat met at this instant. To Hotter and LIE Cler
ON Mr. Cass plainly says, we can afford you Il
ess protection if you pass within the power an
the jurisdiction ofyour foreign master. Mr.. Gas
OK. with the narrow view incident to the dotae
the of age, or acting in what Mr.. Benton Gale
ned his amphbologicap character, aimed h
malice principally against the Germans, wi
: Of are suspected Of having strong republica
ides proclivities, but when Mr.. Kelly, of Ne
pre- York, arrayed the Irish against the Dem
this cratic doctrine, Mr.. Cass, in his Hanover,
ton letter, retracted in appearance the entire
Men stance of his two former. But upon clio
our scrutiny of this last Cabinet proclamation,
who will be found wholly delusive and amphib
nts, logical. It is nothing but piece Of par
real treachery, to crafty the opposition from NJ
4 Of York
eep While upon this subject, will relate an a
hat ecdote which 1 enjoyed the other day.
for happened on the wharf to step into lar
air merchant mill. A young German, who W
ow. hho"n' 'ailio Ia " Sen al" n'ui o"
ever With great glee and joy, he said his faith