Saint Paul weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1858-1859, 1859-05-07
The Importance OF our FAN Election.
Minnesota q few years aon a Wilderness

MIuleSold, lew years sSo WuocTueSS,
has already, by combination of circumstan-
ces, assumed an important position in the pol
itics of the day. At the present time the
eyes of the leaders of both the Republican and
Democratic parties are turned towards her.
This is due to the fact that upon the result of
her election next fall will depend the political
complexion of the next U. S. House of Repre-
sentatives, and upon that, perhaps, the future
history of our country for generations to come.
By the admissions of the organ of the Admin
istration we are on the eve of great and sig
nal event the election of a Republican to the
Presidency-an event which will be an his
not help but work immediate and great changes
in the political condition of the Union. His
torians, when they hereafter chronicle our
career, will point to two great representative
days, the day which saw proclaimed our in
dependence from transatlantic yoke, and
the day that saw ascend into the Presidential
Chair President committed to the principles
of that great party which has brought about
second and more complete birth of liberty
in the land. Yet although the almost certain
ty of the election of a Republican President is
generally conceded, even by the Democracy
Itself, nevertheless events may make a mar re-
suit, and no event can be of more Importance
70 US than the control of the House of Repre-
ScntativeS.
we, Ainnesotians, the grand result
II "ou. Upon the efforts you make
neA. all will depend the success CT your par
:. '"r principles nay more of the very in
i;"tic s Of our government, now Slapped and
eArrn h.-o by population, corruption, and ad
illustrative frauds. Let every Republican
r.'izen of the State remember this. Let him
te>. ID. the future rests on him. Let un-
firing efforts DC used to Call out every vote at
the next fall election. Let every obscure cor
ner be ransacked. !. Let information on the
g at topics in dispute be distributed broad
cast y the whole country. five sit still
We =. ;,ssuycaiy be defeated. If We exert
ourselves in proportion to the objects to be
gained, We cannot but be successful.
every thing points to change in the politi-
cal condition of the nation. The Democratic
party overgrown with success, bulky with
spells and rotten with corruption, is falling to
pieces by the weight of its own pestiferous
masses Even the..great:. bond of common
plumber has ceased to hold its ponderous bulk
together. That numerous, floating, changing,
bipartisan portion of the population, who fol-
low their instincts of right and arc confined to
the limits of no party organization, have lost
confidence in it and ask for change As
surely as the Mississippi leads to the Gulf so
surely are the events and sentiments of the
day tending to place Republican in the Pres
idental Chair.
One striking evidence of the growth of dis
corning and healthy sentiment. is the fact that
wehear no more latterly about Union Saving"
Northern Democrats no longer attempt to de-
ter Northern Republicans by threats of i'm
mediate destruction of the bond that holds us
together. This is due to two facts. First,
that reasonable men could not be prevented
from concluding that if the Union was such
rotten, unhealthy continuance, that it could
only be perpetuated by suppressing all free
discussion and all attempts at moral improve
ments, the sooner:it was dissolved the better.
But on the other hand examination justified
the belief that the Union was bond that could
stand any amount of straining-that it was
welded like iron into the interests of the diff
feIent sections of the country-that the cry
had been raised to brighten weak minded peo-
ple-that so long as the Republican party did
not resort to wild and harsh means, such as
the moderate sentiment of the North would
not justify, and did not invade the constitu-
tionai rights Of the South, that so long it could
carry our great moral movement forward un-
der the very wings of the Union, nay, in &C
eor,'ance with the very spirit of the Union,
which with the exception of one dastardly
compromise, breathes more of the true spirit
OF freedom than any other governmental COM
pact known in the history of the world.