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


ed by any thing he can do for himself, or that |
our Government can do for him, although it |
accepts his allegiance. "No obligations which |
he can take upon himself to another country,
and no protection which said country can ex-
even Impair the claim" which his master has
to his personal services, in virtue of his having
been born to slavery. True, (they argue) he
may escape from slavery if he can, and fee to
this country, and here, in pursuance Of our
laws, 60 through the idle ceremony of re-
nouncing his allegiance to his hereditary mas
ter, and being declared citizen Of this glori-
Gus Republic. But Democracy says he is
only "fugative slave" after all. That our
Government can afford him no protection
against the claim Of his former master, be-
cause it recognizes that claim as 'just as valid
as the claim Of a Virginian to slave child for
life." That in fact, bis condition, according
to the States, is g INCIDENTAL" with that of a
runaway niger" that is to say, he is free
just so long as he can keep out Of the clutches
Of his former ".ss.e: on: ord nc longer. That ii
that master once gets his hand upon him, our
Government cannot interfere in his behalf,
Notwithstanding it has accepted his allegiance,
and made him citizen" And this ismodern
Democracy ! -
How detestably low does such reasoning
place our government. What lower depth of
humiliation can be reached than that wherein
the government is found shrinking back from
the protection of its own citizens; and what
greater insult could be given the foreign-born
citizen than that which consigns him to the
level of the .tugitipe slavs. We know of no
parallel for either the spirit or the logic ofsuch
doctrine. In spirit it is cowardly, bastard
ly, contemplate. 1t says to the European
despots, " do as you please with foreign born
American citizens; abuse them; imprison
them hang them, if you so choose-this
great, free, powerful Republic does not pre-
tend to follow up and protect the naturalized
| citzen-we recognize all the features of your
| institutons-we don't believe that all men
| are born free and equal-on the contrary, we
| declare that that those born in your dominions
are as much subject to your power as the
slaves of Virginia! The omnipresent spirit
of Liberty, the saving power Of Naturaliza-
! ton, are mere sounding phrases to tickle the
| ears of the ignorant. THE powers that be
are ordained of God,' is doctrine we hold to
be equally true whether applied to black men
in America or white men in Europe"
And this, also, is Democracy This is the
name the people are called upon to worship !
False to the black, false to the white, false to
liberty, false to the country, it is on the path
of degcneracy and the road to ruin.
THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY UNA.
VOIDABLY COMMITTED AGAINST
FREE LABOR AND NORTHERN
INTERESTS.
In presenting all the foregoing facts, sus-
tanned as they are by authorities, we have, we
think, clearly demonstrated that the Demo-
cratic party is unavoidably committed to the
advancement Of the claims of slavery, and
that thereby it cannot do justice to the inter-
ests of the free North. Let this be recollect-
ed. Let it be recollected too, that individual
members of party possess efficiency only
as they move in concert with the majority of
that party; that party man who processes
to act in conflict with the party, has neither
strength or Importance Hence when leading
Democrats of Minnesota attempt to fly the
responsibility of the acts of the party by pro-
Tossing principles higher than the party, be
not deceived. They are either honest and
thereby certain to be impotent or they are
insincere and therefore certain to mislead you.
Let it be admitted that on certain occasions
Democratic members of Congress from the
North have shrunk-"hesitated and falter-
ed'-from following the Slaveocracy to the
extreme of all their demands, and thereby
have hung back from the balance of their
party, and what does it prove? Simply that
the prescriptions of the South become some
times too strong for the most stultifed stom-
achs. That the Republican principles are so
plainly and so radically right that the forces
of the enemy desert even in the midst of the
battle. Can you trust faith which even it's
priesthood deny? Could better evidence of
the hollowness of the Democracy be obtained
than that which comes from its principal men?
"Out of their own mouths will l condemn
them" And will you elect men to Office in
the name of a party whose doctrines they
themselves abjure? Can you trust men who
knowing the right have not the manhood to
pursue it; who, perceiving the wrong will yet
continue to be classed under it's banners
Can you rely on men who are spasmodically
honest, and who reach the truth only at the
boot-point of some outrageous wrong?
DEMOCRATIC HESITATING AND
FALTERING ON PRINCIPLES.
Their hesitation and their faltering" is
creditable to their perception, but disgraceful
to their manhood ! There should be no hest
taton, no faltering, where the path of right
hes open to the foot of freemen. Who can
tell to which side these falterers may incline
in some future struggle "The woman who
heSitates is lost" says the adage The same
night be applied to the Northern Democrat
Under the stern pressure of the united South,
nothing but the combination of streng party
can stand up. Individual effort is over
whemed. If Messrs. Phelps and Cavanaugh
OF the House, had been subjected to the same
pressure which was brought to bear on
Messrs. Rice and Shields in the Senate, they
would have acted, without doubt, in the same
manner. Conscience may have its play and
| honesty its hour, but when the last practical
point is reached, when the ultimatum is at
tanned, everything Democratic is laid down
upon the Altar of Slavery. What is Mime
sofa, its laborious people, its particular inter-
ests, its wants and its wishes, in the balance
with the great Universal Democratic party,
its presidents its offices, its power, its wealth?
These can only be preserved to them by de-
votion to Slavery and the South
DEMOCRATIC ACTION AGAINST
THE MINNESOTA OvERLAND
MAIL ROUTE TO THE PACIFIC.
Take next the action of the Democracy
upon that project, which more than all other
local questions would have contributed to the
growth of Minnesota and the Northwest
We refer to the Bill for an Overland Mail
Route to the Pacific. The Pioneer and DEM
ocrat OF March last, itself showed the UNEQUAL
manner in which the mail patronage of the
general government is distributed between the
North and the South, proving conclusively
that three or four dollars were invested in
the Southwest for every one invested in the
Northwest. Here is what it says:
"The bill provides for the conveyance of a
letter mail semi weekly for six years from St.
Paul and Superior to Puget Sound, at cost
of $500, 900 per annum, each trip to be per-
formed in twenty days.
"This, certainly, is a most preposterous
proposition, if the amount of remuneration
granted to the other lines is any measure Of
the real cost of the service.
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