Saint Paul weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1858-1859, 1859-08-06
"The Harmony of the Blacks. "

men, it seeks to convey the er-
roneous idea that there is any considerable
" dissatisfaction in the Republican ranks
with the ticket just nominated by our State
Convention. Doubtless, though it is false, that
paper would like to have this the fact. "The
wish is father to the thought" But it will
learn, ere the campaign is over, that the Re-
publican party is emphatically Party of
Principle, having great ends to attain in res
cuing the State and Country from the corrupt
hands of Pro-Slavery Faction, false to the
Principles of Liberty and false to Honesty,
Honor and Fair-dealing in the administration
of the financial and general policy of the gov
eminent. And when election day arrives, the
Pioneer will find us Republicans all standing
shoulder to shoulder at the ballot-box in sup
port of our aohole ticket! This our contem-
porary may rely upon.
The official organ of the Democracy seems
especially vindictive against Mr.. DoNNELLY,
our nominee for Lieutenant Governor. On
the first announcement of his nomination, it
came out and altered his name, publishing it
as "IGNArIUs Loyola DoNNELLY :" which
middle name, it well knew, does not belong to
him.
For aohat purpose acas THIS done? Was it
not to excite prejudice against him with non
Catholics by the insinuation thath was NAM
ed after the founder of the Jesuits instead Of
from one of the martyred Saints Of primative
christianity; and that being so named, he
must be Catholic and Jesuit, and therefore,
unworthy of being voted for? And this pam
dering to prejudice against Catholics is by
Democratic press, whose party here in St. Paul
would not have corporals guard to rally
around its standard, if the Catholic Irish and
Germans once deserted it!
Then, again, while his first name is repre-
sented to be intensely Catholic, Mr.. DoNNEL-
LY's last name is pronounced horribly Irish;
and these arc the chief reasons why the
American Democracy in their presses, and
around the streets and in bar-rooms and So.
looms, urge people of all parties to vote against
| him 1t is in>vain that it is stated in reply,
that Mr.. DoNNELLY is native of Philadelphia
the astute answer is Immediately made,
80, you needn't tell us that-he looks like an
Irishman!' Then he is "young and that
is another crime. Yet, about his age, VIM. +.
SEWARD was elected Governor of the State Of
New York and at about the same age VIM.
PITT swayed the destinies of the world as
Prime Minister of England. Still Mr.. DoN-
NELLY is "too young" to preside over the
State Senate, which is pretty much the sole
duty of the Office for which he is nominated.
Having put Mr.. DoSNELLY "down" therefore,
as having Catholic name, and therefore being
a Catholic-with having an Irish name and
therefore being an Lrishman-w;th being only
% years of age and therefore too young"
for Lieutenant Governor, the Pioneer and
Democrat has now found new name for our
canddate-it calls him "Ignus Fatuus,"
which, it says, "answers the triple purpose
of preface, text, and index of the mans whole
character"
| Abuse is not argument. Calling names
may sway the ignorant, but convinces no sen.
tent human being. Will not the Pioneer,
therefore, cease its attempts to excite religious,
and proscriptive Know-Nothing, prejudices
against Mr.. DoNNELLY--cease its senseless
abuse and Justification of political oppon-
ents character, and give the public something
tangible and real, for good reasons against his
election Is he not man of thorough edu-
cation and reading? A graduate Of the
Philadelphia High School, the. best Peoples
College in America, who passed with high
honors, might be safely conceded this much
Is his being clear, terse, forcible and ready
writer any objection Is bis ability as pub:
lie speaker, strong in argument and happy in
illustration, good reason why he should be
prescribed and prosecuted with camor that
totally devoid of sense or pertinencys
Yes-we have hit it. No doubt these very
qualifications are the ground.wor of the Ri.
oneer's persecution of Mr.. DoNNELNY Being a
jealous Republican, halter of Slavery white
and black, and determined resolutely against
its extension to new regions, because it is a
curse to the soil, and to the masters as well
to the poor bondsmen-an opponent of the
further ascendency of the Democratic Party
because he perceivesI its sole mission nova
| days is to pander to the interests of the
Southern Slave propagandists-a Republican
| at heart and in earnest because he believes in
its underlying principles and NOT aRepqbli-
can pro- fornaa, a Republican Of circumstanc.
es, who acts with the new party simply from
old antipathies against the Democratic Party,
"A man Of enthusiasm, yet Of tact, and
judgment, with power of the pen and of the
tongue, to proclaim the faith that Is in him.
such man is undoubtedly to be dreaded by
the Democratic Party-he is dangerous man,
and must therefore be killed off!-sneered
down !-persecutedi into obscurity by ridicule
and defeat
The very fact that he is young, they see,
makes him the more dangerous and demands
his extinction the more promptly for the
sake OF the skeleton, Invested of the flesh of
principle, called Democracy! Being young,
ne has energy and go-ahead ativeness. Being
young, scarcely thirty, he has thirty mors
years of active political service before him
and if his life is spared, there is no calculat-
ing the amount of damage such a man, du-
ring this long period, may inhict upon the
Democratic Party!
Therefore, "kiu him cf"' is the word given
out Therefore the cry goes up-"He is
Catholic and Jesuit p'-he is an Irishman /!
ne is too young-he isn't an old settler !
ne don't belong to the Mutual Admiration
Society chartered by the Legislature for the
men Of 40 he is an Abolitionist he is q
Black and finally, but not tie least of his
crimes, he is an Ignis Fatuus"' He is the
last, truly, in one sense. The more the Dem