Saint Paul weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1858-1859, 1859-10-29
So Things Is Workfng.''-The Democracy
growing in Favor of the slave Trade
..DOn,t s. ABUSE,' IL.


In one of our latest exchange papers we
found the following item of news:
"Three reputable citizens named Jno. Kies-
Ter, George E. Rahrbacker and P. H. Town
send, publish affidavits to the effect, that S.
W. Johnson, the late Democratic candidate
for Delegate to Congress from Kansas, had
recently declared himself in favor of re-
opening of the African slave trade, or had ut
tered words to that effect"
No doubt he did so declare himself No
doubt before three years, every Democratic
leader in the land-even in Minnesota will
unite in similar declaration. Things is
workin," to place the Democratic party of the
Union exactly on such platform. The South,
which rules the Democratic party, evidently
intends to demand this of the Northern Dem
ocracy as the next concession, as the price of
its supporting them for the offices of the ma
ton. Slowly, but surely and unerringy,
events are marching on to such consuma-
ton Truly, in 1856, said Jas. L. Orr, MEN,
cratic speaker and Chairman of the United
States House of Representatives, when con-
graduating his constituents upon the advance
of the South and the devotion of the Demo
cracy to her interests -
"They," (the Democracy have actually
repealed the Missouri restriction, opened the
Territories to settlement, and enabled us,-if
the South will be true to herself and aid us in
peopling Kansas form another Slave
State. In 1S43, the man would have been
pronounced insane had he predicted that
Slavery would be introduced there by the re-
moval OF Congressional restrictions.
So it goes. "Things is workin."
"We turn about and wheel about and do Just so,
And every time We turn about the further South
60"
A few years ago the man who would have
prophesied that that universally condemned
barbarity and enormity, the Slave Trade
would have been advocated by any section O.
the Union, would have been looked upon az
delnented!
1t is not two years since VIM H. Seward
made such prophecy, and the statemen
was met with laugh of ridicule over tn,
whole country.
But time went on. The South began t
agitate the whole question.
First it was limited at then it was publicl
stated; then it was advocated! Each ne'
theorist put it in more pleasing and palatab
language. Newspapers, statesmen. leadin
literary men, men like Stephens, Yancy an
De Bow, devoted themselves to its consider;
ton.
Now it has assumed the phase of a "labC
supply question, and stands in Antagonist
to the European foreign element of the Nortl
"Time and events have demonstrated
(says j. d. DeBow, Democratic Superinten,
ent of the United States census, in his lett
from New Orleans, dated June Sd, 1859
'sthat it is not European labor that we wan
such labor is beyond our reach altogeth
it has an evident incapacity to adapt its'
to our condition. From the teeming million
the barbarian hosts of the fatherland of o
present labor system, (Africa) cannot fe
more subjects be spared to us9"
This is the Democratic issue-the Nigg
against the European! The European h
built up the North he will not settle
Slave States the North is outgrowing t
South the South needs new blood 1t