St. Cloud Democrat. [volume] (Saint Cloud, Stearns County, Minn.) 1858-1866, 1859-08-04

! swearing get ont papszs on tho sve of .
! lection, and thus corrupt the bsllot-bo,
: and break the laws i order 70 gst them
SELVES tat Offices. .she. argued that Il
: man must Be nat, ali.ed NO yea1s bs6br,
!. he could vote, 40 demagogue would hav,
s1anJ interest II smedling With him. III,
lgo ofhis own fee will and ACCORD, get on
) his papers when he thought 81 and b,
!: ready to vote when his time came, tha
! two years Of delay was small makter TO ,
J. manin taking Is serious : i ! step Is throw
ing ofhis allegianos 70 one country and
assuming citizenship il another.
Massachusetts, has an idea that to be-
; come an American Citizen means some
thing, at least, such We believe to be he,
position; and that step which may in.
volve us in serious difficulties with othe,
nations i enc which should not be taken
without deliberation; but that step once ia.
ken-the right Of citizen ship once con.
frmed, it shall entitle the receiver to- the
protection Of our government everywhere,
where his lawful business may call him.
But thelposition Of Mr.. BucHANAN's
Administrator, backed BY The Stase.
and other influential Democratic journals
is that our foreign born citizens are simp-
y escaped slaves, who may ho probably
converted into voters on the shortest pos
sible notice, SO that they may aid the De-
mocracy Ia. keep possession Of the public
treasury; but as for comforting upon them
any substantial right to the name Of citi-
zen-could 'ent think Of it. ..sa ....<>
To defend them against the claims Of
the governments under which they were
born, might involve rs in war with Euro
pean powers /! Now, everybody knows
the Democracy are anxious for any chance
to exhibit the national valor in any direc-
ton which holds out the hope Of extend
ing the area of slavery; but Democracy
cannot afford to fight for the rights Of poor
white folks. It could give thirty millions
to buy Cuba, or could involve us in = war
with Spain to steal it that they might
make more slave States and thus be able
to further their plan of reducing all labor
ers to the level Of slaves; but it cannot If.
fordteyen to demonstrate with any Euro
pean power for the projection Of the very
men whose votes It relies upon to: help
carry out their pet measures. @*@
It appears to us that our Democratic
friends are ; little fast IN telling 50 large a
body of,white voters that they are on 4
level with slaves! f.. ~. T. + I'll: s"s ~
Z. We had not an idea that they would
have come out SO plainly with q declara-
ton of their true sentiments for some
years yet. The question has been forced
upon them promatareiy. The war in Eu-
rope brought an apparent crisis before they
were ready for il, for the conservative por-
ton of the Slave Power did not intend to
defy the free laborers of the North until
they had more slave States and SO could
control them in Congress; but the despots
Of this country could not afford to quarrel
with the despots Of Europe when hostile
ships sent to our Southern coast might
carry of thousands Of slaves Or produce a
revolt amongst the unpaid hborers Of our
Southern States. -. ....... ~. :.
We hope our naturalized citizens will
remember that the fellows who lead what
now claims to be the Democratic party
have said that they are fugitive slaves
who may be caught by their former mas
ters just as q Virginia negro may be cap
tured BY one of the Kid Glove Aristoc,a-
Icy, who scorn labor and live upon the
stolen wages Of other men, often the sons
of their own fathers. 5s'>=:&@s ~ %=z.. :
REa1sERY. There Is one thing which
is pretty generally understood, and this is
that tho present State officers Of Mime
sofa came into power through gross frauds
on the ballot box. It IS also highly prob
able that men who occupied Office 50 OBJ
tanned will NOT hesitate To hold It hv ai,,nii-.