Red Wing sentinel. [volume] (Red Wing, M.T. [i.e. Minn.]) 1855-1861, 1860-02-04

tinel will continue to represent the yiew'
which the Democracy Of Goodhue and Q
the State-when fairly representative
up to this time maintained, take my leave
e,s VIM. COLVILL, JR.
/ "i SALUTATORY.
| To THE PATRONS OF THE SENTINEL
Having assumed the Editorial charge o
tho SENTINEL it is proper to state the gen
eral policy this paper will pursue while un
der its present coatrol. 5t..
We shall honestly and faithfully labor t
promote the success Of the Democratic party
of Minnesota. We believe that the Demo,
crac!y is true to the Union and the Consti
tuition; the Union to preserve and the Con
stitution to protect and transmit to on,
posterity inviolato. To these patriotic OBJ.
jects it stands pledged-as the only effective
agency within the Union through and by
which they can be secured. The Demo.
cratic party, IS q political organization i.
co-cxtensive with the Union itself and is
is to-day the only party Of the nation
that can make the proud claim Of proposing
any policy or nominating candidates that
will have advocates and supporters in every
county, village and. perhaps, school distric,
from Maine to Texas, from the great lakes
to the gulf and from the shores Of the great
ocean on the east to the far off shores Of
the Pacific on the West.
1t is to be expected in all free Govern
ments, like ours, that wide and marked dit.
fsrences Of political opinion will exist nor
is it remarkable that even in the Demo-
cratic party. = party which has and will
shape the destinies Of the Republic, differ
snces should also exist. One party organi-
cation extends over the Union and it is not
strange that Democrats should disagree on
some things, for while freedom Of thought
and opinion remains it is probable they can
not all agree, and it is not perhaps desirable
that they should. Animated by loyal de-
votion to the Union and the constitution,
and their preservation intact, minor differ.
ences, become subordinate to these greater
objects. '''3 = - ~.
In these days Of fanaticism and disunion,
when extreme men Of either section rail out
maledic!ions and curses against each other
when mad and bloody forays against sister
States are encouraged-when instructions
disturb the public peace and disunion senti
ments, boldly proclaimed, unsettles the con.
fidence in nat onal stability, it is full time
for all moderate and conservative men to
labor to check their tendencies to folly. to
reject these extreme teachers ~ political
teretics, to in4use new life into that love Of
the Republican so strong and not yet dead
to rally oil good men to tho standard Of the
Union and put down ssetionalism, North
and South. $50
The Helpedts and instruction Republic.
ans en- the one side and the slave code disu.
nionists on the other have become the mad
tools Of opposing sections, and should be put
down. There is but one true policy and
that is to abide BY the constitution and its
guarantees and cling to the Union "as the
mariner ciings to the last plank rs the storm
and the darkness close round him." There
arc no dangers, or grievances or difficulties
in the union, but become incomparably great
or out Of it. To this end it will DO the aim.
of the SENr1sEI to encourage to the at
most national sentiment and break down
sectional,sm and sectional parties.
Believing that STEPHEN A. DOUGLAS,
more than any living American statesman
is the man to carry the country through
the present national crisis, we shall earnest
ly sustain his nomination to the Presi-
dency BY the Democratic party. He has
the "pluck and unbending black bone, ),
for any emergency that may arise; he is the
hope Of the conservative classes. and tn.
young men Of the country are enthusiastic.
ally devoted him. His Senatorial career in
the successes he has obtained; his victory in
Illinois, o*sr the combined forces Of the Adj.
ministration and the Republicans mark him
as man Of no ordinary type, and above
oil, If nominated. he Is certain Of bis election.
10 Stat. and local matters we shall ex-
D /.
pose all fraud and corruption, no matter by
whom committed; We intend to be on the
side OF the taxpayer oil the time. Suffer
ing in that way ourselves, ws feel Is the
taxpayers feel, and ~ occasion shall re-
quire and opportunity present, shall review
the populations in the past, and guard against