St. Paul weekly Minnesotian. (St. Paul) 1860-1861, 1860-11-09

lHSlt Is MI. bOuSido. Jury, iO'h UPON
the prisoner. Prisoner, look upon the jury.
What say you--guilty, or not guilty Z"
"Why," says Mr.. Douglas, I" | care not
whether Slavery is voted up, OF voted
down"
Think Of it, American people
He drew in that sentiment from the
mountain air Of Vermont, when his infant
lungs inflated for the first cry.
lie got that idea from the public schools,
founded and supported for the sake OF
Liberty.
The institutions Of free government,
wrought out of the worlds sorrowful ex
perence, enabled him to rise that he might
enunciate It.
God has poured the accumulated bullion
of the past into the lap of the present, and
has built up this ampeSt theatre OF all the
ages, on which stands Mr. Douglas,
spreading his legs, cooking his hat, rolling
his auid, and announcing his amiable and
entertaining doctrine, care not whether
slavery is voted up or voted down."
Well, let Us go I. step farther.
The worlds history is action and reac-
ton. To-day, peace tomorrow, war.
The excuses Of Charles produced the Re
public. The excuses Of the Republic re-
acted into the ProtectoTate. the excuses
Of the Protectoratc swung back into the
Restoration. The excuses Of the RestO-
ration reacted into another Revolution.
So in France. The abuses Of the throne
begDt the Republic; the abuses Of the Re
public, the Empire; the abuses of the
Empire, the Restoration; the abuses Of The
Restoration. the Republic; the abuses OF
the Republic, another Empire.
The pendulum once violently displaced,
viii continue to swing backward and for
ward, with gradually decreasing oscillation,
unul the last faint Vibrations die away III
remote ages, which feel while they do not
comprehend them.
And yet, my friends, there is, through
oil these movements, which may appear
wild and unfruitful, one continuous chai,
Of progress, never forgotten, never varied
never lost sight of:-the first links o
which glinmer in the faintest recoectionS
Of history, the last of which lie bright and
massive and rcfuigent in our own midst a
our very feet.
And as our eyes look back over ihl
tuTmoils and troubles Of the agitated
world, that one continuous chain alone APP
pears the line OF Gods purpose All else
kings, dcspots, usurpers, IevolutioUists
the blind and brutal Instruments Of Hi
great will.
Violence can eventually be but tributa
~ ID that viii. Wisdom, prudence, ge,
MUS can not avert It, Neither the capaci
~ Of Stafford, nor the audacjy Of Lauc
can delay it, Improbable alike to the vi
ces or the virtues Of men, uninHuence(
alike by popular tumults or ages Of peace
that great chain stretches on, unObscured
undertaking, the index Of our destiny, thu
sole clue TO the Almighty'S meaning.
" here are now the meu who shouted
applause when the head Of Cromwell, Gu
from his exhumed body, was raised alof
on the pixies OF the kings suldieryy
Where are now the wild masses, who i,
1880 followed Lord George Gordon to tn
very doors OF the Parliament House?
Where are now the opponents Of Zach
airy Macaulay, Of Henry Brougham, O
Wilberforce:
Scattered, mouIdcring, forgotten, in tel
thousand namelesS graves. Over then
the long grass waves, the great wind
play, the little flowers blossom
Their hands are dust,
Their swords are rust"
But whittier, all whittier, goeth that graa
principle Of humanity against which the,
warrei? Whittier goeth that great princi
pie If hVmrr progress against which the,
gaiWy flung themselves? Broad as tn
world, vast rs time, il PAGES forth aiouy
the track of the ages, declled with the star
~ crown Of unchanging victory.
Small indeed is the strength ofman, vail
indeed his devices, against the eterna
movement of an immortal principle. Lo
it passes over him away from him-an,
leaves hun iorsaiien upon its track like tn
scattered bubbles Of the great wave.
Well, what says Mr.. Douglas to tn
cause Of human progress?
Hear him -
Between the white man and the blscl
man nay svmpathies are with the whit
man; between the black man and the croc
odile, rather prefer the black man."
In the days Of ancient Rome, when Pop
Mar Sovereignty vas exhibited in the am
phltheatre, it was a matter Of indifference
whether the man or the crocodile won
They left them perfectly free to form ,hei
Owl iRstituu"cs-!c their own way" 1hei
doctrine was, ''non-interyention.' The,
made ring, and cried, Go in, and ma,
the best man win"
But We thank the good God for 1906
years They have advanced mankind a
such q prodigious pace, that LEADING
statesman Of this great American BepubH,
has to-day the hardihood To express pre-
ference for the human combatant, and I,
rather desire that the crocodile should ce
the worst of it,
Eighteen hundred years. Come for
ward, Old Father Time; lay aside you
reaping machine, clear the hair out OF
your eyes, and behold the result of Won
labors. Step forth, shadow Of the CD
pressed aud by-gone Humanity, SCARE,
with wounds, bent With suffcrings, blood,
with revolutions ;--come forward, clan.
the broken ShackleS at your wrists, an,
look, too, upon the results Of your toll.
There ne stands Stephen A. Douglas
The child of the past Representative,
Of liberty, --thesgra resultant and sun
total of American institutions! lie scare
not whether Slavery be voted up or vote,
down; he thinks, ''he rather prefers tn,
black man to the crocodile
But, my friends, this is more than
question of admiration for this or TIA
man, or even of devotion to this or tina
principle. Mr.. Douglas doctrine a,oolre
the l'erpstuity Of our government, tue con
t1'auance q peace, tue personal u0eltare o.
you and land all of US.
There are portentious consequence.
flowing from it; dark terror in the bach
ground, which every man who spmpathi
ses with Mr.. Douglas should well under
stand.
Who seiU arrest this Territorial .ggsten
feltsn once established?
Like the young lion that has once Tapped
aug a,sn, ne'er be coaxed back to augh
VIII Mr.. Douglas e.. act TO bpi,d ,
wall around it? Who shan cav 10 hi.