The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1860-08-31
citizen against citizen, brother against broth
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CITIZEN against ClClZen, OrOIncr against OrOtn
er, in order that they may march through
passion and prejudice to corrupt power.
No man who knows the Hon. William
81. Seward-the head and front of this
offending, the great leader of this nefarious
faction, and their inevitable candidate for
the Presidency, to whose high intellectual
and statesmanlike attachments subscribe
will seriously assert that he cares in the
least about the condition of the slave, or the
construction of the constitutional powers of
Congress in regard to slavery. Mr.. Sew
ard is, professionally, an agitator, and seeks
through agitation to place William H.
Seward in the highest magisterial position
on earth, and as be hob-nobs over his bottle
with his Southern Senatorial friends, at his
or their mansions in Washington, or upon
their plantations in the South, and as he
quafEs the glass from the hand of the niger,
whom he is riding as hobby, laughs at the
ease with which humbug is spread over the
land; and here at home, look at Gov.
Ramsey, my neighbor and friend, of whom
I would not say aught unkind-the head of
the Republican ticket-what does he know
of, or care about, the negro slave? What
indication has he, or any of the others of
these Republican "ho,clers," given of eX-
traordinary benevolence or philanthropy?
How do they regard the poor and oppressed
at home? In what direction has this he
morrhage of sympathy gone? I answer,
and you must answer, just where ambition
leads, and just where professions of love for
the oppressed are profitable!
In all the history of this so called Bepub-
lican party, nothing can be found but o
superficial attempt to defeat the Democratic
party through an affectation of love for the
negro.
The people of Minnesota are not green
enough, 1 trust, and am convinced, to be
thus deuded, especially when they know, as
they do, that they of them who have been
born in foreign land are placed in subjec-
ton, by these very Republicans, when they
had the power in Massachusetts, to the free
negro, whom these same Republicans kicked
from their doors when they could do it pri-
vately, and which negroes are really worse
off than nine-tenths of the slaves of the
South.
The forum, the rostrum, and horrible to
relate J even the pulpit, have been prost4tu-
ted to this Infamous course, which, if success.
full, would Illustrate the scheme of self govern
ment, of the triumph and success of which,
thus far, we have all been so proud, and bring
upon US, with the sun in its coming" to
use the language of the immortal Webster,
ga land rent by civil feuds, and drenched, it
may, by fraternal blood" l therefore con-
clude that, as the Republican organization is
opposed to an institution which is protected
by the Constitution and the laws of the land,
and as that organization is in open and
avowed antagonsm to the Supreme Court
of the United States, and is moreover, obvi.
Ously, from the character and behavior Of
the men engaged in its support, tainted with
hypocrisy, and the vilest aspirations, is un-
worthy of the support of any men who love
or respect the institutions of the government
Of the United States
And now we come to the consideration
of this Infamous party, in local point of
view.
In this regard it is unworthy of support,
because its success would be prejudicial to
the prosperity of the State. This is new
State, and dependent upon immigration for
the Development of its resources. The
immigration thus essential, must come from
abroad to great extent. The Norwegians,
Swedes, Germans, and Irish, who are MAX
ing the valleys and bills of Minnesota to
shine with cultivated fields and luxuriant
crops, will not, am sure, support party,
or the candidates of party, that proscribes
them whenever it has the power, and can
safely do so, las in Massachusetts, and that,
worse than this, gives to negro priority
over them. Especially the Germans, to
whose sturdy love of liberty these putrid
advocates of the Southern slave have made
their insincere appeals, Ito which appeals
they have heretofore listened), how will
they henceforth scorn the party which
places them beneath the negro, in violation
the constitution of our government?
To the extent that Minnesota depends
upon forign immigration, is the misnamed
Republican party opposed to its prosperity,
and to the extent of their ability our
adopted citizens will, I hope, oppose, at the
ballot box, the candidates representing
such, party.
The Republican party is also opposed to
the prosperity of the State, because its
policy and action tend, and will have the
effect, to exclude our Southern brethren,
and their capital, from our borders. Placed
at the head of the Mississippi valley, and
in direct communication, by water, with
the Southern States, Minnesota may, with
her fertile soil and salubrious climate,
expect to enjoy the annual visits of great
numbers of the citizens of the less-favored
States south of us, and the expenditure
amongst us of great amount of Southern
wealth.
This, in fact, is most important element
in our onward progress. But we must be
true to our own interests 10 order to avail
ourselves of it. We must do all that we
can to encourage such visits, and such ex-
penditure, and not madly reject the aid that
they afford, by placing in power a party
which is arrayed against the peace and the
fresides of the men of the South, and which,
in daily publications, stigmatizes them as
the drivers of slaves, and the whippers and
ravishers of women! Proverbial for chival-
rous bearing, and .deservedly courted and
loved for their generous and refined hos
pitality, Southern gentlemen will never
intrude where they are constantly subjected
to insult, nor spend their money amongst a
people who do not respect their most private
domestic relations.
If therefore we of Minnesota value, and
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