The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1860-10-05
CONTEMPORARIES Meeting
..Review of WINDOWS Speech.
,fthe Pioneer and Democrat.

ChisagO C0unty..Republican Meeting
.-Review of WINDOWS Speech.
Correspondence of the Pioneer and Democrat.
TAYLoRs FALLS, Sept. ls, 1860.
The Black Republicans held q Glove
feast" at this place last Saturday night,
and were harangued in the most approved
hifalutin " styleby VIM. Window, priest
of the third rate order in their church.
The members in this county are rather
shallow pated and cannot bear but one idea
at time, from fear Of a collapse, l suppose,
but like all weak minds under similar cir
cumstances, get very enthusiastic in the
contemplation of that one. When Mr..
Window would harp on his harp of q
thousand strings" about Kansas and the
rights of the niger, they received his plat
itudes with evident delight, manifesting the
same by EXPLANATIONS of "That's So" $50
it," &C., while one very impolite member
exclaimed, I" Hit 'em agin, pudden head"
This last remark convinced the speaker as
to the mental calibre of his audience, and
induced him to announce that Washington,
Jefferson and Madison, as we'll as all the
Presidents down to Polk, were in favor of
No more slave States, no matter whether
the people wanted them or not" which is
the principle of the Republican party now.
That, these great heroes and statesmen ad-
vocated such principles while living, and
were they now alive, would be consistent
members of the Republican church.
"Thou shalt not lie;" is certainly not in
the litany of their creed, or if it is, then
MIR. Window is surely weak, frail brother.
What an assertion to make, that Washing
ton, Jefferson, Madison, and Adams, with
all the other Presidents down to Polk, de.
MED that the federal government was Great
ed for the good of all the States as whole,
that all were equal and had the same rights
under the Constitution. What libel! 1t
only shows to what lengths these Black Re-
publicans are driven in their desperation.
When facts fail, fiction must be dragooned
to the rescue. Did the fathers of our coun-
try never acquiesce in the admission of slave
States? Turn to History
In 1870 North Carolina coded to the
United States, and the first Congress, April
Sd, 1870, accepted the territory since ad-
mitted as the State of Tennessee, under the
express agreement, d" Provided, always, that
no regulations made or to be made by Con-
gress shall tend to emancipate slaves" Il
q. S. Statute, page 1857. Washington and
our Fathers accepted that territory, and
expressly agreed not to abolish slavery
therein. May 26, 1870, Congress passed an
act for the government of the Territory
south of the river Ohio" similar to that of
the Northwest Territory, d" except that no
act Of Congress should tend to emancipate
slaves in this territory" Il U. S. Statute,
page lO3). This was another act of our
Fathers, right in the face of the dogma of
the present Black Republican party, and it
was an act which received the approval of
Washington himself. AS President he
could have vetoed it; but he did not, he ap.
proved it.
But again. In 1898, April 9TH, Congress
passed au act for the government of the Mis-
sissippi Territory, similar to that of the
Northwest Territory, "excepting and ex-
Guiding" the last article of the ordnance of
1887, made for the government thereof.
Il U. S. statute, p. 549.) That act was
approved by John Adams; he was one of
the fathers, one of the founders of this
Republic, and yet he and all his associates
voted or approved to admit slavery in the
Territories and States Of this Republic, and
voted for or approved of an act which ex-
pressly excepted and excluded" the last
article of the ordinance of 1887, enacted for
the Northwest Territory, and which did
prevent the existence of slavery from being
applicable to any other Territory.
And SO we might go on over the pages of
our Nations history, and show how utterly
without the shadow of foundation in
truth is the often repeated assertions of the
Black Republicans that they are only car
rying out the opinions of the fathers of this
Republic. The charge is false, it is libel
lous, and every patriot should frown down
and despise the scamp or scamps who would
thus drag down the well.earned and we'll
deserved fame of our fathers to the foul,
crazy, madcap pretentions and postulates
of the Black Republicans.
But these same immaculate Republicans
did in 1858, in Congress assembled, vote
as body for the admission of Kansas with
slave constitution, under the "Montgom-
cry amendment" the preamble reads thus:
"Whereas, the people of the Territory Of
Kansas did, by convention of delegates
called and assembled at Lecompton on the
4th day OF September, 1857, for that pur-
pose form for themselves constitution and
State government, which said constitution
is Republican, and said convention having
asked the admission of said Territory into