St. Cloud Democrat. [volume] (Saint Cloud, Stearns County, Minn.) 1858-1866, 1860-10-18
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rsTsg,er sssfsoI bio efs IaaEslrsT sa:Tr
our elncal and domestic Institutions Is The
greatest, safeguard Of eur, lihefties.-St 80
repent flat uniformity in our f6s;ifutioas il
settler possible or desirabae o9a: ,E-dE
Thin p'sy touad very lrofaunt, etuteit VIII
act require mans. word, t. shos yeu.how ex-
ceediuely rjdicp;ous it il. -,.N Nhatever,yeur
opinions of the Judges statesmsnsbip mai BE-,
permit me to say thst whenever he attempts
10 sst The Philosopher, he becomes not 10 put
TOO fpe = 1peint upon n---yery funny snir;
:, His argument il that there: islssyarietytf
thar & variety Of local Institutions grow out of
them ;'ihatupon this -, iety Of inst tu,ious cur
fsdefsl system ef goysrnmens reets ssthat the
federal system Of government is the great safe.
guard ot ouF Liberties that consequently in
order TO preserve q variety Of domestic affairs
and local institutions. The question arises, if
that variety of domestic Stairs and local insti-
tutions did not exist, would that renrlerfthe
federal system cf zgoyernnens sinspossible,!-
With ct!.sr words. would people among whom
there Is no such variety Of domestic atfsi, and
lecal iDstnutions be incapable or freedom?
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70 Put suppose, for carsament sake, variety
Of inter eats we're really 20 great and indispen-
SAUAy prop anu pNl1l Oh our l0SlI0tO0 OK
sc + government-isJ Judge Douglas unaequain-
ted with the difference b@tw cen man ufaciurisR
Massachusetts and Connec ct;cui nacommercIsl
New York-between mining Pennsylsania aad
agricultural Illinois but that variety ices
not seen 10 be sufficient for the Judge-the-e
is sill too much uniformity in it, He insists
that :'where tbe dottfiHeo OF Uniformity Is pro-
claimed. ali thes States must, be1free or slave.-
that all labor must be White or black" Our
Liberties. must necessary 90 ~ the board,
therefore We must; have m, re ,Eri-ty. Tie
variety Of manufacturing an commercial. min
ing aud sr5cu'suraI psetlsets, Is sadly insult
cient. He also insists that there must be-
little ysritly. Of Freedom and Slavef4yqf white
and black labor; and that seems tor be his t.
vorite mixture; his cardinal, Fundamental,
SINE oUAsox variety, and not only have ve 10
right 10 establish uniform free laboFsbg en-
ercaekine upon the rights of the State: kut
quite NJ general thing. the extinction Of -his
favcrite VARIETY, would be neither possible
nor, desiratle." he declares ii to be = .sfafal
heresy - proclaim fhst there can cr oughtsto
be uniformity among the different States Is tbs
Onion. j" T. would thel accord M to the Judge
not be tes rable that free Labor should rrerau
ever. where, for that would create uniformly
which is the death of Freedom.
And now mark that wonderful muddle. Of
nonsense in the head of tia. .,grea,es,so Of li,-
ing statesman',-our liberties r:se upol cur
Federal system of Government our Fede,.
system of Government rests upon the varie' y
otiEstsutiors !; that variety OF institutions CO:
sists Of there being Slavery IN sonre Of the
States. II Slavery disappeared, thst variety
would disappear : if tkat variety disappeared,
our Federal system Of Government, would dis
appear; If our Federal system Of Goyernent
dissppeared the safeguards Of our ibefsies
would bs destrcyed-eonsequentiy, y, II Slavery
disappears, lbe,ty disappsars Also ;IasT q
Again. if all the States we're freeA re would
be uniformity. but unito' nifty in 10. 81 and do
mestic Affairs would be destructive Of personal
liberty-that unifrm;ty is prevented by the
existence OF Slavery, consequently the cxis-
tence of Slavery prevents The destruction Of
liberty, or liberty cannot be preserved L1t ky
the preservation Of Slavery.
What benefactnre of cCr humanity we're
these Who Introduced Slavery into Ibis land:
tor they furnished the material our Of xlish
the necessary varie'JI Was made, without
which our Liberty cannot exist. II tiey Lad
not done, so. then all the States weuld bt frc';
there would be uniformity. and We would: Oh
be slave+!i What nonsense to abolish tlc
slave trade! The more slaves the more:sa1ie-
ty-the more variety, the more f,c. dcm.7 =
How We mus: pity the unfortunate nations
that have no slavery among them for they
have no variety Of institutions, and having 10
variety IF institutions they can have no liber-
~. Poor peopi. that have no slaves among
them; they can never be free!
1lIus7RAr,oss OF THE VARIETY pocrRIx1.
1t is . little surprising, howev.r, that this
great and luminous doctrine of s"varies5"
should have teen 20 little known about The
tinae when our government was organized and
the Constitution framed. There we're TWO in.
uividuals living then who enjoyed some 1.-The
reputation for statesmaaship. one Of whom
esid. 'tNothing is more certainly written in
the Book of Fa:ethsufhat those people mesh
ing the slaves are I" be free , And they wdfc
called statesmen! What IN immense progress
We have made in these seventy years.! They
would be called s;mpletons or traitors nov
for they either knew nothing Of the great doc-
irine Of ..variety''-xhich vas very foolish-
or. If they knew il, they plotted the destrue-
ton ST popular freedom by advocating The uni
certainly was very rease ssblc.
By the way, tue name Of one was George
Washington. and the name Of the otE e. vas
Thomas jefferson Vow viii be obliged to con-
Tess that you were very much mistaken in
those two men. What pity Judge, Douglas
did not live in those days. How lie would
have knocked his great doctrine Of variety
sbsat their cars! How Ne would shavs taught
Washington what the ideflisionof our Fede4al
sysslen u! aH.ws he yolld hayeia.d Jsa.rsen
: vhst the great safeguards Of liberty are! :,
But alas such statesnen are sometimes born
not only u u season tbrut also oas of place.
xsasa5 pity Judge Douglas dseS not lire in
SsisaerlsnL the sldess .kepsbise nou!sx,sst.
bose benig gted people, the sriss, have bsen
for centuries indulging in the lfoslish delu<ien
that they we're free, and that .ht5 hid !ed-
aieyssena 1t government Hhy.aherefs 10
6aAsery II iaEESwitserland ---,here 10 aot tseaec-
essAxJ variety Of issti.s.tieu there. Iisvossn
theya nave federal ipsiitutionswilh unifoEmns1
How can there y liberty Sithou. yhFiets =
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