St. Cloud Democrat. [volume] (Saint Cloud, Stearns County, Minn.) 1858-1866, 1860-08-23

from thed.mp and chilly air Of. New
Orleans winter, than I did It st. Cloud
with the mercury at fifteen degrees below
zero. I have no property which I desire
to sell in your neighborhood; hence my
testimony ought to be considered good.
But I. commenced TO- write about this
great and wicked city, where Mr.. Buchan-
an received over forty thousand votes and
where ten thousand and over grog shops
exist and murders are committed almost
hourly. However, BY what seems an al
most universal law Of compensation, we
have also among US noble men and wo-
men-true patriots and good Christians
and thus the bane and antidote go hand
in hand together, and with this advantage
on the side Of the virtuous and true-that
GoD is always on that side. ~:
We are fond of excitement, and each
morning introduces us to some new won
der. Yesterday, perhaps, we bade adieu
to that remarkable and interesting compa-
ny, the "Japs;'' while to-day the monster
ship moves into our harbor with the grace
and ease Of pleasure yacht; tomorrow
it will be the Chicago Zouaves, or the
Prince of Wales, and so on until your
regular citizen becomes as stoical as a
plantation slave. An occasional moral
exhibition is served up by way of change
-as tho other day when Hicks, the pi-
rate, was publicly hung in presence Of ten
thousand persons, by U. s. officials.
"Cotton is Kingp' said the gentle
Southerner one year ago-to which the
tradesman in principles and merchandise
responded hearty "Amen! !" To-day a
new song is heard, since the orders which
his lordly majesty gave them with such
airs and impudence, have become due and
are not paid. Now instead Of Section is
King!"' it is ''Cotton is short !"-"Corn
is short !"-"Money is short y'-'Niggers
are hateful and wicked the devil is
to pay generally! "John Brown was the
deotz, and Old Abe Lincoln is one of his
inps" Did you ever see hyena in his
cage, where he could not do much but
growl and "look prettyf'' Then you have
seen the true type Of the 6re-eater Of to-
day. He swears, and raves, and tears
about, but he is in cage and can do little
harm-for now "wHEAr" and not cotton
is King, and the merchant again cheerily
responds, "Amen| One year ago the
blaudest smiles were all reserved for our
Southern brethren; while Western man
from his broad acres of Indifferent crops
was scarcely recognized. Now the hard
hands of the Western. men are sought for
a shake, rather than that of the Southern
gentleman q in his kids.
Oh, ye Democrats of Minnesota ! know
ye not how poor specimens ye are as COM
pared with those pillars in your Democrat
ic church who use the WHIP instead of
the hoe, thereby saving themselves from
tho round shoulders and hard hands which
disfgure you. In South Carolina, where
all, or nearly all, are Democrats, you would
be considered bogus and hereto, from
your very appearance, and very likely you
would be invited to leave the State at
once as Black Republican in Disguise
more especially if you wanted to collect
money Of them, which you had been so
foolish as to earn with your own hands.
When I can find time I will give you
Politics and Parties.
-. CROMWELL.