Red Wing sentinel. [volume] (Red Wing, M.T. [i.e. Minn.]) 1855-1861, 1860-02-15
A CANDID ADMISSION.


Some time ago Senator Douglas introduce
ID into the Senate, in view of tho recent AZ
air ut Harper's Ferry, and message from
he President to Governor Wise, upon that
that he was at a loss to
discover any provision in the Constitution
'r laws Of the United States which would
authorize him to take steps for the purpose
'f preventing the invasion Of one State by
the inhabitants Of another-the following
RESOLVED, That the Committee on the
} judiciary be instructed to report bill for
F!e protection of each State and territory Of
the Union against ,"rnstoa ty the authori.
ttls or inh"htnnts Of eng other State or
7,rr.tery, and for the suppression and pun
ishment of conspiraces or combinations in
any State or Territory, with intent to in.
wade assault or modest the government, in
habitants, property or institutions Of any
State or Territory Of the Union.
Against this resolution, which deserves
and will command the appreciation Of all
Union loving, law.abiding men. the Repub-
lican press Of the country At once set its
face, and with uu-exemplary generosity
bestowed upon Senator Douglas every cpl
tibet Of infamy and vilification in their vo-
cabulary Of blackguardism. That such &C.
ton on his part should raise such hubbub
among men who were always so prosuse in
their denuuciations rather mild ones,) Of
John Browns "toolish attempt" and so OK.
ceeding loyal to the Constitution and laws,
was At first rather perplexing to the unso.
phisticated !; but when they began to grum-
BILE that it was the United States .roops
that captured John Brown. and that were
it not for such unwarrautea interference,
"L'bertyy's latest martyr" would have tri-
umphed oyer the Virginia militia, and have
been to-day, like Mars on Olympus, seated
comfortably on \ pile Of Child's and SWISS
helms love letters on the top Of the Blue
ridge toasting his heroic shins and com
placently viewing his black band Of wooly
headed guerillas. folks began to see the reas-
on Of their murmuring. The plainest init
nation, however, Of the real cause Of
Republican dissatisfaction, that we have seen,
is very savagely written leader in the
Faribauls Republican Of last week, wherein
the above resolution is stigmatized. most
happily and appropriately, we think, as
douglas, Sedition law for the suppression
Of Repu11;canism," the object Of which, he
says: r,-. -.. ,. .....
els the suppression of Republican pr;n.
ciples by the passage of a law which would
enable him \Douglas) and his associate dirt
eating doughfaces with the aid of Federal
Courts in the free States, to indict, imeprtson
and punish CORY prominent individual IN The
party" a ...-
Now this is candid admission of the
truth ofall and more than all the charges we
have ever brought against the Republican
party. In fact we could scarcely bring our
selves to believe, upon the individual asser-
ton Of a member, that any party could
have reached such depth Of degradation;
but unfortunately for our country there is
no reason to dishelieve it; but on the
contrary when we consider the sentiments
professions and actions of the leaders whom
that editor follows, We must admit, though
painfully and reluctantly, that when he says
that . law to protect the lives Of citizen.
and tho rights Of property in tie severa
Statesfrom assault aud destruction by traitor
Gus combinations against the peace Of the lane
the principles Of the government and tn,
|perpetuity Of the Union, strikes directly Al
the Republican organization he says nothing
but what IS strictly true and corroberated BY
the most incontestable evidence.
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