St. Cloud Democrat. [volume] (Saint Cloud, Stearns County, Minn.) 1858-1866, 1860-03-22
Southern Honor"

The LynchduTy Ptrganaon says: owe
were shown, on yesterday, a beautiful
cane, gotten up by a gentleman Of Bed
ford, to be presented to the Hon: H. A.
Edmundson, as appreciation of his con-
duct in Switching John Hickman, in the
streets Of Washington, the other day
The cane has heavy silver head, upon
which is engraved, ITO Hon. H. A. I'd
mundson, the man who whipped one of
the eighteen millions"
This is truly an age of progress and
enlightenment But short time since,
CHARLES SUMNER was brutality beaten,
in the United States Senate Chamber, for
his whitening deaunciation of the Kansas
frauds, by one of the South Carolina
"Chiyalry'. Canes, goblets, and all ,na1-
ner Of testimonials Of the approval of his
conduct were showered upon the ruaianly
assaulter, net only by his constituents, but
by the entire South. And low We see a
most unprovoked assault made upon Hon.
JOHN HICKMAN, of Pennsylvania, by one
Of the sons, of the "Mother of Presidents
For this, a cane is presented to him as a
mark Of appreciation.
Because Mr.. Hickman, discovering the ill.,
EQUITIES Of the Democratic party, had the
manliness to withdraw from its immediate
censorship; because he had the moral
courage to labor for, and with the friends
Of Freedom; because he had the honor to
wish to govern his course rather by the
dictates of his own conscience and his
convictions Of right and duty, than
by the threats Of Southern DULLES; and
because he dared to say his soul was his
own, he is to be assaulted in the Streets of
our National Capital and his assailant is
to be applauded! And yet, we are re.
quired to assert our love aud brotherly
affection for these men-we must
make their interests, our interests,
their opinions our opinions, their
will our will, and should we not i'm
plicitly comply with, and obey, these de-
mands, we have seen what will be our
punishment. ''''
We are not and never have been in ia
vor Of the dissolution Of the Union. If
the South wishes to go out Of the Union,
let them do SO. But if the Union is to be
cemonted and preserved only by such foul
and ,dastard!y outrages as these, then We
say; letIit he dissolved at once, in Gods
name = Better go back to the barbarism Of
the Cloths and ..Vandals, than do their
deeds, in the name of liberty and indepen.
dence!2 These oatrages become 81 more
cowardly when We remember that Charles
Sumner, ctramped ii his desk, was Va ap-
preached from behind and struck on the
head with "a. cane before he i could stir ;
and that Mr.. Hickman is an invalid,
while Honorable Edmundson Is a stout,
robust 4 and a. hearty man. nal, The following
paragraph from the <Altos; j Courier, ex-
presses our sentiments exactly: .ro5Gt a1st2'
How. long, o God, shall these things
bet When shall man wake to the knowl.
edge Of what constitutes manhood + When
shall freedom BE in truth the law NJ Of onl
land When shall towards and bullies BIZ
cast out of the high places, and noble and
heroic men rule in the seats they now dis
grace! How long, O God !a55 10" 2zss
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Several important articles have :bse''
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