St. Paul weekly Minnesotian. (St. Paul) 1860-1861, 1860-11-09

III u inuEltY nan continent from an
possibility of its reach. And yet this doc
, trine of Mr.. Douglas proposes to plant sh
discussion and the settlement of the ducs
!, ton, right in the middle OF the people, t
be affected by it to make that practice
which is otherwise theoretical Ito brin
the same violent, fierce feeling to bear, nc
on slavery in the abstract, but on the ques
ton of slavery or no slavery right at til
DOORS Of tie disputdnts And that whicI
ends in bloodshed in Pennsylvania, is, yo,
are told, TO find peaceable solution OF
the plains OF Kansas
| Mississippi is slave state. There is n.
effort to make it otherwise and bat dis
tant hope that it ever will be otherwise
Yet, suppose, my friends, that you or 1 81
there and denounce slavery as it appeared
among the ,ireeks ard Romans. Plate
said man was "a biped without feathers =
whereupon Diogenes plucked q chicken
and setting it down called it, '.piato's
man" Well, you or T. after our lecfure in
Mississippi, would probably, if no worse
fase betell US, reverse Plato's definition and
psessst tho stsslsipG anomaly olsAs bined
| ttst2 seathers And ytr,it is one of .hsse
citizens of Mississippi, amend mith bow;;aa
knife and revolver, into whose hands the
| peaceful solution of the slavery question
is to be placed. lie who has, all his life.
treated the ebullitions of struggling free
dom with the lash, and the advocates OF
liberty with the tar pct and feather bag, is
now to walk peaceably up to ballot box,
deposit a small piece of paper therein,
walk quietly Off full of charity and liberty
TO all mankind, and await the issue We
have heard of one Seth Jones. who. when
indignant at his wife for some domestic
provocation, vowed he would freeze himself
to death, and proceeded to sit out of doors
with the thermometer considerably below
zero. In few moments, however, he re-
turned into the house and said, "he be-
tsertd ne Scoa1 carry out q foo blankets as
at aoas darned cold out Msre ~. The cold
process vt freezing was not more congo
NAL to Seth's warm temperament. than.
would be the methodical process of the
ballot box to the Mississipian. Nor did
Seth fall back with greater delight upon
the blankets than would the Mississippian
on the old-iashiened adjudcators, the bowie
knife and revolver.
And yet, my friends, the comparison is
not lair one. Pennsylvania and Miss;s.
sippi are old States, long, Settled well or.
gained, devoted to law and order. And
yet, IN them, the discussion of Slavery an
the abstract can scarcely be tolerated with
out boodshed. What results, then, NAV
we anticipate wi here there is neither wealth,
nor organized society, nor scarcely law;
where the population, instead of being ho-
mogenecus, is hurriedy congregated from
the most distant localities, and represent
ing the most divergent sentiments and
where, too often, south of 36 > 80 min.
we find the people ruder than the Indians
they displace. You have seen the account
OF traveller in Arkansas, who, while
ashore in village on the river bank, wit
messed fight in which two men were kill
ed. No arrests were made, and the muir
derers walked deliberately off "My
heavens" exclaimed tn, traveller, "donst
you arrest men for murder here?'' ooh,
no." said bystander, 'we amt incorpo--
rated"
The whole doctrine is farcical. That
which distracts the ablest deliberative body 8
in the world, the American Congress, and
which has disruptured the Democratic
party, held together by old associations,
and by unity Of object, is to meet q
peaceable solution on the great plains at the
hands OF men struggling for their pressing
interests, and held together by no tie save
a common color and common language
Suppose, my friends, that when the
English Parliament was agitated and con-
vulsed, as this country now is, with the
out o. the disease of Slavery,
more particularly with the question Of Sla-
very in the Colonies of Great Britain, some
man, fearing to espouse either side, and
protesting indifference to both, had arisen
and proposed to throw the burden off the
shoulders of Parliament, and leave the
whole question to the turmoil, the violence,
the narrowneSs and the selfishness of the
Colonies themselves. What would have
been bis answer? He would have been
sent covering from public life, leaving his
name 8. wreck, mock, a jeer, and blister
or all coming time. He would have been
denounced as one who, when sent up to
egislate for the people, and save them
rom their own passions, sought through
ear OF the people, to throw back upon
hem, nay, upon crude portion Of them,
he periious work he had been chosen to
perform.
Says Guizot, speaking of the English
Parliament of 1G4O, "They had reached
such pass that the two parties could no
onger live together-scarce sit within the
anne walls"
Says Mr.. Breckenridge, speaking Of the
American Congress, "a stranger visiting
W ashington would suppose tue President
If the United States the ruler Of two dis
inct and hostile nations"
At this critical moment, when the ma
ion is all finder, waiting for the spark;
when the GREAT WORK, proceeding peacea-
bly,, walks amid shadowy dangers, Mr.
Douglas comes forward with the denoue-
nent.
"True, my friends" he says, in effect,
we cannot settle this question here; our
ulcers cannot keep order; and parlia--
nentary rules amount to nothing we will
,ome to blows and murder each other,
which would be neither respectable nor.
pleasant. There is great empty region
vest Of us You, Southerners pick out
'our best men and you, Northerners,
yours send them forth and let them fight
out. For my part don't care which
wins" And so he washes his hands of
he whole matter, as did pontius Plate
when he handed over Christ to his execu-
toner's.
And this, we are told, is 4 great policy
This is great craftsmanship This is,
Popular Sovereignty -
If the object is to pluck such dema-
sogues as Mr.. Douglas out of the trough
# the sea, when the conflicting waters of
sectional strife smite and shatter each other.
hen, grant you, this policy will accom- !
olish it. Ii the object is to have states
men who fill the places Of the leaders Of
he nation, draw their pay with great re-
sularity, and yet are unable or unwilling
o lead the nation, then this policy will ac-
,omplish it.
at removes this question:" says Mr..
Douglas, from the halls of Congress"
1t is then the great end 4esman-
ship to remove questions from tie halls Of
COngress-to dodge isSues-to change the
'enue of agitation?
1t was said in condemnation Of William
Pitt, that he transferred the embarrassnents
,f his own age to the shoulders Of a sue
,eeding one. What shall be said Of this (
nan, Douglas, who preserves order in
Washington by removing the disorder in
Washington to Kansas who heals the dis.
ease at its natural outlet that it may break
Eorth with ten fold yirulence in another
part; aud who is willing to chase the Ill
GER from the belly to the members and all {