St. Cloud Democrat. [volume] (Saint Cloud, Stearns County, Minn.) 1858-1866, 1860-10-04

be invested with all power and domination
Why they have arrested the march Of enamel
patton at the line Of Pennsylvania, and hav,
left the ancient slavery still lingering in Della.
ware, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina
South Carolina and Georgia, and they have adj
ded to them five or six slave States in the
southwestern angle Of the United States That
is all that they have done, and on the other
hand the great vital principle of the Republic
this principle Of freedom and equality-what
has it not done? It hos abolished slavery in
seven Of the original slave States, and has pro-
duced new and strong aud most vigorous and
virtuous States, Gall along the shores Of the
great lakes, and all across to the Valley of the
Upper Mississippi, and it has established free
dom beyond the power Of being overthrow,
on the coast Of the Pacific Ocean. Certainly,
since we can lay so little claim to having pro-
duced these results by our own work or wis
dom or virtue, what could have secured them
but that overruling power which by its higher
laws controls even the perverse wills of men,
and which means nothing less than that this
shall be henceforth and forever as it was es-
tablished in the beginning-a land not Of sla-
very, but land Of freedom. [Cheers
Fellow citizens, either in one way or the 9TH
er, whether you agree with me in attributing
it to the interposition Of divine providence or
not, this battle has been fought-this victory
has been won. Slavery to-day is for the first
time not only pewerless, but without influence
in the American Republic. The serried ranks
OF party after party which rallied around it, to
sustain and support it, are broken under the
irresistible pressure Of q new party, organized
to restore freedom to its original and just po-
sition iu the Government. For the first time
In the history Of the United States no man in q
free State can be bribed to vote for slavery
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the power to make good bride or seduction
by which to convert Wings or Democrats to
support slavery. [Applause.] For the first
time in the history Of the Republic the slave
power has not even the ability to terrify or
alarm the freeman so as to make him submit,
or even to compromise It rails now with a
feeble voice, instead Of laundering as it did in
our ears for twenty or thirty years past. With
feeble and muttering voice they cry out that
they will tear the Union to pieces. lDerisive
laughter.] Who's afraid! Laughter and
cries of no one. They complain that if we
will not surrender our principles, and our sys-
and if We will not accept their system and such
rulers rs they will give us, they will 60 out Of
the Union. ''Who's afraid!"" daughter. 7
Nobody's afraid. Nobody can be bought
Now, fellow citizens, let me ask you since you
are so prompt at answering, suppose at any
time within the last forty years we could have
found the American people in the free States
everywhere just as they are in the free States
now, in such frame Of mind that there was
no party that could be bought, no body that
could be scared-how much sooner do you
think this revolution would have come in which
we are now engaged? do not believe there
has been one day from 1887 until nov when
slavery had any power in the government, ex-
cept what it derived from buying up men Of
weak virtue, little principle and great cupidi-
ty, and terrifying men Of weak nerves in the
free States. Laughter and applause. And
now ask what has made this great political
change? How is it that the American people
who only ten wears ago said s.take part II you
will, take all if you must" who only six years
ago said ''take Kansas, carry slavery over it,
peacefully if you can, foroibly il you must, -
who, when the widows lament and the blood
Of the martyrs Of Liberty cried out from the
ground and appealed to them for help and
how is it that in the space Of six years you have
al become, the whole people of the North and
of the Northwest, the whole people Of the free
States have become all at ence SO honest that
none Of them can be bought, so brave that
none Of them can be terrified? will tell you
Theorists and visionaries on the Atlantic coast,
who of all men in the world were safest from
the invasion Of slavery, and had least to suffer
from it, while these prairies and fields and
wildernesses were as yet being filed up and
unorganized, could not be convinced Of the i'm
minence Of the danger. It has been next to
impossible to convince the man who lives on
The sidewalk in an Atlantic city, q even the
farmer in his fields in Ontario OF Cayuga or
Bcrks or Windham Or Suffolk, or any one Of
the counties Of the Eastern States that it was
matter Of very great consequence whether
slaves OF freemen constitute the people, the
ruling powers Of the new States. But just in
the right moment when the battle was as good
% lost, the immigration from the Eastern
States and from the Old World, into Michigan
and Wisconsin and Minnesota and Iowa, rose
up in the exercise and enjoyment Of that free
dom which had been saved to them by the Or
dinsnce Of 1887, and appreciating its value
and importance, and feeling every man for
make slave, nor own : slave, nor allow any
other man 70 make OF buy OF ewn 8 slave with
in the State to which they belonged They
came like tho army Of Butcher TO the rescue,
and the field Of Waterloo was won. The North
west has vindicatod the wisdom OF the States-
men Of 1887 and tho virtue Of the American
people; and now since you were % determin
Cd that slavery should be ARRESTED and that
freedom should henoeforth 10 nationsland sla-
very only seetional. ys q The Atlantic states
Is you are. Appliance. - 80, :,
:. Fellow oiti1ens, I must not b misihterpret-
cd. ] have said that this battle was fought
and this victory Won I said so ii tho Senate
81 The unitsd States, four ysart 80, and /
was thoaeht to have thereby bssn dsmoralis-
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