St. Cloud Democrat. [volume] (Saint Cloud, Stearns County, Minn.) 1858-1866, 1860-11-01

pie: M: Do.V1las doctrine inuolpes nc
perpe'u'ty ct our gove,,,n,ent. the cont;nu-
unce Of peoce,thd personul ,velf;41e,of you
and !, and aNof a. i 4 4
There gre porte ntous cpnseqncnces avw-
ing FROM it; q dark terror On the back
ground. which cvery man Ia who sy;llnpathi:
ses with Me- Doug !as%should Rwell=under-
stand"
-Wso- otltorress TIL Territorial sys1c,,,
sohen qnce established E ,s,:s<y 80 :.
{ 'Like The young lion that has ! once lapel
The heart can re'er be cocaaxed back to auxht
Will Mr.. Douglas contract tc build d
wall around it? Who shah saw to this
desperate iniquity, when it reaches the
territorial Boundaries, '.tl,uss far and no
1arthe::: IAN persons trespassinx on
these = premises viii be dealt with according
No, my friends, you will see the newt.
able evil rise into the air, gorgun-likc, with
all its horrors spread, looking abroad with
blood-red rye for. wider: fields of conquest.
Where shall its pestilent foot first strike
the earth !? Let Hqrper's Ferry a"s~er
Let The alg,iit'ted nation rise up and re.o;,-
MIS- in it--in thus squatter sovereignty
the en6odieel genius IF cirH ,cnr. rz.,;,;~
.'From the heated furnace Of political
strife" says Mr.. Corwin, this fire went
forth. 1t shed its baletul light over Kan
sas, for three troubled years, blazed up to
noontide, and then, like a tropical sun,
dashed down the sky. cast a lurid blaze
over the chaos it had created, and sunk,
quenchcd in blood, leaving behind it only
the spectral images Of confusion and war
which its brief day had evoked into life. I"
There is a mass Of finder in. this country
that; needs only sue, fi,e- brand as this
squatter severe gnty has proved itself to
be: Warnings; says Guizot, trays Of
light have never been withheld from rising
revolutions. >" L g. .st;1[@ ~--->@zl '@3#s5I =
God grant that in this great organization.
the. Republican Party, which sincere
sentiment has built up, guide may he
found that shall lead the nation through
the troubles that environ it; that shall car
ry us over the weak and trembling places
to sound land; that shall proceed with such
wisd"m. such patience, such steadiness
that neither tho avalanche may he dis
turbed nor the earthquake aroused, and
that shall yet ne.cr withdraw it's eye from
the one bright shining light that first
hailed and rcckoned on it's tootsteps, the
light ct"ntver*al human liberty. .:,':
1t requires but little of the spirit Of
my friends, to see down the WIS.,
ia If time that early day when, under the
shadow Of our Constitution blessed and
beautiful to then, no human being shall
wear the *hackles Of servitude; but over
the whole broad land, in the language Of
Emerson, 1.-THE age shall walk about in
happy and hopeful natures, III strong eyes
and pleasant Thoughts when every man
even OF the humblest may have education,
every man freedom, every man opportuni-
ty commensurate with his powers. s:.s
God grant that this great moral revolu-
lion, as it moves grandly on, may not be
met by temporary but bloody expedieuts,
shifts and devices to save: men at the ex:
pense Ut peoples; but that it may glide
forward peaceably, calmly, gently, Ike the
OF the waters like the
sradual d. y. dawn of our no'thern cline
md tina: when at last the great sun II com.
plete freedom rises over the revolution
zed land, it may look down upon party
with nj wrong, conscious OF no
rhine, wearing on its broad banner TIE
proud and noble motto which Monte de-
tired might be inscribed upon his shield:-|
: lCTOR WITHOUT BLOOD"