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

IN q community half continent from am
possibility of its reach. And yet this doc
trine Of Mr.. Douglas proposes to plant fh.
discussion and the settlement of the ataes-
I ton, right in the middle Of the people, t.
Il be affected by it Ito make that practice
which is otherwise theoretical Ito brinf
the same violent, fierce feeling to bear, no
on slavery in the abstract, but on the cues
ton Of slavery or no slavery right at fht
doors of the disputaats Aud that which
ends in bloodshed in Pennsylvania, is, you
are told, to find peaeeable solution on
/ the plains Of Kansas
4 Mississippi is a slave state. There is no
effort to make it otherwise and bat dis
/ tant hope that it ever viii be otherwise,
| Yet, suppose, my friends, that youor ( 60
there and denounce slavery as it appeared
among the ireeks and Romans. Plato
said = man was "a biped without feathers =,
whereupon Diogenas plucked chicken
and setting it down called ii, s.Plsto,s
man." Wen, you or !. after our lecture in
Mississippi, would probably, il no worse
fate befelI as, reverse Plato 8 definition and
lgsessast StxllSipS osaaly Ca kjipelf
EststlE Teal hers. f1s yet ID Is s,ea ID zlaese
citizens OF Mississippi, aIaen.l usfll bowie
knife and revolver, into hose lisYsds tie.
peaceful solution OF the slavery question
| is to be placed. He who has, all his life.
treated the ebullitions of struggling free
dom with the lash, and the advocates Of
liberty with the tar pot and feather bag, is
now to walk peaceably up to a 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
proyocation, 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, "hs be-
tseUed he could carry out a .fsD blankets as
At ods darned cold out nere!'. The cold
process uf 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-fashiened adjudicators, the bowie
knife and revolver. @@js
And yet, my friends, the comparison is
not fair one. Pennsylvania and Miss;s-
sippi are old States, long, settled well or.
ganized, devoted to law aud order. And
yet, in them, the discussion of Slavery in
the abstract can scarcely be tolerated with
out bloodshed. What results, then, NAV
we anticipate where there is neither wealth, /
nor organized society, nor scarcely law;
where the population, instead of being ho-
mogeneous, is hurriedly congregated from
the most distant localities, and represent s
ing the most divergent sentiments; and
where, too often, south Of $50 30 Inin..
we find the people ruder than the Indians
they displace. You have seen the account
OF traveller in Arkansas, who, while
ashore in a village on the river bank, wit
messed fight in which two men were kill I
ed. No arrests were made, and the mur- #
derers walked deliberately off. ssMy
exclaimed thu traveller, q don't
you arrest men for murder here ?' q "Oh.
no." said bystander, ''we amt incorpo--
rGtedw
The whole doctrine is farcical. That
which abstracts the ablest deliberative body J,
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 a
peaceable solution on the great plains, at the
hands Of men struggling for their pressing
interests, and held together by no tie save
q 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
working out or 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
md 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
'ent covering from public life, leaving his !
name 6 wreck, mock, a jeer, and a 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
,erfTm. .-rs
Says Guizot, speaking of the English
Parliament of 1910, "They had reached
uch pass that the two parties could 20
onger live together sit within the
anne wallis" ~ Life
Says Mr.. Breckenridge, speaking Of the
American Congress, "a stranger visiting
W ashington would suppose the President
# the United States the ruler of two dis
inct and hostile nations.n 2
At this critical moment, when the ma
ion is all finder, waiting for the spark;
when the GREAT WORK, proceeding peacea-
lily, walks amid shadowy dangers, Mr..
Douglas comes forward with the denoue-
neDt. 1.s 4
"True, my friends he says, in effect, 1
we cannot settle this question here; our
ulcers cannot keep order; and parlia-- G
nentary rules amount to nothing we viii
,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
Vour best men; and you, Northerners,
'ours send them forth and let them fight
t 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. H.. III q
And this, we are told, is q great policy e
This is great craftsmanship This is,
Popular Sovereignty
If the object is to pluck such derna-
,ogues as Mr.. Douglas out of the trough
# the sea, when the conflicting waters Of
sectional strife srnite and shatter each other.
hen, grant you. this policy viii accom-. i
dish it. liz the object is to have states--
men who fill the places Of the leaders Of
he nation, draw their pay with great re-
,ularity, and yet are unable or unwilling
% lead the nation, then this policy win ac-
,omplish it. -
at removes this question:" says Mr..
Douglas, I" from the halls of Congress.
1t is then the great end of tesman--
hip to remove questions from tie halls of
Congress- to dodge issues to- change the
'enue of agitation !? .a, q
1t was said in condemnation of William
Pitt, that he transferred the embarrassInents
,fhis own age to the shoulders of sue
;eeding one. What shall be said Of this &
nan, Douglas, who preserves order in
Washington by removing the disorder IN
to Kansas who heals the dis.
sase at its natural outlet that itmay break
orth with ten fold virulenee in another
part; and who is willing TO chase the ul-
,er from the belly to the members and ell =
around the SYSTEM