The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1860-07-27
A Slave Seduced from his Mattresses
Practical Observation-Disclosures and
its Disastrous Effects upon Minnesota
as q Summer Resort.

An instance of practical Black Republi-
canism occurred in this city on the night of
the 18th, in the seduction of slave from
the service of Southern lady, who arrived
here few days since from Mississippi, with
the intention Of spending the summer for
the benefit of her health. There is no doubt
that this outrage against good neighborhood,
and the comfy which should exist between
the people of different sections of the same
country, was perpetrated through the con-
nivance, if not by the direct personal aid,
of the Black Republican politicians of
Saint Paul. We are the more convinced of
this fact, for the reason that the two Black
Republican papers here have been, for the
last ten days, suspiciocsly profuse in their
assurances to the Southerners in our midst,
that their servants could be brought here
with perfect impunity; and thus have en-
couraged them to remain amongst US, and
spend the money which our country SO
much needs, and which would otherwise be
scattered among the watering places of the
Eastern and Middle States. The result
shows that these professions were made
simply to lull our Southern friends into a
state of fancied security, so that these Abo-
lition hypocrites could the more easily rob
them of their property.
To show that the assurances and protesta.
lions of the Times and Mlnnesotian-the
two Black Republican papers here-were
thoroughly hypocritical, and therefore made
for the purpose of preparing the way for just
such an outrage as has been committed, we
refer to the action of these same editors at
the last session of our Legislature, when it
was proposed to give the citizens of the
South proper security for the possession of
their family servants during that portion of
the year when they would naturally be
attracted hither for purposes of pleasure and
business. This security was provided for
in the following concurrent resolutions sub.
mitted to the House OF Representatives, by
Col. ROBERTSON, of this city:
WHEREAS, We are informed, that for the pur.
pose of pleasant recreation, and to benefit their
| health, many citizens of the Southern slave.
holding States desire during the sickly season
| to sojourn temporarily in Minnesota. with their
| families and customary house servants, but
fear being deprived of the possession of the
latter, by means of hostile combinations, or ad.
| verse legal proceedings, therefore,
| RESOLVED, That we, the representatives OF
the people, pledge to our countrymen of the
South, who may desire to visit Minnesota, an
observance at all times of every right OF hon.
orable hospitality, and that during their sickly
season-between the 18th of May and the 18th
of October of each year-Our borders will be
open to receive them and their families as
guests and SOjourners, and to protect them IN
the right Of possession to their family servants
bond or free; and for that period of every year
the soil of Minnesota will be to all neutral
ground.
When these resolutions were introduced,
their mover. and all who sympathised with
him, we're assaied by the Minnesotian and
Times with the most opprobrious epithets.
The movement was denounced as an at
tempt to fasten the curse of human
bondage upon the free soil of Minnesota
to " faint the pure air of our State with
the polluting breath of slavery"-and its
advocates were stigmatized as faces of
dough- and as "serviles of the South"
Here was an opportunity to secure to South
erners who desired during the sickly season
to sojourn temporarily in Minnesota pro-
lection in the possession of their customary
house servants" against hostile combina-
tions, and adverse legal proceedings" with.
out in any way endangeripg the free charac-
ter of our ms titutions, or demoralizing our
people, These resolutions were, however,
voted down by the Black Republicans
being sustained only by single member of
that party, MIR. Speaker CoGGswELL, who,
to his credit, has since left bis old associates
on account of their disgusting fanaticism.
The residents of the Southern States, now
in our midst, can judge from this record Of
the sincerity of the Black Republican pro-
LESSONS of respect which have been spread
before them, with so much funkeyism, in
the papers of that faith, and can form
pretty fair estimate of the security they are
likely to enjoy at the hands of that class of
our people.
The outrage committed against this lady
from the South, should open the eyes of our
people to the inevitable tendencies of Black
Republican teachings. If the citizens of
the South, cannot come among US during
the hot season, and remain unmolested in
the possession of their servants, prominent
and vastly increasing source of our prosper
ity will be Observation-Disclosures, too, for no
better purpose than to crafty the foolish
fanaticism of men, two-thirds of whom are
mere adventures, and with no permanent
stake in the well-beiDg of our State. How
long shall this fanaticism receive encourage
ment to the damage of our material inter-
ests, and of our reputation both at home and
abroad?
ADvICEs from Ruatan, on the 18th inst,
reports that Honduras will take possession
of the Bay Islands on the Both. The peo-