Red Wing sentinel. [volume] (Red Wing, M.T. [i.e. Minn.]) 1855-1861, 1860-02-29

and philosophy teach Us is the natural re-
suit Of oppression p And our venerable
father in the Lord said this with such an
air Of injured innocence, that we could not in
our heart find him guilty Of hypocrisy and
we charitably concluded that it never occur
red to his mind that there was not 4 single
slace in the Harper's Ferry affair, and that
not single Southern negro could be induced,
either by threats or brides, to join the insur-
surrectionists. No, sir" said the Elder,
witha magnificent gesture, "the Republicans
had no more to do with the instruction Of
1853, than with that of 1900" But, dear
Elder, it. as you say, the Abolitionists are
not responsible. and if as you further say
the Republicans were not engaged in it, and
II; as we al know, thsre was not single
slave or Southern negro in the muss, who
las you would say, I'm the name Of candor, !:
are the guilty parties !? Will that, not very
automatic, generality, slavery is the moth
er Of instructions" answer our inquiry il
this case Here, dear Elder, is where 20,
signally failed. You got up . nice theory
but could find no instruction in the history
Of slavery on this continent. to which il
would apply and you might as well take
hold Of the seat Of your breaches and try Il
hold yourself out Of three story window
~ to account for the Harpor's Ferry af1ai,
by it. That was in no sense Of the term
slave instruction but an invasion b,
Northern men-white fanatics and Cana
dian negroes--who had learned their prin
(ciplss from the mouth Of your Republican
leaders, who had received their arms from
your Republican Kansas Committee, VII.
listened time and again to sentiments suct
as you now put forth. till they believed thu
slaves were only. waiting for an opportunity
to rise on their masters, and join in mas
sacre to which that Of St. Bartholomew
would have borne no comparison, who wen,
to Virginia to find them, elves miserably de.
ceived, and to become the mournful victims
of their own folly, in putting into practice
the precepts Of men, whose sympathy fo'
them in their misfortune was exhibited in
the adoption Of resolutions, the utterancc o.
|blasphemous prayers, the tolling of bells
and the windy denunciations of the instru
ments Of justice. ,,ti
The Elder denounced the slave trade, and
its horrors. We agreed with him there.
But when he said that that trade was to-day
carried on under the projection Of the Amer
lean flag, he perpetrated miserable and
ehauefai falsehood. Never has that inhu.
man traffic been carried on to . less extent
and never has this government taken more
active measures for its suppression, than dur.
ing the last 6ur years. F tls' ny. '',lss
The Elder Z" eliminated {" in = peroration
on the evils Of slavery, both to the white
race and the black; and he done it up pretty
well too. lie looked tho orator, all over
The spirits Of the mighty dead were around
him; they were Is Lliputians to his great
ness, IS he lowered and swelled. The
shade Of Demosthenes rerched on the sad
die Of his specs, the ghosts of Cicero and
Burke took their respective stations on. the
points Of his standing collar, and the spirits
|of Webster, Clay and Calhoun, listened de-
|lightedly from comfortable seats on the tip
Of his luminous nose. 1t was grand it
was spblime--so it was. We could scarcely
command our feelings; We could scarcely Re: Re.
ftain from exclaiming with Artemus Ward
"Me thinks theu art blowing, old hoss!'' !.
I" These" said the Elder, +" are the. evils
Of the system; but, alas We, have no righ'
to interfere with it where it exists no au
thority to- meddle with the institutions q
other States." Then, Elder, dear, what ii
the name Of General Jackson do you do i;
for; Why do you have 60 much to say about
other peoples business are you afraM thai
your Republican, friends will INTRODUCES slay
lery into Goodhue, and You want 70 fxthen
|up on tho horrors beforehand, inot, then i,
not your lecture, aphically speaking, ,ou
of place. You know st. Paul preached q
Athens Of the sins Of Athens" &C. ,. zti
The Elder falls into . little egoti1tical or
ror when he thinks he has taken new
field, and meets the charges against abolitior
lists with moro force than Fothes.i n tn,
proposition that insuErection follows oppres
sion hos been advanced and sustained b,
the same historical ex.mples in regard (
Greek and Roman slavery, and also by the
Hebrews escaping from Egypt -which The
Elder forgot TO put in-by Garrison, Philip.
= Co., time and again. Instead Of anythina
new, the Elder repeated the argomsnts thai
have weaTisd as 20 often before. The hct
lof il i, Elder that when you got out Of, div:
Unity, you leavs your element. You have
thsn but ono power leA, which you can usa
to adEantage-that of. blackguardism; and
that Is something. dear Elder, il which any
stag. driver 6 yop, equal and my ash;
woman your superior. fth - ss'f'''''