Red Wing sentinel. [volume] (Red Wing, M.T. [i.e. Minn.]) 1855-1861, 1860-02-04

up to this time maintained, take my leave
! VIM. COLV1LL, JR.
i sALUTATORY.
4 TO THE PATRONS OF THE SENTINEL
Having assumed the Editorial charge q
tho SENTINEL it is proper to state the gen
eral policy this paper will pursue while un
der its present control.
We shall honestly and faithfully labor t.
promote the success Of the Democratic part
Of Minnesota. We believe that the Demo
cracy is true to the Union and the Consti
tuition; the Union to preserve and the Con
stitution to protect and transmit to GU
posterity inviolatc. To these patriotic OBJ
jects it stands pledged-as the only effectiv,
agency within the Union through and b.
which they can be secured. The Demo
cratic party, as political organization il
co-cxtensivc with the Union itself and il
is to-day the only party Of the nation
that can make the proud claim of proposing
any policy or nominating candidates tina
will have advocates and supporters in ever,
county, village and. perhaps, school distric
from Maine to Texas, from the great lakes
to the gulf and from the shores Of the grea,
ocean on the east to the far off shores O
the Pacific on the West.
It is to be expected in all free Govern.
ments, like ours, that wide and marked dit.
ferences Of political opinion will exist MOI
IS it remarkable that even in the Demo
cratic party, party which has and will
shape the destinies Of the Republic, differ
ences should also exist. One party organi
zation extends over the Union and it is not
strange that Democrats should disagree on
some things, for while freedom Of thought
and opinion remains it is probable they can
not all agree, and it is not perhaps desirable
that they should. Animated by loyal de-
votion to the Union and the constitution.
and their preservation intact, minor differ.
ences, become subordinate to these greater
objects.
In these days Of fanaticism and disunion,
when extreme men of either section rail out
maledictions and curses against each other
when mad and bloody forays against sister
States are encouraged--when instructions
disturb the public peace and disunion senti-
ments, boldly proclaimed. unsettles the con-
fidence in nat onal stability, it is full time
for all moderate and conservative men to
labor to check their tendencies to folly, to
reject these extreme teachers ~ political
feretics, to infusc new life into that love OF
the Republic,once so strong and not yet dead
to rally all good men to the standard of the
Union and put down seetionalism, North
aud South.
The Helpesits and instruction Republic.
ans en- the one side and the slave code disu.
nionists on the other have become the mad
tools Of opposing sections, and should be put
down. There is but one true policy and
that is to abide by the constitution and its
guarantees and cling to the Union "as the
mariner clings to the last plank US the storm
and the darkness close round him. There
are no dangers, or grievances or difficulties
IN the union, but become incomparably great
er out oft. To this end it will be the aim.
Of the SENTINEL to encourage to the ut
most national sentiment and break down
sectional,sm and sectional parties.
Believing that STEPHEN A. DOUGLAS,
more than any living American statesman
IS the man to carry the country through
the present national crisis, we shall earnest
ly sustain his nomination to the Pres;.
dency BY the Democratic party. He ha.
the "pluck and unbending 8. back bone ,,
for any emergency that may arise; he is the
hope Of the conservative classes, and the
young men Of the country are enthusiastic.
tally devoted him. His Senatorial career. in
the successes he has obtained; his victory in
Illinois, over The combined forces of the Ad.
ministration and the Republicans mark him
as man Of no ordinary type, and above
|ali, If nominated: he is certain Of his election
10 State and local matters We shall ex.
pose all fraud and corruption, no matter by
whom committed; we intend to be on the
side OF the taxpayer all the time. Suffer
ing in that way ourselves, we feel as the
tax payers feel, and a. occasion shall re.
qu're and opportunity present, shall review
the populations in the past, and guard agajns,