St. Cloud Democrat. [volume] (Saint Cloud, Stearns County, Minn.) 1858-1866, 1861-06-06
The End of Slavery.
From the Northern Independent.

From the Northern Independent.
The end of slavery has come. It may
be that in some portions of the now slave
holding States the work of emancipation
will not be effected at once, but in all the
border States, and wherever the war ra-
gcs, there freedom will be established 49,
The South cannot prevent it. An infant
might as we'll cope with giant, as the i'm
poverished and blghtcd regions of slave
dom with the powerful cohorts of freedom.
The slave empire has yielded 70 mad
ness which is fatal. Not contepted with
an honorable and reasonable alliance with
the North, that mise, able impotent section
of the country must insist upon crushing
out the ballot box, thus striking down the
very forms of republican government, or
blend our political fabric in ruins 1t was
not enough to usurp the Federal judiciary.
monopolise the Federal Offices, murder
Northern citizens, and dcmoralize the
whole country, but new indignities must
be offered. We shall not bear them
This impudence is the slaves freedom
Such outrages open the eyes of the North,
and bring us back to the great charter
doctrines Of the Declaration of Indepcn-
dence.
By calling attention to the essential
meanness Of slavery, this rebellion will ex
ert most salutary influence on the world.
All will see that slavery is incompatible
with honesty or deccncy in anything
The rebellion is only specific instance Of
a corruption which is absolute and unjver-
sal. Slavery is an abnegation of all NOR
als-not merel y, as is too commonly sup
posed, an abnegation of morals toward the
African.
Blood shed on such question gives the
requisite breadth to freedom. We shall
not hereafter corrupt and betool ourselves
with distinctions between the rights Of
white mon and the rights of colored men.
A wise Providence saw that it was not best
that our practical heresy on SO vital a
point should be allowed farther to propa-
gate itself; hence this war was let loose
upon us to scourge us back into the polit-
ical orthodoxy of our ancestors. Let this
strife go on few mouths and we shall
have but one creed, and that the follow
ing, "All men are created equal, and en-
dowed by their Creator with certain ina
lienable lights, among which are life, lib
erty, and the pursuit of happiness"
We shall again be entitled to public re-
spect. For many years past the reputa-
tion of this country has been eheapened
through all Europe, and its moral inau-
ence utterly destroyed by our relations to
slavery. All saw that the grandest exper-
iment in republican government the world
had ever known was miserable bur-
lesquc, inasmuch as while VIC professed
equality and liberty for all, we ruthlessly
clutchcd four millions of Africans, and
doomed them to all the horrors Of chattcl-
ism. This abominable hypocrisy made
the United States byword and a reproach
in all lands; but full end has come, and
the glorious war which Southern madness
forces upon us will wipe out the last ira
ces of the "peculiar institution
With war, thanks be to God, comes an
end of compromise maelstrom where
our national virtue has so long gone down.
These United States have been cursed,
above all countries on the globe, with the
internal spirit of compromise No matter
what mi ght be in dispute, however sacred
and indefeasible the right, VIC have been
ready to yield it for the sake Of the
Uniod It is refreshing to think that We
have had the very last Of these satanic
propositions to barter away inalicnable
rights, whether belonging to ourselves or
others.
Finally, whichever way things may
turn, immense advantage must accrue to
the Free States. If the Confederacy
proves to be permanent, we shall at cas;
be cnnobled, by rising to tho dignity Of
men, and throwing off the obligation 70 be
the slave hounds Of the South. But
should the rebels be subdued, and thci.
leaders hung, as they ought to be, then
the power of the infamous slaveholdine
oligarchy is forever broken. We shall
never have another pro-slavcry rebellion.
Every friend Of his country should pray
that the battle now begun may be waged
till the Slave Power is uprooted forever
It will not take long. Six months will be
ample time to subouc every seeding
State A million of mcn-nay, five mil
lions of men-are ready to march in any
direction, and the only fear they have is
that they will find nobody to fight when
they get to their journeys end. Let pro-
slaveryism do its worst now, as it may
never get another so good chance. Il
the devil of compromise does not step in
to betray the North and arrest the battle
We have no fears. God will defend tho
right.
Mrs. Partington told Bemus the 9th