Red Wing sentinel. [volume] (Red Wing, M.T. [i.e. Minn.]) 1855-1861, 1861-02-13

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'uWm.s II. Seward delivered, ON Saturday
last. . speech, while presenting . monster
petition IN 'laver' Of compromise: 4 After, re
tsrrios 10 the i,nmsnse number Of petitions
in favor Of compromise, he said tho Union
was ia danger, and all platforms and mon
that stood in the way Of ! reconciliation
would be swept cut oisisht. He had been
IS good Republican as anybody bit the
principles for which, he had been contend.
ling were Of no practical importance, because
in his own words: Il p ~n'trra 'i'nr>r
f" Il, the whole Of tlis one million SIX.
ty.three thousand square miles d territory
how many slaves are, there. How many
have been brought into it 6rring those long
ttwelsG years in which lit has MT only been
rei'aqsishea to slavery but, in, which the
Ceo,t and Legislature and thu administra-
lion have maintained, protected, defended
aud guaranteed slavery there? ~''''.'.' 81
Twenty. four African slaves one Slave ID
every lorty.four thousand square miles :.
one slave for every one Of the twenty. four
States. which .upposins Them to DO 81
the dimensions Of New York or Pennsylv
his orslhlians-to eovor that portion of the
area .oe oar Republic. see. have followed
this thing in good faith NTH zeal and en-,
crgy, but. I confess that / have no fears
Of .l., cry now, whom III the peculiar con:
has succeeded in planting only ono slave il
territory. This,' ,hsk,' 1dj (faslA to be a
Peaetfeal question. IL lieu IF it comes up
:!bs great .xital and fearful question Of the
Union-.7thP question Of country. or no
countyY-the question Of hope or DESPAIR
tie question " gtea,ness OF The question Q!
sinking fSfever undet'ehe contempt Of man:
kind. s-'i's' 10 !.ssns., e. ~ys,t,,., ~a,,i; 1t
|"tonls twenty !adr Saves III al our terri.
tory!; ""Just ootntt slave" says Mi Seward
fb'r, syerycqe Il tho twenty ;bur STATE. that
lY'ill b. carved out ofit."", This being tho
'acs the question fha. ceased TO- Be = prac' ical
one."r What = conmeatary upon the he.
publican party from the mouth gifts .proph.
ct, at tins crisis in our'history. One Niger
. Y4t-
doomed to peel the POTATOES: and slack t6e
boots ofone white man. each Of our new
States. Herein Consists the assstressions Of
tho slave power" the "cncroachments OF
the oligarchy ;" to meet which all the
powers Of darkness and ;. snti.slayegyism
have been aroused to inaugurate tho hitter
sectional feeling which has prscipitated one
fourth, Of the States Of this union into rev:
olntion and pushed another fourth to the
brink Of it; which has swamp.d athousand
time. more money Is; !. commercial crisis
than would buy those txo-doz.n niger
and their masters along with the,n--which'
has Swallowed our land with. an impending
cloud of civil'war and; blood. Aud yet the
QUESTION FROM whence all these evils have.
sprung is ono Of no practical Importance
whatever: How retfcsl,insly cool such an
assertion comes from the great. agitatot Of
that question. II makes Us think g. the
Austrian 'slflfn.G General, xhp ordered certain hill
to b takor.. s'ln the attempt he lost five
thousand men and the enemy escaped .un::
harmed, When, he got possession Of it =.
I'll h'ful scene mot his gaze; on, the slope
lay five Thousand Of Bis list men, tlead and
dying; y. rode to the tip Of the hill; seemed
70 reflect ! moment. then took pinch of
snuff and sqid ! to one Of his officers I'VE are
= little. mistaken, we have stormed the
wrong hill, yonder is the. position / wished
to take.", And now,thc Republicans after
achieving succcss-smilc 'complacently at
the terrible consequences and say the ques.
ton is not practical onc-that there arc
not nigsers onousr concerned to run sood
sized hotcls <i;'.:I. iiI..~: tf,.ii I'D
TnEsoUTnERN CoyrEpERAcY.