The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1861-04-05
Original Policy OF the Government
:.Opposed to Black Republican.
ism.


NO objection was ever made to the ad.
mission Of slave States or slave Territito-
ries from the beginning of the government
down to 1920. The Northwest Territory
alone was excepted from this general lie,
and this was done with the consent of the
slav, holding States-slavery being I'm.
suited to so high a latitude. Slavery was
the rule freedom the exception. Twelve
out of thirteen States were slave States.
and slave property was held by the com.
mon law of the land as we'll as every other
property. In 1888 the slave trade was
extended twenty years. In 1898 GEORGE
WASHINGTON signed the first fugitive slave
law. In even the ordinance of 1887, "slave
catching" as it is now called, was expressly
provided for. In 1890 Kentucky and Ten.
nessee were organized as Territories with
slavery-WAsHINeroN approving. After
wards the Territory now known as Alabama
and Mississippi was organized with slavery
ADAMS approving. In the acts organic.
ing all these Congress was prohibited from
emancipating slaves. Afterwards the ex-
tensive slaveholding territory of Louisiana,
larger than all the original States together,
was added-THoMAs JEFFERSON approving.
Florida came in slaveholding in 1919, with
out a word of objection, or any disposition
to make slavery the exception"
JEFFERSON ON BLACK REPUBL1CAN1sM.
But in 1920 the rule was broken and we
will let Mr.. JEFFERSON tell why. In
letter to LAFAYETTE, dated November 4tb.
1923, be says:
On the eclipse of federalism with US. al
though net its extinction, its leaders got I'M the
Missouri question, under the false front of les.
senIng the measure of slavery, but with the
real view of producing geographical division
OF partes, which might ensure them the next
PRESIDENT. The people of the North went blind
Iolded into the snare, following their leaders
Tor while with zeal truly moral and lauda.
pie, unti! they became sensible that they were
inJurlng instead of aiding the real interests of
the slave, that they had been used merely as
toois 1or electioneeriDg purposes and that
irlck OF hypocrisy then fell as quickly as it had
been got up.
No Republican can of course object to
Mr.. JEFFERSON as witness, as they claim
him and WASHINGTON as the original repre-
sentatives of their party. However this
may be, here we have Mr.. JEFFERsoN's
opinion as to the first great move of the
anti'slavery party for stopping the spread
of slavery," by refusing to admit Missouri
on account OF her slavery constitution. He
calls it "a TRICK OF HYPOCRISY "-"A
SNARE GOT UP TO SECURE THE PRESIDENCY,
by bankrupt party, who had no other
rallying cry, and that the I" free soilers"-
and free labor men who voted for these
founders of the Free Soil party, now called
Reput ..-aas, injured the slave instead of
aiding him." and were only "usED AS TOOLS
FOR ELEcT1oNEER1Na PURPOSES" How MANY
are there to-day who have been blindfold.
ed" by the falsehood that WASHINGTON and
JEFFERSON were free soilers, and are being
"used as tools by this same party. How
many latter the eclipse of Whiggery in
1852 went into this same "snare," "under
the false front of ]essenipg the measure of
slavery, but with the real view of produc.
ing geographical party which might give
them the Presidency"
JEFFERSON THINKS THE EXTENSION OF SLAVE
RY BLESSING TO THE SLAVE AND INCREAs~
Es THE CHANCES OF EMANCIPATION,
toll
favorite of our coloured Republican
friends we will ask them to hear him again
on this question of slavery extension. On
the 10th of December 1920, he wrote;
Nothing has ever presented so threatening
an aspect as what is called the Missouri ques-
ton. The Federalists, completely put down and
despairing of ever rising again under Wing and
Tory names, devised new one, of slavehold-
ing and non-slavehOding States, which, while
it had semblance of being moral, was at the
same time geographical, and calculated to give
them ascendency by debauching their old Cd.
pOnents to coalition with them. Moral the
question certainly is not, because the removal
Of slaves from one State to another no more
than their removal from one country to anoth
er would never make slave of one human be.
ing who would not be SO without it. Indeed.
if there is any morality in the question, it is on
the other side: because by spreading them
over large surface, their happiness would be
increased. and the burden of their future libe-
ration lightened by bringing greater number
of shoulders under it. However, it seemed
to throw dust into the eyes of the people, and
to fanaticise them, while to the knowing ones,
it gave geographical and preponderating line
to the Potomac and the Ohio, throwing four.
teen States to the north and east and ten to
the south and west. With these, therefore, it
is question of power. But with the geo.
graphical minority, it is question of exist
ence. For if Congress once goes out of the
Constitution to arrogate the right of regulating
the condition OF the inhabitants of the States,
its majority may, and probably will, declare
that the condition of all within the United
States shall be that of freemen, in which case
all the whites south of the Potomac and the
Ohio must evacuate their States, and most for
tunate, those who can do it first"
Having proved that this Republican
movement is an innovation, and that its
claims to antiquity and to the countenance
and endorsement of the fathers, are I'm.
founded, that its origin was desire for