St. Cloud Democrat. [volume] (Saint Cloud, Stearns County, Minn.) 1858-1866, 1861-05-02
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commenced open hostilit.es. The great
Confederate States, with their 10000 men
have had the immortal honor Of lombard
ing and actually taking fort defended by
seventy half:starved troops. The doughty
victo's are hoarse with shouting praises to
their own glory, and congratuiatiug each
other on their tremendous achievement -
Five Of Anderson's men have been wound
cd, one Of them MORALLY. So the first
blood has been shed in this second Amer
lean war tor the extension Of American
slavery. Twelve years ago, by the mach,
nations Of shareholders, our whole country
was plunged into disgrscefal, cowardly
war, that they might extend their Peculiar
Institution to the shore Of the Plci6c.-
Our free, Lib.rty-loving North, suffering
herself, then, to. be deluded by the cry Of
Our Country Right or Wrong" poured
out blood and treasure like water to de-
spoil and rob aweak neighbor, whom every
instinct Of chiyalry should have induced
them to bear with and protect. She sent
her sons, in all the pomp and circumstance
of war, to murder women and children on
their own hearthstones, to lombard church.
es and drench affairs with the blood of
praying devotecs who had fed thither for
protection. Our glorious eagle stopped to
do battle with brokcn-lcgged, barn yard
hen, who strove to defend her brood from
his talons. Our great. young giant de-
mcancd herself by whipping poor, old
cripple; for such was the result of the
Mexican War brought on by the snnexa-
ton of Texas and the plots of shareholders
to wiring, from Mexico, more territory on
which to erect auction blocks far the sale
of Gods poor, downtroddcn and oppressed
children.
The fray settled, the unexpected discov-
cry Of gold in California, drew a rush of
emigration, and the free North by her en-.
ergy spoiled the programme by sending
out so many emigrants that California ask
ed admission to the Union as free State.
This was resolutely refused until finding
that it would be impossible to make her
change her constitution, the conspiritors
resolved, at least, to make it the occasio..
o: humiliating the North by another CON-
promise. They would condesccnd to ad-
NIT California if the North would agree to
catch their slaves; and make it a penal of.
Tense to feed the hungry and clolhe the
naked. That is, the South would grant
California her unquestionable Constitution
al right Of admission if the North would
place in the National statue books penal
reputation of the fundamental law of
Christianity. President Taylor, Southern
man and one whose valor had decided the
war, protested against this iniquitous con
[dition. He claimed that California should
be admitted without any condition to de-
grade the spirit Of freedom; and intimated
his determination to veto the hydra bill if
it passed. So they poisoned him, passed
the iniqultous compromise which was ap-
proved py that Northern traitor Fillmore,
and Northern people submitted-denied
their Savior for sake of the Union and the
Constitution.
Now their southern taskmasters have
changed front, have thrown of the cloak
with which they have SO long covered their
real object The Constitution and the
Union are now to be repudiated, and the
naked and bloody horror Of human slavery
is to be openly worshipped. At the sound
Of sackbut, psaltry and harp, we are all to
fall down and worship the craven image
which jeff Davis has set up, or be cast in
to the fiery furnace of civil war. They
have believed that the democrats of the
North as we'll as the South, have made the
Union and Constitution a cloak to cover
their devotion to slavery. and were ready
to cast them aside as wora out garment.
But oh, the fearful mistake! While the
one section made them the cloak o. slavery,
loosely worn, and to be cast aside at conve-
niencc, the other felt them to be the nee
essary drapery Of the most sacred form Of
Liberty; and they will defend it to the
last man and the last dollar. "1he way
Of the transgrcssor is hard" and it would
! .nnear that n fearful retrihutinn awaits