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

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ONLY Tw ENTY-FoUR xEGnoEs.
t.Wm., II. Seward delivered, on S.turda,
last, !. speech, while presenting monster
petition IN favor Of compromise. After re
errios to the inm.nse number Of petition:
in favor Of compromise, he said tho Cnior
was in danger, and all platforms and mcr
that stood in the way Of reconciliation
would be swept cut oisisht. lie had beer
As good Republican as anybody bit the
principles for whic:Nhc had been contend
ling were Of no practical importance, because
in his own words: ,'' s.ui!o'a. q no.:
In the whole Of tl,is one million SIX
ty.three thousand square miles Of territor,
how many slaves are there. How many
have been brought into it during those LONG
twelve years in which lit l,ad mot only beer
rci,nqaiShed to slavery, but in. which Tho
coo.t and Legislature and ths edministra;
.ion have maintained, protected, defended
aud guaranteed slavery there? ' ,.,''
Twenty.iour African slaves one Slave tc
every torty-four thousand square miles
ono slave for every one Of the twenty. fou,
States. which sre-supposing them to be ol
the dimensions Of New York or Pennsylya.
MIA or 1hdi"ns--to cover that portion of the
area -oe our Republic. See, have followed
this thing in good faith with zeal and en-
|crgy, but ! confess that I have no fears
Of IL. cry: now, when III tho peculiar con:
dition Of things which has existed, slavery
has succeeded in planting only one slave in
territory i' TS;s, Ill.,, Ia; sEasIS I" Be- a a
practical question:. IL lieu pf it comes up
The great, ;vital and fearful question Of the
Union-ths qlestion Of country OF: No
country question Of hope. Or despair
the question 81 grca,nc or The question Of
sinking forever underline contempt Of man:
Kind. ~h'"' :" t:H"t'' 6 -'"',t ~l,ft u
Only twenty foul, slaves III all our terri.
tory! '.Just On. slave" says Mi.. Seward
forl everyone Of tho twenty-four States that
will BE- carved out ofit."' ,"This being the
'acs the question has ceased to be prac 'ic.1
one" What = commentary upon the lie.
publican party from the mouth Gifts proph:
ct, At this crisis in our history. One Niger
doomed to peel the potatoes and black tic
boots ofone white man, in each Of our new
States. Herein Consists the aSsressions o.
tho slave power" the "encroachments Of
the oligarchy - to meet which all the
powers Of darkncss and anti.slaveryism
have been aroused to inaugurate the bitter
sectional feeling which has precipitatei one
fourth Of the States Of this union into rev:
olnt;on and pushed another fourth to the
brink Of it; which has swamp.d athousand
times more. money in: a commercial crisis
than would buy those two-doz.n Niger
and their masters along with them--wh;ch
has Swallowed our land with an impending
cloud Of civil war and blood. And yet the
QUESTION FROM whence all these evils have.
sprung is ono Of no practical Importance
whatever. How refrcsl'insly cool such an
assertion comes from the great agitator Of
that question; It makes Us think Of the
Austrian iit a General, who ordered certain hill
to be taker. In ,the attempt he lost five
thousand men and tho. enemy escaped un::
harmed. When he got possession Of it =
frigh'ful scene mot his gaze';' on, the slope
lay five thousand Of bis best men; DEAD and
dying; he rode to the tip oftBe hill; seemed
TO reflect : moment, then took pinch Of
snuff and said to one Of his officers I'VE are
ia little. mistaken, We have stor,ned the
wrong hill, yonder is the position I wished
to take" And now tho Republicans after
achieving succcss-smilc complacently at
the terrible consequences and say the qucs.
ton is not practical onc-that there arc
not nisgers onough concerned to run good
sized hotel. ,I,-.. ,;,.I..- .,.ft .,