St. Cloud Democrat. [volume] (Saint Cloud, Stearns County, Minn.) 1858-1866, 1862-05-08
Forward /!

H. as --'- .I-lH<~ g. y. &,
bad 2r:;s Forward.
The Presidents signature to the Dis
nict Emancipation Fill IS the FIRST lracti
c@I proof Of the chan gsd policy Of the
United States Government. 1t is the FIRST
a. pin the return to the principles aud
ll,s:tice Of the fathers vt the constitution
'ihelr .. i"ipn wAs nearly unanimous upon
shis subject. Believing. as Roger Sher-
man said. that the spirit Of the age was
.asoiishins slavery, they supposed that the
different States would complete the. work
Isnocent K"str, who did not fo,.see IT,
tnttpn yin !! The testimony to the spirit
sdd, Intention Of our Government is per.
E.ct and that there nj -:ht be no possible
mistake what kind uf Governmens. they
nesut; to toru. the 'ather. t.ok good care
70 say expressly that it was TO form q
more perfect union. establish justice in
,suue domestic tranquility, provide for re
c,'n,m"u defense, Prom '.e the general veE
fare, aud secure the blessings ot liberty TO
Ourselves aai our posterity."
'The: most striking tes.imuny to the anti
slavery ft~ii"g Of the fathers Of the cpun-
try was xixen ty \. Il. Stevens. tie rebel
rice-tre>ident, in his speech. upon retir-
Ing from Congress, It Augusta, in June,
1859: He said: '.In my judgment there
are more thinking men at the North now
Who; look i, upon our system Of slavery Is
rwht-socially, morally, and politically
than there were even at the South thirty
years ago. .1heleading public men ot,ht
South in our searly history were almost .all
against it, Jefferson vas against it,
Madison vas a=arst i, !; nearly ,.li Of .hc.n
were against it, This freely admit when
the authority Of their names . cited. /,
was . question which they did not, and
perhaps conld not, thoroughly understand
Ut that time =,
Perhaps not but th~se are the men
who made or Government, and .'nearly
all Of them" were s++ai,,>t, slavery, Who
ever; the-ef;,re, admin sters the Govern
ment IN their spirit will be ''against" it
ard work against it, aud take goM car,
that the Government is kept free from it.
pollution Aud all the more strenu,usl]
will thev work when they see that the iu
dicatiYn Of a popular desire to return t,
the old faith and practice has been clutch
ed IS The excuse of bloody revolution.
The work is begun, and when the SUI
is stopped in the sky it may be stayed
The work is begun, and resting. as it doe
upon the national conviction IT justice an,
policy, it will 60 on TO its sublime compile
ton. A year has passed since Sumpte
fell: and already treaty for the more ef
eectual suppre> $40" Of the foreign slave
trade is negotiated with Enyland-for tn
first time in our history slave trader ha
been hnny-by express law the disab,lit
Of colnr is removed from mai'.carriers;
slavery has been abolished in the Distric
"f Columbia-and at the. Presidents su1
grstivn, by an overwhelming vote ia Con
gress. the national policy Of the fathers, q
Washington aud Jefferson. IF Frank !
and Jay, Of Adams xnd Madison, is resi-;
ed tU the Guvcrnment. Mnreover,. tn
!.Prrsitle,t proposes to Congress to recoq
[nize HaytI- the officers Of the &r,by al
forbid'kn TO return slaves escapiny fro.
'the civil chaos which their masters 'hav
Professionalism the Unconstitutional rig
ors of the Fusiti:e Slave Law are prope
! sed to be amelierated.
| Let no tf,niI soul fear rashness of al
s;un. 1T the President Of the Unite
States. Providence has vouchsafed leac
er whose moral perceptions 'are bhnde
i neither BY s"phistry nor enthusiasln-wh
} knows that permanent results must, grow
,nd can not be pre'naturely seized ma
'f*ho, whatever he has hot, has that ines,
j Eutahle; csmaaon sense i which is the Ia
!. Eb"st gift Of Heaven t. III who are clotbe
with great auth.rity.- H"xper'' WsekI,
! Col !Akhich IN IN letter to the S
Paul Pres. says, that ia an interview q
the evening of lie IS alt, with these
! retary Of War and Senator Nesnith he i
ceived promise that $4,000 should be .
apart and expended, under the dircctis
Of the Secretary, for the protection Of em
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