St. Cloud Democrat. [volume] (Saint Cloud, Stearns County, Minn.) 1858-1866, 1864-11-03

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Editors Of the Press: >"'1
Please publish the accompanying
lr.tcr ofthe sH%.EH. NJ. RICE, aud by
50 doing you will greatly serve the
cause Of the Union.
Respectfully, Mn
--. D. BLAKELY.
800, sr. PAUL, Nov 1, 1864. !
.GEN1IEMEN.-In yours of. yester-
day you say that my personal friends
wish to know my ''position as Is the
question involved in the coming Prssi-
dental Election."- 4, = p
j. I believe Gen. Nc lellan' and Mr.
Lincoln both desire pesce-botb the
restoration of tho Union The one f..
vo,s the return Of the Southern States
with Slavery, the0other wishes those
Suites to return without that institu-
ton. l believe that the revolted citi-
Gems forfeited all rights they had under
the Constitution when; they turned
traitors, that the Emancipation Procla-
nation legally and rishtfally set every
slave free. I am as much opposed to
again lesalizing that institution in the
South as / would be to-its introduction
into the Norther, States. IL, ii. r....
l am in favor of the return of the
Southern States, aud think the day is
not far distant when the same fig will
float over us al, aud when that happy
day shall arrive I hope. that the rights
we enjoy will be freely accorded to
them, and no more. They could pur-
chase slaves We cannot. They had
more representatives, IN Congress, &C.
co'ding to their voting population than
We had. ''s5.'-: ':''h'' ~ .-'T~:~,.:,.. =.
I'll Under the lust census South Carolina
had $4,000 whites. She was entitled
to six member, Of Congress: Connect.
lieut. had 451 900 whites, but was en-
titled to but four members Of Congress.
Alabama had seven members, With
$4,000 whites. Iowa had only six,
with $4,000. Mississippi had FIVE
members, with $4,000. California,
with 5000, had only three. @When
the Southern States return l shall be
in favor Of their voting population be-
ing equally represented with our own,
and no farther. x - III 5s'':E:c ~
> When the Southern arD,ies are con-
quered, peace will follow and the non
slave--l'olding portion Of the; Southern
Inhabitants will be at loss to account
for thei: having taken up arms in favor
OF cause that was SO steadily and
surely working their ruin--for under
the system Il slave labor he poor white
mans wages in the South are controlled
by tho price Of slaves, and the value Of
slaves was controlled by few men of
wealth.: Can any laboring man believe
that wages in the South do not have an
influence upon wages at the North? 1t
is said that if the slaves are set free their
labor will come in competition with
white labor. That is not so, for under
free government nothing human: can
control labor-it' is only controlled
where despotism reigns in the old world
and IN the Slave States. Hereafter: as
heretofore, all will find enough to do
and after peace, labor will be in great
er demand than ever, for new enterpri-
ses, new.felds will be opened, the pow
er that has so long clogged4 enterprise,
will be crushed. / think that: in the
long future when all other of Mr.. Lin
coins acts shall be forgotten, bis Eman.
cipation Proclamation will adorn histo-
rvs brightest pages. "21 am vpp.'sed to
Slavery for the reason that L an. in a.
Dor cfthe larycst human liberty and l
cannot understand why some of our cit
liens who came here that they might
be free, can deny freedom to others.
When those that com nenced the war
wish peace: let them make it known,
then it will be time for patriots at the.
North to listen. I think it lily becomes
those who took up arms to defend their
homes, their country, yea liberty :! to
make overtures to armed rebellion. l
believe that by = vigorous prosecution
Of the war, peace will soon come, our
liberties will be secured forever, and
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