LIBRARY OF CONGRESS DDDD174DDflfl >^- ^^'\ '■■ ^'-.-^^o .^*\.^^>^^ c°^:^^^^°o ^/V^^,% J <^ *'TV .^^ * V ^y i^ ,.«•'-•♦ 'O C^ V .^ _^°-;^.. V •y \'^--\/ v^-^'/ \'^-'\/.. "' "^' ui Luciciui^ ^c K^iu;^. ;-. .,^f +I10 I be leve in Providence, and doubt not — State, where rampant abohtiot is not the , t <• 1 • 1 + +1 ^ ^-, u t ^^„k+ ,. ' . , .' 4. 4.1 „• „„„„+„.,+!„;„ vet I feel anxious about the result. 1 doubt rulin'>" passion, to invest their constantly in- ■' , .^ u ^ ii xt +• 1 r\„ ^«„ « 9 1 ,11 1 +„i f„„,„ not, I say, but the National Democracy creasing surplus of cash, accij^aiulated f 0^^^ wil carry the State, and that our fraternal the proceeds of slave grown cotton and slave ^^i^^ions with the people of the South will grown sugai. go on increasing till manv more millions of MINNESOTA THE SUMMER HOME OF SOUTHERN ^j^g-j. capital shall bc iuvestcd iu the state *i^*^- to employ our free labor, and beautify town This, our noble river, which I now look and country. I hope to see their summer down upon, freighted with its floating pal- villas by thousands, mingled with those of aces, runs through the heart of Minnesota our own people, to improve the enchanting and the heart of the South, and seems to be views spread in such rich profusion about a bond of affectionate union between them, our lakes, rivers, bluffs and prairies. Providence seems to have designed it as a This has long been a cherished hope with highway of commercial and social inter- me. To it have I looked as one of the rich course between the Nort'i and the South — resources of our future. The men of the and Minnesota seems to have been preor- South have already invested, I believe, in dained, above all other regions of our broad this vicinity, a larger amount of money than continent, as the summer home of the non-resident capitalists of the North — aud I wealthy classes of the South. It seems to know the fact that numerous Southron peo- have been appointed by the Almighty, that pie contemplate making improvements as in the season when fever and pestilence investments, and in building summer resideu- reigns in the South, her sons and daughters ces among us — and the same will be the case should leave there, and come up here to Min- throughout the Territory, unless we drive nesota, to our busy cities, our thriving them away, by making Minnesota another towns, our cheerful hamlets — and to our Massachusetts, with abolitionism inaugu- prairies, our beautiful lakes, and sparkling rated in the capitol. waterfalls to_ breathe a bracin- atmos- ^^ ^^ ^ ^^^^^^ ^^^ ^^^^ op ^^^ ^^^^.^ ^^ ^^, phere, and to inhale for a few months every ^.^^^ money here ? ycijr, invigorating power, to enable them to ' - " . continue the mastery and fruitful possessiori At this moment and for some time to of their own land of the sugar cane, the come, whither can our people look for mon- cotton plant, the fig, and the palm tree, etaryhelp? Whither shall many of us seek Why shall we drive them back fi-om our for purchasers for a portion of our real es- hotels and pleasant retreats ? Why shall tate, to save us from bankruptcy ? Is it not we say to them, here in Minnesota, there is to the rich slaveholders— the cott:^n and no longer a summer retreat for you, save sugar planters and monied men of the South? among the howling fanatics of abolitionism ? They alone, as communities, have cash to Shall we send them this word on the second spare. The abolition prints all over the Tuesday of October next ?— that here in abolition States have been spearing at them this, their pet Territory, is another abolition after some " nigger under^ the wood pile," Massachusetts, where they can no longer because these men of the South have been come without the risk of contumely and in- investing large amounts of their money suit ? among our citizens. A cry of_ alarm has No ! no ! fellow-citizens, let not this be been raised among the abolitionists of Mas- our herald to the good people of the South, sachusetts, because Vice President Breck- Rather let us at the ballot-box proclaim to enridge, Col. Orr, and Governor Aiken, of them and the world, that all white men. South Carolina, and a host of other South- whether ot the South or the North, whether ron slaveholders, have been up here to leave of native or foreign birth, may be equals their money among us. A cry of alarm has among us— that we will eat with them, been raised and passed along from Massa- drink^with them, intermarry with them, wor- chusetts to the British line, that Minnesota 8 must be saved to the Black Republic now, or be lost forever ! THE EXECRABLE LIES OF THE ABOLITIONISTS. It seems to be a grievance to these men of the Black Republic, that a Southerner should come up here even to help us. Large Southron investments, as you know, have been made here, enabling us to employ a greater number of laboring men ; and yet, our own abolition Republicans have been so shameless and so dishonest — could anything be more execrable ?— as to go about among laboring men, who are thus kept at work, and teirthem that it is the fixed purpose of the Democrats to get these Southron slave- holders to come here with their negroes, to compete with free white labor ! And these abolitionists have circulated broadcast among the laboring men little red republican tickets which they give to them and drop about the streets, designed to make ignorant people believe that if they do not vote for Alexander Ramsey and the whole Black Republican ticket, they will be thrown out of work by the competition of negro slaves I Perfidious falsehood ! and they know it^ — perfidious falsehood. I say, and none but knaves or fools are its authors, publishers, and circulators. THE STVPIDITT OF THIS ABOLITION LIE EX- POSED. Negro slavery in Minnesota to compete with white labor? "What man, be he native born. Irishman or German, is there so igno- rant that he can be made to believe a false- hood so stupid as this? Go to the cities of the East, and there you will learn that, many years ago. nu- merous employments of common labor, were filled by free negroes, who have been com- pletely supplanted by the superior skill and energy of the poor white men, increased in numbers by immi^-ratiun. The fact is, that negro slavery never can be made to pay in any climate where the white man can work without degenerating. It is only in tropical or semi-tropical climates, that negro slavery can be made profitable, and that, for the only reason that in such climates, the negro may work and thrive, while men of the * white race, if re(|uired to labor, soon decay and disappear. It is not tlie abolition party, or any other party, or human power, that prescribes tlie boundaries of free soil, but climate. These red ticket falsifiers know that our State Constitution as it came from the hands of the Democratic Convention, and as it is, prohibits the existence of invol- untary servitude in Minnesota. Yet thus they lie. wilfully lie, to make Alexander Ramsey Governor, and Morton S. Wilkinson, member of Congress ! WHO ARE THE FRIENDS OF FREE LABOR ? Who, in fact, are the best friends of the free white labor of the North I main- tain, and will undertake to demonstrate to every intelligent and reflecting man, that they are the National Domocrats, including the slaveholders of the South. Is it npt enough, my friends, to incense a Democrat, and almost cause him to forego the pleasant relations of neighborhood courtesy, when he sees how these, the Republican politicians in our very midst, wilfully, and with malice aforethought, whisper the ba.sest lies into the ears of confiding Germans and Irish laborers' who of right would revolt if thrown out of employment by imported slaves from the South. What adds to the malignity of this falsehood, is the fact, that many of those who utter it, know full well that Southern slaveholders have, in these hard times, when money was not to be had else- where, freely supplied it, at low rates, to keep the laboring people of Minnesota employed. Do you know why it is that so many Southern slaveholders have come to invest their money in Minnesota? They are public men and private gentlemen, who have friendly and social relations with citizens, who are now laboring so zealously to keep Minnesota Democratic. Prominent among these, as you all know, has been our Dele- gate in Congress, Henry M. Rice. His politics and urbanity ]ilease the Southern men. He told them about Minnesota — as- sured them, as he believes that it will be, a National Democratic State. He inter- ested them in our behalf, not only in Con- gress, but here in our midst. They came to see , and to wonder, and to be delighted. I hope that gentleman, and the other whose name will be mentioned, will pardon me for lilting the curtain of privacy, and show- ing to you the movements of a Southern slaveholder among our free white laboring men. It was not long since, that Gov. Aiken) formerly Governor of South Carolina, and fur many years a distinguished member of Congress from that State, made a visit to Minnesota. Mr. Rice took him up to see the University buildings, and the Gov- ernor was exceedingly gratified to witness the progress of that work. But just then there was no money in the University Treas- ury ; impending dismissal threatened the men working on the building. The sym- pathies of this southron slaveholder were excited, his public spirit was evoked. He had a large amount of money here to invest ; he could get for it three per cent a month, but he preferred lending it to Minnesota at twelve per cent per annum, to keep these free white laboring men employed, and to hasten to completion an edifice, wherein their sons may receive the highest education without cost. And this gentleman is one of the largest slaveholders in the South — cue of those against whom the Republican leaders labor so hard to prejudice the people of Minnesota. I could tell you other in- stances of tJie same state of facts, but this will sufi^ce for illustration. THE SOUTH, THE EL DORADO OF THE NORTH. Do you not know that the planting States of the South are to the North, the veritable El Dorado of the Republic ? Do you not know that by the industry of the South, the merchants of the North grow rich, and rise to the dignity of commercial princes ? Do you not know that among the slave mas- ters of the South, the mechanics and free producers of the North, find their best pay- ing customers ? 0.\E HALF OUR EXPORTS FROM TEE SOUTH. Of the large exports from the United States to foreign countries, (in all upwards of $300,000,000 per annum.) about one half goes from Southern ports, of which slave grown cotton is the principal staple; and our home trade witS the South is immense. OUR SLAVE GROWN COTTOX LS KIXG OF THE WORLD. Cotton has ia this century almost sup- planted the use of wool throughout the civ- ilized world ; but when in the 17th century wool was the great staple of England,the lord chancellor, the presiding officer of the Brit- ish Senate, was seated upon a wool-sack, to keep constantly before British patriots and statesmen the great fact, that upon the growth and manufacture of wool, rested the agricultural, manufacturing and commercial prosperity of their country. The cotton bag has become our wool sack, and all well informed men look upon it as an essential element of our commercial pros- perity. Not only was it our bulwark against the British at New Orleans, on the 8th of January, lbl.5, but since then, cotton bags have been our treaty of peace with the British nation, and have saved us the neces- sity of costly navies and armies, and corres- ponding sacrifice of men and money. Thus the South, the abused and maligned South, has been, and now is, the safeguard and protector of the North, against foreign aggression, for England and France must have our slave grown cotton. Without it, revolution among their own laborers be- comes inevitable. OUR SLAVE GROWN COTTON, kc, THE BEST SUPPORTERS OF THE CAPITAL AND INDUSTRY OF THE NORTH. Our slave grown cotton, and other pro- ducts of the South double the demand which would otherwise exist for northern ships and northern navigation. These pro- ducts and their values pass through the hands of northern shipowners, merchants', bankers, brokers, mechanics and labor- ers, all sharing and enriching themselves from the products of slave labor. These products then go to foreign nations to keep our national balance of trade about even. They pay for about half the goods imported into our northern ports, upon which all classes of northern men, handling the goods or their value, get a per centage. And then cur northern merchants sell these same goods to the South, at a profit ; and thus the commercial engine works on from year to year, produc ng national results that as- tonish the world, and enriching the North lieyond all precedent. And yet, these aboli- tionists around us, would have the people believe that the South is a burthen and a tax upon the North ! But for the fact of a South — as our rich, back, planting, agricultural country, having every year 8150,000,000 of marketing which the world wants — these shingle-whittling abolitionists, would, with their sharp-visaged bargains, soon skin each other to death; and lose both time and opportunity to go about, declaiming against the aristocracy and the ])0verty (for they charge both in the same breath*) of the South. The fact is, that without the South, the North could not be prosperous and powerful. 10 PROVrDEN.;E ON OUR SIDE. When I contemplate this subject in all its bearings, ami see how easily dissolved are apparent difficulties and dangers, I feel like exclaiming with fervent emotion — How wonderful are the harmonies of Providence ! Surely, we must be the chosen people of God, commissioned to work out the salva- tion of mankind ! A GREAT HISTORICAL FACT I.V FAVOR OF OUR HAVING A SOUTH, AS WELL AS A NORTH. There is an important historical fact, bearing upon the question before us, which I would commend to the candid considera- tion of educated men, among our oppo- nents> It is this: that from the beginning of history, all nations which have held rank as leading commercial powers, have had their tropical or semi-tropical colonies or possessions, the labor whereof was servile, and the laborers an inferior dark race, di- rected and controlled by the will and mind of white men. To fiill up the circle of commercial prosperity, it seems there must be this variety in unity, combining north, south, east and west, consisting of free white labor where it flourishes in temperate climes, and forced dark labor in the tropics. If we would continue to grow in power, as a commercial nation, we must accept the teachings of all history, and the conditions of all experience, as our law — our rule of action To convince yourselves that I have stated a great political fact, you have only to look into the commercial history of the world. WhcH was the period of Athenian glory and power? History answers, it was when the ^gean, semi-tropical colonies, with those of Sicily and Asia Minor, were indisputa- bly Grrecian possessions. When were the Carthagenians in the height of their commercial grandeur? His- tory answers again, it was when they held undisputed possession of their semi-tropical Lybian and slave-v/orked possessions of Africa and the Mediterranean. And com- ing to the commercial nations of modern times, and taking them in the order of their supremacy, does not this law apply to them also? History answers in the affirmative and cites the commercial experience of the Portuguese, the Spanish, the Dutch, the French and the English; and asserts, the fact that just in proportion as these nations have gained or lost tropical or semi-tropical possessions, worked by the servile labor of a dark and inferior race — ^^just in that propor- tion have they risen or fallen in comraericial importance among the nations of the earth. This is no theory, no doctrine, but histori- cal fact. THIS HLSTORICAL FACT AND OUR SOUTH. This law of commercial power, is just as applicable to our own country as any other. The Southern States are our semi-tropical possessions. There, the labor of the inferior negro race, is directed by the superior intel- lect of the white man, on a better system of servile labor, a more humane system, than has ever existed in any other commercial nation. Of course, 1 admit, that there are gross abuses in southern slavery — that there are reforms which ought to be made in the system. Let good men everywhere, Xorth and South, work for reform, but not for de- struction of a great necessity, because of incidental wrong. The good man will everywhere do his work in accordance with conscience, humanity and the Law of God. Fanatics only, attempt to rise superior to Divine Law, to build up for themselves a tower of Babel, with all its bewilderment of thought and confusion of tongues. INDIA IS ENGL.\ND'S SOUTH. At this moment England is threatened with the loss of her tropical and semi-tropi- cal India, the rich Koohinoor jewel of her crown. India is her " South." India is her rich slaveholding country, containing 150,- 000,000 of servile laborers, whom, by an in- nocent fiction of philology, Englishmen call " free." It is conceded on all sides that the loss of India, will sink that great nation to the rank of an inferior power. Therefore it is, that we of America, warmly sympathize v/ith England, and pray for her safe deliver- anca from the present terrible Sepoy rebel- lion. This is not a war of England against Russia, or any other friendly nation of our own original blood, in which we might be against her, but it is a war of races in which our only natural place is on her side. — By the time she comes out of this servile war, may we not hope that loyal English- men will learn thencetbrth to withhold their interference in our political afliiirs, and cease their cohabitation with our abo- litionists, wham they have so long been nurs- ing and fattening for a sacrifice, in the war of dissolution, expected by them, to take place between the North "and the South! 11 From which all national men pray " Good Lord deliver us." WHY CALL SLAVEHOLDESS WICKED ? Why, is it our duty to denounce Southern slavery as an institution in its very essence evil and wiched ? Did the holding of ne- gro slaves make Washington, Jeffersuii, or Jackson wicked men ? "But I am not an abolitionist," says a Republican. Then, why join in the clamor against the South? — If the experience of the last quarter of ^ a century, in the AVest India Islands — in St. Domingo and Jamaica shows the madness of abolition, why keep up th clamor against Southern slaveholders? The slave emanci- pation party used to be almost exclusively made up of Southern slaveholders — of the Statesmen and Christians of the South. — They were ready to make any sacrifice for the sake of a principle, as they did in the days of the Revolution; They emancipated as an experiment, from 1830 to 18.50, 200, 000 negro slaves. They sent some to Libe- ria, some to Hayti, others to the free States, provided with guardians, outfits, lands and money. Thus have the slaveholders silent money enough in the work cf negro slave emancipation to buy up the whole Black Republic of the North, including its strong- minded women,, and free-loving Atheists, and to pay besides the cost of shipping ofi" the whole party to Africa. SACRIFICES MADE BY SLAVEHOLDERS FROM A SENSE OF DUTY', TO TEST THE EXPERIMEXT OF EMANCIPATION. All this sacrifice made by the South, to test a theory of negro capacity for free work and self-government, has met no other reward but bitter disappointment- The Li- berian colony languishes, even with all their help. The negroes sent among their affec- tionate, mouthing friends of the free States become, with few exceptions, lazy, worth- less and vagrant, and soon disappear in an unnatural conflict with free white labor. — Therefore it is, that Southern men, origi- nally hoping, like Jefferson, for the emanci- pation and elevation of the negro race, and ready to make any sacrifice for it, have been compelled to abandon all such theories, and make the best of their necessities. This is the moment seized upon by the Black Republicans to make a forlorn on- slought towards the South, not on the South in fact, but at the National Democracy, who stand in the gap of union between the North and the South. THE SOUTH, SAY THE REPUBLICANS, HAS BEEN GROWING TOO FAST — IS IT nO ? The hybrid class of Republican politi- cians,after their yelling charge on the South, invariably fall back in confusion, the mo- ment we turn our batteries upon them. Af- ter a few shots from our good old gun, Con- stitution, they oifer to surrender upon the whole question of negro slavery in the States. It is then, to slaveholders coming into free States,to catch their fugitives, that they are opposed. When in reply, we show that this right is one of the compacts of the Constitution, they surrender again, but have a new plea for their political action. The South, say they, is growing too fast ; it is getting too powerful, and they drape more than half the map of the United Statesin mourning, making it as black as the prin- ciples -of their own party, to convince the people of the -North that the Southern slaveholders have cheated and wronged them. Yes, say they, the South has been grow- ing too fast — too much new territory has been added to the South— thereby increas- ing too rapidly southron power. Is not this an increase in the power and prosperity of the whole Union ? Would they, to spite the South, sell back Louisiana and its slavery to France ? And remember, fellow-citizens, that all there is of Minnesota, west of the Mississippi — all there is of Iowa and of Kansas, and all the country westward, to the Rocky Mountains, with all its free soil, was, when purchased, part of the slave Territory of Louisiana. Would they give Texas back to Mexico, or give it to England, or dis-annex it, to build up on our borders a rival republic of our own kindred? I ask, what harm have Louisiana, and Texas, and Florida, (all acquired in accordance with Democratic policy,) inflicted upon the country, that we should, on account of their acquisition, iiang the Map of the Union in black, and form a Northern party to war upon the South? Down again, the hybrid Republican, (hybrid, because national in sympathies, and a traitorous Abolitionist for tlie sake of office)— down again He lies upon the ground, and says it is not that, but the uojnst Mexican war, he is opposed to. Well, will he give back the territory ac- quired by that war, to ^Mexico, with all its free soil and its golden State, Caltfornia? 12 aim the glad tidings of Democratic uniDh, to all the world. tri- Crawling up towards the wall, the hybrid Wednesday of October next, be able to pro Republican, by this time, pretends that that ' '' '■•-■■'■ -'• ^^ ^•- is not exactly what he means. What he means to hold the Democracy and the South responsible for, is, "Kansas — bleeding Kaa- sas," AND WHAT ABOUT KANSAS ? Congress gave to the people of Kansas a free and untramelled right to form their own domestic institutions, and to pass any laws that would be constitutional in a State. Thereupon the abolitionists, with Sumner and Chase, and Mrs. Stowe as their gene- rals (commanding from afar), rallied their forces and insultingly challenged the whole South to meet them in Kansas, and there fight out on that ungcnial soil the battle of slavery. Natural enough, the people of Missouri did not want the whole under- ground railroad company for their neigh- bors, so the most excitable of them called for help from the South, to drive the aboli- tionists back. In this absurd fight between the extremes of the North and the South, upon a soil where, in the natural course of things, slavery cannot and will not exist, both parties have trampled upon law and order, but what right have the abolitionists to complain against the South, for getting some broken heads and bloody noses, in a fight of their own seeking ? The only trouble among the party of the Black Republic on the Kansas qiiestion just nuw, is simply this : that after all their outlay of Sharpe's rifles, bad blood and golden treasure, Kansas will be free and their Othello's occupation will be gone ! What a fall will there lie then, my countrymen, among the abolitionists, whose bloody treason has not triumphed over us ; and what an escape for our Great Repub- lic, from the alarm and dreaded calamities of a sectional and frati'acidal war I The more intelligent of our opponents, when at last th^y see we have driven them to the wall, yield every thing; they even go for squatter sovereignty, "to the fullest ex- tent," including the election of (Governor. The last and only objection they have to us, is, that we dont't go far enough, ^\''e^, well, all we have to say to them, and all other citizens of Minnesota, is, if you agree with the L>eniocratic policy — give, like consistent and honorable men, yoiu' influence and your votes in support of the l^emocratic ticket — that we may, on the morning of the second Aflf ciovo <5tatPQ in behalf of negro-stealing and "fAe/zJorccom- rpfoo'iiizes the existei ce or slave oiaies. — , „ -r. i i- , * a tt„ reou^uj/.cs luc c.vioi,<.i.vv- prehmsive Republican '-movements." Her expose of the Black Republic is to the point. I vouch for the correctness of the sub- joined extracts from her remarks, which I as a I quote the following from Tract No. specimen of Abolition treason : '•The Constitution requires of the general gov- ernment the protection of slavery in such of ^S^S^uK/abohtlJT'teS^l'iie^'p^h^t: cut'fi^m the Edinburgh papers of October citizen has no course left to Wm but either to last : aid in upholding the system, or renounce his allegiance to the government. His only choice is between slaveholding and revolution." "Our first great work is to cut this (Jordian knot,— the Union— and set free the northern conscience from the restraints of the constitu- tional oath. Till this is done, ail other ellbrts From Uie Scouish I'ress. "She [Mrs. Stow] met her anti-slavery friends in social gatherings, and cheered them by her intelligence and hopes respecting the state of matters in America. Among others, she met the members of the Ladies' Emancipation Com- mittee, and encouraged them to luirsue their __^ _ uiic, ail uiiici vLiviKn miuee, anu eucoui.igeu luciu lu imiouv luv-u will prove of little avail. There is no hope for present course, for every honest etlbrt is of the the slave, nor for the country, but in revolu- utmost value to the cause. She gave an inter- lion." esting sketch of the dlHereiit parties in the AArT.vr>ip. I p. IT! T tps the Treat le^'al star United States, and explained the relative im- We>dell Fhii.mps, tne ^reai le ai star ^^^.^^^^^ ^^^^^^_ Stimpatbiizm^ «'.//. thepolit- Of Abolitionism, says, in his '' hevino of ical moxcments now lakirigplace,\she dwelt strong- c ..'. l\:n„--' li, on n-hat site conKidcrcdtlie duty of supporting Spoonei s LssaiJ . ^^^ anli-slaver,/ Prcsidentkd candidate, from ■ No matter what the Constitution IS, wlieth- . •. . - ■ ..- ^^ ^i.- or good or bad, it is -.he duty of every honest man to join in the war-cry of the Aiiiencan Anti-Slavery Society, ' Ao Union wttli slave- hoiderf' " The "//on." Joshua R. Giddinos tnc ufiti-oitti ri y * , cwii*i . ....... ^. --T V- - -- whose election siie hopes for great results to the cause of the slave, not only in regard to the ad- mission of Kansas, as an expression of public opinion, but also bccau-e the President has the appointment of persons to all the State offices, a id to have all these hlled with auli-slaveiy 15 men would be of essential service. She, more- over, pointed ontthe important mission pursued by those Abolitionists of the American Anti- Slavery Society, who, outside of politics, are upholding uncompromisingly the anti- slavery standard, and by their earnest agitation in the van of public sentiment create the feeling which is the necessary foundation of all anti- slavery movements — wh'ither political or bene- volent. She expressed her gratitude to those who helped the cause in this country by dona- tions for the help of the fugitives from slavery, as well as for the elevati n of the colored race, and by other similar tokens of sympathy, not forgetting those who gave their aid and testi- mony in support of the more comprehensive anti-slavery operations. * * * * * * * * Mrs. Stow said, also : "Almost always in politics there occur com- promises — little leanings towards expediency ; but this band of disinteres'ed men [the Garrison Abolitionists] bear aloft an uncompromising standard, which they will not lower, but to which they seek to draw up the popular senti- ment. Their earnest agitaUon is of great value to th4 cause [of the Republican party] and those who coniribute to their aid through the Boston Bazaar, miy feel satisfied that its pro- ceeds are faithfully and judiciously expended." We might go on quoting proofs ad infini- tum to show the traitorous character of all the wings of the abolition army, including the Eepublicans. At this moment, the Republican orators, for the sake of votes, may conceal or deny a part of their treason to the Union. I have just taken casually, from a bundle of Daily Minnc-sotians, the number of that journal, of the 25th of June last, from which I cut the subjoined article, copied into that paper from the Albany Journal, the Central Re- publican organ of the State of New York. It shows the avowed identity in point of fact, of the Garrison and Ramsey abolition- ists. The Albany Journal is Seward's organ ; the Minnesoiian, ex-Gov. Ramsey's : False Hopes.— The enemies of the Republi- can party are just now regarding themselves with the idea that if Kansas becomes a free State the basis of the party is gone. Mistaken souls ! The contest between liberty and des- potism is everlasting. We have now had only one phase of it. For twenty, perhaps fifty years to come, the agitation of the slavery question as it relates to this country is to go on increasing in a ratio, compared with which that of the last ten years is snail paced. We not un- frequently hear some well preserved old fogy bewailiijg ttie violence of the present contro- versy, when if he had but half an eye, he might forsee that what is coming will make the pres- ent agitation seem but the murmuring of the impending storm. Despotism cannot remain in repose. It is forever encroaching upon free- dom. The history of the Old World proves this no less than that of our own country. In Amer- ica the progress of tyranny is marked by such steps as the stealing of Texas, the Fugitive Slave Bill, the Nebraska Swindle, and the Ured- Scott Decision. What will be the next outrage it is unnecessary to predict. It is enough that we know that it will exceed all previous ones- K any Republican imagines that he has only en. listed for a brief campaign he will soon be un- deceived. Just as certainly, if our opponents suppose that they can raise any new issue-~auy '-tin pan clatter," as the Evening Post terms it- will they be disappointed. The battle must go on. The greenhorn in Broadway, New York, who stands waiting for the crowd to pass by before he crosses the street, is not more simple than those politicians who intend to mount their particu- lar hobby anew as the slavery agitation sub- sides. Instead of the excitement being ended or about to subside, it has but just begun. The Charleston Mercury, more sagacious than its Northern allies, snuf.s the breeze, when it says that the opinions held by Garrison and Gerrit Smith, ten or fifteen years ago would now be considered conservative and Hunkerish. — Al- bany Journal. In concluding this addenda, the attention of every voter is called to the following ex- tracts, which exhibit the effect almost inva- riably ]5roduced upon the educated minds of England, and of Europe generally, by the revolutionary movements of the abolitionists and Republicans of this country. Extract from the Westminster Review of July last — article on American Union: "The one thing we are sure of is. that the old Constitution, laden with new corruptions, can- not serve and sustain the Republic. We believe that if a radical reconstitution is not immedi- ately agreed upon, there must be a dissolution cf the Union. — the slave States being subject to the curse of a military despotism, and the perils of a servile war. It hardly appears that there can be a question about this ; but o'' the issue we cannot venture to vaticinate. Our trust is, that the Abolationists will not abate a jot of that strong will which renders them the real antagonists of the South ; that they will press on the more strenuously as the critical moment discloses itself." From the Lon«To& Press, of Nov. 1, 18.06. /y '^^ ' " A dissolution »f the Amer-i^an Union would seem to be thiS-only possibly l^jmination of the struggle upon the slave T}'uest|ftn." * * *• -• * lifc • * •'From two Arfterjcasfeujtppe w'Uhave noth- ing to fear." ■ hJi .♦ D. A. R. i-\. 54 IT '._ V..^-' .i^WA^ %,^^ ;^fe\ %/ ;-^^^-' WERT BOOKBINDINC CranKille, Pa March *pril 198?