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TUB Sr.GfcOtTO DEMOCRAT JANE Q. SWISSHELM. SPITOR Thursday, August 30th, I860. FOB PRESIDENT, ABRAHAM LINCOLN, OF ILLINOIS. FOR VICE FRE8IDENT, HANNIBAL HAMLIN, UV MAINK. Republican State Nomination!. Presidential Electors, Sf EPHEN MILLER, of Stearns Co WILLIAM PFAENDER, of Brown Co., CLARK W THOMPSON, of Houston Co., CHARLES McCLURE, of Goodhue Co. Alternates, E. F. DAVIS, R. ORTHMAK, R. HUTCHINSON, F. M. CHOSBT. Far Members of Congress, CYRUS ALDRICH, of Hennepin Co., WM. WINDOM, of Winona Co. For State Auditor, CHARLES McILRATU, of Nicollet Co. For Clerk of the Supreme Court, A. J. VAN VORHES, of Washington Co. REPUBLICAN DISTRICT CONVENTION. The Convention for the 3d Representative District, will assemble at the Everett School House, St. Cloud, on Saturday September29th, 1860, at 10 o'clock A. M., to place in nomina tion one Candidatefor State Senator, and three Candidates for Representative. The County of Stearns will be entitled to five, and each of the other Counties to one Delegate. HENRY SWISSHELM Aug. 30th, 1860. Chairman. REPUBLICAN COUNTY CONVENTION. The Republicans of Stearns County will meet in Convention at the Everett School House in St. Cloud, on Saturday,. Sept. 22nd, 1860, at 2 o'clock p. x., to nominate Candidates for County Auditor, County Surveyor and Court Commissioner and also to appoint four Dele gates to the Legislative District Convention, to act with Henry Swisshelm, who was so ap pointed by the last County Convention. St. Cloud will be entitled to four Delegates, and each of the other Districts to one. STEPHEN MILLER Chairman. Aug 30th, 1860. The Land Sales. Hundreds of our citizens who have nev er voted any other than the Democratic ticket, and who are now ardently support ing Douglas are loud in their curses of Buchanan, for placing the public lands in market and unless relieved by a miracle many of them will lose their homes. These men know or ought to know, that Douglas could have carried the Homestead BUI over the Presidential Veto, had he Been in his seat and exerted himself for its passage as he ought to have done. They know that the Republicans of the lower house passed another bill postponing the •ales of all public lands for ten years, and Douglas could have pushed that measure through the Senate but he was silent as the grave. Indeed he made no speeches in the Senate during the entire Session, if we except those that were devoted to "My great principle," and Stephen A. Douglas for President. Then look at the National Platform upon which he is now running, and which the Democratic papers of Minnesota dare not publish. That platform is full of nigger ism, but contains not a word about a Home stead bill. Douglas has sacrificed his man hood, and is just as much owned by the South as Breckinridge, and neither of them dare to advocate free homes for free men, or the Negro-drivers would "drop them like a hot potatoe." Sane men who ever expect to secure this great measure, will vote for "Honest Old Abe," and support the whole Republican ticket. He stands squarely upon the Chi cago Platform, which fully pledges him and the party to a liberal Homestead law and denounces the sales of the public lands. And let it be remembered that every Re publican member in both houses of Con gress, when this matter was under consid eration, voted in favor of the people and •gainst the Aristocracy of the South. Reverend Politicians. Let a clergyman say a word in favor of freedom or Abraham Lincoln, and instant ly he is assaulted by every Democratic pa per in the country. But if a minister of the gospel advocates bondage or denounces the Republican candidates, his language is copied with approbation by every pro-Sla very journal of the land. When Senator Colquitt, Henry A. Muh lenburg and J. Glancy Jones proclaimed Democracy and occupied the pulpit, and finally abandoned the pulpit for political position, the thunder of these journals was silent but just now the Pioneered oth er Douglas papers are publishing an assault made upon Mr. Lincoln by the Rev'd Pe ter Cartwright, at a Democratic Mass meeting in Illinois. Poor old Peter was a nan in his day, but like the Democratic party he baa reached his dotage, and wily intriguers are using him for the basest of purposes. Gentlemen the gamewon't win. We trust that sinking Peter will be saved but the corrupt party with which he iscon nected are beyond the reach of mercy. Douglas and the Union. Senator Douglas proclaims himself as the special champion of the Union,land de nounces Lincoln and Breckinridge as the representatives of sectional and disunion parties. It is customary "to judge a man by the company ho keeps," and in order to illustrate his true position, we dip the fol lowing from the Southern Confederacy, a leading Douglas paper published in Geor gia. In reply to a question of his own asking, "What will the South do if Abra ham Lincoln is elected the editor says: "We answer this interrogatory by simp ly stating that the South will never permit Abraham Lincoln to be inaugurated Pres ident of the United States. This is a set tled and sealed fact. It is the determina tion of alt parties at the South. And let the consequences be what they may— whether the Potomac is crims-ned in hu man gore, and Pennsylvania Avenue is paved ten fathoms in depth with mangled bodies, or whether the last vestige of Lib erty is swept from the American continent. the South,' the loyal South, the constitu- uorittes have always done. The Potomac ail wont change its color neither, nor will the that even he would escape upon the plea of insanity. Lake Superior Rail Road. We are just informed by an intelligent gentleman of Lake Superior, that the con templated Rail Road, assurveyed from St. Paul to the Lake, is about 200 miles in length. If this be true, we respectfully ask the managers why they do not run their road by way of St. Cloud? They would add but twenty miles to the distance, and by the time of its completion would secure a revenue of $200,000 per anuum, between this point and St. Paul or Superi or, whereas the projected road passes thro' a wilderness. Capital and political management may delay the development of the Noithern two-thirds of Minnesota but gentlemen the day will come when you shall have to do us justice. Wc have as good an agri cultural country as decks the face of the globe, and in a little time it will be crowd ed and cultivated by a million of freemen. We shall then have a railroad from the Lakes via St. Cloud, Sauk Valley and Breckinridge to Oregon, and you have now an opportunity of making 130 to 140 miles of your road a portion of this great thor oughfare. To day we plead for our rights and your interests you can delay the for mer and fling away the latter. But a few years will see us in a position to denand justice, and with the aid of Sauk Valley and those interested at the Lake, to build our own railroads and paddle our own ca noe. Our middle aged men will live to see this point the center of our State popula tion, and the seat of Government. Capi talists and politicians may take advantage of ourfuture prosperity if they will. They may delay but cannot defeat it. e» Is Douglas a Know-Nothing? The following article from the Pioneer, looks rather suspicious: "The Douglas Democratic State Conven tion re-assembled at Syracuse, N. Y., on the 16th, and after adjourning from time to time to allow the Committee on Electo ral Ticket to complete their labors, finally selected a full ticket which is satisfactory to the Committee of the Bell and Everett party, who have been present during the entire session negotiating for a representa tion of the ticket that would bring to it the support of the Americans of the State.- One-third of the electors are members of the American Organization." And this is but a repetition of what is occurring wherever there is a Know-Noth ing organisation. In Kentucky, North Carolina, Louisiana the Douglas forces and it a to traitors. But it is more than probable in the holy place and on the Ho- mania WHOM 1H18 IT CONCERN, AVtt WHO SHALLthe LABOX? Four years ago, a Methodist preacher was stumping the central counties of New York in behalf of John C. Freemont and the Republican party. He was noted alike as a sensation preacher in protracted meet ings, and as an efficient stump orator in the Presidential canvass. We listened to one of his harangues when, for three mortal hours, he held the audience spell-bound, and made many converts to the faith of P° the Black Republicans. One of these on returning from the hall, shouted, 8Urfrce tion of Abraham Lincoln." Know Nothing party had assumed the »rly inaugurated when, if And we answer the question by saying guardianship of the Protestant religion. *wh a thing could be, the systems of feu that Lincoln is bound to be elected, and It was said by certain Democrats that, if del aristocracy and baronial tyranny, that those who elect him will see to his in- Protestant religion had fallen intosuch •8»*8t. which the straggles of six cento auguration. The voters of the South are hands as hir, it was timesomebody took it in nes have been directed, shall have been not all fools by a bng shot, and when fair- hand. At that time there were many croak- revived, and as a recent writer has said, ly outvoted, •heir masses will yield, as mi- re a a a a 0 kee? mwt at a travel on Pennsylvania Avenue be at all awful crisis, declaring that in case of civil for him, yield reverence to him or to his interrupted, unless it to necessary to give a a blood of all the slain would lie at a dosen ortwosuchpaltroonaas this Doug- the door of such preachers as should pre- enjoy, and as it was of old, when Eng las editor a hemp elevation, as a warning meation a The good man looks down into the sty ot political intrigue and party strife, with a mingled feeling of disgust and indigna tion, and hesitates as to whether duty,bids him advancs or recede. If he advance, he is sure to be covered with the slime and filth of slander and defamation from some body, however pure his motives. *lf he should stand aloof, and shut his eyes and stop his ears, he must set aside the faot of his manhood and his identity as a citicon. If he shall recognise this fact, and the re sponsibility it involves, and step out upon the arena of political strife, he feels the necessity of leaving conscience behind or keeping it closely veiled, in order even to sain a hearine. Ou such times have we fallen. And we ask not who shall take in hand the guaiJiuut-hip of tie Protestant religion but who are responsible for the safe conduct of this nation through the tremendous ordeal before us Whom does it concern, and who shall labor? We are now within a little more than two months of an election whose results must be such as no patriot can look forward to without thrilling emotion and heartfelt anxiety. While the anxiety of thousands will turn on the question how the issue shall affect their individual interest, their fortune or their promotion, who shall be found "faith ful among the faithless," thinking of some thing else than the loaves and fishes, and working for the right Shall the good and the faithful have no influence in pol itics, while theii influence in society is its only preservative Shall it be said, as it has been said, and that with stinging re roach to our institutions, that one com mon pot-house loafer will carry more influ ence in politics than four deacens and a dosen ministers? There are waysin which even Christians may lift their voice in fa vor of liberty and justice in the councils of the nation, without losing their chris tian character or compromising their chris tian principles. HOPS FOR OUR OOtJNTtir. [we will lira her, taking gway all the ralration, uables with us we possibly can. The wel m* 4. o{ Elder preaches Freemont Rkw-the ascendency in our country—that degrades very d—1!" the laborer and says that all the liberty he He said in that discourse that ho bad One becomes astonished and sickened, in Icoking through the journals that flood the land, to find how much any and every question to which the word conscience could with any consistency be attached, is avoided and shunned. Every other mo tive—ambition, party spirit, the show of during the day when persons were seen numbers, the pride of talent and genius— approaching the house, the girl was sent is appealed to, while the fundamentals of into the woods back of the house. After truth, equity and honesty are set aside as the party started and their direction was canting hypocricy and driveling nonsense, fully ascertained, two persons left with a For this cause, thousands of oonsci- fast horse taking a different route from the entious persons will stand aloof entirely Sheriff's party, to notify the people at the from all civil duties, thinking they can house. In order to intercept them, three v/uruuuu MiuiBiau im jsuugiw iurc an a satisfy conscience better to let the ship of or four of our company left the wagons Know-Nothings have joined hands and are state drift whither it will without their and taking a short cut across tho fields, cordially working together. This they concern. Because they cannot attach came out just in front of their carriage, have a tight to do, and "Old Abe" will themselves to a party without voting every when the worthy gentlemen not caring to flog the brace of them at that, so badly one of that party a true man, while all become too conspicious in their dirty bus that they won't know themselves. But others must be branded as eonsumate ras- iness, turned off by a side path and re-majority. we refer to this matter for the purpose of cals, they see not how their duty of "ren- turned to town. When the Sheriff and asking the six hundred German Douglas dering unto Caesar the things which are posse approached the house—which they men of Stearns County, how they like this Cesser's" can be discharged. We cay to did from different directions—the girl was nice little Know-Nothing arrangement of such, all the more need of your holp. At- hurried off into the woods but their com their candidate. We also remind the tachment to a party is unavoidable. But ing was too sudden to allow the conceal Douglas leaders of Minnesota that for years the hope, and the only hope, of ourcoun- ment effectual besides, the slave girl, they have been branding the Republican try lies in the action of partisans who will while not daring to disobey, yet only went tare of our country depends largely upon action of the masses who can act dis interestedly for the right who are not to be corrupted with the hope of promotion or emolument, and who will give their vote and influence for men and measures wirhout first asking how much richer or more distinguished it will make them. The one absorbing question ot the day concerns, especially, the christian and the philanthropist wherever he may be found. Shall he fail to inform himself, and look Ma n» to*Why, en just come up from Bungtown city, where elares that all experiments of free society he thought that unnameable region of North have proved a failure that which Dante, the poet, said so much, was eeciety ennnot dispense with its mud-sills, of the earth than tional South, will never submit to such hu- in any other place l.e had ever visited erty than that of submitting te the arbi miliation and degradation as the inaugura- and that there an auxiliary branch of the 7 ana* th*fc before the country as none concern When that system of legislation whioh is now struggling for the J°7 freedom from care that de- these mudsills have no other lib- it predicting anarchy, and civil war and ty shall come when the nature of turrets and towers—shall right freedom will be understood, and men ™U we that to obey another man, to labor 1 best kind of liberty he can land's feudal lord's lightest words were me»'8 Kv«s, th Wood of the vexed husbandman dropped in the furrows of her fields so in America the light of centuries of toil in the cause of liberty shall have gone out and it shall be claimed that such is the normal condition of soci ety and we have at length found out the old paths wherein is the good way, then the serfdom of millions without the light and liberty which we now prise above all price, shall tell whom it concerned and whoso duty it was to labor. OBSERVER. Correspondence of the St. Cloud Democrat. From Minneapolis. MINNEAPOLIS, Aug. 22d, I860. Yesterday was a lively day in this place Preparations had been made the night pre vious for freeing a colored woman held as. a slave by a Coi. Cluirfmas, of Mississip pi, who was stopping at a private bearding house near Lake Harriet, four or five miles back of town. The slave woman while stopping with her master at the Winslow House, had informed some persons in St. Anthony of her desire to be free, and measures had been taken for giving her assistance, when the unexpected removal to Lake Harriet disconcerted the plans of the slave. Finding it impossible to com municate with her while she was at the Lake, and learning that her master pur posed to return South, a warrant was ob tained from Judge Vanderburg for taking her out of the hands of her master. As large numbers of Southerners are at pres ent stopping at the hotels here and at St. Anthony, and also at the different private boarding houses around tho lakes, from whom opposition might be expected, and to prevent the slave being slipped off into the woods or conveyed out of our reach, a posse of twenty-five men accompanied the Sheriff. Some good Democrats in the place, learning that something was in the wind, sent off parties to warn the slave owners to be on their guard. But their information was uncertain, and fortunately their suspicions were directed more partic ularly to another point. Still, as we have since learned from the slave, about ten o'clock in the forenoon, two men from this place came to the house and warned them to be on the look out and at various times others of the party eearched the woods. The girl was soon found, and the party returned to town, where the case wss tried before Judge Vanderbuig. A large crowd was present. The news had gone all over Minneapolis and St. Anthony, and large crowds of Southerners and their lick-spit tle toadies were present to aid and com fort CoL Christmas. It was expected that when the slave girl would be discharged an attempt would be made to carry her off, and care was taken that no favorable op portunity for such an attempt should be offered. When the Judge declared her free to go where she pleased, Col. Christmas went to her and said, "Come, Elisa your mis tress is at the Winslow House and wants to see you." But Elisa said "no and after vainly entreating—a style of speech which among other benefits a Minnesota air has given him—his former property for about ten minutes, he was obliged to communicate the unfortunate state of af fairs to the disconsolate "missus" at thewithin Winslow House. The slave was then ta ken to Mr. W. D. Babbitt's, accompanied by twenty-five or thirty persons as protec tors of her new jund freedom. At night she was placed where she will be safe. During the night an attack was made on the house of Mr. Babbitt. Windows were broken and a person who left the house for aid, was fired at two or three times. Measures will be taken to discover, if pos sible, the perpetrators of this outrage. In connection with the slave, I should say that her freedom was promised her years ago, but the promise was broken. A new promise was made that if she would be faithful, ahw should have her freedom when the child, whose care was her espe cial business, Was seven years old. This child was seven years old a few weeks since, but Col Christmas had refused to keep his word a second time. When the girl was found in the woods, she said in a low and earnest voice, "I want to be free, but don't tell master I said so." So diffi cult is it for them to divest themselves of the habitual spirit of submission and obe dience, and so little confidence have they in the ability of any persons to protect them from their masters, that many slaves who have implored aid in escapirg from slavery, would quail before the eye and the word of their masters, and even deny that they wish to be free. This was not thedosen case In the preiseut institute. £3hc is hap py in her freedom, and those who helped her congratulate themselves on this open and manly vindication of our laws and of the rights of humanity. Certain classes of our community are doleful enough— particularly those who are afraid that the "Southerners won't come here because they can't bring their slaves and so the poor, miserable, mercenary souls will lose that filthy gain for which they are anxious to barter what little manhood they have. Great Democratic inga. S. Mass Meet- The following Democratic appointments have been announced by President Bu chanan, for Minnesota. The old function ary will either be present in person, or rep resented by leading Democrats. It is ex pected that the meetings will be attended by the hard-working farmers in the vicini ty of the places designated. The meet ings. will be conducted by the various Land Officers of the State. Here arc the appointments: At St Cloud, Monday, Oct. 15 and 29. At Forest City, At Henderson, At St. Peter, At Chatfield, At Sunrise City, At Portland, Oct. 22. Oct. 15. Oct 22. Oct, 29. Oct. 22. Oct. 29. Turn out, all you farmers who have pre empted a small portion ot this goodly her itage, and see your possessions sold. You have improved your lands sufficiently to render them desirable and saleable and as the Democratic party need money to prosecute the political campaign, you must dance to the music. Salepositive, and no postponementon account of weather ordis tress caused. Four and a halt millions of acres must be sold. These will be the liveliest Democratic meetings ever held in Minnesota. The above hit is from the Stillwater Mssenger, edited by A. J. Van Vorhes, Esq., the Republican candidate for Clerk of the Supreme Court. It is truthful and to the point. The Messenger is one of thehope best papers in the State, and we trust that Van will be elected by an overwhelming A portion Ofour delegation op- posed his nomination because they deemed it improper to confer two State offices up on one county but the entire delegation admire the editor and the man, and will sec to it that he polls the full Republican vote ot Northern Minnesota. —The Mankato Independent is now is sued as a semi-weekly. The Independent is a good, sterling paper, and deserves abundant suoeess This superior town site, located midway between St. Cloud and Breckinridge, about taking a fresh bound toward pros perity. Mr. Asa Brown, of Indiana, a 'gentleman of wealth end enterprise, has purchased Judge Gregory's Hotel site, and will immediately move hie family to his new home, and commence extensive im provements. We understand that he will erect mills early next spring. Wheat and oats have yielded incredible crops in that vicinity and are commanding good prices. Oats sell readily at JtO cents. Mr. Darling raised 10 tons of Hungarian grass on two and a half acres, and 85 bush, wheat and 80 bush, oats to the acre. Judge Gregory removes to, and improves his claim, adjoining the town. There are hundreds of valuable claims awaiting emi grants in this neighborhood. Let our eas tern friends take notice and act according- The Land Sales fortunately do not reach a number of miles of the place, and the election of "Old Abe" which is now a certainty, guarantees to all who settle in this garden-spot, 160 acres free of cost. Indian Treaty. Judge Bailey of Washington, (Commis sioner) and Maj. Cullen, Supt. of Indian Affairs, passed through our place on Mon day, on their way to the mouth of Red Lake River, for the purpose of negotiating a treaty with the Chippewa Indians of Red Lake, &c, wherea meeting is arrang ed for September 10th. Theobject of the Agent of our. Government, is to purchase all the lands* of the Chippewas—their res ervation excepted—in Minnesota and Da kota. Earle S. Goodrich, Esq., editor of the Pioneer, and several other gentlemen unknown to us, accompanied the expedi tion. New Agricultural Paper. We have received the prospectus of the Minnesota Farmer and Garderer" anew paper to be published monthly in St. Paul by L. M. Ford & Co.—each paper to con tain 32 pages. It will be conducted by the very best agricultural talent of our State, and every farmer should subscribe for it. Henry Swisshelm has been ap pointed as agent, and will be glad to receive subscriptions. It will be worth its cost a of times over to any intelligent far mer. Onj copy one year, t» advance. $1, Six copies ditto, $5. Indian Depredations. II. Hull, Esq., who arrived from Breck inridge on last Saturday, informs us that a band of Sioux Indians have stolen several cittle and quite a number of horses in the. neighborhood of that place. Messrs Bur bank & Co. have lost seven stage horses. Mr. Mills two ditto, and Mr. Spencer two. The horses were, in each instance, we be lieve, taken out of the stable at night. A troop has started from Fort Abercrombie in pursuit of the thieves, and we trust will overtake and punish them. Grand Republican Meetings. Hon. Wm. Windom, one of Minnesota's gallant Representatives in Congress, will speak at St. Cloud on Saturday evening, Sept. 22nd and Hon. Charles McClure, one of the Republican candidates for Elec tor, will speak at the same place on the evening of Monday, October 1st, 1860.— Ladies and gentlemen of all parties are in vited to attend. POTITICAI* TEXT BOOK FOR I860.— This invaluable compilation, arranged by Horace Greeley and John F. Cleveland, should be in the hands of every man in the Union who takes an interest in the pend ing political struggle. It is a general po litical compendium of the last SO years, and no partisan speaker should be a day without it. It contains the Platforms of all the political parties the returns of all the Presidential elections since 1836 a history of the Kansas struggle a brief ac count of all the National Candidates, with their most important speeches and a hun dred other matters of interest which we cannot name—Price $1: Tribune Associ ation, 154 Nassau St. N. Y. AGRICULTURAL STATE FAIR.—We that our farmers will bear in mind the State Fair which comes off at Fort Snelling on the 26. 27 and 28 of Sept.— The most extensive preparations have been made for a- thorough exhibition,' and the address will be delivered by the Hon. Cas sins M. Clay of Kentucky. Let Steams County be fully represented. NEW PAPER.—We have received the first number of the Anoka Republican.— It is a neat little paper, and appears to bo well ^conducted. Thf dtirfins of Anoka and vicinity should give it a hearty sup port. Terms $1)50 in advance.