Minnesota Communities

	Milestones: Abolition

Source

News 3

Type

Newspaper Article

Year

1860

Source

Falls Evening News

Size

76K

In this short notice, the editors of the newspaper explained their reasons for not publishing all of the letters they received about the Eliza Winston case.

THE SLAVE CASE.-The all absorbing topic
for the week has been the slave case at Lake
Harriet. If we were to attempt to give all
the stories afloat on the one side and the oth-
er, we should crowd out columns. We have
talked with men of all parties, and all shades
of opinion, and belief, we have taken a mod-
erate position when eliciting the views of
those who were violent upon either side, and
our conviction is that by far the larger por-
portion of our thinking people will soon settle
into the conviction that the thing done was
right. The judgment of the mode of carrying
it into effect will vary with the temperament,
and personal convictions and we may add the
personal relations of each individual.
We shall not attempt to give the thousand
stories that are current, as we understand
those concerned in the release of the woman,
are preparing a particular statement for pub-
lication. We have also understood that the
fact averred by the other party will be pub-
lished.
Meantime let us hold firmly to our princi-
ples, neither cringing with a servile or a
mercenary spirit to Southerners who are
among us, nor on the other hand imitating
that violence we so constantly and with so
much reason condemn in the citizens of the
South, towards those among them who are
"suspected" of being hostile to their institu-
tion. Not retaliation, but dignity and firm-
ness, are essential to manliness.