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term shall expire, there will be found no blot on her escutcheon, and no departure, for which I can be made justly responsible, from those principles of integrity and sound democratic policy which have been the means, under Providence, of placing the American Union in the high position it now holds in the estimation of the world.

In his second and last message to the legislature, December 8, 1859, published in the Journal of the Senate, pages 10-27, and also in a pamphlet of 28 pages, Sibley referred to the strife between the North and the South, as follows:

The slavery question has for years been the fruitful source of sectional discord, and will continue to alienate the affections of the two great parts of the Union from each other, so long as it can be dragged into the arena of politics. When the principle of non-intervention on the part of Congress with the domestic institutions of the states, or organized territories, shall be fully established as a part of the public policy, and the same doctrine is made applicable to the several states and territories, no one being permitted to interfere in any manner with the domestic affairs of another, we may confidently expect to see the bonds of fraternal kindness fully restored between the North and South, and the only element of danger to the integrity of the confederacy wholly dissipated and removed.

It is the duty of Minnesota, and that of every other state, to promote harmony and good will between the different sections, and to frown upon all endeavors to exasperate one part of our common country against the other. God has given us a noble heritage, and while we enjoy the blessings of perfect freedom, religious as well as civil, we should bear in mind that we shall be held justly responsible for any failure on our part to transmit them unimpaired to our descendants.

Governor Sibley contributed the following papers in the Minnesota Historical Society Collections:

Description of Minnesota, a letter dated February 15, 1850 (Volume I, 1872, pages 37-42; 1902, pages 19-24).

Speech before the Committee on Elections of the House of Representatives in Congress, December 22, 1848 (Vol. I, 1872, pp. 69-76; 1902, pp. 47-54).

Memoir of J. N. Nicollet (Vol. I, 1872, pp. 183195; 1902, pp. 146-156).

Reminiscences, Historical and Personal; an address at the annual meeting of this society, February 1, 1856 (Vol. I, 1872, pp. 457-485; 1902, pp. 374-396).

Sketch of John Other Day (Vol. III, 1880, pp. 99102).

Memoir of Jean Baptiste Faribault (Vol. III, pp. 168-179).

Memoir of Hercules L. Dousman (Vol. III, pp. 192-200).

Reminiscences of the Early Days of Minnesota (Vol. III, pp. 242-282).

Tribute to the Memory of Rev. John Mattocks (Vol. III, pp. 307-310).

Memorial of Rev. Gideon H. Pond (Vol. III, pp. 364-366).

ALEXANDER RAMSEY

SECOND GOVERNOR

OF MINNESOTA

January 2, 1860, to July 10, 1863

The complete biography
of Governor Ramsey will
be found on pages 3 to
46 inclusive.

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