The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1857-09-24
NEW SERlES-NO. 80


tnRuh N'N"Ws anu american Destiny.
| From ih. rhdslolJh,, icigrr
4 late number of the Ueapttndsj' Re-.
( r,t,c contains one ut thosr delicious pits of
al,surlty which the British press ocrasion.
n'iy publishes. when ihe text happens 10 bc
! America, The writer Ia snnguinc. that at
no asinnt day the Union will a to pieces.
The revolution, he says hus already begun,
which is TO make North America ~ divided
~ South Amcriea, and has not only begun,
| but has progressed ~ far IA that of the last
century, had when the people rose agains,
| the stamp act. II would be folly 10 answer
such writer seriously. lilo furnishes hia
/ own rclu,ation hy the iguorance hc ex
| hibis rganling the mos, potent facts
connected with tho United States Hc
! tells his readers for example that Il IL u
common practice. IN the North. 10 kdnnp
white chldrcn aud sell them into slavery;
that STAKEHOLDER ,my take his slaves into
nhy northern State and mttic with them
there in defiance Of emancipation laws
that sickness nt the National Hotel nj
Washington was the result Of poison secret.
" administered nj tho dictaton of wide.
spread blnck conspiracy, iha' the Pcnnsyl,
vaua Legislature hns voted the bred Scott
decision null in law; md finally that grave
proposals have been pnt forth from high
quarters 10 make slaves of the lrish aud Tier.
man cmigrnnts.' 4 reviewer who knows
no morr of America than To pen such non.
sense. carries with him. nj icnsi IN tho United
States, hs own rciuiaton.
Such mistakes. in reference 10 everyday
facts are not coutincd, however, To occasion
al instance. but exhibit thcrnsclvts c0ntinu.
ally. II was only tho other day that pc
tition was sent up from Manchester. protest
ing against the admission into religious
body IN England, Of Bishop simpson and
Dr. Jno. McCintock, two eminent divinc~
of thu northern vision Of tho Meihodist
Episcopal Church on the ground that they
fratrniled with slavery when, In fact, that
section Of the Methodist Church went oil
from the southern division. soly because IL
could not, Il thought. be coascicat,ously col,-
ncctcd with u church that even winlu ut hu.
man bondage. Tho british public canno,
or will not understand, that the northern
States OF the Union consist Of common.
wcalths which have either abolished slavery
or refused 10 sanction IL. nnd that. therefore
,leir hands nre cleaner. Ia this matter than
those VI the mother country, which intro
luccd slavery Into America. Nay more
Britiah stat,BmcU and reviewers, who ought
10 know better continually represent The
federal government "a clothed with full pow
ers, like the imperial one oi England, ~ that
it may abolish slavery IN ihr Siatra. exclude
il from new territories aud refuse 10 deliver
up runaway slaves when, ir they took halr
Ia,
which they take 70 misrcprcsem 1t, they
would bc aware ,ha, the federal authority
has 10 powers which were not clearly sur
rendered by the States, and that it is ~ des
titute OF right in these specific causes ns Eup-
land herself
Tie Hritish public f,lls iu,o still moro
gricyop error Ni-ird by the false state
ncn,s ~ currcnt abroad, il fancies, like tbs
IPeam,naer, that the Union IL cfumbling 70
pieces The violence with which we con.
duct our elections confirms this dclnsion
Ou the continent oi Europe, AMI in Eng
land snrh an agitation as va. witnessed
here during the late Presidential election,
would be the prelude 10 rryoiution; and
lrncc British writers suppose II must he
sign Of revolution hire. Bat The simplest
Atlantic knows bet,oi An election once,
every body quietly 'nbm,s. The ienn.
goque. who have exaggerated facts. printed
lea by the Wholesale and preached treason
til tl,ey we're out oi bf,aih, sink back into
iusignicaDcc. and their victims awake from
Their dcinsionA. api the country wosders st
ia late alarm Even the qucsiion Of
slavery. which we DO no, d'py IL the most
difficult our rcppblic has 10 grspple with.
though i Nay shake the Cpion 0ccnion-
ally will bey overthrow it. Extremists
op both .idrs thcrc will always be-. and con
soiucn'ly more or less agitation: but thr
great boiy oi the people, in all the stat's,
are conservative, and viii stand by the Con
aitutiop The Federal Government was
formed iD a spirit II compromise nnd IN
that spirit viii ii be man'aiaol. The
American Union will march on 10 u mighty
destiny Ut envy croak as ., may.