The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1858-08-19
Douglas on the Warrington Union.


Senator DoudLAs recently made speech
in Paris, Ill. There were ten thousand per
sons present at the meeting. 10 the course
of his speech, in which he coDtended for the
right Of every people to have the Cons,tu-
ton of their State submitted to them for
approval before the admission Of said State
into the Union, he quoted from President
Buchanans annual message, in which he
hoped that the case Of Minnesota, where
Congress required submission of the Con.
stitution to the people before they would
consent to admit it, would be followed in
all future cases, and took occasion TO give
the Washington Union and its managers
the following merited rebuke:
Il am aware that an attempt is being
made by combination OF ambitious Presi-
Dental aspirants TO instill into the minds Of
the people the idea, that hereafter the doc
trine was to be abandoned, that the consti-
tutions Of new States shall be submitted to
the people for their approval before the nd
mission Of said States into the Union. The
Washington Union, newspaper printed in
the city of Washington, is violent and abu
sive in its denunciation Of the great recon-
mendation of President Buchanan. In u
late number of that paper the recommen-
datiOn is quoted without connecting the
name of the President with it, but attribu-
ting it to myself, in one of my late speeches,
and it is then denounced as deliberate act
of the most ultra federalism. ("SOund
them deep" and applause After quoting
words of Mr.. Buchanan, and denounclng il
as the rankest federalism that was ever
preached, the Union proceeds to denounce
the author of it as traitor to the Demo
cratic party, who has not drop of Demo
cratic blood flowing in his veins. Laugh
ter and cheers.) But the editor is very
cautious in charging the accommodation
to Senator Douglas, Of Illinois, knowing
very well when he penncd the article, that
he quoted it from Mr.. Buchanan's annual
message. (liurra for Douglas.)
Whilst the Washington Union processes
to be the especial organ Of the President Of
the United States and the Democratic par.
ty. it is engaged in conspiracy and is car
rying out scheme by which its managers
hope to break down the Democratic party,
by creating dissensions in our ranks and thus
secure the triumph OF the Black Republican
organization OF this country. What do
you suppose the object Of the Union is I?
You have only to inquire who the owners
and managers of that paper are and the
truth will then be perfectly plain. The
owner and proprietor of that paper is Cor
nelus Wendell the same man who has be-
come so notorious as lobby agent, and the
chief Of the public plunderers who infest
Washington and prey upon the government.
While he PROCESSES to be Democrat, it is
well known that in the 34th Congress he
was elected printer of the House by large
Republican majority daughter, ~ pretty
Democrat, } and having thus made hundreds
OF thousands Of dollars in this office thus
secured by Republican votes, he became a
candidate last winter before the present
Congress for re -election, but there being a
large Democratic majority in the House,
be was ANONYMOUSLY kicked out, as might
have been expected, and an honest Democrat
elected in his place. Having made his for
tune out of the Office conferred upon him by
the Republican party, having thus been
kicked out Of it by the Democratic party
in Congress, he Immediately took the money
which he had made under the Republican
rule, bought the Washington Union, and
pretended that it was the organ of the
Democratic party and the embodiment Of
Democratic purity. C'Score him, Judge
laughter and appIanse.l He no sooner OBJ
tanned possession of the paper than he ap-
pointed his hireling tools to write for il, de
nouncing in the bitterest terms every Demo
ocrat whom he could not seduce into his
corrupt schemes. You may have noticed
that Tor the last six months he has been
slandering and villifying me in every number
OF his paper, aud now, from day to day, he
is urging the Democracy OF Illinois to unite
with the Republicans in sending Republi-
can to the L. 5. Senate in place OF Mr..
Douglas, and a Republican delegation to
the House in the places OF Harris, Shaw,
Morris and the rest Of the Democratic men,
bers. ("They can't do it," &c) And why
does be want Republicans sent from this
State instead of Democrats or course
that there may be Republican Congress,
and that be may De again elected printer by
Republican votes, knowing that he can new
er succeed under Democratic rule.
This man Wendell, and his hirelings,
whose whole object is to flch money from
the public treasury by their lobby opera
tons, are attempting to control the politics
OF Illinois, with the view o, securing the
election OF men who will act in harmony
with them in their pecalaiions to the exclu-
SION OF the Democratic party. Follow the
lead OF the Washington Cnoa. and the
corrupt gang who control it, and YOU will
rend the Democratic party asunder, aud no,
only break down thoe against whom its
denGDciations are har!ed. but disgrace the