The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1859-09-30

out being hampered by the legislative re-
strictions of the general government
Oh, no he did not say this, and what he
knew to be the truth, but, presumiDg upon
tie ignorance Of his hearers, which find is
a great fault in JACK, as his partisans call
him, he merely said that the Democratic
party had taken down the bars and made
the whole country a slave country, and that
slavery was national and freedom sectional
submit that this manner OF presuming on
the ignorance of mixed assemblage, is
rather insulting, to say the least of it, and
the practice of it by man who says be
once perfected revolution In his own State,
is, when rightly considered, degrading to
himself alone. However, that is the great
forte of the Abolitionists, and to attack
where no resistance can be made and misrep-
resent when no one is allowed to make the
truth appear, is the way in which that fac
ton makes itself felt. D..
After Mr.. HALE had got through with
popular sovereignty, he fell into dolorous
strain of exhortation, which would have
done honor to him at camp meeting, in
which be told his hearers that the eyes of
the Union and of the whole civilized world
were upon them that the responsibility of
the acts of the general government rested on
them, and that they must prevent the slave
power from receiving support from Mime
sofa by choosing Republican representatives
at the next election, and so saying, he gent
ly tapered down to pathetic close.
The next person introduced to the meet
ing by the fat committee man, was the in
evitable WILLIAM WINDOW, Esquire, can
didate for Congress, attorney for the Transit
Railroad, &C., &C., who "rose and said "
that he did not suppose that he could say
anything to entertain the meeting, after the
eloquent remarks of Mr.. HALE, but there
was one thing he would like to remark upon,
and that was, that he understood that
MIR. CAvANAUGH had, at meeting in this
town, heaped upon him considerable per-
sonal abuse, with which he found no fault.
He then went on in pitiful strain of falt-
ering hesitancy to say that Mr.. CAvANAUGH
had denounced him as a Know Nothing,
and he would undertake to show that Mr..
CAvANAUGH himself was member of that
order, because the oath which members are
required to take, as | find it printed, said
be, in the PIONEER AND DEMOCRAT (poor
soul, not that he had ever seen it before,
and kissed the bible for the maintenance
of it, in the dark lantern lodge, oh no y
binds them not to divulge the doings or
secrets of the order to any but members of
the order, and therefore if Mr.. CAvANAUGH
has received a pamphlet from any friend
who was member of the order, he (CAv-
ANAUGH) uust be member of the order, or
the book would not have been sent to him.
Therefore, say, if the Know Kothings
give him information wherewith to cleo
tioneer against me- he is Know Nothing
himself, and is unworthy of your support,
because he is advocated by the Know
Nothings. Or if he is not a Know
Nothing, then the friend who sent him the
pamphlet is a perjured man, and liable to
be prosecuted and punished for the crime
of perjury" Thinking this would operate
as perfect clincher, he closed by saying
that all Mr.. CAvANAUGH had said in regard
to it was false, and then, after a short OK.
hortation, he sat down, amid the pity and
profound silence of the auditory.
Never did a candidate foreshadow his
own defeat as did poor WINDOW. on that
occasion. The poor weak specimen of hui
mainly did not suppose that every man,
woman and child in the hall saw through
the flimsy gosssamer be had spread over his
opponent, CAvANAUGH, concerning the sup.
port which he was deriving from the Know
Nothings. He perhaps thought the audi
ence would not believe that some indignant
brother would be so vindictive as to send
enough evidence to his opponent to con.
denim traitorous member, who, to become
a member of Congress, had denied, as Peter
denied his Lord and Master, and totally
ignored the order which be had solemnly
sworn to support. But he was mistaken,
for the audience knew full we'll that all So
cieties, whether of secret order or not, do
punish traitOrous members, and many of
this audience knew, too, that MIR. CAV.
ANAUGH had been to Ohio and obtained the
pamphlet containing the proof from head
quarters.
Then look at the charge of perjury against
the indignant member of the lodge who
gave the book to Mr.. CAvANAUGH. WIN
DOM is supposed to be lawyer, he being
Attorney for the Transit Railroad at sal
airy of $4,000 per annum, and more too for
aught l know and yet he says, presuming
on the ignorance of his auditors, or not
knowing any better no matter which, that
the violation of an oath in the dark recesses
of Know Nothing lodge is crime which
renders person liable to the pains and
penalties of PERJURY! Alas, for Blackstone,
Kent's Commentaries, Walker on American
Law, Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Webster's
great Unabridged Pictorial, ct i'd omne
genus, here is decision that will out-wind-
em all By it the great discovery is
announced that all secret obligations, wheth-
er made by Know NOthings in solemn con-
clave or by attaches Of the under ground
railroad or legal oaths I would suggest
that WINDOW leave the Transit and become
the Attorney of the U. G. Railroad, and if
other railroads in Minnesota have such
Attorneys, that they hoist them out forth
with
This then, is Republican candidate for
Congress! For myself, if I were Black
Republican, I would rather eat hearty
supper Of cut nails and vinegar and imme-
diately lie down to sleep on the middle of
BLoNDIN's rope across Niagara river, under
the apprehension that said rope would be
cut at both ends, completely of, as soon as
got into nap, than to vote for WINDOW, es.
he appeared last evening before that meeting
under the supposition that my vote would
elect him.. Alas, poor Window!
The next speaker was Mr.. CLAPP, from
some part OF the Abolition region in Wes-
tern New York who entertained the neople