The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1859-07-21
The Sic klss Case.


the general committee, at Tammany Hall
last evening, q resolution was offered declar.
ing the seat Of Daniel 4. Sickles, who has
not attended any Of the meetings Of the CON-
mittce this year, vacant but a. the meet
log was called for special purpose, the reso-
luton was laid over until the next regular
meeting, when il will be acted upon. It
was intimated that Mr.. Sickles would prob
ably, 10 the meantime, resign. There can he
no doubt that the original statement Of the
tribune, to the effect that most ifnot all the
friends Of Sickles have been alienated from
him by his last step, Is true. Mr.. Butter.
worth Is Of this number.
It IL said that Sickles has taken house
at Washington for the next session of Con.
grcss.---Cor. Ciaciandi, Commercial.
The New York correspondent OF the Bal
timore Patriot writes the following:
Mr.. Sickles is stunned by his old politi-
cal associates. lie walks Broadway and
fastens upon every leading man TO walk with
him. They cannot shake him off, Sickles
joined q leading statesman on Broadway,
near Grace Church, one fine morning last
week. and walked by his side for about two
blocks, when the gentleman apologized to
Sickles for leaving him to buy book in a
store. Sckles said he would wait. The
gentleman went into the New York Hotel
Sickles waited until be came out. II was
of no use. The gentleman stopped at Stew
arts to buy pair OF gloves, and stayed pur-
posely half an hour. 1t was with no sue
cess Siekles waited, and walked down
with the other to Wall street. His politi.
cal power has gone, and his sole aim now is
to be recognized as Of old. II won't do.
Ills old friends do not wish to be seen with
him, or to endorse him in any way. Mr.
Sickles will never be heard Of again. lie
will attempt to claim his seat next Decem.
Der. but even that will fail Lin. Faces are
against him, he was not iairIy elected, and
Mr.. Williamson, his opponent, will claim
and get his scat
TuE following scathing article is from the
New York Tribune, of the 18th:
Tng GREAT LEssos--It has been the
reproach OF our age that it is material-that
its triumphs are over the blind forces of na.
ture, not over mind and spirit--that it is
objective not subjectivc-th il is great in
It's supremacy OF man over his accidents
and not over man himself We trust We
are lucid.
But the reproach Is wiped out. 1t !, in
dividuals who make ages. Generations die
but the memory Of the man OF the genera.
ton lives and makes the age. Thus the
past has its Moses, Plato, Cromwell, Wash.
ington, Napoleon, and other representative
men. We have Sckles. We trust we do
not put tao fine q point upon it.
The virtue Of semi-barbarism is physical
courage ,rfY The crown OF Christian
civilization is forgiveness and mercy. The
highest Christian idea is reached when the
strength and valor OF man is united with the
love aud tenderness OF woman. This is tn,
true marriage OF the human and divine which
makes the perfect humanity. II was reserved
for US to attain il. Our age has its futur,
in its representative man,
Only little while ago, frail aud fallen
woman confessed 20 her bosom's lord
that ior many months she'had been iaithless
TO her marriage VOWS and bad dshonored
the bed of the wife and mother. la broad
daylight she had gone many times, through
an admring crowd, TO the place Of assigna.
ton was received in the arms Of u paramour
not once, but many times, constrained, moi
/ by another's will. not by love, but by TN,
controllabc lust. VIVA, said the husband
( The same planet could not hold the part
/ ner OF her sin and himself So, on o sweet
/ Sabbath" be sought aud killed the man
I ms hos. Ia..t in MS tal IN
| ing about killed him of from the face Of
the earth, and went joytully 10 the prison To
answer. ii need be, to the offended laws Of
[ his country. but bowed down IN an unntter.
able agony over the shame and the sin oil
conjugal infdelity-the continent and faith.
tul husband mourning over the incontinent
and hith!es wife aud mother. A jury OF
h,s couutrymen approved the deed. Ii was
+ done in the very spirit OF the heroism Of the
chyalric ages, which, conscious OF the lot;i.
I est and s,crncst virtue, could tot brook even
the breath of dishonor and scoru IL was
the assertion OF that divine justice which the
Judge, irreproachable and pure, measures
out TO the guilty and weak, by higher Law
than that embodied in human statutes lie
who had never sinuei, he whose soul turned
pale u, the thought Of wrong so horrible
was a bit minister Of this divine justice.
But bis duty was not completed Next
to divine justice comes divine forgiveness
and mercy. There Is now but one bosom On
which the fallen woman eau lay her head,
aud into which she may weep tears Of peni.
tence aud shame and hni the unu,lerabs
blessing OF forgiveness. He calls her thither
amos, before the worms have begun their
work on the form which she had iondltd.
and on which he had wreaked bis great NJ
vence The dlshonorcd sheets have been
washed IN bios new love. born OF ten.
derness and forgiveness, waits on the s.cond
uaptials. The "negrus Knew before. and
death wiped cut dshonor. Now minister
Jag angels watch around the couch wher,
pardon Is scaled and the world earns the
great lesson that "to the pure all things are
pure, and mercy As well ~ punishment
subhm
THy aggregate electoral vote u the L uioa