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


Correspondence of the Pioneer and Democrat.
WABAsBAw, September "a. 1859.
According to announcement, which W as
first made more than a fortnight ago in large
yellow, white, red and green posters and
promulgated and diffused and disseminated
far and wide by means of mail facilities,
volunteer conveyances and colporteurs, and
in which was displayed the name of JOHN
P. HALE, standing by itself in the largest
kind of black capital letters, the Black Re
publicans held a grand pow-wow last even
ing in this city. 1t was large meeting,
both as to numbers and as to the principal
speaker, the bright particular star " of the
occasion, Mr.. JOHN PHooTER HALE, he being
big, fat, smooth-faced man of rudy Wis
age and in appearance, capable of telling
big, fat smooth faced falsehOOds.
The widely extended notice given of this
meeting all over the country and far beyond
its limits, was calculated to draw together
large mass of people, and the weather being
unexceptionably fine, quite number, Demo
Gratis and all sorts, came in from the neigh
boring towns to hear United States Sena-
tor make a speech on the half. breed tract.
When the proper time for the people to be
astOnished had arrived, the chairman Of the
committee, himself big, fat, smooth faced
man, appeared and said that he would intro
duce to the meeting a man to whom they
would extend hearty welcome. He said
he was born IN border county of Massa-
chusetts near to where the honorable gentle
man was; and as if to show that it was a
region where big men could be raised, wheth-
er they were great or not, he motioned for
Mr.. HALE to rise and come forward, and in
less than no time there stood before the
audience tro OF EN-. The chairman did not
say that the region spoken of was good
one for the production of prize cattle and
Berkshire pigs but dare say the agricul-
tural portion of the audience imagined it.
Well, Mr.. HALE bgan to speak in rather
an ignatious style, but after while said he
would not talk about himself he would talk
about other things. He had nothing new
to tell them, there was in fact nothing new to
say, the subject was as old as the existence
OF parties, which commenced in the garden
of Eden. He was glad to see so many
ladies present, and then he went into the
ignatious business of talking about himself,
and said," If wanted a revolution, and
did once, and got it, would always get
the ladies on my side," and then be told
how to get up a revolution by means of
women and children. He said he did not
want to talk to politicians, he wanted to
talk to men and women. The Democrats
would not argue, he said, because the mo-
ment they began to argue they were gone,
and the next we knew of them they were
in the ranks OF the Opposition, and so he
went on to say, once when Twas in the north
ern part of my State, l found man who
told me that he thought the Democrats
would lose that town, because there had
been established debating society in it, at
which political questions had been argued"
&c. Then followed lot of twaddle about
freedom and slavery, rather mira Dig,
to be uttered by man from whom the au
dience expected more elevated range of
ideas. He said he left the Democratic
party when the annexation of Texas was
made party question, and he had resisted
the encroachment of slavery ever since. He
did not tell the audience that slavery existed
in Texas before it was annexed, nor that he
opposed the annexation of Texas because
MARTIN VAN buren, did, one of whose par
tizans he was at tie time the question was
mooted, nor did be say that the only ones in
the Union who found fault with that meas
ure at the present time, were those of the
old Abolitionist school, of whom that high
ly impudent cullered agitator, FRED DoUG-
LAS, is the chief. Alas for the dignity of
the United States Senate, when its mem
bers go around the country, uttering fiat,
stale and degrading harangues.
have neither time nor patience to fol-
low the big orator through his speech, or
even to touch on the points he offered, but
will state that towards the end Of it, he
said there was one thing more he would
mention, and that was, there was new
doctrine abroad, which was intended to give
perfect liberty to every man in the Union,
and that could be found in Ha,per's Maya
Sine-it was called Popular Sovereignty,
and the perfect-liberty-part of it was the
right to carry slaves into all the Territories
of the United States. The barriers of
slavery, he said, had all been taken down,
and now instead of being free country,
this nation was slave country-made so
by the great Democratic party, which ever
since it had been in existence, had heen in
favor OF the extension of slavery, and so on.
He then went on with tissue of misre-
presentations, fit only to be uttered by
third rate demagoaue, and did NOT state that
the glorious old Democratic party, to which
once be considered it high honor to be-
long, and from falling from and being
showed out of which he ought to blame bis
quondam master, MARTIN VAN BUREN,
had been in power ever since the nation
existed, with the exception of less than
twelve years, during which twelve years
nothing had been done for the advancement
of the nation, but on the contrary, to re-
tard its progress to greatness-tha the
Democratic party had passed the naturaliza-
ton laws, for the population of our immense
domain, against the bowls and excavations
OF those who, like Mr.. HALE, assert, that
negro is more worthy parsonage than
low-bor foreigner-that the Democratic
party passed the presumption laws for the
benefit of those persons who might become
citizens under those very naturalization
laws, against the bowls and execra.
lions Of the same party to which the
fat man HALE belongs-that the Demo
cratic party repealed the Missouri Compro-
mise line because all territory south Of it