The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1859-06-23
Political News.
The n. Y. Herald, in an article on the
politics Of the Empire State, says:

PoheNs VI TUG LinPhe otAVt 8!s
The real issue between these 40 called hards
and sofia lies between Wise and Douglas Wise
~ the champion for lsG0 Of the Fernando food
faction, and Douglas a. the an0intsd fAvorite Of
the Albany Regency and Tsmmany Hall. The
game Of Fernando Wood 10 10 carry down the
Northern Democracy TO the great Southern
wing OF the party under Wise; while the game
Of the Albany Regency and its affiliations 10 to
dragoon the southern Democracy into the sup.
port Of Douglas or his Northern platform on
the slavery question.
The result Of this. the Herald predicts
will be the election by the soits =. of q solid
Douglas or Squatter Sovereignty delegation
from New York to the Charleston Con.
vention. Very likely.
One Of the Baptist churches at Zanesville,
Ohio, has Just expelled from its communion
Mr.. 4. j. Cox. Mr. Coxs offence is that
he holds the Office Of Deputy United States
Marshal for the county in which GAINESVILLE
is situated. No other allegation was
brought against him. 1t was not alleged
that be had engaged in the execution oil any
process for the arrest Of any fugitive slave /;
but the way in which Mr.. Cox could best
please the church at GAINESVILLE was, to ex.
cite a mob and lead it to the rescue OF any
negro who should have been arrested under
the fugitive law. Had be performed an
exploit Of that sort he would have been
voted worthy Of a place in heaven.
A writer Of the Charleston Mercury says,
that at that place in lsGO,."the South must
either determine to keep out of the Conven.
ton, and elsewhere nominate candidate Of
its own, or to swallow DOUGLAS squatter
sovereignty views, or break up the Conven-
ton in row. Now, tie question arises,
which Of these three alternatives will BE-
adopted! This question is not very diff.
cult dissolution. There are sensible men in
the south.
Where does the Black Republican party
now stand upon the Intervention doctrine
DO they believe that Congress should inter.
fere to prohibit slavery in the Territories,
or do they not At their State convention
10 Michigan last August, they distinctly re-
affirmed this doctrine. In their last con-
vention in Kansas. Ohio and Pennsylvania,
the doctrine has been repudiated aud in
some Of them attempts to introduce it have
been summarily voted down. Where does
the party now stand? Intervention or no
intervention
Whenever an individual or community
sets about the violation Of law, punishment
is as certain TO follow as the night follows
the day. However unpopular the statute
in reference to fugitive slaves may be in the
North, experience has shown that every at
tempt to set it at defiance has inflicted defeat
upon the party approving such az attempt.
SO with the effort TO reopen the African
slave trade in the South, in violation of ex-
istiDg laws. II is producing the bitterest
dssensions among the Southern people II
has raised the utmost excitement among the
Germans in Texas, whilst even 10 South
Carolina some of the most prominent Dem
ocra,ic papers are denouncing it.