The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1859-10-28

the black men who fall in my way, they have
come to dispair of the accomplishment of the
work by the whole people. The feeling among
the blacks that they must deliver themselves,
gains strength with fearful rapidity. They are
sensible how cruelty they have been deceived
by the Liberty Party. the Free.Soil Party, the
the most loud. mouthed Abolitionists. They
see that all these, instead of voting Slavery
down, have voted it up. True, the Republican
Party did not promise them much. But they
did not expect it would insult and exasperate
them by taking the name of ''the white mans
party" They did hope for help from this par.
repeal the Fugitive Slave act; nor to abolish
Slavery in the District of Columbia; nor to
abolish the inter State traffic in human flesh.
Nay, it goes SO far as to admit that the Slavery
of black lit would not dare to admit it in the
case of but one white man) can be legalized in
every State of the Union. The bred Scott de.
cisiOn and the reopening of the African slave.
trade are proofs that Slavery has never strength
ened itself so rapidly as during the existence
of this new and misnamed Republican Party.
The Republican writers and orators declaim
much against the obvious purpose of the slave
power to overspread the free states with Slav.
cry by the help of its ''natural ally," the North
ern Democracy. But do not these writer's and
orators admit the right to do this when they
admit the legality of slavery in the slave states!
What is property in Virginia is by law above
human enactments property in Vermont also.
He who is a slave or property in Mississippi is
slave or property in Massachusetts also.
What is property anywhere is property every.
where. Moreover, it will in the end be found
to be as vain as it is inconsistent to oppose the
extension of Slavery into the free states while
unfolding it in the slave states. Gov. Seward
was right in saying that the States must ulti.
mately all be secured to freedom or given up
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ing by slavery in the slave states renders una.
vailing his opposition to its extension into the
free states. Gov. Seward can do nothing to
prevent slavery's going where it is not, unless
he holds it to be piracy and an outlaw where
it is.
No wonder, then, is it that, in this State of
facts which / have sketched. intelligent black
hope for their race in the practice and policy of
white men. No wonder they are brought to
the conclusion that no resource is left to them
but in God and Instructions. For instructions,
then, zoe may look any year, any month, any day.
n terrible remedy for terrible ,Urong! But
the putting 0,cGy Of the terrible ,crORg.
1t will be said that these Instructions will be
failures; that they will be put down. Yes,
but will not Slavery, nevertheless, be put down
by them? For tohat portions are there Of the
South that ,cH cling to Slavery after t,co or three
COHSOe7UOG tHSWTeCttOUS SH0It n0CG .JWeU We
,chOle South tCith horror! And is it entirely GER
tain that these Instructions will be put down
promptly, and before they can have spread
far? Will telegraphs and railroads be too
swift for even the swiftest instructions? Re
member that telegt apis and railroads can be
rendered useless in an hour. Remember, too,
that many, who would be glad to face the in.
surgents, would be busy in transporting their
wives and daughters to places where they
would be safe from that worst fate which hus.
bands and fathers can imagine for their wives
and daughters. l admit that but for this en-
barrassment Southern men would laugh at the
idea of an insurrection, and would quickly dis
pose of one. But trembling as they would for
their beloved ones, l know of no part of the
world where, so much as in the South, men
would be like, in formidable instruction, to
lose the most important time, and be distracted
and panic stricken.
When the day of her calamity shall have
come to the South, and fire and rape and
slaughter shall be filling up the measure of her
affection. then will the North have two reasons
for remOrse:
lst.-That she was not willing (whatever the
attitude of the South at this pOint to share
with her in the expense and loss of an immedi.
ate and universal emancipation.
2d.--That she was not willing to vote Slavery
out of existence.
Then, too, when. alas, it will be too late,
will be seen in the vivid light of the sufferings
of our Southern brethren, both black and
white, how shameful and of what evil influence
was the apOstacy of those Jerry rescuers,"
who were guilty of falling from the Jerry
level' and casting Pro. Slavery votes.
But why should / have spoken of the sorrows
that await the South? Whoever he may be
that fOretells the horrible end of American
Slavery, is held both at the North and South to
be lying prOphet-another Cassandra. The
South would not respect her own JeffersOn's
prediction of serve insurrection. How, then,
can it be hoped that she will respect anOther's.
If the South will not, with her own Jeffersong
'stremble" when rejecting that God is just
If she will not see, with her own Jefferson,
that ''the Almighty has no attribute which can
take side with her in "a contest with her
slaves-then who is there either North or
South that is capable of moving her fears and
helping her to safety?
Respectfully your friend,
GERRIT SMITH.
The following is an extract from the
famous Irrepressible Conflict " speech o!
Senator SEWARD, at Rochester, in the
autumn of 1858:
The two systems slavery and freedom) are
at once perceived to be incongruOus. They
are more than incOngruous-they are incom-
patible. They never have permanently existed
together in one country, and they never can.
These antagOnistic systems are con
SANITY coming into closer contact, and COLI.
sion results. Shall tell you what this collision
means? They who think that it is accidental,
unnecessary, the work of interested or fanatical
agitators, and therefore ephermeral, m stake
the case altogether. 1t is an nrspressibie con.
tl,ct bet,ceen opposing and enduring forces, and
it means that the Unit.d States must and ,cW
sooner or later, become entirely siDrehoi ding
nation or entirely free labor nation. Either
the cotton and rice fields of South Carolina and
the sugar plantations of Louisiana will uIti
mately be titled by free labor. aud Charleston
and New Orleans become marts for legitimate
merchandise alone, or else the rye fields and
wheat fields of Massachusetts, and New York
must again be surrendered by their farmers to
slave cultire and to the production of slave,
and Boston and New York become once more
men.
And elsewhere Senator SEWARD says:
It slavery can and must be abolished, and
you and must do it. Correct your own
error that slavery has constitutional guarantees
which may not be released, and ought not to
be relinguished. You will soon bring the par
ties of the country into an effective aggression
upon slavery.
AN Eastern paper contains an account of
a sailor, who, after five years cruise, re-
turned to that city. He left a wife and two
children. On his return, he sought his FAM
ilv He fonnd them and a ftpr KISSING his