The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1859-10-21
A Scathin& Rebuke.

A scathing Rebuke.
The Democratic politicians who centre in
the large cities of the New England sea-
board, are, perhaps, the most corrupt and
time-servipg, of any class in the Union.
Finding their party in minority, and being
governed in their political action entirely by
the question Of spoils, they have not the pa
thence and courage to seek and await their
reward through the redemption of their own
States, hut they build all their hopes of
preferment and profit upon their fidelity to
the federal administration. TO find Bos-
ton, Providence, Salem, Portsmouth, or
Portland Democratic politician, who did
not keep bis eyes peeled towards Washing
ton, and closed towards New Engl and
would be more difficult hunt than to dis
cover white buffalo on our western prai
ries. There are white buffalos, but they
are not seen once in twenty years.
The game of these seaboard scavepgers is
to keep the Democracy of their States in
minority, and to keep themselves at the head
of it. They have the organization of the
party in their hands, and they WELD it for
their own benefit by welding it, also, for
the benefit of the President who gives them
their offices. They are loud -mouthed Dem
ocrats after national victory, but they are
as quiet as dead oysters after national de-
feat. They are the most reliable of politi.
cal barometers, though they foretel the
changes of the weather in the District of
Columbia, rather than in New England.
Their great organ is the Boston Post-a
paper that never represents the masses of
the New England Democracy when there is
Democratic national administration in
power to propitiate by disappearing
them. This paper is now engaged in mis-
representing the sentiments of nine-tenths of
the party in New England on the Popular
Sovereignty question. 1t assumes to itself
the prerogative of censuring the Democratic
press of the country for speaking out plainly
and boldly, as it does, in regard to the
Black Pamphlet" and stigmatizing it as
it deserves. In response to these assump-
tions, the Vermont Patriot, speaking for the
provincial Democratic press of New Eng
land, administers scathing rebuke to the
Post, and says that the Democracy of New
England are too we'll posted to swallow the
stuff which emanates from the Boston Or
gan. And the Patriot proceeds:
Any person who has read Judge Douglas
Harper article, and Judge Blacks reply, knows
that Judge Black did most shamefully misrep.
resent Judge Douglas, and that the latters re-
ply was not whit too pointed and severe. 1t
blers' to pursue Judge Douglas with every vile
epithet in the language--to stigmatise him as a
''traitor,'' "knave," STAR" and Black
Republican, but when he turns upon the
gang" mercy on us! they pucker the serene
mouths, and tax about "eplthets, are ex;
awfully disguised at accommodation Who, in
the name Of all that is holy, is ''the Attorney.
General of the United States?' What sort Of
a sacred creature is he, that, when he comes
down into the political arena, all the world Is
to take off its hat, roll up its eyes, and take
what he says as law and gospel, against which
"no dog is to wag his tongue!" If ''the Attor-
ney General of the United States doesn't de-
sire the chances of the ''ring," let him keep
out of "the ring" There is nothing in the bred
Scott decision that compels him to neglect his
official duties to get up and publish anonymous
political pamphlets; and if he does, what i'm.
munity has he from the chances of the game?
The Democracy of the country have yet to
learn that ''the Attorney General of the United
States" or any other individual who chooses
to enter the field of political discussion, is sa
cred from the ordinary chances of such discus
sion. The Boston Post can take its own course;
there is nothing in the bred Scott decision
about that either, but the Democracy who read
that paper have a right to expect something
bordering on justice. toward Judge Douglas
at the least, something as public sentiment, be-
yond the twaddle of papers, who have no BET
ter business in hand than the meanest abuse of
the New England Democracy.