The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1859-10-07

$485, 900 900; we have completed $500
miles of Railway, at cost of $40,O0O,0OO.
That shows what an honest policy does for
State. (Uproarous cheering.) Take
boy, and let him, upon his entrance in life,
borrow $50, and afterwards repudiate
the debt, and while God lets him live he
never would get another cent Qaughter).
The same rule which governs the acts of
men-which conduces to their prosperity or
brings on them disgrace-operates on
States. The speaker referred to the United
States government. 1t could send to Lon
don, and borrow England's money cheaper
and more readily than England herself could
do. The reason of this is, because the
United States has always met promptly the
interest and principal of her public indebt-
edness.
The speaker invoked the people of Min
nesota to stand by the honor of the State.
Lose that, and every thing was gone.
Sacrifice your land, your houses, aye your
very cattle, but for Gods sake, and for that
of your children, maintain inviolate your
plighted faith. In thirty years from now
and that was but as moment in the history
of State-the people of Minnesota would
thank him that he had given this advice.
| (Cheers.)
THE NIGGER"
The speaker said he came now to con
slider that particularly interesting, but re.
markably novel subject, " the nigger." He
had started out in political life very young
man, and when other questions excited the
public mind. Previous to the canvass of
1874, the political parties into which the
people of the country divided, did not talk
of what should be the condition of the ne
gro; but where the white man stood, and
what could be done to promote the inter-
ests of the white man. But a little
band of Abolitionists thought this was not
right. They were too good and too pure
to act with either the Wings or the Demo-
Gratis. They could not consider the inter-
ests of the white man. the negrO--the
negro-was the burthen Of their sorg. E1he
Whig party passed away. The issues which
it sought to ergraft upon the policy Of the
country, become obsolete. The great lead
ers of that party--the champions whose
mighty genius gave it power and influence
were in their graves; and then, there sprung
up new organization--tte Repub.
l,can party. 1t was made up mostly of
Wings, with sprinkling of Democrats
but they were both ashamed to take the
lead in this new party, so they put
this Abolition gang at its head, and there
they are now--G1DDINGs, SEWARD. HALE,
and the rest of them. (Great cheering.)
POPULAR SOVEREIGNTY.
the speaker proceeded to discuss the rise
of the doctrine of Popular Sovereignty,
from lS48, when the Democracy we're divid
ed on the subject, and when Gen. CAss,
the Democratic candidate for the Presi.
dency, first enunciated the right of the
people of the Territories to regulate
their local affairs in their own way, down
to the Presidential election of 1856. He
showed that in 1850, this doctrine of nom
interference was advocated by CAss, CLAY,
FILLMORE, WEBSTER and others that it
was then fought and opposed by G1DD1NGs,
SEWARD, GERRIT SMITH, CHASE and all the
Abolitionists that in 1852, the Wings and
Democrats united in battling for it that in
1854 it was engrafted on the Kansas-Ne-
braska bill, when the Republican party was
formed in opposition to the principle, with
the cry that the Democracy favored the ex-
tension of slavery. We were, the truth was,
extending freedom to white men, by per-
mitting them to be their own rulers, and
manage their own affairs. The New
England Republican notion was, that
the further west man went, the bigger
fool be gets to be. If western farmer
sends one of his boys west, he fills up his
wagon with bacon and salt and flour, but
says nothing about the niger. The New
Englander fills the emigrants' pockets with
anti slavery tracts, and then lets him 6" hoe
his own roe" Laughter.) The speaker
went into an examination of Western char
acter, showing that if there was class of
people on earth, capable of governing them
selves wisely, it was the pioneer settlers of
the Western Territories
DRED SCOTT DECISION.
The Supreme Court, in this decision, had
merely decided that black man was Lot a
white man and that be, the dark man
could not, therefore, become citizen of the
United States. When the Constitution was
formed there were bondsmen in every State
save one. The trainers of the Constitution
deliberated long and we'll their mission was
to establish liberty and constitutional gov
ernment. They came from the battle fields
of the Revolution, to form our organic law.
and sat down with the beloved WASHINGTON
at their head. They found the negro
bondsman in the States already organized,
and they left him so. But they declared
that States seeking admission into the con-
federacy should decide for themselves
whether they would or would not tolerate
slavery.
FUGITIVE SLAVE LAW.
Nor would the founders of the Constitu-
tion permit the people of one State to be
thieves or those of another to be robbed.
He referred to the Fugitive Slave Law.
The people of PennsYlvania, in the Consti.