The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1860-05-25

made higher if their treason is made any great
er. Let them beware of an outraged, insulted,
and betrayed community
The Minneapolis Plaiudealer, of last week,
says:
The National Democratic Convention the
arblter OF all questions in dispute among the
members OF That party, has ruled Douglas to
be right, and those within its ranks who con-
denim him to be wrong. These men should
decently submit to the will of the majority and
cease their censure and abuse of Mr.. Douglas
for supporting that which the National ConVen.
ton has just announced to the world is moth.
ing more nor less than the sentiment and onin.
ion of the Democracy of the Nation. decent
regard for the intelligence of the Democratic
masses, as well as for themselves, should
Mr.. Douglas, and through him upon the Ma.
tlonal Democratic Convention and its platform
of principles.
Speaking of the recreant delegates, the
Plaindealer continues
Men who never talked Douglas before, talk
of him and for him now. From calm indiffer.
ence, they have passed to ardent supporters.
Were the State Convention to be held over
again in Minnesota, to-day, there would be no
traitors to misrepresent US at Baltimore. The
Northwest would stand in solid and unbroken
column for Stephen A. Douglas, her great rep
resentative man. No pretense would suffice, it
would require honest, ardent and working de-
votion to the cause to secure an appointment
as delegate to Baltimore, to-day. No slip. shod
man with lip-service devotion, would stand the
shadow of chance now. We haze heard DEL
egates express the cish that then had their work to
do oueT again; and cypress their opinions, too,
OF the men tcho ta,cned around and deceived them
last 'cinter and we can hardly fail to come to
the conclusion that the political future of some
men in Minnesota, can be written in very few
wOrds-buried--and no resurrection.
The Belle PLANE Enquirer, hitherto op>
posed to DOUGLAS, in its issue of May 49,,
says:
The nomination eff Douglas in Baltimore can
not be defeated, except by means as unfair as
they would be dishonOrable, and the people
know this. Heaven forbid that we should wit
ness the bursting forth of that storm of passion
that slumbers in the bosom of the people, and
which can be estimated. only by their excite
ment and enthusiasm, in favor of Douglas,
since the adjournment of the Charleston Con.
vention, and which would burst forth as vol
cano the moment it has heard that Douglas was
defeated. He has already received majority
OF the entire National Convention, and is right.
fully entitled to the nomination.
Having now given our opinion, and the rea-
sons upon which we base the same, we must
admit that Stephen A. Douglas, of Illinois MUST
and WILL BE the nominee OF the Baltimore Con.
ventlon, unless defeated by the Internal mach
nations OF his unprincipled opponents.
The Hastings Democrat and Red Wing
Sentinel contain articles equally SOUND and
truthful, but we have not room for them to-
day.
The Democracy of Minnesota are thor
oughly aroused, and we may safely reiterate
the truthful statement of the Minneapolis
Plaindealer that the political future of some
men in Minnesota can be written in a few
words-bur1ed- no resurrection"