The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1860-10-05

Merrimac Brevities.

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IT is said that !" Old Abe" split rails
when he was young man. And now when
old, they haunt him so much be is afraid to
visit the scenes of his youth, for fear they
suiH split him.
ABE, STEPHEN, AND THE HOMESTEAD
B1LL.-Since it has been proved that Doug
las has been the lifelong friend of the
Homestead policy, it is now claimed that
Old Abe is not only in favor of giving a
homestead to every poor man, but will
throw in COW, a barrel Of whisky, and
erals f" enough to fence in ten acre field
that he loves all the squatters but Doug
las, and wont be undersold."
GREE AND EQUAL" p" All men were
born free and equal" is construed by the
Republican platform to mean only men
with wool on their heads, an inner cuticle
of peculiar odor, and jaybird heels. Wo.
men, white men under twenty-one, and In
dams not included. Thomas Jefferson, the
author of this sentiment, held such men IN
Slavery. So did Washington. Yet the
Republicans claim these men as the stand
ards of their policy.
PLUG UGLY ABE.-Abe is the orly can
didate for President, who ever had such a
bad countenance, it was deemed necessary
to keep aattering likeness constantly in
the papers to save him from defeat. 1t is
like the measles-it has to be kept outside.
Should it strike in, fatal effects would fol.
low.
The Hon. Arson Burlingame made thirty.
two addresses during the progress of the cam.
paign in Maine. They told better than those
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II thank thee for that word Jew" Bur-
lingame is radical Abolitionist, and said
he "wanted an anti-slavery bible and an
antislavery God" His success only shows
that wherever the Republican party is in
the ascendant, Abolation orators succeed
while National appeals have no effect.
MIGRANTS SOLD INTO SIX MONTHS SLAv.
ERY.-The Minnesotian notices the sale of a
white man in Kentucky, conducted of vagran-
cy. and warns its readers of the danger Of
such things in the North, if they trust the
Democratic party, switch, while pretending
to be the friend Of the poor white man, does
all in its power to debase and undermine
his understandings" There is no doubt of
there being danger in the direction the
editor fears. The number of loafers and
vagrants-with no honest occupation and
no visible means of support-who hang
around our corners as political Republican
slang whaDgers, and travel on our steam.
boats and railroads, swelling the vote OF
Old Abe in every count against his compe-
titors, is ground enough for a wholesome
fear of the laa0, on the part of Republican
editors. 1t is not strange that "the CALLED
jade winces."
HONEST OLD ABE."-Such have been
the thieving practices of the Republicans
wherever they could get their hands into
the treasury-in New York, in Maine, in
Ohio, in MISUNDERSTANDING stolen every
thing they could carry in those States
that, to recommend their present candidate
for the Presidency, they deem it proper to
call him "Honest". An appropriate name
at an appropriate time!
JAS. W. TAYLOR, ESQ.,, although clever
fellow, cannot be elected, it is said, for the
same reason Old Bullion gave as an obsta-
Gle to Douglas election to the Presidency
to wit the proximity of the caudal ex.
tremities of his coat to the superficial area
of terra frma otherwise, " his coat tails
being too near the ground"
DOUGLAS, to overcome this difficulty, has
adopted the " round. about" habit, thought
by the Breckites and Abites not to sit well
on candidate for the Presidency, but to be
more suitable for what John Randolph
termed "a bob-tailed politician" This, oil
course, is mere matter of opinion"
JOHN BROWN AND JOE BRowN.-It is a
remarkable feature of the Minnesota can
vass, that Douglas has to fight John Brown
on the Republican side, and Joe Brown on
the Breckenridge side.
Our friends in other States may rest as.
sured, from these facts, that the fight here
will be done up " Brown on 10th sides.
100000 BLACK FREEMEN.--How much
better off will be the condition of the poor
white laborers, north, when four millions Of
free negroes are turned loose under the
free and equal policy of the Republi.
cans, to compete with them in labor, to
jostle against them at the polls, and to de-
eide on their rights in the jury box.
HE LARGEST RECEIPT OF GRAIN ON Re-
coRD.-The Buffalo Courier of last Satur
day says "Within forty-eight hours ending
last evening, fleet Of over one hundred
vessels-includiDg propellers, &c. have ar
rived at this port, containing one million
three hundred and s,rty-nine thousand thre'
hundred and sirty-two bushels of grain, and
eight thousand six hundred and eleven bar.