The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1860-07-13
Brooks, Of the New York Express,
ON the Secession at Baltimore.

Brooks, Of the New York Express,
ON the Secession at Baltimore.
Secession from the start was inevitable.
The elements were personal rather than of
principle, and hence is irreconcilable by
principle. Douglas had control of the ma
jority of the convention, and the minority
from the start determined that the majority
should never rule. The President and his
Cabinet, the latter in person, too, Secretary
Cobb and Secretary Thompson both, at
times, being on the ground, were bent on
defeating Douglas, or, on breaking up the
convention, and their 100000, 900 of patron
age and power were used most unscrupu>
lousy to it. The Federal officers, numer.
Gus in the convention, were made to tremble
and to thwart action, in all possible ways,
while over their heads were hung in threat,
the sword of removal" Hence Douglas
personal friends naturally became indignant
and revengeful, determined to bring to bear
the whole power of the Douglas majority.
That majority, however, was ever in the
unity of New York. Her thirty-fve votes
were to decide every issue between the
North and the South. Hence, all possible
efforts of power and of temptation were
brought to bear upon New York, and the
majority often wavered under the personal
manipulations of the Administration, or of
its agent, Senator Slidell, of Louisiana
the cajolery given to Dickinson's, or Sey-
mour's friends, and the strong temptation to
sacrifice even Douglas for "peaee and har-
mony." The New York delegates, however,
were men of higher order than usually 90
into New York conventions. Most of them
are we'll of in the world, if not rich, and if
marketable for ambition, or in the love of
power, not marketable for money direct.
4 But the result of all this is the
certain, inevitable revolution of parties in
many of our states, especially in New York
the pivot now-if not in Pennsylvania,
New Jersey, Massachusetts, Connecticut
and Rhode Island. Douglas ever had
strength in the Northern States that no
Democrat had-a strength beyond, above
his party,-because of the free fight" he
has been making, so heroically must say,
with the Administration. The cry is all
eStopped in the North now, of no back
bone in these northern Democrats, these
'doughfaces; no spunk, no pluck" In all
the fire and fury at Charleston, they showed
'pluck" that was admirable, and here, for a
week, they faced the $1OO,OO0OOO of the
Administration, and all the bullying of the
Secessionists to "break up the party if you
don't give up Douglas 1 have, myself,
while reveling in delight as much even as
Yancey could, over the smashed machine,
admired and gloried in their real backbone.
Abolitionism in the North is to be weak
ened, not strengthened, by their slough off
of southern sectionaism. Lincoln is far
more easily to be defeated by Douglas, tree
and untrammeled in the North by the sins
and iniquities of the Administration than
with all these on his shoulders to weigh him
down. The Covode Committee and its re-
solutions are nothing to him. We can all
embrace men who wash themselves of Bu-
chananism, and who are as free now from
southern disunion as from northern aboli-
tionism. The great Union Party, now in
the might of the masses, is installed, and
we must all stand upon one common plat
form to protect it. The PLAN OF THE
SOUTHERN SECEssroNIsTs IS TO HAVE LIN
COLIN ELECTED, and upon that to cry and
clamor not only for dissolution of the
Union, but to create that passion and pub
lie opinion South, which would mob south
ern Q IS. Marshals, Postmasters, Collectors,
etc. if any among them dare to accept Office
under him. At all hazards, and by all sac
rifces-one and all, the Union men of the
North must forbid this unholy alliance.
The Northern secessionism here amounts
to nothing. The spectacle of Massachu-
sets" going off was so ludicrous that the
loudest horse laugh" greeted it. The
Collector of New York, under a sense of
dutiful necessity, of course, secedes with a
gentleman MIR. Bartlett from the Bing>
hampton District. To state this case is but to
state the impotency of all the Free State Sc
cesslons. Pennsylvania threatening secession
to the last, sensibly declined to take the
fatal leap. The few scattering Office holders
that elsewhere secede are but acting their
parts to save their Offices. The solid North
west stands one aud invincibe. Indeed,
there is not secession enough anywhere
North " for seed"
The National Democratic party in the
North thus exists in its unity, intact and
uuopotteu-WItu lOOtuOlO now upon
Northern soil, and freedom now from the
dead weight negro ballast, which has been
dragging it for years to the bottom of the
sea. If Democrats are wise then, and we
old Wings of the North are wise too-we
can all rise from the bottom, freed from that
drag-and under the common cry of the
Constitution, the Union, and the Enforce
ment of the Laws, lift up the Ship of State
with white men only once more to man and
steer it. J.B,
The NATIONAL TICKET.-We this week
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