The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1860-03-23
The Presidency.

STEPHEN A. DOUGLAS is unquestionably
the representative man OF the people of this
country, north and south. The will of the
nation demands that he shall be the next
President, nor can all the power, patronage
or vindictiveness of this Administration
silence the popular voice. This is glori'
Gus vindication of popular sovereignty, of
the integrity and capacity of the American
people, and of their fitness for self govern
ment.
Every mail from the South brings new
evidence of the conservative and patriotic
sentiments of the Southern people, and gives
assurance of favorable issue for the coun.
try, in the action of the Charleston Con-
vention.
The New Orleans True Delta, of late
date, says:
If Douglas, by any possibility, should be
defeated for the northumberland this we
consider thing not compassable as the
country IS clrcumstanced-sti no man oc-
cupying any other ground can succeed,
and any such, we care not where he may
hail from, or to what combinations he may
owe his success, is sure to introduce radi-
cal reform into the administration of federal
affairs here and elsewhere.
The country throughout its entire extent
appears to be rapidly approaching the cha
racter of the opposition to Judge Douglas
and arriving at the natural conclusions alone
deducible from it At the North and West
the abolition and federal Office holders unite
in their malignant hatred and denunciation
OF him; at the South and Southwest, where
slavery exists, the federal office holders and
the dlsunionists are in perfect accord in
their hostility; both North and South,
wherever bis political enemies are assembled,
separately or jointly, individually or col
lectively, acting for different objects or for
common purpose, their hatred and detes-
tation of the man resolve themselves into a
reasonable purpose and design against this
Union and the democratic republican form
OF government, of which, to all mankind, it
IS the type and only true representative.
The traitor at the n orth we'll understands
that in the elevation of Douglas to the chief
magistracy of this glorious confederacy, an
end would be forever put to his conspira-
cies, his sedition and treason the secession-
list of the South clearly comprehends that
with man in the presidential Office pos
sessing the nerve, resolution, fortitude and
moral courage of the g Ieat Western states
man, the prOv0cations, irritations and ag-
gravations now given the South by the
Northern members of the Union would be
put an end to by the vigorous enforcement
of the laws, and an impartial and Just exer-
else OF constitutional power, and all pretext
for dissolution Of the Union thus removed;
therefore they unite to establish the propo-
sltion that extremes meet, and both agree
to make bitter and malignant opposition to
the only man in the nation, whose great
talents, past services and imperishable patri-
otto record indicate to the people whom
they, at this critical emergency, should en-
trust with the administration of their af-
fairs. The abolitionist, like the secessionist,
is opposed to allowing the people of the
Territories to accept or reject slavery as
their interests and the character of the soil
they cultivate and the climate they live in
may require; and both unite in demanding
Congressional interference; the abolitionist,
because he knows, if allowed, slavery can
never go beyond its present limits the
Southern extremist, because if left to Con-
gress, the way to the dissolution of the Un-
ion is, he thinks, then left open, a sectional
issue being distinctly made and an irrepres-
sible conflict being inevitable