The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1860-02-03

we owe our existence as nation and when
the day comes in which no man will he found
in America to cry bravo when he sees them,
our final extinction will not be very far dis
tant."
The Independent Democrat" the organ
of the Republican party in New Hampshire,
and edited 1--WE believe) by member of the
so>called National Republican Committee,
thus discourses upon the execution of John
Brown:
"John Brown, after a few days imprison-
ment in Charlestown Jail, is free.
Virginia will yet hear from him. IF
God smite their cattle with pestilence, and
they die, the guilty conscience will, in some
mysterious way. see the hand of John Brown
in it. AS God appeared to Moses in the burn.
ing bush, so the visage of John Broavn auiN be
seen in evesy confagation. In the torked flames
of their burning houses, and the smouldering fires
consuming thear crops, they aoiu see him.
True, he was not a Republican, but every Re.
publican as naturally sympathises acih John
Broom as man, as eve'y heartlsss Democrat
this, and seeing it, fear and tremble. They
know now that we are in earnest. And
Northern hestancy, not to say cowardice, will
catch spark of valor from his spirit, and the
world will yet see that John Brown lives"
And further on, the same paper says
1.-THE cure for slavery prescribed by Redpath
is the only infallible remedy, and men must
foment insurrection among the slaves in order
to cure the evils. 1t can never be done by
concessions and compromises. 1t is great
evil, and must be extinguished by still greater
ones 1t is positive and imperi0us in it's ap-
proaches. and must be overcome with equally
positive forces. You must commit an insult to
arrest burglar, and slavery is not arrested
without violation of law and the cry of fire."
Inf mo vpoo1 hmm nd EvI
not only admiration for the conduct of
Brown, but vindictive desire to revenge
his death. The day after the execution, on
the Sd of December. in the Daily Minneso-
tian, newspaper published in the city of
st. Paul, and the central organ of the Re.
publican party of this State, and whose edi.
tor is now one of the printers of this body,
appeared an editorial from which the fol.
lowing is an extract
"Good God and is it true 1t is pos
sible, that in the nineteenth century, in
Republican America, mans blood flows on
the scaffOld for an IDEA the idea that man.
kind have the right to the ownership of
themselves and their families-dying for
the truth enunciated by Thomas Jefferson,
that all men are created equal. The ex-
ecution of John Brown yesterday, we regard
as an event truly big with future i'm
mense consequences. That day, the second
day of December, 1859, will indeed be men,
Orable in future ages as day marking mar
tyrdom for Liberty-as a day second only
in American annals to the Day of the Dec
laration of Independence itself, for its grave
and important consequences. From that
day forward commenced in good earnest
that irrepressible conflict between Free
dom and Slavery to which our statesmen
have referred. By denying mercy to brave,
monomaniacal mistaken, but honest John
Brown and his associates-h and them
ennobled, amidst all their mistakes of
means to an end,' by the unselfsh, disin-
terested Idea which animated them-the
Idea of giving freedom to the enslaved and
oppressed, acithon profit to themselues-by thus
imbruing their hands in their blood, the
myrmidons of slavery have precipitated
conflict which else would have progressed
slowly, moderately, safely, to all concerned,
until the curse and shame of our land had
been gradually removed from it. But Sla-
very-Virginia-has by the bloody deed,
commenced the battle, by the deliberate,
cruel, unnecessary shedding of the life blood,
of Brown and his compatriots, and woe,
woe, woe, it will be, henceforward to Vir-
ginia and to slavery The red Southern
sun, that with its warm rays, yesterday
dried up from the scaffold the blood of those
who are now Martyrs Of Liberty, will we fear
grow redder still in rejecting on his lurid
disc fields CORY with the victims of Retri-
button and Vengeance
"The voice of thy brothers blood, Vir-
ginia, crieth unto me from the ground
And now art thou cursed from the
earth, which has opened her mouth to re-
ceive thy brothers blood from thy hand
"' When thou tillest the ground it shall
not henceforth yield thee her strength. A
fugitive and vagabond shalt thou be in
the earth
"'And Cain (virginia) said unto the
Lord, my punishment is greater than can
bear
1t is owing to ebullitions of passion such
as these-to such manifestations of sympa-
thy and admiration-that the present
is deemed eminently the proper time
for Minnesota, one of the youngest in
the confederacy of the States, regarded
as she ever has been as the favorite
of the nation, upon whom bounties
have been lavished by the generosity--not
of the North nor of the South-but, of the
whole country, to renew to Virginia and all
the states the assurance that her people will
ever maintain inviolate the constitution
of their fathers, and discountenance all at
tempts, come from what quarter they may,
to interfere with the internal concerns or to
disturb the peace and quiet of any portion
of the Union. In the resolutions referred to
the Committee seem to have that object in
view, and we can discover no reason why
they should not be favorably entertained by
the Senate. The course pursued by the
majority Of the COMMITTEES might furnish us
an apoiogy,awere We TO examine the powers
Of tls 9eaeral Government md the local
legislation over the subject Of slavery In the
territories. But, believing this to be ju-
dcial question which, if not already decided,
will be brought before the courts SO soon as
either Congress or local legislature exer-
cises the power, we are willing to leave it to
the arbitranent of those to whom the Con-
stitution has assigned it. We are aware
that Mr.. Seward, in one of the pronuncia-
mentos which he is in the habit of issuing
to his political followers and the world, has
declared that the Supreme Court of the
United States must be reorganized, in order
that its decisions may be accommodated to
his peculiar political dogmas; we are also