The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1860-08-10


We believe that the great majority of the
people of these States desire to put an end
to the slavery agitation. They are sick and
weary Of it and they would sacrifice any
public interest for the sake of restoring
politics to their former condition, and get
ting rid of this irritating and useless Discus
sion.
But how to do it? That is the question.
The election of LINCOLN will not effect the
object for be demands not only that the
question of slavery in the Territories shall
be settled by legislation, but that the
agitation must be kept up until slavery is
abolished in every State in the Union.
BREcK1NRIDGE, advocating Congressional
protection to slavery, insures the protracted
agitation of the question. Both be and
LINCOLN are sectional candidates, and be is
almost as destitute of support at the North
as Lincoln is at the South. Bell also, is
substantially without party at tie North.
DOUGLAS alone occupies position recog-
nized and sustained by party North and
South and presents himself Oh platform
which disposes of this whole slavery agita-
ton, by remanding it to the communities
affected by it.
Let US imagine LINCOLN elected. He will
owe his election to minority of the people
in one section of the Union. He will be
the object Of universal hostility in fifteen
States. He cannot administer the govern
ment, nor maintain his authority, except at
the greatest hazards to the Union itself
He will have no friends, no partisans, no
press, no public opinion to uphold him in
the South. He has proclaimed war of
sections, and denounced the people of the
South as the enemies of humanity, whose
institutions must be subverted, before peace
is restored to the country.
The election of LINCOLN would, in the eyes
of the South, be conquest and usurpation
by powerful section, rather than the choice
of Chief Magistrate by the people of a
Confedercy. The Anti-Slavery agitation
would rage at the North, while the South,
united by sense of common danger, would
rush into the other extreme with the reckless
ness of sectional hate.
BREcK1NR1DGE, elected, would demand of a
Republican Congress protection to slavery.
The free States, represented more largely
under the new apportionment, would respond
by system of protection that would in fact
be the repression of slavery. The conflict
between the Executive and the Legislative
branches would prolong the agitation of
slavery and give to it new elements of dam
ger, by bringing into collision independent
branches of government.
The true solution of the question is the
election of DOUGLAS. He alone can rally q
party at the South strong enough to meet
the Disunionists. He alone will have the
means and the strength to put down Seces-
sion at one extremity OF the Union, and
reasonable Abolition at the other. The
slavery question will, under his administra-
ton, cease to agitate Congress, or to furnish
aliment for demagogues in the States. 1t
will be disposed of by the people CT the Ter
ritories, who alone are interested in its settle
ment.
The people see this. They demand that
this useless and damaging controversy shall
he terminated and they look to the election
of DOUGLAS as the only means of attaining
r. This ia the reason that the popular
mind turns to him with such unanimity.
This is the meaning and the motive of the
revolution that has just commenced.-Al-
bany alias and Argus.