The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1860-07-27
Precept and Practice.

1t is just now the fashion of the Black
Republican press of this city, to profess an
immense amount of regard for the South
and Southern people. They have taken the
one or two hundred Southern gentleman now
in the State, under their special protection.
They reason with them--advise them-and
warn them, above all things, to beware of
the PIONEER AND DEMOCRAT. This is kind,
certainly, and we would not for the world,
disturb the flow of 50 much genuine and dis
interested love for SAMBo and his master.
But, for fear our neighbors forget the lessons
they have taught the people in times past,
we cannot for the life of US, neglect to re-
produce the following touching requiem,
sung by the Minnesotian editor, over the
gibbet upon which JOHN BROWN met
deserved fate:
From the Daily Minneso,ian, CT December 8, 1859.
"Good God and is it true :? Is it possible.
that in the nineteenth century, in Republican
America, mems blood flows on the scaffold for
an IDEA? the idea that mankind have the right
dying for the truth enunciated by Thomas JEFF
fersOn, that all men are created equal?' The
execution of John Brown yesterday, we regard
as an event truly big with future immense con.
sequences. That day, the second day of De.
cember, 1859, will indeed be memorable in tu-
ture ages as day marking martyrdOm for
Liberty-as day second only in American
annals to the Day of the Declaration Of indie
pendence itself, for its grave and important
consequences. From that day forward com.
menced in good earnest that 'irrepressible con-
tict between Freedom and Slavery TO which
our statesmen have referred. By denying
mercy to brave, mOnomaniacal, mistaken, but
honest John Brown and his associates-him
and them ennobled, amidst all their mistakes
of means to an end, by the unseltsh, dsin-
terested IDEA which animated them-the Idea
of giving freedom to the enslaved and oppressed
,c,thOut profit to themselves, by thus imbruing
their hands in their blood, the myrmdons of
slavery have precieitated 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 SLAVERY Virginia has by the
bloody deed commenced the battle, by the deliberate
cruel, unnecessary shedding of the life blood Of
Brown and has compatriots, and acoe, acoe, acoe,
will be, hencsoravard to Virginia and to slaUery!
The red southern sua,' that, aOih its acarm rags,
yesterday dried up from the scafold the blood Of
those a0ho are noO Martyrs Of Liberty, walI. ace
fear, gro,o redder still in rejecting on his lurid
dssc fields CORY aoih the uictims Of Retribution and
Vengeance.
1.-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 receive thy
brothers blood from thy hand
49, When thou tillest the ground it shall not
henceforth yield thee her strength. A fugitive
md hole hon, ho ~, nth
"And Cain (Virginia) said unto the Lord,
my punishment is greater than can bear"
Mild and pleasant sentences, to peruse
this warm July day, are they not +? The
murderer-the cowardly midnight assassin
is gloriied with the honors Of martyrdom;
and curses and threats of vengeance heaped
upon those who meted out to him the just
punishment of his many crimes.
And yet, when such language as the
above daily finds utterance in the Black Re-
publican press, and is proclaimed from the
stump and the Senate chamber by the
SUMMERS, and LovEJoYs and Wilson's, ten
der-footed Republicans are actually shocked
by our declaration that the mere abduction
from bis mistress, of valuable servant, is
the natural result of the teachings of the Re-
publican politicians. We fear both their
logical and natural results, if opportunity
offered, would be the re-enactment of those
scenes which make the blood curde at the
mere mention of San Domingo.
Our Republican friends therefore, will do
we'll to put bride upon the tongues of
their leaders, before they seek to escape the
responsibility of such small attempts at
Retribution or Vengeance" as negro
stealing.