The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1860-12-07


"Gosef" does not contradict the state
ment that he had rendered self and sword to
the Secessionists of South Carolina.
The following extract of letter received
in st. Paul, from leading lawyer in Balti.
more, we consider we'll worthy of publica.
ton: a
BALTIMORE, Nov. %, 1860.
n "The future wears dark and
portentous look. 1t is very true that if the
South could have been kept quiet, that the
irreconcilable difference between the grain
growing States and the Yankee manufac-
turers, would have sundered the Republican
party. The cereal States and the South
are united for free trade and the outlet of
the Mississippi, and this would annex the
valley OF the West to the cotton regions
but, in the meantime, the patronage of the
government would have sown broadcast the
leaven of discomfort in the South and dis
tracted its own citizens. The contest has
got to come at sometime, not remote, for
the equality of the States in the territories,
and the sooner it comes on the better the
chance for solution which may preserve
the Union. That equality denied, and the
irrrepressible conflict continued, the South
ern condition is no better than that of the
Christian in Syria. 1t will ultimate in the
same thing. This irrepressible conflict is
nothing new. 1t is only human nature
repeating itself on a new theatre. The
same principle controlled the Crusades-
made the Moors be expelled from Spain
caused the expulsion of the Huguenots and
the Bartholomew massacre-caused Ireland
to be persecuted for $50 years-ground the
Jews under political disabilities -wrested
Greece from the Turk, and peopled the
United States with oppressed bigots, who,
in their turn, harrass the consciences of other
people.
{" In modern times European statesmen
have been taught sense by the material in
terests of empires. The Duke of yelling
ton paci6ed Ireland by the emancipation
bill. The Jews have been enfranc hised,
The Turk has given liberty to the Greeks
in his empire, &C., &c. You see that at all
times this irrepressible conflict has been
theological. The Massachusetts clergy
stirred it up here two or three years ago.
Their conscience as to the sin of slave
holding is to be forced on everybody else.
The only remedy is through the law of ma
terial interests; whether these are to pre-
vail over fanaticism. The only hope of a
peaceable solution is that the first steps of
war will be in the counting.rooms, work.
shops and factories. If commercial rev.
olution shall foreshadow the disunion of
trade. interests, and wrest men from the
infatuation with which they listen to Wed
neday and Friday evening lectures on
isms, then it is possible we may yet.con-
tinue compact and glorious confederacy /;
otherwise, Destruction, with dishevelled
hair, will run to and fro, and no man can
foresee how the map of futurity will be
cast.
"Of course it is time for calmness, and
for the avoidance of crowds and resolution
meetings. One should behave with the
dignity that becomes, when a ship is on a
lee-shore, ready to help the helm if turned
right, or to take to spar if the crash is to
occur.
"My only hope is that the fanatics are
fewer than the of6ce.seekers. The last will
cave in if they zee the necessity"
GEORGIA CONVENTION BILL.
The following is the Convention bill
which passed the Georgia Legislature. 1t
meets the approval of the leading men of
that State, including HERsCHEL V. JOHN.
SON and ALEX. Fl. STEPHENS
BILL, ENTITLED AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE AND RE.
QUIRE THE GOVERNOR OF THE STATE OF GEoR-
GIA TO CALL A CONVENTION OF THE PEOPLE OF
THIS STATE, AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES THERE
IN NAMED. fl ,tA- .t,Is- - l>
WHEREAS, The present crisis in our national
affairs, in the judgment of this General Assem-
bly,, demands resistance and whereas, it is
the privilege of the sovereign people to deter
mine upon the mode, measure and time of such
resistance; therefore, the General Assembly of
Georgia do enact:-
Section l. That upon the passage of this act,
his Excellency the Governor be and he is here
by required to issue his proclamation ordering
an election to be held in each and every coun.
ty in this State on the first Wednesday in Janu.
airy, 1861, for delegates to q convention of the
people of this State, to convene at the seat of
government on the 10th day OF January, in the
year 1861. , -, .l..4 .......'
Sec. 2. That the said election for delegates
shall be held and conducted in the same man
ner and at the same places as elections for mem
bers of the General Assembly are now held in
this state, and all returns of election shall be in
the same manner forwarded to the Governor
of this State, who shall furnish each delegate
chosen with certificate of his election.
Sec. 3. That the counties now entitled to one
shall elect two delegates to said
convention. 49, .s.tiss..4..
Sec. 4. That said convention, when assem-.
bled, may consider all grievances impairing or
affecting the equality and rights of the State of
Georgia as q member of the United States, and |
determine the measure and mode and time of |
redress. .. 81. .r.. i ,.g,... /
Sec. S. That the members of said convention |
of the people Of Georgia, shall be entitled to |
the same mileage and per diem pay received |
by the members of the present General Assem-. |
bly, and said convention shall, by vote, fix the
pay of all their officers and of any delepate or