The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1860-11-09

is in the document in Adams possession.
He and Hampton could not read it at all.
Think of this, Union men of all parties. Is
there not enough in all this to carry alarm
to every one? Where do not these trea.
sonable organizations exist? If they are
in Breathitt and Owsley, may they not be
in Clark? May they not be in every coun-
ty in the State? Who is safe? Who is
true to his country? These are just now
grave and serious questions. We hope our
Union contemporaries will spare no time to
spread the news of these discoveries far and
wide, and let the friends of the Union know
in time of the treason that is Matching in
our midst and all around US. Not mo,
ment can be lost. There are men in Ken.
lucky now plotting to subvert the Govern
ment. 1t is no longer in far off South
Carolina. 1t is here at our homes"
Copies of these pamphlets have been re-
ceived in the city of New York.
WHAT GOV. PETTUs WILL DO.
The Breckenridge States Rights men Of
Mississippi had large meeting at Colum.
bus last week, and Gov. Pettus made q
speech. The tenor Of his remarks led some
one to ask him, if the Union should be d.
vided, what disposition he would make oil
the interest be had in the Bunker Hill Mon
ument.
He said abe would give up his interest
to the North"
"And what" said his interrogation, "will
you do with the South's interest in the
Fourth of July?"
4" We WM make new one" was the reply.
SPEECHES BY COLONIES ORR AND AsHMORE.
We learn from the Greenville rs. c.
Patriot, that on Tuesday of last week,
Colonies Orr and Ashmore addressed the
citizens of the district in the Court House.
Col. Orr had no hope of the defeat of Lin
coin, but would counsel no hasty action on
the part of the State. South Carolina
should not withdraw alone. He differed
from others in the opinion that our Legis-
lature should call Convention of the peo-
pie as soon as it was ascertained that Lin
coin was elected. He thought it would be
wiser and more prudent that Commissioners
should be appointed to go and consult with
the other Southern States, and ascertain the
course they intended to pursue under the
circumstances, so that there might be a
concert of action.
South Carolina has tried the experiment
of sending a Commissioner to a sister
Southern State when her soil was invaded,
and the result of that experiment does not
sfford much encouragement to repeat it..
At this crisis, however, although each State
must in her sovereign capacity decide upon
her own course of action, yet it will be
doubtless thought advisable to secure in
some way as much concert Of action as
practicable.
Col. Ashmore also thought Lincoln would
be elected. and counseled that the State
should put herself into position of resist
ance, and that when the time comes she
should resist to the death.
GOV. wIsE's RESOLUTIONS.
The Norfolk Herald has long report Of
a Breckenridge barbecue at Princess Anne
at which Gov. Wise spoke. After detail
ing the crimes of which he thought the Re.
publican party guilty, be proceeded as fol-
lows:
"How, then, is the election of it's candi
date for that Chief Executive power to be
viewed by US and by all? His and his ri
walls sentiments are both proclaimed-they
are the same-'the Government cannot en-
dure half slave and half free'--it is an 'irre.
pressible conflict between opposing and en-
during forces-the United States must and
will, sooner or later, become slave holding
nation, or entirely a free labor nation.
These are the sentiments of the coming
Black Republican triumph by such means
as we have seen. What then?
L. The election of Abraham Lincoln to the
Presidency will be an open and official avowal
by apopular majority of the North, and of the
nation, that the past aggressious of Black Re.
publicanism are right.
2. That they are to be persisted in with great
aggravation, for the future.
3. That the Slave States shall not govern
themselves in respect to their own property in
their own limits; but that whilst Territories are
to be allowed to prohibit Slavery in their limits,
the States will not be permitted to protect it in
peace in theirs.
4. That the slave States and their citizens are
to be cOerce ed to submission. And such aggres.
sion as this amounts to actual war. 1t is pro
claimed already, and awaits only the election
for the power and the means to oOerce submis
sion. The election will give it both. And it is
the worse for coming in all the panOply of a
mere form of right. The form is the election
and the election will be constitutional. That
is to be the pore out of which the courage of re-.
sistance is to OOze. The form of the election may
be constitutional, but its intent and purpose is
our invasion and violent infraction of the con.
stitutiOn. No matter what may be the FORM
the substance is aggression--the aggression is
to uS-..vital. ts.
If we submit to 1t we are at once subju.
gated, and if we intend to resist it is time
we were prepared for the conf; ct, which we
cannot repress but may repel. In view of
these issues, we deliberately resolve:
To appoint - committees of safety" as in
revolutionary times, to consist of six persons
from each district, majority of whom for each
district may act. They shall devise and control
measures of policy for our safety. and for en-.
rolling and organizing a body of Minute
Men" for whom in all respects they shall pro.
vide. And quarterly, or Oftener, at such times
as they may appoint. the respective committees
of the districts, or their representatives, shall
assemble, in whole or in part. as they may
direct, as a general council for the country,
which shall sit under chief of Minute Men, to
be elected by the several councils and remova-
BILE at their pleasure. The Minute Men shall
execute the orders of the district committees,
and of the general council; and shall, when
necessary, be provided with the proper means.
2. That it be recommended to every county
in the Commonwealth to organize in the same
or in similar manner, and to publish the same
as We now order for notice to our friends to
cooperate. g..
8. That the moment the election returns are
made known, and it is ascertained that Abra.
ham Lincoln is elected President of the United