The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1860-11-16
THE WEEKLY PIONEER AND DEMOCRAT.

Proviso was the opposition of our journal
to the enlargement of slavery. 1t began
with the first whisper of the scheme to
annex Texas to the American Union, and
it has been steadily maintained from that
moment till now, when the right and Justice
of our cause is proclaimed, in a general
election, by the mighty voice Of a large
majority of thirty millions of people.
From the N. Y. Herald.
" The true policy of the President elect is
simple and easy. 1t is marked out in the
federal constitution, and in the compacts
and compromises thereof, touching this
''peculiar Southern institution of slavery.
The fugitive slave law is only special EN-.
bodiment of one these constitutional com.
pacts between the North and South. Let
it be faithfully adhered to, and let those
other provisions of the constitution recog-
nizing and protecting the sovereignty and
the local institutions of the several States,
slavery and all, be respected by Mr.. Lin
coin in all bis administration acts and re-.
concentrations, and he will soon have a
party at his back which will not be limited
to the northern side of Mason and Dixon s
line. To this end he should seize the first
occasion that may offer for the proclama-
ton of his views and purposes to the coun-
try in connection with the great Office to
which he has been promoted, in order that,
on the one hand, he may quiet, without
delay, the apprehensions of the South, and,
on the other hand, bring the radical anti
slavery agitators of bis party to distinct
understanding. He has the power now to
silence them. Let him exercise it before
they can weave their webs around him for
his destruction.
To Abraham Lincoln now belongs the
power Of restoring or destroying the happy
relations of peace and fraternity between
the North and the South, and let us hope
that be may prove equal to the crisis and
the responsibility.
Let the new President make clean dis.
charge of the present batch of oficeholders,
if he will, but let not their places be sup
piled by scurvy politicians, but by honest
and capable men. In this way he may do
great and good work for the country /;
but, above all, let him specifically and
promptly proclaim his adhesion to the fed.
eral constitution, for only upon that plat
form can the Union be saved.
From the Constitution. buchanan organ.)
From the returns which have reached US
we are forced to the lamentable conclusion
that Abraham Lincoln has been elected
President OF the United States from the 4th
of next March.
We declare this opinion as to the event
full result of yesterday with sorrow which
has no source in party defeat. The people
of the Northern States, by an apparently
overwhelming majority, have rendered their
verdict on an issue fully made up, and after
full deliberation, and that verdict says that
they deny that fifteen States of the Union
are entitled to equality in the Union; and
that the future policy of the Federal Gov
eminent shall be based on active deadly
hostility to the South and her institutions.
What the effect of that verdict, immedi-
ate or ultimate, will be, we do not intend to
prophecy. We see in the immediate future
gloom and storm, and much to chill the
heart of every patriot in the land. We can
understand the effect that wiH be produced
in every Southern mind when he reads the
ne,cs ttis naorning--that he is no1U called on
to decide for himself, his children, and his
childrens children, whether he wW submit
tamely to the rule of one elected on account of
his hostility to him and his, or whether he
,sUiu make struggle to defend has rights, his
inheritance and his honor.
From the States, douglas organ.)
We endorse the reply of Senator Doug
las to the Norfolk questions. We believe
it wise, patriotic, and constitutional. We
believe it embodies the faith and purpo.e OF
the National Democratic party. We be-
lieve that the masses of the people, South
and North, East and West, hold the same
faith, and will act upon it. So believing,
streng thened in our affections for the IN
ion, the more necessity there is for it, we
avow-as throughout the canvass we have
avowed- ourselves for the Union, and reit-
crate, in spirit, the appeals we have made
to the law abiding, constitution loving men
of all sections:
. $50 friends let's band
For Fatherland-
In brOtherly communion,
Let every mouth
Cry 'North and South
And Con PRESERVE THE UNION"