The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1860-09-07

The People against the Corruption
ists-.Douglas against Secttonsiism'
North and South.
The contest now going on throughout
our country, is between the Politicians ana
Corruptionists on the onehand, and the Eco
pie on the other-between the Northern and
Southern Sectionalists on one side, and the
friend of our National Union on the opposite
side-between the advocates and opponents
Of the right of selfgovernment by every
association of American citizens, whether
thew happen to reside in State or in an
organized Territory. We have reason to
rejoice that we are with the cause of the
founders of this Republic, and that we ad-
vocate the principle which caused the Revo.
luton, and originated our free institutions.
The American colonies of Great Britain
we're in a position with respect to the
mother government, somewhat similar to
that of our organizde Territories with re-
spect to our own government. The colonists
claimed the right to control their internal
and domestic affairs in their own way. They
claimed that this right was unalienable, and
was essential to their lives, liberties, and the
pursuit of their happiness. They sought no
rupture from the crown. They were a loyal
people. But when the King refused his
assent to laws the most wholesome and
necessary for the public good-when he
forbade his governors from passing laws of
immediate, and pressing Importance, until
his assent thereto should be obtained-when
be refused to pass other laws for the accom-
mediation of large districts of people, unless
they would relinquish their right to repre-
sentation in the Legislature-when he called
together legislative bodies at places unusual,
uncomfortable, and distant from the depos-
itory of the public records, in order to COM
pei compliance with his measures-when he
obstructed the administration of Justice
when he made judges dependent upon his
will alone-when be erected a multitude of
new Offices to harrass the people, and eat
out their substance-when be kept among
the people, in time of peace, standing ar
mics, without their consent, or the consent
of their Legisatures-and when, in short,
be attempted to rule in all the domestic
concerns of people whom he did not know,
with whose wants he was unacquainted,
and for whom he did not care except as a
source of the revenues of his crown then
they rebelled, and declared themselves indie
pendent of his government, and asserted and
maintained with arms, by the aid of good
Providence, that they were, and of right
ought to be, free and independent the
truth of their assertions was selfevident,
and that the consent of the governed" was
the source of all just power in government
So now, the people Of the Territories that
have been organized, claim like exemption
from the action Of Congress, and right
not derived from constitutions or human
laws, but from God, to them as freemen, to man.
agetheir own affairs, in their own way subject
only to the Constitution and laws of the
United States, including the institution of
slavery as we'll as every other domestic in.
stitution.
Shall it be that the great Champion of
the statements of the Declaration of indie
pendence, and of the principle which under
lies this fabric of freedom, is to be crushed
by envious politicians or spoilhunters, or
Southern Disunionists, Or Northern Black
Republicans and Abolitionists, or by any of
them or all of them combined Has the
love of the people for this great country,
so prosperous and so rich, become SO
cold that such men as YANCEY, and
DAVIS, and BUCHANAN, and the like, can
wean it to Southern ultraism for slavery, or
SEWARD, GREELEY, and LINCOLN and their
coadjutors seduce it to an unholy fondness
for niggerism, in whatever shape it may
come up? No! No! No ! A thou
sand times, No The very bones of the
founders of the nation would rattle in their
graves Indignantly at such treachery.
HENRY's voice, although now stilled in the
tomb, will re-sound. WAsH1NaroN's form
though in decay at Mount Vernon, will re-
appear in all its majesty. CLAY's clarion
tones will again electrify patriots, and COM
promise warfare, and subdue bitterness.
And WEBSTER will once more speak with
all the fervOr of his noble heart, and sus-
tain his speech with all the power of his
splendid intellect. Liberty and Union,
now and forever, one and inseparable."
1t is not so much attachment to the per-
son of Judge DOUGLAS, great, and plucky,
and fascinating as he is, as love of coun.
try, an appreciation of the blessings of our
glorious institutions, and desire to per-
petuate those blessings for the benefit of our
children, and our children's children, that
now animates the American heart. There
is feeling aroused that overshadows all
consideration of persons, however eminent,
and however worthy, and which clings
fondly, and with a determination character
istic of the American people, to the main