The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1860-10-05
Stewards Speech in st. Paul.

The n. Y. Herald regards Stewards
speech in St. Paul, as "the clearest exposi-
ton of the real platform of the Republican
party that has ever fallen from the lips of
its great leader" and then goes on to say:
In the first place Mr.. Seward humbugged
the people of Minnesota when be compared
the old world system of slavery with that
which existed here when the fathers founded
this government. The systems of serfdom,
vassaIage, vilainage or slavery, Doth antique
and medieval, were quite different from any
that ever existed here. In Europe the
slaves were of the same race-the eau
casian-as their masters, and were held
in sort of military bondage. Their
normal condition was that of freedom,
and they were sometimes able to throw off
their shackles and obtain for themselves a
share Of political power. But the African
has no such talent of organization. This
has been proven in the case of Hayti. The
black must serve the white man or amalga-
mate with him. And once let the African
and Anglo Saxon blood be roughly mixed,
there is an end of all the energy, the vigor
and the enterprise that belong to the latter.
The state of things now existing in the slave
States is natural one. The exigencies of
that section demand slave labor. This is
not simple demand either it is an abso-
lutte condition of existence. Consequently,
when Mr.. Seward says that the man who
will see slavery abolished in the Gulf States
is already born\he is talking nonsense,
and darwiDg on his imagination for his
facts.
Then, as to the result of the systems, Mr..
Seward claims superiority for the North
and West over the South, and all because
of the existence of the peculiar institution"
10 the latter section. Mr.. Seward is wrong,
and he knows it. He knows as we'll as we
that the West owes it's progress almost
entirely to the influx Of foreign immigration,
and to the surplus population which has
emigrated from the East. These new settlers
could not go to the South in any event,
slavery or no slavery, as the climate would
kill them. But to 60 even further than
that, we look now at the South and find it
teeming with wealth, while the West cannot
pay its honest debts. The Southern States
increase steadily in population, white and
black, and if the foreign trade should be
suppressed altogether, slavery is too firmly
rooted to die out.
So we find that there is good deal of
nonsense in this last harange ofMr. Stewards,
and that he has employed all the graces of
rhetoric to trick out few illogical PROPOSE
tions and Observation-Disclosures conclusions.
His real points are the same as those made
by Spooner and others of Mr.. Stewards
favorite Massachusetts school" that slavery
is unconstitutional, and that it is to be
abolished gradually and through the means
of the Republican party. The government
having once passed into the hands of Mr..
Seward and bis friends, all of its power,
legislative, executive and judicial, is to be
devoted to the extinction of slavery wher>
ever it exists. The agitation is not to cease
with the election of Mr.. Lincoln. The sol>
diers in the abolition army are enlisted for
life. We need hardly say what would be
the result should the Seward idea be prac-
tically carried out. There would be civil
war, anarchy and bloodshed in the land.
All sections would suffer, but the North
more than the South. The commerce of
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from the effects of which it would never re-
cover. And, finally, we can assure the men
Of the Northwest that whatever may happen
hereafter, New York is just now the En-
pire State, and that we intend to exert the
imperial privilege, so far as the defeat of
Mr.. Lincoln is concerned. After much
difficulty arrangements for the combination
of the opposition to the Republican party
have been made, and the chances for the
joint electoral ticket in this State are more
than fair. All that is needed is earnest,
devoted work from this time till election
day. The State is against Sewardism by
at least hundred thousand majority, and
the utmost exertions should be made to get
out the whole conservative vote. To the
merchants and mechanics of New York this
election is especially important. Let them
work, then, while it is yet day.
OFFICIAL dispatches from Peru announces
that the Peruvian Government had made
proposition to our Minister for the settle
ment of all existing difficulties between the