The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1860-03-23
Douglas and the Democracy.

Ibis week We give our editorial COlumn
to the writer of the following communica-
ton, which we have received from st. Paul,
Minnesota, from one who has occupied the
highest official post within the power of one
State to confer upon its most honored citi-
zen. It clearly and forcibly expresses our
sentiments upon the matter, and we dare
assert that every true Democrat in this
State and nation that may be favored with
it's perusal will say likewise.
ST. PAUL, Mimi, March 2, 1850.
To the Editors of the Detroit Guardian:
SIR:-Nothipg has given me more sim
cere satisfaction than your leader of the 18th
ult., on Wise and Douglas, in relation to
the Presidency in 1860. If all the western
editors had the courage to speak as you have
spoken in the defence of our noble chief,
the country would soon begin to see and feel
how much they have at stake in the ap-
preaching contest. Never, since the days
of Gen. Jackson, has any man, east or west,
north or south, had such hold upon the
hearts of the masses as Stephen A. Douglas.
Gen. jackson had the leaders of the old
political dynasties to battle against from
the start. The people elected him in 1924,
but politicians thwarted their will.
The only man that the Democracy of the
west look to as emphatically representing its
views on the territorial question, is Mr..
Douglas. No man in America has been
pursued, prosecuted and so unjustly assailed;
no public man has ever withstood so sue.
cessfully the Establishments of the govern
ment patronage; no statesman has ever
before differed with the national administra-
ton, outrode the storm of its wrath, kept
within the pale of true party discipline, and
compelled the party in power to disorgan-
ize or Yield.
Douglas has done this, and such has been
the brilliancy of his heroic success, that his
enemies are standing amazed at the superb
ority of his intellect, and the moral gran
deur Of his triumph. In his energy and
courage is typi6ed the true western charac-
ter. Nor can the south fail to see that this
great western heart is throbbing with deep
solicitude for his success.
They cannot fail to see that with him they
can secure six or seven of the great states
of the west-which will be otherwise lost to
them-and thus roll back the heaving tide
of northern and eastern fanaticism. They
cannot fail to see that they have no hope
from the northern and eastern states, to de-
fend their constitutional rights. They must
see that the west is now the conservative
ground of the republic, the Thermopyle Of
the Democracy, if Douglas is given US as
our leader. They cannot fail to see that
an alliance with the western Democracy Sc
secures their constitutional rights for TWEEN.
ty years, by throwing the western states
permanently again into the Democratic
ranks.
Douglas is our representative man He
must be nominated. And it must be done
on the Cincinnati platform. The south aided
US to elect one President on it, and they
should combine with the west to elect anO
ther. The whole west can be triumphantly
carried with their favorite candidate, and,
as have stated before, can be secured for
twenty years to our party, by which time
Cuba, Mexico and five other new states
will be added to the galaxy of our Union.
We feel that on the nomination of Mr..
Douglas the life or death of the Western
Democracy depend, for should the voice of
the nation be crushed by demagogueism at
Charleston, should they succeed in terrify-
ing us into REIMBURSEMENT of our repre-
sentative, our party in the glorious west
must 60 to the wall, and mark when the
whole western Democracy is crushed out by
fanaticism, so will the Union be crushed out
in after time. The north and east are ire
deemably abolitionized now, and 80 will
the west be, unless the south pause in their
frenzy.
For the sake of our country, Douglas
must be nominated. He cannot be " killed"
he shall not die he belongs to the party,
the people, the west and his country. &.