The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1860-05-25

letter Of Mr.. STEPHENS, is an able argument
in support of the doctrine of non-interven-
ton and of Georgia sending delegates to
Baltimore. He assumes it as an "unques.
tionable fact" that on-intervention has for
"many years been received, recognized and
acted upon as settled doctrine by the
South" He then says:
"The question now is, shall the South aban.
don her own position in that decision and set
Element? This is the question virtually presen.
ted by the action of the seceders from the
Charleston Convention, and the grounds upon
which they based their action; or stated in
other words, it amounts to this whether the
Southern states after all that has taken place
on the subject, should now reverse their pre-
vious course, and demand Congressional inter-
cention for the protection of slavery in the Ter.
ritories, as condition of their remaining in the
Union? For l take it for granted that it would
be considered by all as the most mischevious
folly to make the demand, unless we intend to
push the issue to its ultimate and legitimate
results. Shall the South then, make this de-
mand of Congress, and when made, in case of
failure to obtain it, shall she secede from the
Union as portion of her delegates, (some un-
der instructions, and some from their own tree
will seeded from the Convention on their
laHure 10 geI IL grained tnere!
Mr.. STEPHENS then states that the doc
trine of non-intervention was no favorite
with him when first proposed, but having
been yielded to by the South, be says:
"Whatever may be the course of future
events, my judgment in this crisis, u.s. that we
should stand by our principles through VICE.
as well as through veal and maintain them
fny<t, lo1r h.
til they, we and the Republic perish together
in common ruin."
He holds that natural laws, and not legis.
lative enactments, determine the slavery
question
''Squatters carried it to Tennessee, Kentucky
Missouri, Alabama, Mississippi and Texas
against law prohibiting it. and they will car
ry it to all countries where climate, SOIL pro-
duction and population will allow. These are
the natural laws that will regulate it under
non-intervention, according to their construc-
ton and no act of Congress can carry it into
any Territory against these laws, any more
than 1t could make the rivers run to the noun.
tains instead of the sea. If we have not enough
OF the right sort of population to compete
longer with the North in the colonization of new
Territories and States, this deficiency can never
be supplied by any such act of Congress as
that now asked for. The attempt would be
as vain as that of XerXes to control the wa
ters of the Hellspont by whipping them in his
rage"
He contends that Georgia should be rep
resented in the Baltimore Convention, the
demand made at Charleston ought not to be
insisted upon-and concludes his able and
eloquent letter as follows:
''Let our hands be clear of all blame. Let
there be no cause for casting censure at our
door. If, in the end, the great National Dem
ocratic party-the strong ligament which has
SO long bound and held the Union together
shaped its policy, and controlled it's destnes-
! and to which we have so often looked with a
hope that seldom failed as the only party orth
| on which to rely, in the most trying hours when
Constitutional rights were in peril, let it not be
said to US, in the midst of the disasters that
may ensue, you did it! In any and every
upon our name. If every thing else has to go
| down, let our untarnished honor, at least, sur
vive the wreck"
LoU1sIANA.-The New Orleans papers
contain call from the Democratic States
Rights Central Committee of that city, re-
citing the adjournment Of the Democratic
Convention to Baltimore, the secession of
the delegates from Louisiana from the Con-
vention at Charleston, and calling upon all
those Democrats who abide by and sustain
the Cincinnati platform and the additions
made thereto at Charleston, to send dele
gates to State Convention to be held at
Donaldsonville on the first Wednesday of
June, at which delegates will be appointed
to the National Convention at Baltimore
on the 18th of June
SHARP PRAcr1cE.-The Chicago Times
has in its possession the names of certain
delegates to the Republican National Con-
vention, who gave assurance to one of the
Ike Cook party in Chicago, ' that the Re-
publicans will never permit Mr.. DOUGLAS to
be nominated at Baltimore-that the Re.
publicaDs had already raised and were ready
to expend large sums of money, in connec-
ton with the administrations supporters, to
buy up delegates against him."
A Vo1cE FROM NORTH CARoL1NA.-The
Raleigh Standard is the recognized mouth.
piece of the Democracy of the Old North
State. In late issue, commenting upon
the seceders, it says:
For our part, we have no hesitation in saying
that we will not go with South Carolina or
William L. Yancey and his followers in their
attempts to dissolve the Union. The star
| spangled banner is not yet odious to our sight,
nor do we by any means despair Of the re-
| public. We still have confidence in the ma
tional Democratic party. We look to Balti-
| more for confirmation of that confidence, and
for ticket which will triumph in November
next. Meanwhile we are for the constitution
and the Union, and against all who would
trample on the one or dissolve the other. As
for Mr.. Yancey, we leave him to the tender
mercies OF the Alabama Democracy. They
will dispose of him.
POPULAR SovERE1GNTY-A CAvEAr.-
Mr.. ELI THAYER, who has been so much
praised by the Republicans, made an out
and out popular sovereignty speech in the
House the other day. He praised the Ne
braska bill, and denounced Intervention.
He tells US, in his argument, that the first
duty of government is to let the people
alone, and the second, to prevent anybody
from interfering with them. He tells US
further, that " you cannot legislate religion,
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