The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1860-02-03

edge of that Ito him) abstruse science, pre-
cipitately fled its limits, and of course, COM
menced a systematic attack upon those
whom he had previously robbed. He issued
q book, and 10 it will be found the princi-
pies and policy through which he expects
the abolition of slavery to be accomplished:
TIE following is al extract:
s'Slaveholders are nuisance.
cit is our imperative business to abate nui-
sances.
1--WE propose to exterminate this catalogue
from beginning to end.
We believe that thieves are, as q general
rule, less amenable to the moral law than
shareholders.
Shareholders are more criminal than COM
mon murderers.
Shareholders and slavetraders are as gen.
eral thing, unfit to occupy any honorable sta
ton in life.
sit is an honest conviction that all the pro.
slavery Shareholders, who are alone respOnsi.
BILE for the continuance of the baneful institu-
ton among u.s. deserve to be at once reduced
to parallel with the basest criminals that lie
fettered within the cells of our public prisons.
''Were it possible that the whole number
Chat is of the slaveholders,) could be gathered
of licensed robbers, rufians, thieves and MUIR
derers, society, we feel assured, would suffer
less from their atrocity then than it does now.
Inscribed on the banner which we herewith
unfurl to the world, with the full and fixed de-
termination to stand by it, or die by it, unless
are the matters which, in substance, embOdy
the principles, as we conceive, that should gov.
ern usin our patriotic warfare against the most
subtle and insidious foe that ever menaced the
inalienable rights and liberties and dearest in.
terests of America.
81. Thorough organization and indepen-
dent political action on the part of the non.
slaveholdiDg whites of the South.
80. Ineligibility of prO.slavery slavehOld-
ers; never another vote to any one who advo.
Gates the retention and perpetuation of human
slavery.
80. No CO operation with pro.slavery poll
ticians; no fellowship with them in religion; no
utilization with them in society.
"A. No patronage to proslavery merchants;
no guestship in slave. waiting hotels; no fees to
prOslavery lawyers; no employment to pro.
slavery physicians; no audience to pro'slavery
parsons.
IS. No more hiring of slaves by non.slave.
holders.
Sc. Abrupt dscontinuance of subscription
to pro:slavery newspapers.
~. Immediate death to slavery, or if not
immediate, unqualified prescription of its advO.
Gates during the period of its existence.
tax of sixty dollars on every STAKEHOLDER for
present time, or at any intermediate time be-
tween now and the 4th of July, 1868.
''This then is the outline of our scheme for
the abolition of slavery in the Southern States.
Let it be acted upon with due prOmptitude,
and as certain as truth is mightier than error,
of territory, from the mouth of the Delaware to
the emboguing of the Rio Grand, will glitter
with the Jewels of freedom"
THE "IRREPREssIBLE CONFLICT DOCTRINE
IN PRACTICE.
1t was to this book, containing such
atrocious and revolving sentiments, that
sixty odd Republican members of the last
Congress, among whom was Hon. John
Sherman, present Republican candidate for
Speaker of the House of Representatives,
gave their approval, and the circulation of
which they recommended. What wonder
then, that with the teachings of Messrs.
Seward, Wilson, aad other Republicans of
distinction, before them, men less acute than
themselves, should attempt that aggression
which they had recommended What
wonder that the country, few mthsuo
back, should be startled with the announce
ment that Sovereign State had been in
vaded, for the purpose of melting in her
midst servile war? We are not of those
who ever felt sympathy for John Brown.
We can scarce sympathise with man
whose own sympathy led him not to whis~
per one word of cheer and comfort to his
son dying before him, and man who so far
as the public is aware, ever exhibited only
the character of a robber and a man of
blood. But this much we can say of him
John Brown, unlike many other slavery
agitators of the present day, dared to prac-
tice what he preached. 1t is needless here
to refer to the extreme sensitiveness of the
Southern mind, at even the mention of a
servile instruction. We all shrink from
the thought of the horrors that would attend
such calamity. The excitement, there.
fore, consequent upon the invasion of Vir-
GINA, by Brown and his followers, was ex-
ceedingy great in that section of the country.
When it was discovered. however, that
the invaders consisted merely of few de.
luded aud fanatical men, unable to accom-
plish, even in the slightest degree, their
intended objects. Such excitement would,
doubtless, have gradually subsidized, had not
only sympathy for the misguided men, but
admiration for their deeds been expressed
both in the press and pulpit of some of the
Northern States. True, John Brown was
to be executed, but It's also true that he
had violated the laws of God and man. He
had invaded State, shot down its citizens,
and forfeited his life to the laws of the coun-
try. Virginia had right to expect from
her sister States sympathy instead of re-
proach, assistance rather than revilement,
and words of encouragement rather than
sarcastic sneers. That the great mass Of the
Northern people sustained and approved
the course that she pursued, We doubt not.
Put that was owing to their own honest
hearts and correct judgment, rather than to
the advice which was prepared for them ~
some shining lights of the Republican
party. Those who approved, however,
were, as general thing, silent in their ap-
proval, while those who denounced were
loud and bitter in their denunciations. But
the majority of the committee are of opin.
ion that nothing has been either said or done
in the North to render it necessary or even
proper for Minnesota lin the words of the
Resolutions) to "renew to Virginia and the
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