The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1860-07-20
The Designs Of the Traitors, and
the Duty Of the People.

and the advocates Of Congressional Slave
Code, under the lead Of the misguided
BREcK1NR1DaE and the illiterate LANE, in
tend, seriously, to present to the people, for
their votes, electoral tickets in support of
this miserable policy, and these most un>
worthy candidates. 1t becomes the friends
of the Union, therefore, to be up and doing,
everywhere, North, South, East, and West,
and to leave no effort untried to sustain the
Congressional rebuke upon BUCHANAN and
his Administration, including his malicious
veto of the Homestead Bill, and to put down
these destructive advocates of national in
PREVENTION for the protection, and, conse-
quently, for the extension, of slavery.
The active hostility of federal Office
holders, and their agents. aided here by
EDGERToN, FR1DLEY, and BECKER, and their
supporters, must be met by determined,
united, and indignant rebuke from the peo-
pie. The enemies of the government, the
plotters of treason, the fomenters of slavery
agitation, and the real confederates of the
Black Republican faction, must not be
allowed foothold in our beautiful State.
The true friend and favorite of the people,
STEPHEN A. DOUGLAS, who stands able,
stalwart, and invincible on the floor of the
Senate in the cause of popular rights, and
who has been justly and honorably nomi-
mated to the Office of Chief Magistrate by
the Charleston Baltimore Convention, has
always manfully espoused the cause of Min
nesota and Minnesotians, and has right to
ask that the true men of Minnesota will
now stand by him. Like Western men,
generally, he has been poor and an emigrant.
Like them be has revelled in the glorious
beauty, and joyous independence, of pio-
neer wilderness life. Like them be has
grown up proud of his country, and of its
generous free institutions. Like them he
loves, and readily and powerfully advocates,
the constitutional rights of all the citizens
of all the States, and abhors the " irrepres-
sible conflict which endangers them, and
threatens their destruction. Like them be
cherishes our political system, as an illus
tration of the right and the capacity of the
people to govern themselves. He is, there.
fore, entitled to the support of the men of
the Northwest, as their trusty friend, and
worthy of becoming their safe and wise
Chief Magistrate.
1t dreadful to contemplate the depravity
of human nature as illustrated in the con-
duct of those who misrepresented the Democ-
racy of Minnesota in the Conventions at
Charleston and Baltimore, and in the course
pursued by the minions of BUCHANAN in
their persecution of Judge DOUGLAS. No
motive having foundation in conscience, or
principle, actuates them, nor any of them:
They seek DOUGLAS overthrow, and nothing
else. That accomplished, it matters nothing
with them about political principles, or
party usages. Regardless alike of their OBJ.
legations as Democrats, and their honor as
men, they are ready to support any nominee,
whose support will best consummate and
crafty their treason to the party and their
hatred against its candidate. Hence it is,
that we see the agents who are employed,
and the newspapers that are supported
throughout the State by the malignants in
control of federal affairs, espousing the cause
of the Fire-Eaters who represent code
abhorrent to every lover of liberty, and
who are actuated in their opposition to
DOUGLAS by personal malice as disgusting
as it is undeserved. We are unwilling to
give greater eminence of infamy to the mis-
creant in the Senate, and bis tools out of it,
by publishing further animadversions upon
them or their acts. 1t may be necessary,
however, to notice them specifically here
after. as we have noticed them heretofore,
in particular connection but as besotted,
degraded, corrupt, and abandoned men, we
desire to avoid allusion to them, unless COM
PEELED thereto by personal necessity or the
exegencies of the campaign.
There is enough Of principle involved in
this contest to call forth the best exertions
of the best men and for the noblest ends.
For that principle we contend, whether in
success or defeat. 1t is the principle that
has preserved this government, and given
peace to the nation in times past that has
been sustained by the ablest and purest of
patriots and it is one that must prevail if
we would avoid the catastrophe of discor-
dant and belligerent States, and the flow of
fraternal blood. 1t is the principle that
will leave the institution of slavery to the
people to be affected by it, and that will,
therefore, remove this irritating question
from national agitation. DouGLAs has fought
Dobly and conquered gloriousy for the
peace and permanence Of the Republic. He
has no foes who are not corrupt and section
al. His friends are the men upon whom
the country must always rely in its extrem-
ity, from whatever cause the peril may