The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1860-08-10
The Stamping Ring..A Match pro-
posed between Emerson and Ouppy
-..Northern Yanceyites, ana the
Southern Estimate OF them-..The
First Bolter. =. Brecki Bring.
ing up the Rear.
BOLIVAR, HARDIMAN Co., Tenn,
July %, 1860.

BOLIVAR, HARp1MAN Co., Tenn.,
July %, 1860.
From an Occasional Correspondent
EARLE S. GOODRICH Dear SIR: In
perusing Louisville Democrat, this even
ing, came across copy of your reply to
a challenge sent you by General Emerson !;
and being somewhat anxious to ascertain
whether or not the General had accepted
either of your propositions, take the liber-
ty Of dropping you few lines in order to
make the necessary inquiries. AS a Min
nesotian, Democrat, and an admirer of
the General, feel particularly DESTROYS
that his wishes should be gratifed that he
should have an opportunity of spreading
himself; of exhibiting to his fellow citizers
his remarkable powers as an orator and
logician at the same time affordipg to the
Anticipated j. B., unmistakable proof Of his
devotion and fealty to the peculiar" and
to the people generally ample evidence of the
high regard he entertains for the "spiles. I"
The General ought to be heard the privi-
lege of sailing in " ought to be granted
him; but being an amateur in the art Of
" Grating, be ought not to be over matched
In his first efforts and would respectfully
suggest as his opponent in the coming con-
test young man by the name Of Guppy,"
-Guppy of histrionic fame. As far as
personal appearance is concerned, Guppy
rather lays over the General; in pecuniary
point of view the General rather lays over
Guppy in scholarly attachments and men,
tai capacity it is draw game. Let Guppy
and Emerson &c before the people.
] am very much chagrined to notice that
several papers in Minnesota heretofore pre-
tending to be Democratic journals, have
bolted the nominations made by the regular
Democratic Convention, and hoisted the
names of the stump. tailed candidates, and
that this course is approved of and COM
mended by such men as Rice, Becker, John
son, HOlcombe, Fridley and others, who
have always professed themselves members
of the Democratic party, and who have even
advocated the tenets of the party with an
earnestness and zeal only exceeded by the
readiness they have ever evinced to accept
any little position of trust " offered to
them. The personal enmity existing be-
tween Judge Douglas and Mr.. Rice is per-
haps explanatory Of Mr.. RS disafection;
but what the influences are that have been
so successfully applied to the other gentle
men, am at loss to imagine, particularly
so when l remember how enthusiastically
these gentlemen endorsed the platform of
principles adopted by the Democratic State
Convention of last year, upon which Mr..
Fridley endeauored to run for Congress.
Gov. Holcombe Danted to run for something,
and Mr.. Becker did run for Governor. l
hardly think that these gentlemen would be
acting with this bob tailed faction if they
were aware of the actual designs of the
leaders, and knoao they would be far from
lending them aid and comfort did they but
know with what contempt the whole south
ern people regard them. Old Abe Lin
coin and the leaders Of bis party are
looked upon with much more respect
by every Southern man than these northern
Yanceyites are; and deservedly so, too
for these members of the Republican party
may possibly be honest in their professions,
but the others cannot be; it is moral i'm.
possibility, and the Southern people know
1.-THE Southern secessionists know it, and
regard their northern allies with distrust.
The inevitable consequence of the success of
either the Black Republicans or Secession
lists, is dsuniOn, and this the masses of the
Southern voters are aware of; and being
aware of it, and being opposed to anything
that tends to so direful calamity, they &C.
cupy the middle ground of non>ntervention
they ask for no protection beyond that guar
anteed to them by the Constitution; they
prefer the protection of generous people
to that Of horde of drunken politicians
they say their faith was plighted two years
ago to sustain the doctrine of non-interven-
ton that in carrying out this great prin.
ciple they will stand shoulder to shoulder
with their brethren in the North; that, be-
lieving Judge Douglas and Gov. johnson to
be the regular nominees of the regular con-
vention, and knowing them to be sound,
patriotic, national men, they will give them
a cheerful support in the coming contest.
This is the tone of all conservative men
throughout the South, and they will keep
their word. l am "neither prophet nor
the son of prophet" but one prophecy l
will make that is certain to be fulfilled, viz
that in every Southern State John G. Brock
inridge will be the last man in the race for
the Presidential chair.
would like to hear your northern Yam
ceyites make few political speeches, for
the purpose of ascertaining upon what they
base their support of the boilers. Here the
secession speakers employ their time in de-
nouncing the Democracy of the North
particularly Of the northwest-in heaping
vituperation and abuse upon the devoted
heads of Douglas, Pugh, Shields, and host
of other prominent men in your midst who
for years have been doing battle for the
South, and whose bodies are covered all over
with scars received in battling for Southern
rights--in making infammatory appeals to
the preiudices of their audiences endeav-
oring to convince their auditors that the
whole fight is a sectional one, and being
sectional, that it is the duty of Southern
men to sustain the candidates of the South.
In fact, their speeches are but the incipient
steps of the programme inaugurated by Mr..
Yancey of firing the Southern mind and