The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1860-09-07
Abe Lincoln AFRAID 70 Visit One Han
u the Con1ederaey.

Abe Lincoln AFRAID to visit One Half
u the Confsdsraey.
A correspondent Of the New York Herald,
not long since, visited LINCOLN at his home
in Springfield, and published very favora-
BILE description of the rail splitter. This
account has been copied, with approval,
into the leading republican papers of the
country. From it, we quote the following
paragraph, in which Mr.. LINCOLN makes
rather startling confession
He said he would like to 60 South and talk to
the Southerners on this topic, were it not that
the minds of some were so infamed against
him that they would not listen to his reasoning,
but, on the other hand, might be inclined to
intl,ct Lynch la,c upon his person should he 0p
pear among them. He had, he said, on one &C.
casion, been invited to 60 into Kentucky and
revisit some Of the scenes with whose history
his father in his lifetime had been Unidentified.
On asking by letter whether Judge Lynch would
be present, he received no response; and he
therefore came to the conclusion that the invi
son to inveigle him into slave State for the
purpose of doing violence to his person.
Here is man running for President
of the United States, who says that be is so
obnoxious-not personally, but owing to
the political principles he advocates--to the
people of the slave holding States, that he
cannot visit the home of his fathers, without
danger of being subjected to personal VIC
lence. This is Mr.. L1NcoLN's own comics
sion. We do not justify or defend this
southern sentiment, but desire to point to
the fact that it exists. Does any one believe
that it would be in the least degree mitiga-
ted by L1NcoLN's election? Far from it.
1t would gather strength from his admins
trative acts, his anti-slavery messages, and
his abolition appointments. We would
undoubtedly behold, during his Administra-
ton, even should the Union survive it, the
startling circumstance of President of the
United States, deferred from setting foot in
one-hslf of the Union, for fear of mourning
personal outrages and violence at the hands
of the people. How far removed is such
state of affairs from civil war? Does it
not become conservative men, therefore, to
ponder upon the results which will certainly
transpire in the event of L1NCoLN's election?
Is Republican victory worth its ievitable
cost?
How different is it with DOUGLAS. He
has been denounced at the South, with
violence only equalled by the denuuciation
heaped upon LINCOLN. Many Southern ex-
tremists undoubtedly prefer the election of
the Northern Sectional candidate, to the
success of Judge DOUGLAS ; and for obvious
reasons. Yet the Democratic candidate has
boldly faced the fre-eaters and secessionists,
and in the chief cities of the South, battled
for the Union and the success of sound con-
stitutional principles. No fear of "lyneh
la,0'' deferred the intrepid DOUGLAS, from
carrying the war into the very hot-beds of
secession and treason. At Boston, he de-
nounced Northern sectionalism and at
Norfolk, with fully as much force and
power, be condemned Southern sectionalism.
DOUGLAS combats the enemies of the Union
wherever they are to be found. He does
not, like Abolition orators, grow bold in
denunciation of Southern radicals, at Bos-
ton, while speaking tdla Northern audience );
but he goes right where the evils exists, and
face to face, with the Secession leaders,
brands them as disunionists and traitors,
before their own people.
Who is the best man for President
LINCOLN, who boo-hoos and snivels, at
Springfield, that he cannot visit slave
State for fear of coat of tar and feathers,
or something worse, or the gallant DOUGLAS,
who procaims to the Southern ultraists,
from their own door-steps, that if they at
tempt disunion he will treat them as old
Hickory did the South Carolina nulli6ers =?
Into whose hands can the destinics of the
Union be most safely confded, LINCOLN or
DOUGLAS?