The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1860-06-01
disappointed partisans to pretend that the
disruption of "the party" is to be charged
to the account of the Senator from Illinois.
The New York Herald on Abe Linco,n.


to the account of the Senator from Illinois.
The New York Herald ON Abe Lincoln.
Nothing pleases the Republicans more
than occasional quotations from the N. Y.
Herald, denouncing DOUGLAS, and other
leading Democrats. How do they like the
Herald's view of LINCOLN, as set forth in
the following extract:
The Republican Convention at Chicago
have nominated Abram Lincoln, of Illinois
for President of the United States-a third
rate Western lawyer, poorer than even poor
Pierce.
The conduct of the Republican party in
this nomination is remarkable indication
OF small intellect, growing smaller. They
pass over Seward, Chase, and Banks, who
are statesmen and able men, and they take
| up fourth rate lecturer, who cannot speak
good grammar, and who, to raise the wind,
delivers his hackneyed, illiterate compost
tions at 5000 apiece. Our readers will
recollect that this peripatetic politician
visited New FORK two or three months AGO
on his financial tour, when, in return for the
most unmitigated trash, interlarded with
coarse and clumsy jokes, he filled his empty
pockets with dollars coined out of Republi-
can fanaticism. If, after be becomes Press
ident of the United States the public
finances should fail, he can set out upon
featuring mission through the country
taking Horace Greeley along with him. He
may thus replenish collapsed treasury.
If people will not exchange their loose dimes
for the instruction or the pleasure derived
from his eloquence, they may be induced to
part with some of their cash in the cause of
patriotism, and to save the nation from
bankruptcy-an event which is very likely
to happen if the republicans get hold of the
nations purse.
The only other thing for which Lincoln
has been distinguished besides his itinerant
lecturng is his defeat by Douglas in his
own State, at time when the ticket of the
Republican party had five thousand majority
over the Democracy in Illinois. In his anti
slavery opinions he is the most ultra and
revolutionary of all the candidates whose
names were introduced at Chicago; and in
the campaign in which be was beaten he
gave utterance to the most violent senti-
ments, and went into the irrepressb!e con-
flict before Seward himself.
AT such nomination the Democrats have
good reason to rejoice. They have clear
road now before them, and nothing can ar
rest their onward march to victory if they
are only true to themselves. Their stars are
luckier to them than they deserve. They
have the game in their hands, if they will
suppress their insane quarrels and unite upon
a single candidate, be he Douglas or Dick
inson or Lane, but not Guthrie, Hunter or
Breckenridge, or any Southern man. The
candidate must be man who will run well
in the Middle States, and he must be taken
without any platform on former record in
regard to the South. There is no need of
any platform. The Republicans have made
the issue, and that must be met, not by
sidewlnds or distractions, but by direct
negative. Their principles involve the dis.
solution of the Union. Their policy is to
overthrow the institutions of the South, by
force or fraud, by legislation in violation of
the Constitution, or, if necessary, by fire
and sword. In the face of this formidable
position, to split hairs about squatter or
popular sovereignty in distant Territories is
like Nero fiddling while Rome was burning,
or the mariners in gallant ship disputing
about her measurment or what ought to be
the form of her rig, while the vessel fast
drifts on lee shore, to the imminent peril
of all on board. If those who undertake to
navigate the Democratic party will aban-
don from this moment their senseless iargon,
and set about working the ship as practical
men, they will weather the storm and make
their destined port in safety. By the dis
comfture of Seward at Chicago, and the
nomination of such man as Lincoln, even
the State of New York, with its thirty.fve
votes, is lost to Republicanism, and with it
the hopes which the party cherished, is the
Democracy know how to take advantage of
the blunder that has been made, and rally
around single banner, inscribed with these
words-"United we stand, divided we fall"