The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1860-08-10

you occupy; but, following the dictates of
selfish ambition, you have systematically en-
deavored to weaken every distinguished man
of the party who aspired to be your success
sor. Repeating your worn-out expedient of
pompously retiring from the contest, you
favored no one, but clung to the idea that
you might proong your reign another four
years by .evelling the chances of Others.
The extraordinary zeal which you mani
tested in the advocacy of the Lecompton
Constitution, was prompted principally by
the desire of breaking down the formidable
rivalship of Robert j. Walker. The tri.
umpbant success of Gov. Walkers brave
eloquence and skillful craftsmanship in
Kansas, excited the low passion of your
nature. 1t was then that every appliance
of fraud and force was erected into ma
chine of corruption. For the past twelve
months you have nervously watched the
presidential field, driving back any aspirant
who appeared to be advancing too rapidly.
Instead of laying aside selfish views, and
patriotically coming to the rescue of the
Democracy at the recent convention, you
formed an Executive and Congressional
cabal to force upon the people dictatorial
nomination, and platform of unreasonable
and impracticable issues. A powerful COM
pact minority of northern delegates, Federal
retainers, fiagrantly misrepresenting their
constituencies, and in many cases voting
against direct instructions, failed, however,
to shake the true representatives Of the peo-
pie, who would perhaps have, indeed, been
justified in boiling a nomination accom-
plished by means so nefarious. Yet not in
the darkest hours of the fierce battles at
Charleston and Baltimore-the only fields
in which the Federal Executive and Con-
gressional cabal had particle of power
did the representatives Of the people for one
moment contemplate abandoning the con-
vention. That such man, and the clique
around him, should seduce any large portion
of delegates into the mad act of secession,
gives only the greater value to our elastic
institutions, which so rapidly return the un-
faithful magistrate to the comparative harm
lessness of private life. The halucination
under which you and your coadjutors had
been aboriDg, however, that National con-
ventions could .e controlled by Executive
and Senatorial stratagem, was dispelled by
the triumph of the people at Baltimore.
The Cincinnati platform was good enough
for you, with James Buchanan, that up
right, undertaking statesman upon it but
the brave and true Douglas, because he
was not your mouth-piece and shadow,
needed more stringent rule. You we're
very earnest, during your own canvass, in
declarations of the necessity of your elec-
tion upon tine Cincinnati platform, to save
the country. You thought the election of
Fremont over yourself and that declaration
of principle, was sufficient cause for the dis
solution of the Union. Now, with its pro-
visions strengthened, you, as President, are
aiding Lincoln with all your oiled machine
ry. 1t will be difficult, however. to convince
the nation that the institutions of the coun.
try would be any safer under Lincoln than
they would have been under the less fanati-
cal Fremont. Instead of heavily taxing
your Office holders to initiate Breckenridge
tickets North, it would be brave and gene
rous, comparatively, the result being the
same, to order them to 60 direct for Lincoln.
Your hands recking with Democratic gore,
you thus essay to deliver over the betrayed
South into the tolls of Republican interven-
tion. Your administration will be marked
in history as the fomenter of anarchy and
civil war. There is nothing so base that
you would not do to prolong your power;
madness seems to possess you-to have no
successor, to leave no Government behind
you--like the miser who clutches bis bag of
gold in bis dying hour, and refuses even to
will it to another, lest it should loosen his
hold upon it in bis last moments
When the Democratic party was in the
throes of its present dismemberment, and
you we're telegraphed of the tact-a fact
which would have awakened painful emotions
in the heart Of any honest Democrat-the
only excitement visible in your sordid ma
ture was intense rage at the cost of the
dispatch.
Incongruous associations always accom-
pany political irregularities. The Admin
istration, having dragged the party into the
vortex of fire, carries with it from the North
to the feet Of the disunionists, the place.men,
the men spoiled by long official life, imbed-
ded fossils, incapable OF arousing themselves
to the imminence of the occasion. The
young, brave and gallant patriots at the
North are on the side of Douglas and the
country-it is the militia of rs against
George III. 1t is the revolution of '98
against John Adams and old Federalism.
At the seat of Government of the States
in their United Majesty, in city called for
the Father of his Country, the presence of
whose spirit we can readily imagine, "in.
dignantly frowning upon the attempt to
allenate one portion of our countrymen from
the rest" was witnessed, few evenings
since, the spectacle of his successor inaugu-
rating q division of his own party-the last
thing national that the strife of antagonis-
tic interests had left US as people. The
morale OF the position is so low that no
honorable mind can fathom its turpitude.
The journals inform Us that FIVE hundred
thousand copies of the address are to be
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