The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1861-04-05

fpnbllcans--The Democratic the only
Union Party.
The day has fully come when the fears
and approximations Of WARRINGTON and JET.
FERsoN are realized. The formation of o
sectional, geographical party, with the ulti.
mate aim Of gripping, hemming in and de.
stroying the power Of the South, and
"placing slavery where the public mind
will rest satisfied in the belief that it is in
process of ultimate extinction sue
cess of this party in electing President
without single electoral vote cast for him
by any Southern State, and the certain
doom of the South under government
hostile to its development, and pledged to
hostile policy towards four thousand mil
lions of its property-all have now cul.
minated in dissolution of the Union-as
they were certain to do sooner or later.
The Union is practically dissolved to all in
tents and purposes. Democrats always
predicted it would be so. Republicans said
no. The talk of dissolution was all South
ern gas and meant nothing. Democrats
insisted. They were called Union savers"
derided as dough faces " and eaters of
Southern dirt" They were assured that
100000 men in the North could keep
100000 in the South in the Union emo
lens volens."
The history of the past five months, has
indicated the truth of Democratic predic-
tions, and the sagacity and wisdom of their
policy. 1t has also shown the utter i'm,
practicability of the Republican policy, and
the incapacity of that party to govern this
country.
SEWARD BECOME "UNIoN SAVER" AND
ASKING THE HELP OF TIE DEMOCRACY.
All their predictions have proved false,
and their great leaders to-day stand aghast
at the ruin they have brought about, and
acknowledge their mistake, by reversing
their engines" " turning on the brakes"
and doing their utmost to stop the terrible
speed of their train and avoid a general
smash up. They have raised storm which
they can barely control with the aid of
their old enemies, the Democrats and Union
men. But for the help of these men in
voting down the force bill, we might have
been forced into bloody war, fatal to
every interest of every section of our coun.
try, and fatal to all hope for recon.
struction of the Union. The madmen
of their party are in the majority, and
Messrs Seward & Co. would to-day be ut.
terly powerless to save the Union I"
as he now piteously whines, without calling
on Douglas, Crittenden, Breckenridge and
other "Union savers" for help. He. who, on
the steps of the Capitol in st. Paul, in Sep
TENDER last, secuted the idea of disunion, and
f1ippantly asked "who's afraid, now answers
the question by acknowledging that "Wm.
Fl. Seward is afraid" and has himself be-
come "Union saver" Well may Wade,
and Giddings, and Greeley, and all the
blackstone" "irrepressible" madmen who
used to follow where be led, say show has
the mighty fallen,"-thus to come down
from his high position of deriding "Union
savers" to become himself ga Union So
ver!" What an acknowledgment that his
whole policy has been wrong, short sighted,
founded upon false data, and utterly imprac-
ticable and impossible to be carried out
without the destruction of the government,
and dissolution of the Union.
REPUBLICANS REPUDIATE THEIR CHICAGO
SLAVERY RESTRICTION PLATFORM, AND
ADOPT NON-INTERvENTION.
Whe hear no more of the "higher law"
which, in his Boston speech, be said would
be "ushered in" when Lincoln was elected.
We hear no more, as in that speech, that,
"with the election of Lincoln, comes the end
of slavery but, on the contrary, recon-.
mendation to amend the Constitution so as
to place slavery in the States beyond the
control of Federal power, and we see three
Territories organized without the "Wilmot
proviso," or any provision to shut out that
"twin relic Of barbarism African slavery"
What have become of their principles
why were they not applied to these Terrific
ries? Have they had to come down to the
"squatter sovereignty platform of Douglas?"
Have they kicked down the ladder on which
they assembled to power2 If this be so, the
Democracy may truly felicitate themselves
that, though they were last year, like Laza-
rus, despised and rejected of men, and
clicked by the dogs" they, with their prin.
ciples, now repose in " Abraham's" bosom.
In the language of scripture "our rock
is better than their rock-our enemies them.
selves being judges" for our rock is the
Constitution as expouuded by the Supreme
| ,COurt-While theirs is the Constitution "a