The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1861-08-09
The Objections urged against the Dis
bandment Of the Democratic Par.
~, during the War.


it is proposed to surrender the old organi.
cation, and join with the masses of the
North in the formation of Union party,
for the unbroken support of the Govern,
ment, reply-We cannot give up our prin.
ciples; we can only make our principles
effective through our organization there
fore, we cannot surrender our organization.
TO this, our response is; that the neces.
sites of the Government, induced by the
war, will overshadow, swallow up, and ex.
tinguish all mere party Platforms, and that
they have, indeed, accomplished thus much
already. In the place of these Democratic
and Republican platforms, Government Ne,
cessity has already framed new platform,
which embraces all that either of the old
parties set any real value on.
The necessities of the Government have
in this way already disposed of the Tariff
question. The Tariff must be laid to yield
the utmost possible amount of revenue /;
and it cannot be so laid that it will not
yield all the protection desired for any of
our domestic interests, manufacturing or
agricultural. Thus, the Protective Tariff
man, and the Revenue Tariff man, must
both be satisfied.
The necessities of the Government, in a
like manner disposes of the old question of
fho ofrih ,,f;o of %ho TrooooIo IF ho
Public Lands. The Government will need
every dollar that finds its way into the
Treasury and thus the advocates of the
measure will be obliged to drop their advo-.
cacy, by reason of the public exigency,
while its old opponents will accept the fact
without sticking about the reason of its &C
complishment.
So, too, as between those who believe the
Government should be sustained solely by
Direct Taxation, and those who believe in
raising revenue solely from customs. Both
plans will have to be adopted in order to
meet the necessities of the government; and
the advocate of Direct Taxation can enjoy
the pleasure of paying bis coin directly into
the hands OF the tax collector, as we'll ss in.
directly into the hands of the merchant, as
he has always been in the habit of doing.
If there is any old fossil left who clings
to the idea of United States Bank, he will
to all practical intents be satisfied, in the
necessities of the Government, which will
force it to issue Treasury Notes to an amount
sufficient to meet the demands of the coun-
try for circulating medium of equal value
throughout the land. And this is all it was
ever proposed to do through the agency of
United States Bank The mouths of the
opponents of such an institution, meanwhile,
will be shut by the uuanswerable argument
of the Governments necessities.
And so of every other question that has
divided he parties in regard to the admin
istration of the internal affairs of the Gov
eminent. AS to its foreign policy, we know
OF no difference whatever between the two
organizations. Niggerism, pro and con,
we take to be dead subject for dispute
until the war shall be ended. Abolition
agitators receive no countenance now, even
in the Republican party; and pro-slavery
agitators would be kicked out of any COM.
munity North of Mason and Dixons line
in which they should attempt to talk.
What object, then, is to be accomplished
by perpetuatiDg the Democratic party Or
ganization? We see but the single one, of
using it, by soulless politicians, when some
lucky or unlucky crisis shall occur 10 ma
tional or local affairs, as means by which
they may succeed to Office. And, inasmuch
as such an organization can be maintained
only in direct or indirect opposition to the
Federal Administration, on whose shoulders
rests the oppressive responsibilities sustain
| ing the Federal Government; and as any
opposition, under such circumstances, can
not fail to embarrass the Federal Admin
istration, and so weaken the cause of the
Union our logic is that the continued ex-
istence of the Democratic party must prove
a source of aid and comfort to the rebels,
and as such ought to be abandoned by all
patriotic men. That is why we abandoned
it, and why we call upon all who love their
country more than their party to do like
wise. The interests of politicians, who have
been the curse of the country, ought not to
weigh a feather against the interests Of the
Government, which, under Providence, have
become inextricably involved in the success
of the present Administration. Let thu
people, rather, turn these politicians out t.
grass. as God did Nebucadnezzar and The
country and the politicians will both b.
better for the change that transforms TIT
latter from carnivorous into herbivorou
beasts.
"A Fireman Zouave Regiment is to b.
organized in Boston, which will be oficere'
by members of the original Chicag
Zouaves.