The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1861-11-08
OF his erriDg brother, was read by the public
prosecutor.
Speech OF Hon. Winter Dav,s:

- AA~ns Winter DAVIES
Baltimore papers publish the speech Of
Hon. Winter Davis, delivered in that city on
the 18th inst. We make the following ex.
tracts:
And Maryland, too, is she disloyal? mo,
no. There are those who say so. There are
those who say so in our midst; there ara
those who say soabroad; there are those in
power who belive it, and there are those who
are not in power, but who skulk about in
the darkness of the alleys of this great city,
and carrying whispering to the ear of pow
er their ISLANDERS on their fellow citizens or
spread them broadcast by the press all over
the country, until Maryland stands almost
IN as ill-repute as if she had lifted her hand
In arms against the Government that she
adores and will maintain; and because
OF one deplorable and humiliating event, the
result OF weakness in some of our rulers and
OF treachery in others, there are those in one
great region of this country who treat the
State OF Maryland as the whole South late
y treated the North. The time was when
one fanatic infamed by hatred started out
to make war upon the State of Virginia
and set its negroes free, with twenty men at
his back. Laughter. He was seized and
hung. All the South with one acclaim
laid that dastardly and wretched deed at
the door of every man throughout the great
regions OF the civilized and Christian North;
and there was no voice from the South in
the House of Representatives but one and
that one ventured it at the peril of bis DO
litical existence, to defend the North from
that wretched imputation. Applause.l
And now the city in which he lives has
yet to find one defender in all the region
of that North, from completely with the
equally dastardly scrime of the 10Th of
April. Applause. Great masses of
men, when their passions are aroused, and
when the judgment is asleep, when great
events are transpiring, forget the rules of
justice and of discrimination, and one DOR.
tion OF the country is Just as liberal and
just as illiberal as the other under anala-
gOus circumstances. | have defended nv
fellow citizens of Maryland, and demand to
be heard elsewhere than here. EApplausel
l do not doubt that very nearly One-third
of the people of the State are disloyal-not
that they will take up arms On the secession
side, but that they will not take up arms on
the Union side; they are disloyal. In my
Judgment, that is very large estimate of
the strength of the secession faction in
Maryland this day. 1t has found the limits
OF it's power; the nature of the beast is the
same, only it has been deprived OF its fangs;
it can now do nothing but humble false
prophecies about the coming OF Jefferson
Davis, and pray him not to falsify their
predictions.
After denouncing Fremonts procama,
ton, Mr.. Davis proceeds to commend the
policy adopted by the Government in refer
ence to Emancipation as follows:
Gentlemen, there is nothing of such hope.
ful augury as the moderation of the United
States in dealing with this great rebellion
and on that one subject of the freedom of
the slave, tempting as it is to political as,
pirants, tempting as it is to men who wish
short method of dealing with greet re-
bellion, those in power have felt the respon.
sibilities of power, aud know that they are
welding power only to support the laws.
They know that they are just as much
bound to protect that property as any other
property, and that no citizens property
can be taken at the will of the Government
otherwise than according to law and the
Constitution. Only ignorant fanatics pirate
about DEGREES of emancipation. Therefore
it is that everywhere wherever the arms of
the United States have penetrated any of
the slaveholding States, you have found no
servile rebellion following their ranks or
breaking out to meet them. A few strag.
glers find their way into the camps, few
seize the opportunity of running away from
their masters but anything like servie
insurrection has not been heard of anywhere
in the presence of the armies of the United
States. That is the short reply to every
imputation upon the faith of the govern
ment. Applause.