The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1861-01-04

Louis Napoleon or the Prince of Wales.
or his mother, the Emperor of Russia or Aus.
tria, if they were to make descent upon the
city of New York tomorrow, believe that all
the hills Of South Carolina would pour forth
their population to the rescue of New York.
God knows how this may bel do not pretend
to know-I only conjecture. But this l do
know, that If any of these powers were to make
q descent upon Charleston or South Carolina,
know who would go to their rescue. [Cries
of "good, good" and tremendous and con-
tinued applause.l We all know-everybody.
Therefore they do not hnmbug me with their
secession. l do not think they will humbug
you, and do not believe that if they do not
humbug you and me that they will much longer
succeed in humbugging themselves. Now, fel.
low citizens, this is the ultimate result of all
this business. These States were always to be
together--they always shall. Talk of taking
star out---striking down star from this con-
stellation! tits thing that cannot be done.
/ do not see any less stars here than did last
winter. / expect to see more all the while.
The question then in this time when people are
thinking, under delusion, that they are get
ting out OF the Union and going to set up for
themselves, what are we to do in order to
hold them in. l do not know any better rule
than the rule which every good New England
man, suppOse---although l have not much &C.
quaintance with New Engand---every father
Of family in New York who is a sensible
man---I suppose New England fathers do the
same thing---the rule which they exercise. 1t is
this: If good man wishes to keep his family
together, it is the easiest thing in the world
when one gets discontented-tO quarrel with
him, complain of him, tease him, torment him,
threaten him, coerce him-..that is the way to
get rid of a family, On the other hand, if you
wish to keep them together you have got only
one thing to do--that is, to be patient, kind,
paternal, forbearing, and wait until they come
to reflect for themselves. The South is to US
what the wife is to her husband. l do not know
a man in the world that cannot get rid of his
wife if he tried. l can put him in the way to
do it at once. He has got only two things to
do one is to be unfathful to her-.the,,oth is
to be out of temper with her, and she will leave
him. If he wants to get rid of her, that is the
simplest way. do not know man on earth,
I do not think but that even Socrates could
have got rid of his wife if he had wanted to, in
this way, but if one wants to keep bis wife,
the way is to keep his own virtue and his own
temper. In all this business propose that we
should keep our own virtue, which, in politics,
is loyalty, and our own temper, which, in pol.
itics, consists in remembering that men must
differ...that brethren even of the same family
must differ and that if we keep entirely cool,
and entirely calm, debate will ensue
which will be kind of itself, and it will
prove to US very soon that either we are
wrong ana SQOulQ CUuCcu0 w VuOuuCu
brothers, or that we are right and they will &C.
quiesce and come back to traternal feeling with
US. do not want TO anticipate any questions.
We have great many statesmen who pro-
pose to know at once what the North prOpO-
ses to do-what the government proposes to do
whether they propose to coerce our southern
brethren back into their allegiance. Then they
ask us of course, as they may rightly ask, what
will be the value of q fraternity which is COM
PEELED? All have to say on that subject ls,
that it was so long ago as the time OF Sir Thorn
as Moore, when he discovered and set down in
his writings---and you will find it in them--that
there are great many schoolmasters; and
that while there are but few that know how to
instruct children, there are a great many who
know how to ,chip them" l propose
to have no questions on that subject, but to
hear the complaints redress them ifthey ought
to be redressed, and if we can redress them,
and to expect them to be withdrawn if they are
unreasonable. know that the necessities are
as enduring as the passions of men are short
lived and effervesent. believe that secession
was strong on the night of the sixth of No.
vember, when the President and Vice-Presi-
dent who were unacceptable to the
slave states, were elected. That is now some
fifty days ago, and believe that every day the
sun has set since that time, it has set upon
Modified passions and prejudces, and if you
will only give time, sixty more suns will give
you much brighter and more cheerful atmos-
phere.