The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1861-10-04

Rev. Thomas Starr King recently deliv-
cred lecture in San Francisco, the pros
ceeds of which were for the benefit of the
New York and Massachusetts volunteers.
His subject was " Peace-what it would
cost u.s." We make the following ex-
tracts
WHO ARE THE PEACE" MEN ?
The cry of peace comes from the
enemies Of the government. The leading
voices that uplift it have never condemned
the outbreak of the war, the first drill of
battalions, the first roar of cannon. The
men who shout thus have been, from the
first, in sympathy with the war-makers.
They gloat over national disasters. They
shrek for the assassination of the President.
They are branded for jeff Davis, on the
shameless foreheads of their souls, deeper
than California cattle are scared with the
owners mark.
Martin Luther tells US that he used to be
troubled seriously by visits from the devil
at night. The devil seemed to take great
pleasure in haunting him with being SIM
ner, and in bringing to his remembrance
heinous transgressions that he had com
mitted. Luther at last bethought him OF a
way to rid himself of these homilies. One
night the devil came in very serious mood,
to break down the reformer's confidence 10
God, apd said :" Luther, you have nearly
sinned away your time of grace" know
it," exclaimed the reformer )" Holy Satan,
pray for me !" The devil saw the Joke,
and left Luther free from disturbance for a
month
A cry for peace from flibusters and boz
som friends of William Walker! A cry for
the sacredness of human life from men who
have plotted to overrun Mexico and Gen.
trail America, in order to lay the black
foundations of slave empire on soil dyed
crimson A cry for light taxes from men
who would have been too happy, six months
ago, to pay two hundred millions or a war
with Spain, for Cuba A cry of sympathy
with laboring classes from men who believe
that bondage is the true basis of state,
and who applaud in their hearts the call of
their allies in the South to restrict the right
of suffrage and found government of gen
tlemen! A cry of economy from men of
party that once administered the finances
of San Francisco The hounds on the
track of Broderick turned peace men, and
affected with Mysteries at the snuff of pow
der! Wonderful Transformation What
pleasant sight-a hawk looking so innocent,
and preaching peace to doves, his talons
loosely bound with cotton! A clump of
wolves trying to thicken their ravenous
TANKS with wool, for this occasion only, and
composing their fangs to the work OF eating
gras! "Hoiy Satan, pray for u.s."
A PICTURE.
We do not stand to receive lectures about
peace from the sympathizers with rebellion;
we offer them. 1t is not for them to cali
our attention to bloody battle fields and a
grooming treasury, and hearts wrung with
anguish, and homes darkened with despair.
We press the picture upon them. When
think of what this country was last No
vember-how vast its prosperity; how rapid
its march to greater opulence +; how various
the ducts and bands which nature had opened
and multiplied to sustain common life d.;
when l think of the harmonious play of ali
the physical and commercial forces that knit
nation, and see how, from Eastport to
Mendocino, they were in operation as never
before on an equal area of earth, enrolling
labor, building up society in the wilderness,
promoting education. filling horns of plenty
for thousands of homes; when l think of the
harvests that were gathered, and the bes-
sings they were to bear to all districts of
our land, and to distant shores; of the slight
expense of the governing power over the
immense area, and the insignficance of the
military force that was subordinate to it:
when recaIkthe fact tbat.all this peace and
aff1uence and happiness was due to one piece
of parchment called the Constitution of the
United States, and that all which was ne<
cessary to its continuance was loyalty to
that. and submission to popu ar vote hon.
estly thrown and announced, as Northern
States had submitted many time before;
a submission, too, which would still leave
ample resources in the hands of defeated
States against open acts of aggression by
the government upon their rights
simply acknowledgment of the popular
will for four short years, and the right of
free discussion and when | think of what
the country is now the paralysis of COM
merce ;Sthe devastation of industry the
choking of the channels of intercourse
the bitterness and hate; the land grooming
with cannon; ports shut up; peaceful
vessels the prey of pirates; hundreds of
thousands withdrawn from wealth producing
labor, and trained to deal slaughter. Yes,
the battleields that have drunk blood from
civil strife the noble men that have been
cut off in an instant from vista of honor
able years the agonies of wounded and
dying; the woe in which thousands of
hearts have been stepped and when l think
that every river might now be sweeping
only peaceful burdens, and every port might
have been open to cheerful intercourse, and
every latitude of the sea been safe for proud
barks under the stars and stripes, and not
dollar of private property or national
treasure been wasted by con6scation, or
diverted from the channels that widen bles-
sings; l can say, with Joseph Holt, of
Kentucky, that 1--WE realize-what I think
the popular heart, in its forbearance, has
never completely comprehended-the IN.
mistakable and hellish atrochy of this re
belliOn II ia a nerfect saturnoI;o of demo-