The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1861-06-21
Shall the Democratic Organization be
Maintained.

| To the Editors of the Pioneer and Democrat:
You seem to have some fear that the
Democratic party may keep up an organi-
zation in opposition to the Republican
party.
really do not think either the Union,
the Constitution, or the enforcement of the
laws" would suffer by the general diffusion
of healthful National Democratic princi-
pies, and if our Republican friends desire
unanimity and the obliteration of rarity
lines, let them give up their factious opposi--
ton to the grand old party which has always
ruled the country, and whose liberal and
tolerant principles, impartial to all sections
and all nationalities, have never resulted in
diaunion or civil war, or opposition to the
faithful execution of the laws. If it is so
desirable to have Union for the sake of
the Union, let US throw open the doors of
the Democratic church wide enough to ad-
nit all penitent sinners who are willing to
confess and forsake their sins, and let our Re-
publican friends be specially invited to bury
the tomahawk and smoke the pipe of peace
with us,and it will not belong before amicable
relations will be restored between the bel
ligerent sections, and there may be Union
of hearts, of friendship and of comfy, once
more, instead OF Union pinned together
with bayonets, a Union of enmity and dis
trust, kept together by the iron bands of
military despotism.
If the olive branch is to 60 along with
the sword, offering peace and good will,
fair play and every constitutional right to
our Southern brethren, at the same time
that the government shows the energy and
ability to sustain itself, and to perform all
its own constitutional obligations, you must
surely believe the Democratic party the
only one fitted for so delicate and difficult
mission. I'LL the antecedents of the other
party proue that it has no oliue branch to
| offer. All its antecedents prove that it will
not perform its constitutional obligations
itself, and therefore cannot either act or
compel others to do so. If there is to be
but one great Union party, then let it be
Democratic Union party. Let Mahomet
come to the mountain, be cannot ask the
mountain to come to him.
If Wide Awakes and Western Reserve
Republicans intend to stand back and let
Democrats do all the fighting, it is but fair
to give them control of the sinews of war,
the planning of the campaigns, and the
management of the reins. If Douglas and
Douglas men are good enough to wear the
harness and draw the heavy burdens of the
war, they ought to be good enough to sit
in the drivers seat and draw the drivers
pay. But it seems they are not. There
was Union Republican party only in I'LL.
nois, to fill the seat of Senator Douglas.
Now, surely, if we fight for the Repub-
licans, it is only fair that they should vote
for u.s. 1t doesn't cost half so much, and
in doing this, there will be "nobody hurt"
So on the whole, Messrs. Editors, beg
leave to suggest slight amendment to your
proposition to have Union party-to wit:
that it be Democratic Union party. The
Constitution, the enforcement of the laws,
the Union, has always been safe under that
party. 1t is national-not sectional. 1t is
tolerant. 1t is not fanatical and impracti-
cal. 1t has never breathed threatening and
slaughter, nor been blinded by hatred. 1t
has never nuliied the Constitution in twelve
States, nor in one. 1t has always abounded
in that Christian charity towards all Sec
tions, religions and nationalities, which make
it eminently fit to hold out the olive branch
and restore the heart of the nation, without
which any peace or any Union would
be hollow truce. 1t has no platforms In
its way to prevent the adoption of an hon.
orable compromise and pacifcation, and
the saving of the life of the nation by terms
honorable to the government, and honora-
BILE to our brethren who have been alienated
from US by sectional jealousies and aggres-
sions and by our having disregarded the
Farewell Address OF Washington and sep
arated ourselves from them on geopraphi-
cal line.
| The Democrats are moving in Maine, in
New York, in Iowa, and / speak what l
know when tell you they intend to move
in Minnesota also. Rest assured of this,
Messrs. Editors.
If the Constitution and our own liberties
are to be saved, it will not be done by our
adopting false principles or giving up what
we have always said were good.
| AUNION DEMOCRAT.
The census OF Canada has just been com.
pleted and shows the following totals: