The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1861-02-01

| lucy peril lnelr fortunes, ana perhaps their
lives. Our patriotism costs us nothing. We
are merely promoting our interests by doing
| our duty.
10 sustain such men as Senator johnson and
Mr.. Etheridge in Tennessee, Messrs Stephens
and johnson and Hill of Georgia, Mr.. Gilmer
OF North Carolina, Gov. Hicks and Mr.. Davis
OF Maryland, we would go just as far in con-
Citation as the Constitution permits. To save
this Union and avert the horrors of Civil War,
we implore members of Congress to meet the
reasonable propositions of the Union men of
the South We know how little of consdera-
ton our previous suggestions have attracted.
We know, too, with how much more favor our
friends in Congress listen to Journals whose
columns abound in appeals to "Back Bone"
"Pluck," &C.. &C., &c. These things are very
we'll in their place, but very mschievous out of
place. In discussing a question upon which
the Union hangs, and upon which the welfare
of thirty millions of people depends, we will
not dismiss the hope that there are Union men
in Congress from the North, who can meet
Union men of the South with fraternal feelings,
and IN the discharge OF a common duty, agree
upon terms Of adjustment which will hold bor-
der slave States from disunOn.
The cheapest and the thinnest kind of patri-
otism is that which costs nothing. So, too,
with that species of courage, which, out of dam
ger. vapOrs and swaggers. OF the army of
AbOtiOnists who have for so many years been
teaching war and rapine, on paper, not one of
SO much opposed are the Republican
Senators and members to the CRITTENDEN
Compromise that they refuse to allow the
people of the United States to vote on it,
as is proposed by Messrs. CRITTENDEN and
BIGLER. These Republicans know that
four. ffths of the people would vote for that
measure, and hence they recoil from pop
ular test that would leave them so vastly in
the minority.
On Sunday night last, the Most Rev.
Archbishop PURCELL, delivered an address
at Cincinnati, in the course of which he
said:
Everywhere throughout the world the clouds
hang in darkness. 1t would seem as if the
death knell of our glorious Union had already
been heard. That it was to be dismembered
and torn into fragments, that State would part
from State and cities from the States to which
they belong.
Oh! what is the treason of those men who
thus sacrifice the nobest hope OF man? And
who is there that would not lay down his life a
willing sacrifice to preserve the Union of these
| States? A Union which is modelled after that
of our Church, which allows every man the
largest liberty IN DONG right, and only reStralnS
| him when he attempts evil.
| The Catholic Church is conservative, and
| around the one idea OF Union, all its principles
revolve and gravitate. What is the principle
of secession, but the carrying out of the princi-
| pie of private Judgment? There is an incident
recorded in Holy Writ, in which it is stated that
whenever dead body was found on the high
! way, all whose steps led from the spot were
! brought to the corpse and made to swear that
they were not the mu, derers. If it should so
| be, that our Union is to be severed, every
| Catholic in the land may come, and extending
his hand over the bier say. 81 am guiltless of
its death" When you look around the hall,
and see the beautiful stars and stripes which
| adorn it, pray oh. pray! that the hideOus rat
| tlesnake may never sting them, but that the
| rattlesnake of secession may be crushed to
death, even as the Ever Blessed Mary crushed
! the serpent that caused our fall. (Tumul-
| tuous applause.)
The New York Tribune and other Re-
publican journals are preparing scheme of
abolition, through the agency of the Federal
Government. 1t is to take the federal
moneys, buy up all the negroes north of the
Potomac and west of the Mississippi, and
set them free. The Tribune makes this
estimate of the number of slaves in the re-
gion indicated, according to the census of
1850:
Delaware. 80. 1900 Arkansas ...... $4,000
Maryland. 10000 Texas. $4,000
Missouri. ..... $1,000 Louisiana. -. PA 900
1Oldl .OAO,oJU
The Tribune limits the supposed increase
in ten years to 100000 and estimates the
expense at $lOOOOO,OOO, or less than 5000
per capita. 1t would be at least twice
that.
The suggestion of using the Federal
Government, and taxes raised for the COM
mon defence and welfare, in order to Afri-
canize these States, is calculated to exasper-
ate their alarm at the progress of Federal
usurpation. The Fedaral Government was
never made for such purpose; and an at
tempt to tax the people for this abolition
scheme would justify any form of resis-
lance.
The Washington correspondent of the
Tribune telegraphs that the Postmaster
General has written to Governor PICKENs,
notifying him that unless Major ANDERSON
and his command are allowed free access to
and from the Post Office, the mail service
will be cut off entirely. He adds :" While
it is pretended that bis correspondence will
be delivered 10 messenger is permitted to
land and receive it. The Postmaster says
he delivers the letters as opportunity &C.
ours which means when flag of truce is
occasionally sent to Fort Sumter. The
government is paying nearly $4,000 an
nually, above receipts, for maintaining mail
service in South Carolina, and yet has not
been allowed to communicate with its own
officers"
AS companion to the story that Mr..
Hamlin is mulatto, Family Fair reports
that Abraham Lincoln was born in Asian