The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1861-03-08
and virtues by their descendants; for which
your petitioners will ever devoutly pray"

and virtues by their descendants; for which
your petitioners will ever devoutly pray"
The New York Evening Post, whose
editor headed the LINCOLN electoral ticket
last fall, has been one of the most uncom>
promising Republican journals in the State,
but it now begins to manifest disposition
in favor of some arrangement by which
peace may be restored to the Union. In
view of the position it has maintained since
the election of LINCOLN, the following may
be regarded as stretching great distance
ia the direction of compromise. Speaking
of some of the pending propositions, it
says: 4
1t has been proposed as one way of comply.
ing with this demand, that the Missouri Com
promise should be restored and the state of the
country, as respected slavery, put back to
where it stood in 1850. If that will content the
real friends of the Union, such men as Millson
of Virginia. and Etherdge of Tennessee, and
their constituents we do not see what possible
objection there can be to adopting that course.
If the restoration of the Missouri Compromise
should not be thought to answer the purpose,
the proposition of Mr.. Adams to erect New
Mexico and Arizona into State, and thus take
the question of slavery in the territories out of
the cOgnizance of the federal government, de-
serves to be carefully weighed and considered.
We cannot say that we are wholly satisfied
with this measure; it is not one which we should
propose; yet taken simply and by itself, with
out any understanding that the region to which
State government is granted shall be surren-
dered to slavery, it is difficult for us to per-
ceive what the cause of freedom is likely to
gain by it, or how it seriously conflicts with
the principles of our party, and if it be adopted
with that condition We do not see how we could
denOunce those who might agree to it as faith
less to the cause OF human liberty.
I'VE are bound to believe that men
who care engaged in a certain course of
action fully understand the logical and in.
evitable consequences of that action, and
that it is those co nsequepces they seek to
produce. A large part of the Republican
party, and most of the republican leaders in
Congress, are doing all that in them lies to
set up the Chicago platform as the rule of
the incoming administration and to prevent
any concessions whatever on the slavery
question. The inevitable consequence Of
success in this attempt will be the with
drawal of the border slave States from the
Union and their junction with the cotton
States MIR. DOUGLAS was perfectly right
the other day in the Senate when he said
there were Senators from the North on the
floor who were as much disunionists as any
secessionist in the South.
The New Orleans Picayune, having
put its hand to the secession plough, now
begins to look back. 1t was, at first, a
strong Union paper, then a firm advocate
of State Sovereignty, end finally a hot Sc
cessionist. 1t now INDUCES in hopes of a
reconstruction. In it's issue of February
10, it speaks in subdued complaint of d" the
exercise by the State Conventions Of a
power which has resulted in the assembling
of Congress at Montgomery, composed of
citizens in whose election the people had no
direct voice, whose action is devoid of any
direct responsibility to the people, and
whose assumed power was unlimited when
it assembled the imposition by the Con.
gress upon the people OF the Confederacy of
a President and Vice President, in whose
election the people had no direct share, and
the putting into operation of a Constitution
without its being subjected to the CUSTOM
airy ordeal OF ratification or rejection at the
balot-box."
in its issue of the 10th, it rebukes the
sneers aimed by the ultras at the Washing
ton " Peace Convention and says 1--WE
shall continue to hope for reunion so
long as even the shadow of a chance
remains" We suspect that the Picayune
speaks the sentiments of large class of
persons in Louisiana.