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

measure will do much to conciiate Ken.
lucky, Tennessee, Missouri, and Arkansas,
to the secession movement. Georgia, with
equal foresight, in her Convention, adopted
the United States laws against the slave
trade, and even rendered them more effective
by judicious management. This action was
for effect 10 Virginia. mi
The following is an extract from let
ter written by a gentleman formerly resi-
dent of st. Paul, but in business at NASH
vile, Tennessee, to his wife, in this city.
The utmost reliance may be placed upon
the statements of the writer
l am very seriously alarmed at the threaten
ing aspect of affairs. You know favored the
idea of true Southern Confederacy, believing
that separation was under all circumstances
necessary to the peace and welfare of the
South. Unfortunately the extreme Cotton
States, most of which are already "out," are
not acting honestly by the more conservative
border States, missouri, Kentucky, Tennessee
and Virginia,) and dissolution under these
circumstances will, fear, be only prelude to
intestine troubles and commotion. There is a
strong love of the Union still existing here, but
it is accompanied with a stern resolution to
fight to the last if reasonable concessions are
not at once made. The question is here to be
acted upon by the people, by Convention,
and I am satisfied that Tennessee and the
neighbori1g States will require the immediate
adoption of the Crittenden resolutions in good
faith by the entire North. In this l and every
conservative man in the South think they are
right, and all will stand ready to defend their
section with life and fortune on the refusal of
this demand. 1 am giving you here the senti-
ments of the moderate men of this the most
conservative section of the South, as some of
your friends in st. Paul may like to know the
real feeling of the people on this question.
Unfortunately the worthless fre-brand pa
pers of both sections are doing their best to
embitter the quarrel and l fear only too sue
cessfully, for that which at home Gin either
case) is harmless as the known sentiments of
factious and turbulent minority only, is, when
circulated in the opposite seetion,-and this is
sedulously done, -regarded as an authentic ex-
position of the sentiments of the whole COM
munity represented. Without such incendiarism
it is difficult enough to control the passions of
the people on the exciting topics of the day."
- The Virginia Convention is called to
meet on the 18th of February, the election
for delegates taking place on Monday, the
4th-a period SO early as hardly to admit of
this call upon the people of Virginia being
even known in some fifty or sixty counties
situated in the remote and mountainous
regions of the State. At the election for
delegates, the people Of Virginia will also
vote upon this clause: eff the State Con-
vention passes an ordinance to take Virginia
out of the Union, shall the law be submitted
to the people?' The Virginians seem
anxious to adjust matters. Her Legislature
has passed resolution, contemplating
National Convention at Washington,
on the fourth of February, to consist of
five delegates from each State. The Vir.
ginia delegates, already appointed, consist
of Ex~President TYLER, VIM. G. R1vEs, j.
W. BRoCKENBoRoUGH, U. S. District Judge;
GEO. W. SUMMERS, and JAMES A. Seldom.
An attempt has been made in the Pennsyl.
vania Legislature, to name delegates to the
proposed Convention; this is the only
response to the call we have seen. Mr..
TYLER in recent letter on the state of the
country, says:
All other efforts having failed, then would
advise as de,rlier measure, a Convention of
all the Southern States, and after incorporating
upon the present Constitution guarantees,
gong not one iota beyond what strict Justice
and security of the South require, adopt the
Constitution of the United States as it now is,
and give broad invitation to the other States
to enter our Union with the old flag flying over
one and all.
- Hon. JOHN H. REYNOLDS, from the
Albany district, a member of the Select
Committee of Five to which the Presidents
last message was referred, is preparing bill
which, it is said, will receive the vote of
every member of that Committee, providing
that, whenever the President is convinced
that he cannot succeed in executing the
laws, and in collecting the revenue in a
seeding State, be may abolish all the ports
of entry Of such State, and blockade them,
so as to prevent them from carrying on any
trade. This plan, it is said, meets the
hearty concurrence of Mr.. LINCOLN, and
will be prominent feature in his forthcom-
ing Administration. PROG
"A Democratic State Convention, has
been called in New York, to meet on the
3lst of January, to "consider the exigencies
of public affairs" The call states:
In one part of our land, our government is
openly defed. and the public property is seized
while in other sections, these acts of violence
are instgated by appeals to sectional passions
and prejudices, by those who trample upon
the constitutional rights of the South, and in
dulge in indscrminate attacks upon its peo-
pie. 81
Although these two classes of agitators are
hostile in feeling, both desire the overthrow of
our Union-and those, on the one hand, who
refuse to yield any concessions, and those on