The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1861-09-13
SAINT PAUL. FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 13 1861.

the people that reasonable hostility to the
Government of the United States, was 10y.
atty to God! -'
y May we not, parapbrasing The words of
Madame ROLAND, uttered from the guillo-
tine, in presence of the blood~thirsty repub-
licans of Paris is,-exclaim before these cleri.
cal politicians of New England 20, Con.
science Conscience what >~crimes are
committed in thy name!
The National Union, instituted by the
revolutionary fathers, to make the Ameris
can people one nation, has always been too
much regarded as mere partnership at
will so that hearty and sincere loyalty to
the government has been confined, gene
rally, to the adherents Of the party in
power.
During the war of 1912, the Florida
war, the Mexican war, and in all other PEI
RODS of national danger, opposition parties
have done all that they dare venture upon, to
oppose, embarrass and disgrace the national
administrations. This fact shows. that
party spirit'has been stronger than national
spirit. :.
So intense was this party spirit in New
England, that loyalty to the Rational gov
ernment, which was apparently so strong
before the election of Jefferson, Seemed very
shortly after,tO have become slDest entirely
extinct. @
In the true sense, the American people
had not yet become nation. They were
sectionalsts, partisans, antagonists-a cha-
otic variety not yet reconcled to unity.
Tie hostility of New England to the adj
ministration of Jefferson and Madison, and
to the measures adopted for the maintenance
of the rights, honor and dignity of the na-
tion, encouraged the rulers of Great Britain
to persist in the prosecu tion Of their aggres.
sive policy, and compelled the Democratic
party, then long in power, to submit to ma
tiopal disgrace, a confession of inherent inn
becility, and premonition of ruin or, re-
lying upon the valor and patriotism of the
people, to declare war against their AFRO.
CANT foe. They did so, but in vain was this
appeal made to the New England Fed.
eralists.
In the perils of this event, they foresaw
an approaching opportunity to crafty
reasonable desires, which, like poisonous
fungi, had grown up from the decaying
ruins of a national party, long before dead
Sufficient evidence was presented to
President Madison to show that the
British Government employed, indirect
ly, secret agents to tamper with the dis
loyal citizens of New England. We have
not space for the details, but make the fol-
lowing extract from the report of the House
Committee on foreign relations, to which
the whole subject bad been referred for in
vestigation. The Committee stated that
"The transaction disclosed by thePresident's
Message, presents to the minds of the Commit
|
ernment, at period of peace, and during the
most friendly professions, have been delibe-
rately and perfdiously pursuing measures to
divide these States, and to involve our citizens
in all the guilt of treason and horrors of civil
| war;"
The alarm thus sounded at the COM
mencement of the war constrained the New
England Federalists to observe the utmost
caution in the prosecution of their settled
design to precipitate the New England
States into revolution and separation.
1t was their method to agitate and in
fame the Eastern heart by appeals to pas
sion, and by exagerations Of imaginary
wrongs and menacing designs. The Con-
stitution upon which the Union stauds, and
which they professed to revere, was tortur-
ed and undermined by their reasonable
constructions, for the purpose of breaking
down the Union.
They represented the war as having
been commenced to aid France against
England, and to injure the interests of the
Eastern States and maintained that the
Government by making a requsition on
the Governors of States, for militia forces
to carry on the war, had been guilty of q
palpable violation of the Constitution,
which it was the duty of all patriotic New
EDglanders to condemn and resist.
Connecticut, next in importance to Mas
sachusetts among the New England States.
timidly followed the lead of the latter, but
both Houses Of its Legislature passed the
following:
''Resolved, That the conduct of His Excellen-
cy, the Governor, in refusing to order the
militia of this State into the service of the