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

ulouV S"u n"'o IcgIIImacy, consistency ana
force-these considerations are far dearer
to me, and claim them to be of far more
vital consequence than the liberty to pro-
mulgate sedition, Or the liberty to conspire
Such liberties must succumb to the de-
mands of the crisis, the public safety, the
discipline and efficiency of the army, and
the attitude of the revolt. Within the
range OF the laws, the police, the courts the
proprieties and interests of the community,
let them have full swing in the days of peace.
But in time of war-above all, in time of
civil wharf.-the supremacy of the govern
ment should be the cole grand object-and
to this end martial law should be the higher
law-and the only one in undisputed force.
The national government has suffered more
from the patience, the leniency, the magma
nimity it has practiced towards its enemies,
and those who are in sympathy and league
with them, than it has doue from the cour-
age, the science, the fierce energy of those
who have taken the field against it, and
VIGOROUSLY shaken the banner OF revolt
and reputation in it's face.
The masked conspirators of the North
are Infinitely more criminal and mlschievous
than the bold and armed recusants of the
Southland Democrat as | am-spurning
the Republicanism of the Chicago Conven>
ton as spurious creed-having no sympa-
thles whatever with the men in power other
than those which should subsst between
the citizen and his government, l would
promptly and cordially approve of the
severest measures the President might
adopt to paralyze the treachery which in
this and other cities, under various liberal
and beneficent pretenses, has been, and is
still at work to undermine and overthrow
the legitimate magiStracy of the nation.
DO | not speak in the name Of the Irish
men of New York-and they are counted
by tens OF thousands-when | speak these
sentiments, and declare in favor of these
rigorous but imperative proceedings :?
Enthusiastic shouts of That you do !'')
Were | met with negative, l should res
mind my countrymen that the English ars-
tocracy, which is the dominant class in
England-to which the navy, the church,
the army almost exclusively belong, and
which is, in fact, the political opinion, the
Parliament, the sceptre and the sword Of
England. l should remind my country
men that this aristocracy is arrayed against
the government at Washington-and that
as it was dead against the revolution, out
of which arose the liberties and nationality
OF the United States, so it is now in hot
favor of the revolution which sets at naught
those liberties, and against that nationality
directs fratricidal blow.
Be it with Irishmen, at all events, the
lesson, the incentive, the animating convic,
ton, the rallying battle cry in this tempes-
tuOus time. Every blow that with the
shout of "Feac an beatdc" clears the way
for the stars and stripes, and plants that flag
wherever it has prescrIptive right to float,
deals to this English aristocracy deadly
modification and discouragement-dep
ing it of new allies and resources-and thus
so far avenges and liberates the island of
which it has been the persecution, the Grip
ping fetter, the recurring famine, the per-
vading blight, the social cancer, and the
rank source of the poverty and ISLANDERS, in
spite of which her children make their foot
ing good, and assert themselves abroad.
Which being so, let US, who hail from Ire.
land--we, who have taken an oath of 10y
atty, not to New York, not to Alabama,
not to Massachusetts,, not to Kansas not to
any one isolated State, but to all the States
that build up the powerful and respondent
Union which the sword and counsels OF
Washington evoked, which the phi>
losophy of Jefferson approved, which the
headstrong honesty and heroism of Andrew
jackson preserved, which the great argu.
ments of Webster rendered still more solid,
and which the loving patriotism of Henry
Clay, whose precepts and example still ani>
mate the sons of old Kentucky, commended
to the heart of every true American-let
US, at all events, who hail from Ireland,
stand to the last by the stars and stripes,
the il!ustrious insignia of the nation that, of
all the world, has been the friendliest sane
tuary of the Irish race, and in going forth to
battle for the American Union against do
nestle treason and the despotsms of Eu.
rope, let the Irish soldier take with him the
assurance, which the scene here before US
justi6es, that, should he fall, neither his
wife nor little ones will be forgotten.
To say that Captain Meagher was freely
applauded, but family expresses the wild
shouts OF enthusiasm and the cries of shear,
hear" which greeted every sentence. Never
had speaker a more responsive audience.
The New Sixty Ninth was born yesters
day, and it will start at once into vigorous
life