The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1861-08-16


ment has grown up from its ignoble beginnings
in personal hate to its present propositions of
warfare upon civilization and of treason against
the State. They who have thus sown the wind
must reap the whirlwind. The ultralst of the
South must be extirpated. Until this is done
prosperity. We had hoped that this might be
achieved through the agency of Douglas, in
the present campaign. That hope has vanished.
Yet regarding it as the first great needful to be
done, we shall greet it with satisfaction through
any agency that Providence may appoint.
And in letter addressed by US to the
paper from Detroit, and published on the
I'd November, we said:
From the Daily Pioneer and Democrat, Nov. 2, 1860
All the accounts from the South justify the
predictions which we've made by the PIONEER
AND DEMOCRAT following the elections in Penn.
sylvania. Ohio and Indiana. The vote of the
South will be purely sectional, and for its ex-
tremest candidate, Breckenridge. This is shown
not merely by the accessiOns which are made
day by day to its support, but by the sudden
growth and manifestations of Disuniorism, on
which the whole Breckenridge movement is
based. When the old friends and supporters
of douglas in the South state, without reserve,
that the election of Lincoln would in itself. jus.
tify secession, they have travelled aboat as far
tOtcards DisunOn as they can without reaching
it. A single step will take them into the Breck.
inridge ranks, and that step will be taken on
election day.
For one, inasmuch as it must be so, am not
sorry to see this canvass assuming its sectional
phase. / am getting little curious to know
the strength of the Union and whether it has
any cohesive power in it or not. l am little
curious too, to have the quality of chivalric
blood fairly tried, and see if it is really dam
gerous explosive fluid. I've a notion just at
inf hot 10 fhorv IT,
have this question of Union or DisunOn decided
to so shape the canvass that the Southern ultras
will be brought directly up to the rack, and be
made to face their own music-this is about
the only point left in this canvass for the friends
of Douglas to consider. These Southern ultras
have forced the contest into its sectional shape.
The first duty of Northern men is to rebuke
them by their votes. If this rebuke can be
best administered through Douglas, let his
friends stand by him if it can be done only
through Lincoln, why let it be done, any how.
The end will justify the means. E. S. G.
On the morning after election day, when
we were without news of the issue, we thus
expressed our faith and feelings as to the
result and its consequences
From the Daily Pioneer and Democrat Nov. 7, 1859.
While we feel that the national contest, fought
yesterday. did not result as we could have most
desired, we rest easy IN the belief that the is.
sue has not been that which we would have
most deplored. If Douglas and Popular Sow.
ereigntv have been borne down, Breckenridge
and his Slave Code have not triumphed. Re.
duced, as the canvass was, by the insane greed
and ambition of the Southern utrasts, to
purely sectional issue between the North and
South, between Freedom and Slavery as the
normal condition of the Republic, our hopes
go hand in hand with our faith, that the SOL
dppiSiOD has hQpO rpcOr6od in
with the original spirit of our government, with
the true genius of our institutions, and with the
better instincts of our race.
This will be the legitimate import of the de-
olson yesterday. whether it shall result that
Lincoln is elected by the people, or not. The
Northern vote for Douglas-a vast aggregate,
and an expression potential in itself-s vote
radically opposed to all the principles of the
extreme saveOcracy. This vote, joined to
that for Lincoln. while it may not, and. as we
think, should not, settle the question of Inter-
ventiOn on the side of Freedom, does settle. ir-
reversbly, against Intervention on the side of
Slavery. 1t is voice which will be heard and
needed for generation to come, speaking in
to silence and the grave those political agta.
tors who would destroy the government and
blacken our civilization. And thus. though
each true Northern man may not nave had his
utmost desire accom- pifshed in the result of yes.
terday, each may find food for consolation in
the present, and for hope in the future, of the
Republic.
When, following the election, secession
was threatened in the Southern States, and
steps had been taken to give formality to
the movement in South Carolina, Georgia,
and Alabama, we took the ground which
we have always personally occupied, and
which this paper has always maintained
when it has been under our personal SUPER
vision. On the 18th November last, in ar
guing the right and propriety of secession,
we said:
From the Daily Pioneer and Democrat of Now H. 1860
1t is apparent that the Southern secession
movement does not rest on any rational basis
whatever. There is 10 present wrong to be
righted, and there is no prospective injury to
be apprehended which is sufficiently near to
call forth violent feeling, and much less to JUS
tify illegal action. Secession is, therefore, in
sanity or treason the instigators of which
should be sent either to the gallOws or the mad
house.
We cannot, of course, calculate upon Blu.
chanan's action in this crisis. He has shown
such perverse Obstinacy in doing wrong, that
itwOuld be in gross violation of his principles,
were he now to do right. He is just at the
preSeuC, uOWeVers showing signs OF returning
reason, by employing the forces of the govern
ment for the protection of its property. If he
had the nerve to persevere in the course which
he seems to have marked out, and would hang
few dozen of the traitors who may first defy
the authority of the government, his admins
tration might yet be made respectable.
In case Buchanan neglects his duty, and per.
mits this secession movement to grow in
strength through his pusanimity, it will be.
come the duty of the North to rally, as one
man to the support of his successor, whom its
people have chosen to administer the affairs of
the whole Union. The South should be made
to know that President Lincoln will be sus-
tanned to the faithful execution of the laws, by
the affections, the prayers, and the arms of that
section whose people, in the just exercise of
their constitutional rights, have invested him
with executive responsibility and power. The
people of the North cannot desert their Presi-
dent, nor hesitate to aid him in putting down
the treason of Southern secession, except by
the sacrifice of individual manhood and of Sec
tional honor. We do not believe they will sac
riice either.
When secession was openly proclaimed
in South Carolina, and Fort Moultrie Was
lett unprotected, except by Major AMBER
SON, and bis squad of seventy soldiers, we
stigmatized the fact as reasonable on the
part of the President IN on pxtont that