The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1861-08-16
Letter from a Republican Of Henne-
pin County.
the Editor Of the Pioneer and Democrat.

OOuntys
To the Editor Of the Pioneer and Democra.
MINNEAPOLIS, August 9Th, 1861.
We notice in your paper of tho 4tb,
call for State Convention, by the Hone of
which 1 shonld judge that the proper head
ing would be 1.-THE Patriots State Conven-
ton."
Now, sir, let me say to you that host
of our people sympatbize deeply with the
spirit of the call and are ready to give it
an earnest and hearty support. There are
those among US within whose hearts there
Is true love of country feeling that
overshadows our love of party, and whose
conscience says to them Enthusiastically, "Sup-
port the constitution of your fathers, and
the bepeficent government based upon #
drop for the moment your party feeling and
attachments, and know only the govern.
ment under and by which we enjoy larger
Liberties, and greater degree of prosperity
than any people on the globe" Can we of
the North expect to suppress this INDUSTRIOUS
and causeless rebellion to sustain the gov
eminent in all the States-and restore to
the entire people the blessings bequeathed
to US by our fathers in two bloody conflicts
add ignore our brethren the North-who
have perhaps differed with US as to the man.
ner in which this difficulty should be set
tied? No, sir, this is an extensive rebel
lion; we need all the fighting strength, and
the earnest and the honest support of all
patriots in the law,abiding States, at this
time.
Patriotism should extinguish all party
passions, and admonish every lover of coun-
try, no matter whether he be Republican
or Democrat, whether he has heretofore
been in favor of a protective tariff, or free
trade, that such measures are minor and Sc
COndary to the maintenance of our Gov.
eminent, with its manifold blessings for our.
selves, and our little ones, to whom we
would bequeath it.
We notice that an article in your paper
per some days since, appealing to Demo-
Gratis to aid in sustaining the laws and the
suppression of treason, as duty paramount
to party, has hat Some-torn from them the
mask of deceit, and they stand forth trail
tors to the Government, the Constitution,
and civil and religious liberty.
If the coat pictured 10 the article did not
fit them to L why should they busy them
selves running about town-solicitiDg the
people to stop the PIONEER AND DEMOCRAT;
why should certain professed Union men,
both here and in st. Anthony spend their
time in special effort to suppress your pa
per. 1t is because the garment fits them
and their labor of suppression is only cor
roborative proof of what they have mani
tested by their acts and expressions at every
opportunity when they they could do so
syly. "Oh," says one, sordid in bis own
heart, and by that criterion Judging others,
there is some motive personal in the po-
sition of the PIoNEER-they are otter the
printing-they are after something"
Others who have been lifted to office by
our present Congressmen-and who have
pledged themselves to certain programme
in the future, although they have glored in
the opportunity of pointing out Others as
traitors, and in comparison have said,
81 am better than thou, traitor" are
alarmed, that the full, free, and uncondi-
tional support of the government by the
PIONEER will no longer give them the op-
portunity to elevate their own patriotism at
the expense of others.
Our people care not for such stuff. We
have brothers, sons, relatives, in the army
of freedom: the real patriots, not politicians,
or lovers Of place, who have taken their lives
in their hands to protect and maintain the
government. They, in their honesty, are
pledged to no clique, nor are they bound TO
any particular programme. We love and
honor these men they occupy place in
our hearts which the politician, simply
never can their position, their danger, and
the principles for which they are sacrificing
not only the comforts but life itself
should and ought to convince every man of
his duty, to wit: the preservation of the
Union, the enforcement of the laws, and the
suppression of the rebellion.