The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1861-04-12
THE WEEKLY PIONEER AND DEMOCRAT
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THR PROGRESS OF THE REVOLUTION.
The Kentucky Legislature has ad.
journed, and we are enabled to present a
summary of its action on national affairs.
Resolutions were adopted requesting the
President to withdraw the Federal troops
from the seeding States, or from any State
upon the request of the Governor thereof,
on the ground that if the object be to settle
the difficulties between the sections without
war, the continuance of the Federal troops
in the said States is unnecessary and impol-
itic; resolution was also adopted request
ing both the Federal and State authorities
to abstain from any acts tending to q COLI
sion of arms. The CoRwIN amendment to
the Constitution was ratified, with the fol-
lowing preamble:
And whereas, Said proposed amendment is
not and ought not to be accepted by Kentucky
as final settlement of existing difficulties, yet
as an evidence of our sincere desire to provide
by constitutional enactment against all pre-.
texts for the agitation of the distracting and
dangerous question of African slavery in any
of its forms, be it,
The Legislature also adopted bill pro>
viding for the call of Border State Con-
vention. The delegates-the same in num-
Der as the Congressional delegation-are to
be elected, on general ticket, on the first
Saturday of May. The issue in Kentucky
will be made on the CR1rTENDEN and FRANK
LIN Tor Peace Oonference) propositions. The
States rights men, who support the GRIT
TENDBN measure, have nominated, as dele
gates at large, Gen. WIN. o. BUTLER, and
JAMES B. CLAY. The Union men, who ia
vor the Peace Conference amendments, will
probably nominate J. J. CR1TTENDEN and
JAMES GUTHRIE as delegates at large. 1t is
thus the issue will be made up in Kentucky.
Senator BREcK1NR1DaE, by special invita-
ton, addressed both branches of the Ken
lucky Legislature, April 2. The ex-Vice
President is in favor of Border Slave
State Compromise. He proposes that the
latter offer to the North, as an ultimatuns,
the CR1rTENDEN Compromise. If it is not
accepted, secession is to be adopted.
The Washington telegraphic cores
pondents of the Cincinnati papers state that
the secession feeling is gaining strength
rapidly in Virginia. So strong is this feel
ing in Richmond, that the Wing, the only
conservative organ there, has at last been
forced into the current Robert Ridgway,
the Union element of the establishment, be-
ing forced to retire from the editorship.
The Morrill, Tariff is said to be an effective
lever in moving forward the secession ball.
A secret movement is said to be on foot,
for the purpose of precipitating secession.
Subjoined is copy of circular, of which
great numbers have been sent from Rich
mond to the localities where the secession
fever is rife:
RICHMOND, Va.,-, 1861.
Your presence is respectfully requested at
with the friends Of southern righss as to the
course which Virginia should pursue in the
present. emergency. Please bring with you, or
send, a full delegation of true and reliable men
from your own county and, if convenient, aid
the same object in the surrounding counties.
On arriving at Richmond, report yourself and
companions Immediately to -, At.
This document is signed by II. A. WISE,
and other prominent radical leaders.
In the Virginia Convention last week,
test vote was had, upon an amendment Of
fered by HENRY A. WISE to one of the RESI-
olutions of the Committee on Federal
Resolutions. The original resolution de-
clared that the Territories were the property
of the United States Gov. WISE moved an
amendment to the effect that they were the
property of all the States. The amendment
was adopted by the close vote of 68 to &c.
A resolution advising that, as basis of
adjustment, the Territories should be dvl-
ded between the North and South-the
introduction of slavery being prohibited in
one case, and its protection guaranteed by
constitutional amendment in the other
was voted down by a decisive majority.
These votes indicate that the ultimatum of
Virginia takes higher ground in favor of
slavery and the rights of the South in the
Territories, than even the Crittenden Com.
promise, which has already been rejected by
the Republicans, both in the Peace Confer
ence and in Congress.
We find the following proclamation
from the Governor of Mississippi, in the
Columbus (Ga.) Republic of Monday the
Goth ult, received by that paper on Satur.
day night, by telegraph from Jackson:
PROCLAMATION.
JACKSON, March %, 1861.
Whereas, the Secretary of War, by order of
the President of the Confederate States of
America, has called on the State of Mississippi
for fifteen hundred infantry, to be mustered in
to the service of the Confederate States as soon
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