The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1861-01-25

to the territories and be- pfotected sthert
with our territory. lYo6 ~, We acannot
decide the compact for ourselves. Well
can The Supreme Courk. decias for Us. Mr.
Lincoln saws he does, not care, what the Su
preme Court decides, ne viii turn us ou'
anyhow. 4 He says tbisi 70 his debate will
, the honorable Senator from Illinois MT
Douglas I i have it before me. He said
he would vote against the decision OF The
Supreme Court. Then you do not accept
that arbiter. You will not take my con.
structiop; you will not take the Supreme
Court as an arbiter; you viii not take thu
practice Of the government; yop will POI
take the treaties under Jefferson and Msdi.
son: YOU will not take the Qpipiep Of Aadi'
sou upon the very question Of prohibitions
in 1920. What, then, will Jon takes Y oa
will take nothing but your own Judgment
that is, you will not only Judge fol. your:
selves, not only discard the court, discard
our construction, discard the practice Of the
Government, but you will drive us out,
Simply because you will it., Come and do
i'll You have Fsapped the lfoupdstiana Of
society; you have Destroyed almost aliahops
of peace. Iu compact where there " %
common arbiter+--wbere the j parties hHaily
decide for themselves sword alone at
last becomes the real,if not the constitu>
tional arbiter. Your party says that yon
will not take the decision OF the Supreme
Court. You said 80 at Chicago; Iyon said
so in committee; every man Of you in both
houses says so. What are you going to dof
You say zoe shall submit to your construction.
We shall do it, if you can make rs; but not
otherwise, or in any other manner. That Is
settled. You may call it secession or you
NAV call it revolution; but there is Q zig
fact standing before you, rrady to oppose
YOU: that fact is, freemen With arms 10 their
hands. The cry of the Union will not dis
perse them; we have passed that point; they
demand equal rights; you bad better heed
the demand.
wARLIKE CoNCLUSiON.~ '.
You will not regard confederate obligsi
lions; YOU will not regard your oatbs
What. then. am l to dos AMI q freeman?
Is my state, free state, to lie down and
submit because political fossils raise the
cry of the glorious Unionf Too long, al
ready have we listened to this delusive song
We are freemen. We have rights; ] have
stated them. We have wrongs; / have re-.
counted them. l have demonstrated that
the party now coming into power has de-
clared us outlaws, and is determined to-
exclude four thousand million of our property
from the common territories; that it has,
declared us under the ban OF the Empire,
and out of the protection of the laws of the
United States everywhere. They have re-
fused to protect Us from Invasion and insur.t
rection by the Federal Power, and the
constitution denies to us 10 the Union the
right either to raise fleets or armies for our
own defence. All these charges have
proven by the record; and / put them before
the civilized world, and demand the judg:
ment of to-day, of tomorrow, OF distant
ages, and of Heaven itself, upon the Justice
of these causes. am content, whatever it
be, to peril all in SO noble, SO, holy cause.
We have appealed, time and again, for these
constitutional rights. You have refused
them. We appeal again. Restore us these
rights as we had them, as your court ad
Judges them to be, just as all our people have
said they are; redress these fragrant wrongs,
seen of all men, and it will restore fraternity,
and peace, and unity, to all OF US. Refuse
them, and what then? We shall then ask
you, "let us depart in peace" Refuse that,
and you present rs war We accept it !,
and inscribing upon our banners the glorious
words, "liberty and equality, We trust to
the blood OF the brave end 1.-the God OF
battles for security aud tranquility.
SENATOR HUNTER OF VIRGINIA.
This Senator delivered . speech on the
llth, the day preceding Senator SEwARDs.
In commencing, he said it was now NO more
o question OF preserving the old Union.
We cannot recall the past or preserve the
dead but, be added, the hope and trust Of
all who desire Union is, that we may be
able to reconstruct new government and
new Union, which may, perhaps, be more
permanent than the old.
THE GRIEVANCES OF The SOUTH. 81.
To-day, we must deal wisely with the
mighty present, that we may be ready for q
still more eventful future which may be
upon us tomorrow. New ideas, like
new forces, have entered into our system,
and all are demanding an enlargement oil
power, or are threatening to rend and
destroy the system. There are portions OIL
this government now where the population
is beginning to press upon the means Of
subsistence. 10 all states there ia q desire
and in some there is q necessity for further
extension. L: is this which has led to the
warfare between two social systems which
have been brought together in our govern
mept, which has been waged With Z
bitterness and asperity hitherto unknown
This constitution was designed to unite two
social systems upon terms OF equality ant
and fairness, different in their character, hu
not necessarily opposite. Indeed. the very
difference Of these systems ought to hav.
formed mutual union attraction, insteat
of giving rise to an irrepressible conflict
What one wanted the other could supply
and thus they would seem to have afforded
the material tor perfect system Of indus
try, which ought to have been stronger to
mutual dependence and assistance. Unfortu
nately, as those who represented the non
slaveholding States increased in numbers
they commenced warfare upon the othe
system, which had been introduced unde
the constitution. 1t was commenced in 1920
when it was said the social system Of th,
south was founded in sin. and ought to b.
repressed and suppressed by the fedora
government in all places where it has juris
diction. The demand was made that, q