The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1861-07-19
What is Thought OF the Message.

The World-the New York organ of the
Administration-thinks the message " is so
transparency written, without guile and
with pure purpose, that it cannot fail to
take strong bold on the popular heart"
The World comments as follows upon the
Presidents assertion of his right to suspend
the writ of habeas corpus:
He pushes the pretence that only Congress
can suspend the writ of habeas corpus in times
of rebellion or invasion to a perfect Teducti0
Gd absurdum, by showing that, if this position
is correct, rebellion which should succeed in
preventing Congress from meeting, as the Sc
cessiOn rebels threatened to do, would annihi-
late the government by leaving it without any
power OF self-prOtectiOn.
We think Chief Justice TANEY, and MAR
SHALL and STORY, conclusively dispose of
this claim of the Executive, to suspend at
his will, the writ Of habeas corpus. The
Times is not so well pleased as the World.
1t says:
Altogether too much attention is bestowed
upon Vlrglnia's act of secession in the Mes
sage, and the mode in which it was accom-.
plished by the Richmond Convention; and less
Is said than would have been acceptable in re.
gard to the movements of the people of Yves.
tern Virginia and of Eastern Tennessee. for
theirrelef from the tyranny of the Confederate
states, and the prospect of their success
through the aid OF the Government. Some.
thing more than one sentence on the prac-
tice of privateering" by the seeding States,
the occasion perhaps demanded. The coun-
try would have liked to know what is the pros
,pect of the ratification of the Convention of
Etrrn low &s.l,l A.,
teerng to be piracy. Some kindly words on
the subject of liberal commercial relations
with European nations would not have been
out of place. Perhaps it is found in the accu.
rate message. A summary of the military
force now In the field, generous mention of
the gallant and wOrld-honored Scott, to whose
wonderful abilities the nation owes so much
would have gratitied quite as much, and been
in as good taste, as the homiy ON the compo-
stiOn of regiments, and their capacity to turn
out "Presidents," "Cabnets," &C., which is
not saying so much for them as some people
might suppose.
On this latter point the Journal of CON-
merce is somewhat jocOse
The President doubtless intends high com
pliment to the men composing the army when
he declares that there is scarcely a regiment
from which there could not be selected pre-
sident, cabinet, congress, and perhaps q
COuils COupCtcHt W the
Government ITSELF" AS things CO. we are in.
clined to think this somewhat high wrought eu-
logsm upon our citizen soldery substantially
deserved. Certainly there is not one from
which person could net be selected qualified
to present the subject matter of our national
difficulties in clearer and more concise form
than has been done in the paper under consd.
GRAFTON.
The Journal Of Commerce claims that
"the President virtually admits the correct
ness of the allegations which have been
made in various quarters, that 10 his official
action be has gone beyond the line of Con-
stitutional and legal power, when he asks
that Congress shall ratify the acts il ques.
tion." That logic is sound. But the gen.,
eral tone of the press, independent and
party, is that of generous approval of the
entire document, and in this respect the
press undoubtedly indicates the sentiment OF
the great majority of the Northern people.