The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1861-12-06
Before Election.

| ToMs Editor of the Pioneer and Democyca.
find, Mr.. Editor, the annexed, /" laid
BY" It is one of those emphatic utter
ances which critical occasions extort and
such as the old man eloquent " used to
treasure in his diary, as mothers keep the
pictures Of infant sons, to place in after
years beside the portrait OF the man.
The writer Of this is fully persuaded, up
on the most autentic information, that the
proclamation of Fremont was half author
lied experiment of strong party of the
advisers and threateners of our courageous
but sorely beleagued President; and that
1t fairly represented not the views of the
President of the United States,-but the
views urged for his adoption by threats of
desertion in quarters to which be was great
ly Indebted for his elevation to his office.
1t is palpably evident that nothing is
lett untrled, in order to overpower the fidel-
ity of Mr.. LINCOLN to the Constitution, by
report that the public option of the North
IS clamOrous in it's endorsement of the
emancipation policy of Fremont's bold State
paper. 1t is also evident that Mr.. LINCOLN
is confidently expected to yield the noble
position, molly earned by him, of Presi-
dent and Father of our whole country, and
to accept that of grateful instrument of
party. He will never do it; and the man
who can give back nearly half his wages in
the public service as loan to the public
Treasury,-breathes an atmosphere in
which multitudes Of his advisers would ne-
cessarlly sufocate. They are poor judges
of what feeds his lie. My extract offer
to you, merely by way OF keeping tally
and for reference.
"ABOLITIONISTS.'
The great staple of the degenerate, sham
democracy, has been the charge of Abolition
ism against the Republican party. The Presses
OF that party, and its orators, have rung the
charges on the world until they scarcely know
anything else.
Now, an abOlitlonist. ia the common accep-
tatiOn AID the true meaning of the word in this
country, is one who advocates the abolition of
slavery in the States where it exists No fair
word has any other just application in politics.
Is the Republican party an abolition party?
Most certainly not. 1t has in the most authori-
lively manner in the late Chicago National
Platform in the Philadelphia platform and
in all its State platforms declares that its in
depreciation of the Constitution and it's views
OF right forbade any interference whatever
with slavery in the States, and that man or the
democratic newspaper that stigmatises the
Republican party as an abolition party, does
so with a full knowledge of the utter talsty of
the charge. Among the million speeches of
the late presidential canvass not one republi-
can speaker took any other ground than this.
The Republican party is an Antl-SlaueTy
Extension party, it We would compress In one
word it's creed on the subject of Slavery. 1t
demands that the broad domain of these United
States that is yet unpeopled, or in the infancy
of development, shall be preserved from the
blight and curse OF slavery, and kept sacred
for the use of free white men. The Republican
party is pre.eminently the white mans party.
1t is the champion and advocate of tree, in
telgent, Independent American labor; not
servile African labor. However much we may
respect the humanity and philanthropy of the
AbOltlOnists, we entirely disagree with them
in the theory of the Constitution, and in re-
spect to the rights of the States.-[S st. Paul
Press before the Presidential Election.
Now, Mr.. Editor, before election, in
1860, we were told by Mr.. Seward,
" Nothing will come OF it," That would
have been great comfort could we have
believed it. The above extract would soace
us now, but for the glazing contrast of the
tone of its last weeks articles. One man
at Washington has single eye-it is
Abraham Lincoln--it rests on the constitu
ton and his whole country. He will keep
bis own hand on the helm, and steer straight
united glorious America, and posterity will
honor him when his advisers are forgotten.
MY COUNTRY.