The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1861-05-17
From the South. OF the Re-
belliOn.

"A SUBSCRIBER at Lexington, Kentucky,
in remitting bis subscription, writes under
date of May 7, as follows: "The Union
candidates, Crittenden and Guthrie, swept
"the State on Saturday. The aggregate
"vote will exceed 100000. This State is
strongly for the Union, Notwithstanding
the efforts of our Governor, and Senator
Breckenridge, to precipitate us into a
revolution" The election referred to was
for delegates to Border State Convention,
called by Kentcky. The Union ticket was
headed by John j. Crittenden and James
Guthrie.
The Missouri Legislature has passed
war bill, which provides for division of
the State into nine military districts, each
commanded by Major General, and every
able bodied man iu the State between the
ages of eighteen and forty five, will be COM
PEELED to do military putty or pay fine of
$3.50. ANY one speaking disrespectfuly of
the Governor or Legislature, will be sub,
ject to court martial, and it requires every
citizen to take the oath of allegiance to the
State of Missouri only.
The Nashville papers of the 9Th INST,
give us the vote in the Tennessee Legsla-
ture on the passage of the Ordinance of Sc
cession. 1t Was as follows: Senate--ayes
20; nays 5. House-ayes 40, nays 2l.-
Andrew JOhnson-whois one of the heroes
OF the present REVOLUTIONARY Messrs.
Maynard, Nelson and Etheridge, late Con,
gressmen, are stumplng the State for the
Union. A letter from Knoxville, dated
May 3, says 5:
East Tennessee is loyal to the Union. The
old banner floats to-day in many parts of the
city from liberty poles and house tops
Governor johnson made speech of three
hours to vast crowd on the Goth. His re.
marks were greeted with immense applause
when he declared his determination to live and
die by the stars and stripes. He did not re-
tract from his speeches in the Senate last win
ter. He showed his sincerity by boarding the
hon IN his very den, for at the very time he
was speaking about 400 soldiers were drilling
at the other end of the street, and would
doubtless have tried to put the Union crowd to
rout had they not been overawed by numbers.
Report says that middle and western Ten
nessee are united upon this question, and will
go UNANIMOUSLY for secession. If such is the
case, the voice OF east Tennessee will be hushed
and its people forced to submit to the powers
that be. At present the feeling is so strong
in many of the upper Counties, that men who
were drumming up volunteers had to fee for
Their other pnnnfipC Int bnr
been passed declaring their determination to
hang any man who attempted to get volun-
teers to fight against the Federal Government.
"A letter from Little Rock, of May 6,
says the ordinance of secession passed the
Convention on that day by vote of 60 to
L. 1t is stated that
Murphy, of Madison County, voted against
it. A great many members were affected to
tears. President Walker made strong appeal
to make the vote unanimous. Great applause
followed.
Murphy replied, sustaining his VOTE avowing
strong Southern sentiments in the Union, deny.
ing the power or right of State to secede A
general hiss followed and few groans.
ThOmasOn, DeSha, Fishback, and other Union
members explained their votes, taking strong
Southern ground.
A flag with nine stars floats over the Capitol.
and salute OF nine guns was fired immediately
after the vote on the ordinance was announced.
The Memphis AUalanche, OF the Sd, has
programme laid out for the progress of the
Southern army: Within thirty days JEFF:
Davis will be on the banks of the Hudson :;
MIR. Lincoln will fly, with what little may
be scraped together from bankrupt 1rea-
sury, from Washington, and Gen. Scott will
bear him company; nothing will be left
month hence of the Old Union, except pos.
sibly New England and the special session
of Congress called for the Fourth of July.
will not meet nearer Washington than Port
land, Maine, if it ever meets at all.
Alex. II. Stephens made a speech at
Atlanta, Georgia, on the 3Oth ult., on his
return from Virginia. He said, among
other things, that
We can call out million of people, if need
be; and when they are cut down, we can call
out another, until the last man of the South
finds bloody grave, rather than submit to
their foul dictatiOn. But a triumphant victory
and independence, with an unparalleled degree
VI SlOIy, prosperity pIOSTtSS, avail US In
the future. God is on our side, and who shall
be against US? None but His omnipotent hand
can defeat us in this struggle.
If Maryland secedes, Mr.. Stephens ar
gued, "the District of Columbia will fall
to her by reversonary right-the same as
Fort Sumpter to South Carolina" etc.
Then, said MIR. Stephens:
When we have the right we will demand the
surrender of Washington. just as we did in the
other cases, and will enforce our demands at
every hazard and at whatever cost. And here
let me say that our policy and conduct from
the first has been right, and shall be to the
last. glory in this consciousness of our rec.
titude.
Of the condition of affairs at the Capital.
the Vice President said
Lincoln has from fifteen to twenty thousand
soldiers stationed in and about Washington.
Troops are quartered in the Capitol, who are
defacing its walls and ornaments with grease
and filth, like set of vandal hordes The new
Senate Chamber has been converted into
kitchen and quarter-cooking and sleeping
apparatus having actually been erected and