The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1861-08-30

are now prominent in the movement for
peace. This war has ended all that, and the
only hope which the cringiDg and time serv-
ing politicians have is in the erection of a
peace party, the cessation of the war, and
the dissolution of the Union on such terms
as will humiliate and cripple the North, and
give to those who have been heretofore COM
trolling it new and perhaps permanent
lease of power. Hence their intrigues and
disloyal Vaccinations.
On the framework of the old Breckin.
ridge organization, this Peace party is be-
ing built. There is the same timber in
the rafters, the same handicraft, the same
furniture and household appointments. With
a few individual and isolated exceptions,
this is the truth throughout the whole
North. Wherever we find an earnest peace
man, we know he was supporter of the
ex>Vice President. The newspapers who
laboled for his success, now labor for the
success of his principles. In Pennsylvania,
the issue is becoming closely and clearly de-
fined, and it only wants some such eminent
and retiring statesman as Mr.. WIN. B.
REED, to come from his books and bis soli-
tude, and give it the influence of bis expe-
rience and sympathy. We find in the edi-
torial department such newspaper men as
SANDERsoN of the Lancaster InteHigeneer,
AcKER of the Norristown Register, HoDG>
SON of the West Chester Jefersonian, Nc
DowELL of the Harrisburg Patriot and
Union, GErz of the Reading Gazette, ME-
MANN of the Easton Sentinel and others.
All these journalists were ardently in favor
of Mr.. BRECK1NRIDGE, and obsequious sup
porters of Mr.. BUCHANAN. They are now
all as ardently in favor of peace, and as
obsequious to the rebellious South. In the
gallant county of Berks, the sentiment of
sympathy with Disunion is being openly
manifested. Mr.. ANcoNA, its Congressions
al representative, whose vote for VALLAN-
DIGHAM, as Speaker, sent thrill of shame
through Pennsylvania, has been endorsed
by small clique of politicians at a recent
public meeting. When we say that prom>
inent in that meeting was j. LAWRENCE
GETz, its character will be understood with~
out explanation. 1t becomes the people of
Berks to resent the insult thus fixed upon
them, and to censure the disloyal course of
MIR. ANCoNA.
In other States the same thing holds
true. In New Jersey MAR and his news
paper tribe are as bitterly denouncipg the
war as they did the lamented DOUGLAS.
In New York BEN WooD neglects his lot
terry business to calumniate the North, and
to denounce every friend of the Union in the
North. The Albany atlas and Argus is
rapidly drifting into the same stream.
DEAN RICHMOND and his Albany lobby,
who have made legislative jobbing profess
sion, and have given the New York Legis-
lature proverb of odium, intrigue with
the friends of peace, and put planks in their
platforms about purity of government. The
Portland Argus in Maine, the Hartford
Times and New Haven Register in Connec-
ticut, all show their old Breckenridge
afiuities, and, after giving very weak and
temporizing support to the war measures of
the Administration, now give warm and
sincere support to the enemies of those
measures.
1t is now shown more cOnclusively than
it has ever been shown before, that the heart
of the Democratic masses palpitated for
STEPHEN A. DOUGLAS, and among the most
gratifying recolections of the great de.
ceased is the fact that he was warmly and
unalterably for the Union and the most
stringent measures to preserve it. Thou.
sands who voted for the Fusion ticket in
the Middle States from attachment to
party traditions and party organizations,
will now see the error they committed.
And especially will they see it when they
see the leaders of the Breckenridge element
strike hands with the enemies of the nation.
In this war, the Democratic masses occupy
proud and patriotic position. In its man
agement, the friends OF DOUGLAS are active
and uupretending. MCCLELLAN was
warm friend of DOUGLAS, and would have
preferred him for the Presidency. 1t be-
comes the friends of DOUGLAS to carry their
patriotism further. 1t becomes them to
see to it that, in the management of the
coming political canvass, they are not ca
joled or entrapped into an alliance with the
Disunion sympathizers who have controlled
the Democratic organization and seek to
continue its masters. No friend of Doua>
LAS can ever be true to himself and
to the memory of his great leader and
join with those who have slaughtered him
in cold blood. We speak to the honest, the
patriotic Democracy, when we say that they
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