The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1861-08-23

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Saint Paul, Friday, August 80, 1851.
and New YOrk..The Breckinrid GO
Element Debating Democr ratio Policy.
At meeting of the Republican State
Committee of Ohio, at Columbus, on the
18th July, resolutions were passed, inviting
the Democratic State Committee to unite
with them in call for State Convention
for the nomination of a State ticket, and
providing that such call be addressed to
all who are in favor of the unconditional
preservation of the States, of the mainten.
ance of the integrity of the National Gov
eminent, and of the vigorous and continued
prosecution of the war, now carried on for
that purpose" The Democratic Committee
were given until the 9th inst, to consider
the proposition, and to indicate its accept
ance or rejection. The Democratic Com.
mittee, acting under the advice of Col.
MEDARY, and other Democrats, who helped
inaugurate the rebellion by sustaining
BRECKENRIDGE in the last campaign, de-
clined the union proposed by the Republic
cans. Whereupon the Republicans issued
their call to the whole people of Ohio, for a
State Convention of delegates, to be chosen
without reference to party, upon the simple
basis of the maintenance of the Government,
and the suppression of the rebellion arrayed
against it.
The Republican State Committee of New
York, which met at Albany, on the 9th
inst, made tender to the Democratic Com
mittee of similar import with that made by
the Republican Committee of Ohio. The
proposition was declined by the Democratic
Committee, on the 9th inst, and in terms
which preclude all possibility Of harmonious,
united action, by the two great parties in
the support of the Government. In New
York, the disgraoeful fusion last fall of the
DOUGLAS with the BRECKENRIDGE element,
has resulted in the utter generalization of
the party, and in turning the management
of its affairs into the hands of the BREcK1N-
RIDGE faction. The policy of that faction,
and to which they would commit the patri.
otto masses of the party, is, opposition to
the Federal Administration, and settle
ment OF the war by compromise with the
rebels. In New York, as in Ohio, the
Republicans, after the refusal of the Demo.
Gratis to join with them in discarding party,
unite in support of the Government, and a
vigorous prosecution of the war.
The action of the Democratic Commit
tees of Ohio and New York, places the
great bulk of the party of those States in
false position. The desire of the Demo-
cratic masses is to uphold the Federal Ad-
ministration in its patriotic efforts to sus
tain the Government and crush out this I'm.
holy rebellion. Their desire is to do this in
open, manly concert with loyal men of all
parties, without regard to past political di.
visions. Thus, they would greatly prefer
the formal suspension of all party organiza-
tions until this great end can be accom-
plished. If this cannot be done, by reason
of the selfisbness or want of patriotism of
the party leaders, they will for the time ally
themselves with that organization which
promises the most direct, hearty and efficient
support to the Government. In these great
States, the bulk of the party will go where
their leader, DOUGLAS, would have gone,
had he lived to choose between the call of
patriotism and that of debased party.
They will assure the President, as DOUGLAS
did, of their cheerful, resolute aid in every
measure that the administration may require
in expressing the gigantic insurrection
that menaces the existence of the Govern.
ment. They will take to themselves the
legacy which the patriot left to his chill.
dren, when, with bis dying breath, be adjured
them to "stand by the Constitution and the
laws;" and they will act upon it by an
abandonment of the party, which, in its degra-
dalton, abandons the country and it's cause.