The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1861-04-19

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find out what the estimate is, or will be, for
supporting this force in the field, should
like to know whether it is estimated that it
will require 81 600, 900 for every regiment
OF nine hundred men in the field, and whether
it will require $316,OOO,OOO to keep that
number OF men in the field for single year.
Ii this be the estimate, or if it shall ap.
proach these figures, l should then like to
know where the money is coming from to
supply those men in the field. You have
just made tariff; but l do not think you
will get $500, 100000 of revenue out of that.
II you get $50,0OO0O0 you will be more
fortunate than l think you will be. have
not consulted the late Chairman of the
Committee on Finance (Mr. Hunter), whose
opinion l would appreciate higher than any
other mans on the subject; but have no
hesitation in expressing the conviction that
you cannot devise tariff by which you can
raise $l0O 100000 per year. Where are
the other $2O0,000,0O0 coming from? Will
you resort to direct taxation? Is it your
purpose to rush this country blindly into
war at a cost of $30OOOO,OOO per annum;
to levy $2O0,O0O,O0O of direct taxes upon
the people, and then call upon them to pay
it because you have involved US in civil
war? Sir, expect to stand by my country
under all circumstances; and hence l will
save her, if l can, from being plugged into
civil war of indefinite duration, that will
require quarter of million men and an
exhOrbitant taxation, levied on one-half the
American people, to subdue the other half.
Remember, this extraordinary amount of
revenue, these extraordinary numbers of
men, are to be called for in eighteen states
to fight fifteen; for it is useless to disguise
the fact, that whenever you will make the
question one Of peace or war, the slavehold-
ing states will be unit. and it will be
eighteen against fifteen. Are we prepared
for civil war, with all its horrors and ca
lamities? Let your policy be proclaimed
to the world, and let the people determine
the question. Silence is criminal when we
are on the eve of events like these.
WHAT Is TO BE GAINED BY WAR.
War is disuniOn. War is final, eternal
separation. Hence, disguise it as you may,
every Union man in America must advo-
cate such amendments to the Constitution
as will preserve peace and restore the Union;
while every disunionist, whether openly or
secretly plotting its destruction, is the adj
vOcate of peaceful secession, or of war, as
the surest means of rendering reunion and
reconstruction impossible. 1 have too much
respect for any man that has standing
enough to be elected a Senator, to believe
that he is for war, as a means of preserving
the Union. l have too much respect for
his intellect to believe, for one moment,
hot hon 1o Eov.v vlo 10 >nf
disunionist per Sc. Hence l do not mean,
if [ can prevent it, that the enemies of the
Union-men plotting to destroy it-shall
drag this country into war, under the pre-
text of protecting the public property, and
enforcing the laws, and collecting revenue,
when their object is disunion, and war the
means of accomplishing cherished pur-
pose.
The disunionists, therefore, are divided
into two classes; the one open, the other
secret disunionists. The one is in favor of
peaceful secession and recognition of indie.
pendence; the other is in favor of war, as
the surest means of accomplishing the
object, ard of making the separation final
and eternal. l am Union man, and hence
against war; but if the Union must be
temporarily broken by revolution, and the
establishment of de facto government by
some of the States, let no act be done that
will prevent restoration and future preser.
walton. Peace is the only policy that can
lead to that result.
HOW WAR MAY BE AvOIDED-THE UNION
MAINTAINED AS IT Is-AND THE sECEEDING
STATES BROUGHT BACK.
prefer an amicable settlement to peace
able disunion; and l prefer it thousand
times to civil war. Ii we can adopt such
amendments as will be satisfactory to Vir.
ginia, North Carolina, Tennessee, and the
border States, the same plan of pacification
which will satisfy them will create Union
party in the cotton States which will soon
embrace large majority of the people in
those States, and bring them back of their
own free will and accord; and thus restore,
strengthen and perpetuate the glorious old
Union forever. | repeat, whatever guaran.
tees will satisfy Maryland and the sorder
States 1.-THE States now in the Union) will
create Union party in the seeded States
that will bring them back by the voluntary
action Of their own people. You can re,
store and preserve the Union in that mode.
You can do it in no other.
If we consider this question calmly, and
make such amen iments as will convince the
people of the Southern States that they are
safe and secure in their persons, in their
property, and in their family relations, with
Union, we can restore and preserve it. If
we cannot satisfy the people of the border
States that they may remain in the Union
with safety, dissolusion is inevitable. Then
the simple question comes back, what shall
be the policy of the Union men of this
country? Shall it be peace, or shall it be
war? The President of the United States
holds the destiny of this country in bis hands.
l believe he means peace, and war will be
averted, unless he is overruled by the dis
union portion OF his party. We all know
the irrepressible conflict is going on 10 their
camp even debating whether Fort Sumpter
be surrendered when it is impossible to hold
it {; whether Major Anderson shall not be
kept there until he starves to death, or ap.
no h., b L.