The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1861-08-09
The Clique Politicians Oppose the
Union Movement. vA4

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among all whose devotion to the Union
overmasters their attachment to Party, that
the nobler class Of politicians favor the sus-
pension Of political organizations during
the continuance of the war, the clique poll
ticians, true to their sordid instincts, every.
where demand that parties shall be sustain
ed, even though the Union falls. This is 50
in Minnesota, as elsewhere. The CLIQUE
politician has no hope OF success, except
through the favorable action of party ma.
chinery, for he has no hold upon the popu
lar sympathy. So, if be relinquishes the
aid of party machinery, he falls to the
ground, without notice, or chance of re-
covery. af,,, a., a.st s.. .o,s..si
We regret that the St. Paul Press chooses
to make itself the organ of such. When
the hearts of the people Of all parties are
yearning to yield to the Federal Admins
tration their earnest support in the prose-
cution of the war, to the vindication of the
national honor, and the suppression OF every
vestige of disloyalty and when they desire
to do this patriotic service untrammeled by
the restrictions of party lines and influences;
the hearty recognition and support of this
wish was the least to be expected from a
paper in nominal party sympathy with the
Administration. 1t would be supposed that
such journal would be eager to welcome
the aid of the loyal masses, when the Press
ident to be sustained was that of its own
choice, and the Government to be saved
from dissolution was the common heritage
of all.
That this recognition and welcome has
not been given to the Union movement,
which has arisen out of the spontaneous
patriotism of the people, shows only how
inextricably the Press has become involved
in the unworthy schemes of the clique poll
ticians. 1t should have been the leader in
this great movement, and not its traducer.
1t should have borne witness to the high
personal character and patriotic worth Of
the large body of our most respectable citi-
zens who have, by recommending the sus.
pension of party, testified in the most un-
selfish manner, their supreme devotion to
the Government, and to those whom Provi-
dence has called to administer its affairs
during the perilous crisis through which the
country is passing. The signers of the Union
call are of the first of our citizens. repre-.
sentiDg almost entirely the business and
professional interests of our city; and a
large majority are the substantial men of
the old Republican party. The Press COM
mitted an offense against good taste, to pass
over the grosser injustice, when it stigma
tized these men as insincere, and the move-
ment they inaugurate as one intended to
advance the interests OF selfish and design.
ing men," Without mentioning Democrats,
we feel bound to protest against the oppro-
blum which the Press has the temerity to
cast upon the patriotic motives and acts of
such Republicans as Messrs. B1aELow, IN
aERsoLL, G1LF1LLAN, Senators SMITH and
CORNELL, and others of like character and
position, because these are men in whose
good name the whole community
has property, Democrats as well
as Republicans. They are men, too, who
from their talents and worth have the
strongest right to claim position in the
Republican ranks, were they desrons of the
honors and emouments Of Office; and that
such men are willing to forego, during
these critical times, all the advantages of
their party positions, for the sake of
heightening and charging the patriotic en-.
thusiasm of the people, raises the movement
which they lead above the imputations that
the Press, in its grovelling clique-service,
would cast upon it.
This grand movement of the loyal masses
cannot be put down by the little politicians
who have written up their states, nor by
the little organs who represent them before
the public. The patriotic union OF all men
of all parties in the North to sustain the
Union, is the sober sequence of the patriotic
rising of the men of all parties when the
rebel cannon, levelled at Sumter, Numbered
out to all the North the unholy purposes of
Southern treason. That rising was the i'm.
pulsive movement OF loyal hearts to save
the Government from present destruction !;
this movement, equally patriotic, is to
insure the Government permanen support,
and the certainty of ultimate triumph.
And in such a movement all good men will
join.
BURNT THE WRONG WooD PnE.-The
st. Louis Democ, at tells this good story ::
/" The bridge burners along the line of the
Hannibal and St. Joseph Railroad made q
sad mistake last week in burning about four
hundred cords of wood, which they sup
posed belonged to the company, but which