The weekly pioneer and Democrat., 1861-09-27
To the People Of Minnesota.

VI VIC 1sn uoy Vi moICu, 1901, AUI6uuW
Lincoln was inaugurated president Of the
United States. His election was the will
of the majority of the people Of the Union,
declared through the forms prescribed by
the Constitution. During the period since
that eventful date, more than one third Of
the States forming the general government
have openly declared and waged war against
the federal power, to which they principally
owed their prosperity and respectability.
In the exigencies of the times, the Presi.
dent relying upon the patriotism Of the
entire people of the States which had not
revolted, called upon them for aid, and
which was nobly responded to by men o.
allpolitical parties. Those who had opposed
his election, as we'll as those who favored it
promptly stepped forth with their purses and
their lives, placing both in his hands to save
our threatened institutions from destruction
In disposing of, and arranging the men and
materia Is, the President fully appreciatipg
the patriotism of the people, appointed the
officers of the army thus created without
reference to political prejudices. Those who
had bitterly opposed his election, received
alike with his friends positions for which
they were supposed to be qualified, and thus
the entire people were COmplimented. In
civil matters, the Legislature of Illinois,
assembling Immediately after the firing upon
Fort Sumpter, the majority of which being
of the party that placed Abraham Lincoln
in the executive chair, responding to the
pulsations OF every loyal man, and echoing
in their acts the sentiments of the lamented
Douglas
Whoever is not prepared to sacrifice party
organizations and platforms on the altar of his
country does not deserve the support and coun-
teDance OF an honest people. How are we to
overcome partizan antipathes in the minds of
men OF all parties so as to present united
front III support of our country? We must
cease discussing party issues. make no allusiOn
to old party tests. have no ordinations and re.
ordinations, indulge in no taunts one against
the other as to who has been the cause of these
troubles.
When we shall have rescued this government
and the country from its perils, and seen its
flag floating in triumph over every inch of
American soil. it will then be time to inquire as
to who and what has brought these troubles
upon Us. When we shall have a country for
our children to live in in peace ard happiness,
1t shall be time tor each of Us to return to our
party banners according to our own con.
victions of right and duty. Let him be marked
as no true patriot who will not abandon all
such issues in times like these.-Dougias at
Chicago, May l.
selected their officers upon their Or
ganization without reference TO party. 9th.
er Legislatures did likewise. The repre-
sentatiyes of individual citizens, and the
representatives of States, members of the
House and Senators of States, in Washing.
ton, directly under the eyes of the Nation
al Administration, recognized the true spirit
OF the nation by voluntarily placing in po.
sitioDs OF honor, profit, and trust, those
against whom they had been bitterly ar
rayed in political strife.
The exhibition OF this spirit OF country
above party was manifested in Vermont.
The State which presented the GREAT
LEADER with life and youthful ambition did
not forget the admonitions uttered by him
when near the close Oh that life. His follower
IN faith, the Democratic candidate for Gov
ernor, and Others on the State ticket, de.
clined to participate, or to allow their
names to be used, in dividing the people
upon party issues. The Republicans met
them IN like spirit by supporting and
electing the leading candidate 10 the Senate,
Party lines we're there obliterated.
In New York the Republicans, through
Simeon Draper and others,-men eminent
throughout the world for their commercial
enterprise, casting lustre upon our mercan-
le and national character, and sensible,
from their position, to the urgent demand
OF the times upon every citizen to suspend
the indulgence of party prejudices,-ten.
dered to the Democratic Committee the
offer of temporary cessation OF party hos
tilities, and the joining of both parties up
on one grand Union platiOrm-of every
thing for tie government first and party
only afterwards, when the government should
be triumphant over its enemies. Yet this
Democratic committee, composed of profes.
sionai trading politicians, never acting. ex.
cspt when the vision of Convention.
packed to suit their purposes, is apparen :,
refused to accept the offer thus made by the
party then dominant, and which possessed
the ability to maintain their supremacy
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give them an immense patronage, embrace
ing in its distribution hundreds of benef-
carries Notwithstanding the refusal to ac
cept an offer unknown and unparalleled in
its magnanimity in the history of American
politics. the Republican Committee appealed
to the loyal masses of the Democracy. A
call for Union Convention was issued
Another call for Peoples Union Conven
tion was started, signed by men of all par.
ties These two Conventions met at the
same place and nearly at the same time, and
by a concert of action placed the same
ticket in the field, with one sxception,) of
men composed of all parties, but of whom
only was enquired, are they loyal, honest
and capable?
In Ohio, in proposition, the third com.
monwealth in the Union, every political ad
vantage possessed by the party in power
was laid upon the common altar of their
country. A cooperation like that of New
York was rejected by the men who controlled
the machinery of the minority party, men
in political sympathy with those who re-
latin in their honor camps occupied by
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