The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1861-03-01
THE PROGRESS OF THE REVOLUTION.


precedent for the violent force measures that
they are now urging through the Federal
Congress. While more than initiating the
coercion Of 1888, going infinitely beyond
it, we see no signs that they intend to carry
out the other branch of the programme of
1888, which the advocates of coercive
measures then deemed essential. The Con-
gress of 1888 passed, simultaneously, a com.
promise measure, which, in effect, guaran-
teed all that the disafected State of South
Carolina asked, with another law, which, in
q contingency, conferred upon the Presi-
dent power Of coercive character. The two
laws-the compromise and coercion-went
through Congress together, and were signed
by President JACKSON on the same day.
The Louisiana authorities have made
capital appointments for the military estab-
lishment of that State. Col. BRAxToN
BRAGG, of a -" little more grape" notoriety,
has been selected as Major General; Major
GEORGE IDEAS, Adjutant General; Col. A.
G. MYERS, Quartermaster General; Major
G. T. BEAUREGARD, Colonel of Engineers.
These gentlemen, who are West Point
graduates, were all attached to the United
States army, and served with distinction in
the Mexican war. Col. HARDEE, the ablest
tactician in the United States army, com.
mands one of the Georgia regiments, and
Col. WALKER, also of the army, the other,
while Major General Tw1GGs, one of the
heroes of the Mexican war, commands the
brigade. The Captains and Lieutenants of
the two regiments have been selected from
the regular army of the Union.
The Missouri Convention, with the
exception of thirteen delegates elected from
st. Louis, as unconditional Union men,"
will be composed of persons elected on the
" Constitutional Union platform"-i. e.
opposed to secession, but equally determined
in their hostility to any thing that looks
like coercion or civil war. The St. Louis
Republican says that not single Secessionist
has been elected to the Convention.
"A letter from Charleston to the New
Orleans Delta, gives the following item of
the expense to be incurred in the siege of
Sumter:
Every gun fired from Fort Sumter costs, on
an average, thirteen dollars. Every gun fired
by the State will be an average expenditure of
nine dollars. A prominent officer at Fort
Moultrie informs me that, by close calcula-
tion, it has been ascertained that when it's bat
teries open, the cost per diem to the State at
that fort alone, will exceed SIS, 900. Pretty
heavy, that. But this is the surest way of mas
than lives ia its acquisition.
The Springfield (Mass.) Republican
states that the report agreed upon by the
joint legislative committee on the personal
liberty law proposes the following changes {:
To make the writ of habeas corpus return
able only before Justice of the Supreme
Court, instead of Justices of the Superior
Court, as well as the Supreme Court to
provide that the militia may be lawfully
called out to preserve the public peace in
cases growing out of the rendition of a
fugitive slave; to allow the evidence of the
claimant in proof OF his claim to the alleged
fugitive. The Republican adds that "this
tinkering and artful lodging are not credit
able. Either let the whole thing be dropped
or the useless and obnoxious laws repealed
in straightforward, manly way"
The following article from the Louis.
vile Democrat, on the subject of the folly
of coercion, is worthy of attention. The
Democrat is one of the stanchest Union
papers at the South. The article clearly
demonstrates the necessity of some speedy
compromise of our national troubles
The Disunionists North, who crowd around
Lincoln on his way to Washington, shout no
compromise! They but echo the disunion
slang of the South-no compromise. The voice
of mObs is not the voice of the people, it should
be borne in mind. The Disunionists South are
much the better of the two. If there is to be
no compromise, then the alternative is a fight
or a peaceable division. The Southern Dis
unionists prefer the latter. To be sure they
have been taking and threatening to take what
does not yet belong to them; but not more than
will fall to their share upon peaceable settle
ment.
These Northern Disunionists propose to
fight ; to force Union. This is a folly that
rises up to downright insanity. It's too late
to talk of enforcing laws over seeding States
by the sword. 1t can't be done; civil war,
and the most uncivil of wars, would be the re.
suit of such an attempt. 1t is said that the
Government can blockade the ports and col.
lect the revenue. The amount of it is, that
our revenue laws can be enforced when other
laws cannot be; and that the Government,
abandoning all other laws, will adopt the en-.
fOrcement of the revenue laws, in lorder to
force the States back. Such means would ir-
ritate those States more than an army of inva.
sion. If they have not navy ready, they can
find privateers, robbers on the ocean, to retail
late upon the commerce of the United States,
and all hope of reconciliation will be at an
end. Will not statesmen open their eyes to the
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