The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1861-05-10
THE PROGRESS OF THE REBELLION.
Military Movements at the North and
SOuth..Views OF Prominent states.
men, etc.

The Missouri Legislature organized on
the Sd, in special session. Gov. Jackson's
message was delivered the same day, after
which the two Houses went into secret
session! Gov. jackson says in bis message,
that the President, in calling out the troops
to subdue the seeded States, has threatened
civil war, and his act is unconstitutional,
illegal and tending toward consolidating
despotism. While he evidently justi6es the
action of the Confederate States in seeding,
he does not recommend immediate secession.
1t is good sign that Gov. MAGoF1N,
of Kentucky, though Secessionists, has
been compelled by the force of public SEN
timent to issue proclamation for the elec-
ton of members of Congress, for the extra
session to be held at Washington on the
4th of July. So Kentucky is not yet out
of the Union, and we trust that she will re-
main loyal. If we can save Kentucky and
Missouri, we can make short work of the
Secessionist conspirators.
JOHN MINOR Boris, of Virginia, has
written touching letter to Attorney Gen.
eral BATES, proposing National Conven.
ton, to glue leave to the seeding States to
peaceably withdraw from the Federal Un-
ion. He regards the Presidential procla-
nation of the 18th, Gas the most unfortu-
nate document that ever issued from the
Governmet" We quote an extract or two
from the letter
lam satiied that contest on the part of
the General Government, with its perfect mill
tary organization, powerful naval forces, its
command of money, and its credit without linn
it, backed by eighteen or twenty millions of
organization, without naval forces, without
money or credit, is not likely to be of doubt.
full result in the end but after that. what
then? You may cut, main, kill and
destroy; you may sweep down battalions
with your artillery; you may block up COM
merce with your fleets; you may starve out
the thousands and tens of thousands of the
enemies of government; you may Overrun,
but you cannot subjugate the united South !;
and if you could do all this, you could not do
it without inficting an equal amount of misery
upon those who are its best friends, and who
stand upon by the side of the Union, the Con-
stitution and the laws. Our streets may run
red with blood our dwellings may be leveled
with the earth ; our fields may be laid waste;
our hearthst0nes may be made desolate, and
then, at the last, what end has been gained
Why the Government has exhibited its power,
which has never been questioned but by the
idle, the ignorant, and the deluded, and for
this display of which there will be abundant
opportunities without An effort now, on either
side, to cut each others threats.
So far from its being regarded as betrayal
OF weakness by the other powers of the globe,
will it not be looked upon in the present emer-
gency as an act of magnanimity and heroism
on the part of the more powerful party to pro-
pose terms of peace? Let me, then, as q strong,
devored, unalterable friend Of the Union (if It
could be maintained)-let me, as q conscien-
tious opponent of the fatal heresy of secession,
urge upon this administration the policy of is.
suing another proclamation proposing truce
to hOstilities, and the immediate assembling of
the national convention to recognize the inde-
pendence of such of the States as desire to
withdraw from the Union, and make the ex-
pertinent of separate government, which 1t
will not, as think, take them long to discover
is the most egregious error that man, in his
hour of madness, ever committed.
In five years from this time the remaining
United States would be stronger and more
powerful than the thirty-fOur States were six
months ago-and you will have government
permanent and enduring for all time to come,
to which all who seek an asylum from Op
preston may resort hereafter.
l will not undertake to speculate on the
experiment of Southern Republic; my Opin-
ions on the subject are well dhned, and too
well understood to make it necessary that they
should be canvassed here. Let 1t be tried, and
let it work out It's own salvation.
Mr.. Bolts appeals to Judge Bates to lay
this "last effort to serve my country" before
the Cabinet. The Attorney General pub
fishes the letter in the National Intelligent
Ger.
The Herald, of the I'd inst, gives an
interesting account of the reinforcement of
Fort Pickens, by troops from the steamers
Atlantic and Illinois. On the 10th, the
Atlantic arrived off Santa Rosa Island,
When
After communicating with the commander
and naval captains present, we took IN tow the
boats of the fleet, some twenty in number, and
after dark weighed anchor and stood in Shore
| all lights being eXtinguished, and came to an
Choir within mile of Fort Pickens, and in di.
rect range Of the guns of Fort McRae and the
water batteries, and three.fourths of mile
| from the beach, in four fathOms of water. At
1
the beach, with COL Brown und Capt. Meigs,
who were the first to meet and surprise the in
trepid Slemmer and his command. During
the embarkation OF the troops in the boats the
signal from Fort Pickens for an apprehended
attack was made by the sending up Ofrockets.
This signal was repeated, and fastened opera
tiOns. Captain Wedges and other officers in
the fort were astonished at the rapidity of the
reinforcement. Before midnight the majority
of the officers and soldiers were safely in the
fort, and although heavy surf was running
during the night, no accident of any kind oc.
Cured.
This successful landing took place three days
after the bombardment and surrender of Fort
Sumpter---a fact we'll known on the mainland,
but not known at Fort Pickens, nor by the
| forces ahoat. The Illinois, with REIN
| forcements, arrived at midnight on Friday, the
| 18th, and her troops were landed the next
| morning.
Seven of the horses were lost; four died on
the passage; one was drowned alongside; one
had his neck broken in the surf, and one died
from exhaustion on reaching the shore. The
ond l;rhf artillery were landed sirnu1.