The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1861-06-28
"The No Party Cry"

of the Office seekers and Office holders, by
whom it is controlled, is bitterly opposed to
the obliteration of party lines, so far as the
Republican organization is concerned, du-
ring the present struggle for national exist
ence. This "no party cry" it must be
recollected, did lot originate with Demo.
Gratis, but was first Numbered from the
Republican press when the fate of the
national capital trembled in the balance
1t has since been zealously urged, by the
leading journals of that party, as peace
offering which will secure that perfect
unanimity in the loyal States necessary to
successfully confront treason in the disloyal
States. 1t was evoked by an extraordinary
occasion our existence as nation was at
stake, and the perils of anarchy and the
horrors of civil war confronted us. How
nobly-how generously-it was responded
to, is one of the brightest pages of the
nations history. All party considerations
were sunk-all traces of past discord oblit-
Grated, and millions of money and hundreds
of Thousands of lives pledged to the main
tenance of the government. Yet in this
"no party cry" the Press can discern moth.
ing but the hunger and thirst for Office, and
alarmed thereat, it utters its fee BILE warning
One of the Press favorite SMILES, is that of
the tory farmer, and his cry of bee"
beef" " beef" through the revolutionary
camp We commend it now to our neigh
boris consideration.
The suggestion of the appointment of a
Democratic successor to Judge DOUGLAS,
at the audacity of which the Press is
amazed, was first made by the Chicago
Tribune, the most influential Republican
journal in the West. 1t was endorsed by
many of the Republican papers in Illinois,
as fitting tribute to the memory of the
great statesman, and as an act of justice to
the 100000 loyal Democrats of Illinois,
who by dispensation of Providence were
deprived of their representative in the
United States Senate. OF course the
Press, jackal like, cannot consent to such
liberality. "Beef," "beef," "beefv'
Calling to its aid the acts of few dis
loyal men in Illinois, the Press villi6es an
entire section. There may be traitors in
EGYPT" but put them all together, and
extend their lives to patriarchal limit, and
they could not work as much injury to the
government as the Republican traitor, Min
isler HARVEY, did, by single act, or annoy
the loyal troops as seriously, as the swarm
of Republican plunderers and army con-
tractors, who congregate about Washington,
Albany, Harrisburg and Columbus.
We have nothing to do with the duty
of Republicans in this crisis. IF they choose
to obtrude upon the country their defunct
party issues, and party organization, be
theirs the blame. We have no fears of the
sentiment of the great mass of the people,
for they appreciate the magnitude of the
contest now going on, and the utter insig
ni6cance of all past political questions in
comparison to it. The man who is wisest
in council, and bravest in the field, is the
man for the occasion, and the man the PEG,
pie will honor aud revere, no matter whether
be voted for DOUGLAS, LINCOLN. BELL or
BRECKENRIDGE. The duty OF Democrats is
plain one, and the fact that although in
proportion-one half, if not two thirds
of. the burthens of the war, is evidence to
our mind, that they are performing it. The
Press seems fearful that in the abandonment
of party organization, Democrat may &C.
casionally secure some of the beLefts of a
government which they are doing so much
to sustain. 1t need not alarm itself. The
Democrats are holding party in allegiance,
not for the sake of Office, but for THE UNION.
We presume the Press, while DESTROYS of
excluding members of our party from all
positions of trust and emolument, will not
be so chary of its favors as to prevent Dem
ocrats from shouldering the musket, and
shedding their blood to maintain the gov
ernmen: which has these favors to confer.
The National Administration, unlike the
Press, acknowledges the momentous char
acter of the war, by excluding from its
policy, all questions calculated to engender
party strife. DIX, MCCLELLAN, BUTLER,
SPRAaUE-Democrats though they be-are
certainly not the least efficient men Mr..
LINCOLN has called to his aid.
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