The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1862-02-07
The Constitutional Policy Of the Admin
istratiOn. and tine Unconstitutional Pol
len Of the Fanatics.

istratiOn, and the Unconstitutional Pol.
len OF the Fanatics.
The question now agitating the halls of
Congress, and which usurps all argument
in the public press, is, whether the Govern.
ment shall be sustained in its determination
to 80 prosecute the war against rebellion
that the Union can be restored upon its old
constitutional basis, or whether it shall, at
the bidding of fanatics, be permitted to de-
generate into crusade for the abolition of
slavery. 1t was the emphatic declaration of
President LINCOLN, on taking his oath of
Office, that it was no part of his policy to
interfere with any existing institution of
any State, nor with any right Of any citi.
zen, but rather to use the force of the gov.
eminent to conserve such institutions and to
protect such rights. This declaration was
repeated by the President in bis messages
to Congr ess, both at the extra session and
the present; and its doctrines have been
adhered to in every official act and utter.
ance of his, since.
Upon this basis, the President is heartily
sustained by the great mass of the people in
the Northern and Border States, free and
slave, and without any regard to past polit-
ical affiliations. The old.line Democrat,
and the Conservative Republican, vie with
each other to tender the Administration
their heartiest support. 1t is only the fa,
natical portion of the Republican party
the old-sch DOL Abolitionfsts, and those who
have become imbued with their sentiments
who wage war against the just, logical,
constitutional policy of the Administration.
We have nowhere seen this policy more
clearly stated and sustained, than in the Of.
fetal correspondence of Secretary SEWARD
with the diplomatic agents of the govern
ment nor in this correspondence, conducted
as it has been by the Secretary with the
most mastery ability, do we find such poll.
cy more succinctIy treated than in the ex-
tract which we copy below. This extract
is taken from the correspondence OF Secre-
tary SEWARD with Mr.. DAYTON, Minister
to France, and will be found on page 1872
of the volume OF diplomatic Correspond
ence," lately published. We commend it
to the attention of all readers, and especially
to all such as sustain the emancipation
,,olicv of tho fanatica
"Moral and physical causes have determin
ed infexibly the character of each one of the
Territories over which the dispute has arisen,
and both parties after the election harmoni
ously agreed on all the federal laws required
for their organization. The territories will re-
main in all respects the same, whether the
revolution shall succeed or fail. The condition
of slavery in the several States ,cM remain the
same achetheT 1t shall succeed or fail. There is
not even preteXt for the complaint that the
disaffected States are to be conquered by the
United States if the revolution fail; for the
rights of the States, and the condition of every
human being in them; will remain subject to
exactly the same laws and forms of admins.
tration, whether the revolution shall succeed
or whether it shall fail. In the one case, the
States would be federally connected with the
new Confederacy /; in the other, they would. as
now, be members of the United States but
their CONSTITUTIONS AND LAWS, CUSTOMS, HAB.
REMAIN THE SAME.
1t is hardly necessary to add to this incon.
testible statement the further fact that the
new President, as well as the citizens through
whose SURFACES he has come into the Admins
tration, has always repudiated all the designs
whatever and wherever imputed to him and
them of disturbing the system OF Slavery as 1t
EXISTS under the constitution and la,cs. The case,
however, would not be fully presented If l
were to omit to say that any such effort on his
part would be unconstitutional, and all his &C.
lions in that direction would be prevented by
the JUDICIAL authority. even though they were
assented to by Congress and the people,"