The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1862-03-28
bility OF the Border Slave States
Remaining In the Union.

The Nashville Papers ON the PrOba-
bility Of the Border Slave States
Remaining In the Union.
AN EXPOSURE OF THE FALsEHooDs BY
WHICH YANCEY "F1RED THE SOUTHERN
HEART"
The following are the leading editorial
articles of the Nashville Republican Ban.
mer, of Saturday, March 18th. The Ban
mer was lately the Union and American,
the central organ of the secesb of Tennes-
see: g.- s....
THE BORDER STATES AND THE FEDERAL Gov
EMINENT.
The unexpected and sudden events that
have lately crowded around US, deeply at
iecting as they surely do, the interests, per-
haps the destiDies, of the border slavehold.
ing States, must engage the serious atten.
ton of the patriotic people of Missouri,
Kentucky, Tennessee. and Virginia. These
States have been well nigh surrender
ed to the federal armies within the past
twenty days. The military authority of
the United States has been extended over
them and their inhabitants, however promp-
| ted, must commit themselves, irresstibly, to
that authority. We do but express con-
viction which future events may not remove
when we say that, looking at the present
aspect of affairs, it would seem that the
Confederate government, in the language of
the last message of its President, "has un-
dertaken more than it can successfully &C.
complish." The line of southern defenses
has been almost entirely withdrawn from
their advance positions On the northern
border of the Contederacy, to the immedi.
ate protection of the original seeded States.
1t may be, amid the varied and uncertain
fortunes of war, that the States under our
immediate consideration are to be perma-
nenty held under Federal authority. In
view, then, of such possibility, and as one
who feels deep and abiding interest in the
welfare of these States, we can but look to
future political relation which circumstan-
ces beyond our control may bring about.
Are We, then, to have peace? Is the
shield Of the constitution, as our fathers
made it, to be thrown about US, securing
our rightful heritage in all that ennObles
American citizenship? Are we to be held
as equals amid brotherhood of sovereign
states, whose domestic affairs shall remain
unmolested by those whom heretofore we
feared to trust as friends? Or are we to be
tossed again upon the ceaseless waves of
slavery agitation? Is the constitution to
be made the guise of oppression, our State
equality merged in great consolidated
power, and we its helpless victims? These
questions are full of importance to US. We
can support the constitution of our fathers
in future, as we have sought to do in the
past. We can sustain Union of equality
such as Webster and jackson aimed to pre-
serve. In such Constitution and such
Union we have been ever ready to pledge
the ardent VOWS of patriot.
1t is natural, indeed, that the border
slave states should look with deep anxiety
upon the pro>p ect now before them. They
have been conservative in the past. They
deserve, therefore, a better reward for the
wise counse!s they have given the country,
than to be made the victims of policy
now sought to be inaugurated by the rad
ical men of the North. Will Mr.. Lincoln
yield to the insane clamor of such politics
ians? The opportunity, perhaps is near
at hand, when he may exhibit himself to
the American people in the attitude OF
broad.minded, magnanmous Statesman.
The policy of the government towards
these states will prove to the world ''what
manner of man be is."
YANcEY, RosF AND MANN ON THE PRESENT
| WAR.
We present elsewhere in our columns
this morning large portion OF the letter,
recently published, addressed to Earl Rus.
sell by Yancey, Rost and Mann, Confeder-
ate Commissioners in Europe. The letter
is certainly remarkable document, and
should attract the attention of every re.
fecting mind.
1t will be perceived by the reader that
the distinguished gentlemen have presented
in Europe quite different view of the OBJ
jects of the war waged by the Federal gov
ernment from what they urged before their
people at home, prior to the Inauguration of
actual hostilities between the sections.
They now assert before the world, by au-
thority of the Confederate government, that
the great object of the war, as now Off
cially announced" is mot to free the slave"
ard "It was not from fear that the slave
would be liberated that secession took place.
NE very purity III power has pTOpOseO 10
guarantee slavery forever in the States, if
the South would remain in the Union"
1t will be remembered by every reader
that prior to the revolution, in this
State at least. the original leaders of seces-
sion urged disunion mainly upon the grou nd
that it was the purpose of the Federal gov
eminent to interfere with the institutions OF
the South, and especially to abolish slavery
by force ii need be. The argument which
was made to the contrary by the Unionists
in Tennessee. was branded as abolitionism
itself. But, behold the authorized agents
of the Confederate government have repeat.
ed it in the ears of foreign nations, and
officially published it to the world. The
letter as we present it this morning, will be
found very interesting.
4 Hon. w. A. Richardson. Representa-
tive in Congress from Illinois has declined
the Brigadier GeneraIship, rendered him by
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