The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1862-03-14
How the Radicals Receive the Presidents
Message.

The view we have taken of the object
and purport of President L1NCoLN's late
message, is confirmed by its cold reception
at the hands of one of the most violent alb.
clifton journals of the West-the Chicago
Tribune. Below we publish what is ssid
of it:
6 President Lincoln sent special Message
to Congress, yesterday. making the suggestion
of compensated emancipation, as means of
restoring harmony in the Union. He gives his
reasons in few words, but plainly, and fur.
nished Congress and the country something to
talk about in the item of tai and appropriation
bills and great Federal victories"
The above is all that appeared in that
journal, on the morning of its publication,
but it is enough to show that the message
was anything but what they desired from
the President, and that it is what we have
previously stated, death to the con6scation
aud unconditional emancipation abolition
lists.
After reading the frigid paragraph of
the Tribune, we were somewhat amused in
referring back to the comments Of the
RAMSEY organ of this city.-the Press and
in the recollection OF the sensation its con-
ductors attempted to produce on the eves
ming the message was received, and the next
morning. They hurried the document into
type, and sent proofs to the Capitol, and had
them read in both Houses, and then sat
down to the composition of the following
displayed leader
EMANCIP ATION-THE BEGINNING OF THE END
The President Recommends the Initiation of
Emancipation.-The glad news of victory sue
ceediug victory that has recently electrified
and filled with overlooking joy the hearts of
loyal millions, is now surpassed in significance
in interest-in the grandeur and beneficence
of results by the message of the President,
which was transmitted to the Congress of the
Nation yesterday, ard which is laid before our
readers this morning. A prOfGunder satisfac-
ton, deeper spring Of joy is opened by this
news in the bosom of every lover of his
country. of his fellow man, and of his God
the eternal source of justice and all human fe-
licity-than has ever been felt or stirred before
Take your breath, reader, for the above
is not all. There came doubt whether,
after all, it meant abolition:
1t is true that the recommendation of the
President is not an active. immediate measure
of emancipation. Yet it is the certain initia.
tive of emancipation, and will be hailed by ev-
cry lover ofliberty throughout the land as such.
Where are the "lovers of Iiberty"-wby
didn't the Tribune shout They knew bet.
ter than the Press what the message meant.
But the gas was let on again, and here is
luminous jet:
The friends of freedom and just government
the haters OF human bondage-cOuld see no
security for our free Institutions no perman-
ent peace for the country SO long AS slavery,
the cause of the war, should flourish with un-
diminished vigor. They trembled lest the
countless millions OF money expended, and the
hecatombs of human sacrifice should be offered
only to prOpitiate the Moloch of slavery. The
long seeming silence of the truly great and
heroic man Mr.. Lincolnl entrusted with the
guidance of the Government, had almost made
them doubt his fidelity to principles.
Here is precious confession. So you,
seli-styled friends of freedom" have all
along been doubling Mr.. L1NcoLN's "fideli.
ty to principles" and at the same time pre-
tending TO sustain the Administration in
the conduct of the war. Shame on such
confession.
- But We cannot pursue the subject any
farther, excepting to allude to propensity
OF RAMsEY's paper, to "go off at half
COCK" as in the instance above noted. This
mental affection has become chronic, and is
past cure. We first observed it when Ma
son and S!idelI were demanded by England.
The Press then said:
We expect to hear, as matter of course,
that our Government will be prepared to see
the whole of Europe and America, from Nova
Zembla to Cape Horn, wrapped in a blaze of
battle before she will succumb to the arrogant
and most insolent demand of England to place
Slidell and Mason in the status they occupied
before passing over the deck of the San Jacin.
to on the Sth of November. If we yield this
point, better yield our nationality at once, and
disband our army and navy without firing an
other gun.
Brave words nut the rebel comm ission.
ers were nevertheless delivered no, without
yielding our nationality or disbanding our
armv ond uavv