The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1862-07-04
The Consequences OF Rebellion Fore.
told by a Friend of the South.

The New York Express has been the
most persistent friend of the South prior to
and since the commencement of hostilities,
incurriDg the obloquy Of the North and be.
ing accused of disloyalty because of its
friendly sentiments for the Southern people.
There is not the remotest taint of abolition
about it, and in all its opinions and inclina-
tions it is decidedly prosavery. Yet the
New York Egprsss cannot shut it's eyes 10
the drift of events and the consequences that
will inevitably result from prolongation
of the rebellion. 1t soemply warns the re-
bells of the fate 10 store for them if they per.
sist, as Jeff. Davis declares they will and
shall in ga twenty years. war;" and truer
words were never uttered and none more
significant than are contained in the follow
ing articles from its columns:
Self gooegYsme'at nos0 is withias the full
reach of every rebellious State. The soldiers
of the North, now, whatever the Abolition
lists may give out in Congress, are not fight,
ing to "subjugate" Southern men, but to
restore to them their form of self govern
ment as we'll as ours--that common consti.
tution--which their Washington created,
as we'll as our Franklin. The armies of the
North desire to maintain the independence
and all the constitutional rights of the
South. What they are fighting for is "the
One Country, the One Constitution, and the
One Destiny" their own Washington and
Jefferson created. Self Government. if the
war ends now, is to be as much theirs as
ours, as much theirs, a0ao, as ever, before.
No true constitutional soldier in the army
desires to anuihilate State, or to make q
subject of citizen. What all Northern
men want to have, must have, will have, is
the restoration of the Flag, our common
fathers bequeathed to us, and the re estab-
lishment OF that Constitution, they ordained
for all time. Morally, Geographically, Pos
litically, this is indispensable for all of us-
even If the war is to last twenty years--as
"peace" now would be but a"truce," in
attempting to settle anything short OF that :
Morally, we say, because in two thus con
tiguous countries, if not more, there must
ever exist two great armies, if not more,
eating out the vita's of the People and cor
rupting all their morals Geographically
because our Rivers and Mountains. Bays
and Estuaries, force US to be one P0JitG
caNy, because, if we do not exist, in Re-
public. as one People, Military Despotisms
must and will, take the Republics place
Rebellion now can pause, ard secure, and
re secure all its rights. The temperance
only of Southern Union men in Congress
such as Andrew johnson, or, even Parsou
Brownlow, aEnibiiates Abolitionsm there
at blow. Buff Passion rushes on
Passioo will work out and dig the grave
for its own destruction and burial Anon
all of us, will have to say--just what the Alb
oltionsts are keeping up this war for-that
if Southern men will not take the oath to
support the Constitution of toe United
States, they must quit the United States
No man qcho refuses to Saoear allegiance tC
the Government and the Flag, hos any cleim
for she protection of that Government O,
that Flag. Aliens to the soil IN arms o,
at heart, hostile 10 the Government o0er tha
soil, cannot be permitted to eTist as real es
tate holders, or as U0ters on that Sol. T(
work cut all this may cost years and years
and we fear it wil--under the halfin half
and ever balf affrighted, and half affrightine
policy of the Administration but 1t will bt
worked out in the end--if in no other way
by the armed occupation of Southern soil
parceling it out, and giving it to settlers
from every part OF the earth, with arms II
their hands to defend it. God spare US al
from that awful struggle.