The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1862-08-01

tn6 DOf0efo OF the Atlantic, In the mfd0e Of
your own ocean-girt home, may be SAFE
fran this horrid storm and all 'its fury.
The gentleman from Minnesota + Mr.. vii.
kinsonl is safe; the Senator from Michigan
M. Howard is safe; and ! rejoice that it
is 60 with them and their people. I wish
it were so with us; but it Is not. We have
to take things as they sie.@ We cannot
change them. We have to, act as best we
can in view Of all the facts that surround as.
We are the most deeply interested in all
these questions, much more 90 than the gem
tleman from Minnesota Mr.. Ricel; and I
tell him when be proposes to put farms in
the hands OF the negro, be Expresses many
manly heart and drives to dependency and
despair many women and children who in
herit the border Slave States, who are az
loyal to the Union as be is or any other |
man. To US this insurrectionary war is
practical question: to you, gentlemen, it is
not 80 Will you not put any trust what,
ever in sensible, true, Union men i'd the
Slave States, or do you adopt the dishonor.
ing position that there is no Loyalty in the
Slave States? If there is not, 7o' .1 I
+ Cry havoc and let slip the dogs of war"
Mr.. RICE. Mr.. President, deeply regret
that should have said anything to pain
the honorable Senator from Kentucky.
Whenever / address the Senate endeavor
to express my sentiments with due regard
to the feelings and opinions OF others; but
must be permitted to cay that the Senator
has travelled far from this continent to hunt
up precedents to show the barbarities of
the negro. regret that be did not confine
his remarks to occurrences nearer home. I
regret that be did not expend his eloquence
in condemnation of the leaders of the South
ern Confederacy in arming Indians and
bringing them into battle at Pea Ridge,
where they not only committed the most
atrocious outrages on the Union troops, but
in their frenzied madness turned upon the
rebels themselves. regret tbas he did not
come down to still later period, to the
last battle near Richmond, where the con.
federates filed the canteens of the privates
with gunpowder and bad whisky to make
them worse than fiends There was field
in which the honorable Senator could have
dilated; there he could have used bis eo.
quence to an advantage that would have
awakened every loyal man in the North
musket in defence of the Union.
Mr.. DAVIS. Will the honorable Sem
ator allow me to ask him one question
Mr.. RICE. Certainly.
Mr.. DAVIS. If the confederates vio-
late the usages and customs of civilized
warfare, does be therefore want our Gov
ernment and our armies to be guilty of the
same violation?
Mr.. RICE. will answer that question
In very few words. If a stranger to our
present difficulties had been here and list
ened to the remarkable speech of the Sen
ator, he would have supposed that he was
an ambassador from the Southern Confed.
eracy speaking in their behalf.
Mr.. DAVIS. MIR. President
The PRESIDING OFFICER. The
Senator from Minnesota is entitled to the
floor. .0H
Mr.. DAVIS. l say to the honorable
Senator there is nothing that I have said
that authorizes him to make any such as
sertion.
Mr.. RICE. The Senator has spoken as
though the people of the North were war.
ring upon him and upon bis people.
MIR. DAVIS. 1t is not SO, Mr.. Pres.
ident.
MIR. GRIMES. 1 call the Senator to
order.
Mr.. DAVIS. Let the Senator protect
himself, sir.
Mr.. GRIMES. insist upon order be.
ing preserved.
The PRESIDING OFFICER. The
Senator from Minnesota is entitled to the
floor.
Mr.. RICE. 1 have no objections to the
Senator expanding bis feelings in any man
ner be sees fit. He will not discompose nor
discomfort me in the least.
Mr.. DAVIS. hope the Senator will
not misrepresent me.
Mr.. RICE. say the Senator's whole
argument has gone to show that we of the
North were making war upon the border
States, upon the Union men of the border
States, and be has held up to us the atroci.
ties that will be committed upon his family
and upon the families of the Union men
of the border States. Who is it, sir, that
has defended the Union men in the border
States and those pretending to he Union
men 1t has been the North. Our troops
were mustered into service and sent into the
border States at their request. They have
defended them from the beginning, and
they will do so to the end, and not an afro.
cious act have they committed. They have
saved their wives their children and their
property. Not only have they done so
heretofore, but they are still ready and viii.
ling to do so, and will continue to do it to
the end. Ia iiKEqe alSe5
l l want to see the arguments and speeches
on this question of the war confined to the
facts. am not in favor of massiug the
negroes and putting arms into their hands;
but am in favor OF employing them in this
war. If you look ct the history of it, you
will find that three hundred thousand Con-
federate soldiers, admitting man for man to
be equal are worth as much as five hundred
thousand of ours. Why is it so? The
building of roads and bridges, all the camp
duty, all the mepial service among them is
performed By the negroes, and when battle
is about to take place, the confederate army
is able to bring every white man into the
field, fresh and ready for the contest How
isit with us? When our. army gees into