The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1862-02-21
NV collesge ia enc of those whose noli-

My c0lleage is enc OF those whose poll
tics and prayers have ever been to be deIiv.
cred from the men of war. In times past
be has thought more of st. Peter than OF
saltpetre. When the Mexican war was
declared, the class to which be belongs ecb-
oed Sum0er's" true grandeur OF nations"
when be said, "there was no war which was
not dsbonorable, and no peace which was
not honorable" They sang the ironical
Yankee slang OF Hosea Bigelow to the re-
cruiting sergeant of Col. Caleb Gushing
"Fife away, you fin' Teller,
You may fife till you are yeller,
Fore yvu get hold OF me-"
There, away down in some New England
village" they kind O. thought Christ went
agin war and pillage, and that eppyletts
warn't the best mark of saint" Now,
they are wiling to swear "tbat the apostles
were rugged out in their swallow tail coats,
an marched round in front of drum and
ffe." Now they agree to the ironical
verse :
"John P.
RObiuSon-he
Says they didn't know every thing down in
Judee."
These men whose lives have been dedi
Gated to considering the horrors OF war and
slavery, whose consciences we're very ten
der about the downtrodden when they
wanted votes, COW undertake, by congress.
sional committees, declarations, and milita-
ny diatribes here, TO set squadrons IN the
field. and to show Mcclellan how he is not
doing it at ali, or how he might do it with
the aid of armed blscks so bravey and all
at once. Not satisfied with the President
of their choice; not content with that which
they voted in the Crittenden resolutions as
the object to which the war should be de-
voted; not happy 10 the calm progress OF
campaign which, so far as General McCIel
Ian is concerned, has been comparatively
successful, end certainly without bIunders,
they want a movement "at all hazards"
even if it moves the country and the Gov
ernment to secession, dictatorship, chaos or
destruction. Such political dispeplics and
martial zanies ought to be cent home to
teach boarding school misses the doctrines
that brought many members here-tbe
beauty OF John Browns lie and the glory
OF bis death.
Do not these extreme gentlemen know
that they are, in some part, responsible Tor
this war? Does my collegue, from Cleve
land, want me to prove it by bis own speech?
They are on = fighting what we advised them
would come by their acting. We Demo-
Gratis, with Mcclellan at our head, are now
helping them and bow are we met by these
iugrates ? No, they are not fighting It but
they think they are moving the wheels, when
they only sit on the axle and buzz their
murmurs about Mcclellan and the forces
which move the chariot OF war.
What good comes of this sort of debate
here and now ? Talk about milking he-goal
in q sieve-and it is sense to this.
Now, there is little smack of propriety
in this latter idea; but what can we say OF
this exhibition in deliberatve body, whose
only duty is to increase the Army and the
revenue discussing the disposition of the
slaves before we get them, and the move,
meDts OF general NJ cClellaD, With the blank
est iDcapacity to understand them. 1t is
too ridiculous for serious controversy. 1t
can only be ridiculed. Yet we have these
civil warriors, whose only fight is l0g0ma-
cby, barking at General Mcclellan; and for
what2 Because be does not proclaim liberty
throughout all the lard and to all the in
habitants thereof. Alb, there 10 the trouble.
Can you wonder that Wendell Phillips,
whose speeches are hailed so rapturOusly
by this class, declared that be should de-
plore victory by Mcclellan, because the
sore would be salved over, and it only be
the victory of slave Union; and that be
thanked Beauregard for marsballipg bis
army before Washington. because it confer.
red upon Congress the constitutional power
to abolish slavery? Nor would wonder
to see my colleague from the Cleveland dis.
trict, who lectuted Us on our duty to the
Union upon the slavery question, rehears-
ing again his contempt Tor the Union,
which be expressed in bis printed speech
made at Cleveland or the day of John
Browns obsequies. when be said that no
purer spirit than John Browns had ever
entered Paradise fer the past thousand
years and that he would rend the UoiOD
to destroy slavery, though hedged around
by the triple bars of the national compact,
and though thirty three crowned sover-igus
with arms 10 their hands stand around it.
l wish these masters of the art OF war
who quote so iuappositeIy and irrevereutly
Joshua's writings. but forget how be won
bis battles, whose knowledge of Agamtm
non and Achilles is purely poetic, would
study some OF the useful maxlms OF II Iero~
Giles, and would just go to sleep before a
looking glass to see how handsome they
look with their eyes shut and their mouths
closed. The country would have a jubilee
over their silence only second to that which
greeted the Outgoing Ct the late Secretary
OF Warl
The London correspondent of the New
York Times relates that when Lord Pail
merston went to the meeting of the Privy
Council, which met to consider the Trent
sffAir, his first remark, on laying down bis