The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1862-06-06

The committee was requested to meet at
the City Hall at nine O'Clock tomorrow
(Saturday) morning, for the purpose OF
receiving the names Of all persons Who are
disposed to unite under the organize
tion recommended by the proclamation OF
the Governor. The meeting then adjourned.
WHAT TIE RICHMOND EDITORS SAY.
The action of Davis and Letcher is warm
" commended in the editorial columns Of
the Dispatch, but the Examiner abuses
Davis for "telling bis beads" instead OF
fighting. We copy few passages from
the editorials Of the Dispatch:
We are proud of the spirit of our gov
erpments, Confederate and State, relative
to this question of holding and defending
this State to the last. The army will not
abandon the sacred soil of Virginia. That
has been made the battle ground, and on
that must the enemy establish bis superior.
ity in fair fight before it will be abandon
ed to him. The evacuation of the seacoast
positions and cities became a necessity
There was no avoiding it, in consequence of
the immense advantage enjoyed by the ems
envy in bis possession of the entire navy of
the United States, and the material and the
mechanical skill for the rapid construction
ofiron-clad gunboats, while we had neither
navy nor the material and mechanical
force to enable US to compete with him in
any sense. 1t is true. we had the Virginia /;
but, besides her, nothing. Her destruction
and the questions it involves, suggest mat
tiers of debate which afford neither satisfac-
ton nor benefit now to discuss. Our ina.
bility to meet the enemy on the water, as a
general question, was clear and indisputa-
BILE, and the withdrawal from the sea una
voidable.
Second to Virginia is the defence OF this
city, for manifold reasons, and it is in keeps
ing with the general purpose of both gov
ernments that they should resolve to the
uttermost to defend Richmond. All the
means in the power of The state and the
Coniederacy are pledged to this, and we
may be assured that the enemy will not be
allowed to crafty the prominent desire of
his heart, to hector and domineer over the
inhabitants of this far.famed and beautiful
town, until every means is exhausted.
The President nobly takes the stand that
though Richmond should fall, there are
plenty of battle fields yet in Virginia to
fight for the cause for twenty years. The
sentiment is as truthful as patriotic. The
Confederate government assures US that the
Old Dominion is not to be given up. God
forbid that it should. 1t would be giving
up much more than Virginia. The cause
would be, indeed, itself well nigh surren.
dered 10 that event. The government is
not only just but wise. in its determination
to stand by Virginia to the last.
To lose Richmond is to lose
Virginia, and to lose Virginia is to lose the
key to the Southern Confederacy. Vir-
ginians, Marylanders, ye who have rallied
to her defence, would it not be better to fall
in her streets than to basely abandon them,
and view from the surrounding hills the hu.
| initiation Of the capital of the Southern
Confederacy? To die in her streets would
be bliss to this, and to fall where tyrants
strobe would be to consecrate the spot
anew and wash it of every stain.
K The loss of Richmond
in Europe would sound like the loss of Pa~
ris or London, and the moral effect will
scarcely be less. Le5 US, therefore, avert
the great disaster bya reliance on ourselves.
1t is better that Richmond should fall as
the capital of the Confederacy, than that
Richmond exist the depot OF the hireling
horde of the North. But Richmond can
be defended and saved from pollution. The
fate of the capital of the Confederacy rests
with the peope.
puTNc or pTCuNoNn
In another article the Dispatch says:
The next few days may decide the fate of
Richmond. 1t is either to remain the cap
ital of the Confederacy or to be turned
over to the federal government as Yankee
conquest. The capital is either to be Sc
cured or lost 1t may be feared not temper
arily--and with it Virginia. Then if
there is blood to be shed leu it be shed here;
no soil OF the Conlederacy could driak it up
more acceptably, and zone would hold it
more gratefully. Vile, family and friends
are nothing. Leave them all for one glori>
GUS hour to be devoted to the Rep1biic.
Life, death and wounds are nothing if we
only be saved from the fate of captured
capital and Inundated Confederacy. Let
the government act; let the people act.
There is time yet.
Ii fate comes to its worst, let the ruins of
Richmond be its most lasting monument.
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