The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1862-09-12

Our course then is plain. The Sioux 10.
dams of Minnesota must be exterminated
or driven forever beyond the borders of the
State
The public safety imperiously requires
it. Justice calls for it. Humanity itself,
outraged by their unutterable atrocities,
demand it. The blood of the murdered cries
to heaven for vengeance on these assassins
of women and children. They have them.
selves made their humiliation an imperative
social necessity Faithless to solemn treaty
obligations, to old friendships, to the ties of
blood, regardless even of self interest when
it conflicts with their savage passions, in
capable of honor, or of truth or gratitude
amenable to no law bound by no moral or
social restraints-they have already de.
strOyed 10 one mOnstrous act of peridy
every pledge on which it was possible to
found hope of ultimate reconciliation.
They must be regarded and treated as
outlaws. If any shall escape extinction, the
wretched remnant must be driven beyond
our borders and our frontier garrisoned
with force sufficient to forever prevent
their return.
So entirely have they destroyed all conf
dence among our people in the securities of
life and property in the neighborhood OF In
dians, that as much as many might regret
it, it will doubtless be necessary sooner or
later to remove the Winnebagoes, now
dwelling in the heart of our most populous
and beautiful agricultural districts beyond
the borders of the State.
10 execute this policy and to organize a
permanent system of frontier defence, it is
necessary to engage the approval and assist
ance of the General Government, and I
therefore urge upon you the necessity of
pressing these topics, by memorials of this
body, upon the attention of the President
and Congress. In the meantime, l have
the honor to ask your concurrence in the
measures which have been adopted, and the
Immediate appropriation of means, so far as
they shall be unsuppIied by the General
Government, for carrying on the war to a
decisive issue during the two or three
months left for offensive operations.
In few days l hope to be able to fur.
nish an estimate of the sum which may be
needed.
l have also to recommend that special
board be established, to audit, under a Wig
Orous system of vouchers, the accounts
accruing under the several classes of war
expenditures.
At your last session | recommended an
appropriation of $4,000 for a military
contingent fund. For reasons satisfactory
to the Legislature, but $4,000 was appro.
priated. This sum was exhausted by the
expenses attending the organization and
equipment of the Fourth and Fifth Regi.
ments, and l have been left entirely without
means TOR discharging the necessary expen-
ses connected with the new levies. The re.
luctance expressed by the Legislature last
winter to assume the payment of items of
expenditure deemed necessary for military
purposes not previously provided for by
Legislative appropriations. has had the eff.
feet to make it difficult to obtain credit on
account of the State for similar expenses
this summer, and this general distrust of
Legislative endorsement has seriously EN-,
barrassed me in any attempt to use the
name OF the State in providing for the pres.
ent extraordinary exigency. trust there.
fore you will relieve me of the necessity of
anticipating future appropriations of the
Legislature for the current military eypen>
ses of the State.
L have had much occasion to regret that
the pressing recommendations which | have
had the honor to make to successive Legis-
latures for thorough revision of our Mil
lila Law, have not been acted upon. Such
measure-the want of which has occa-
stoned great confusion in the execution of
the order OF the President for an enrolment
and draft of the militia of this State-is
more than ever necessary at this juncture
as means OF defensive organization
against the new enemy that has assailed us.
In consequence of the great pressure of
business upon the military department, 1
have found it necessary to actively fill mill
lila Offices which have heretofore been re-
garded as merely nominal, for which | trust
suitable provision will be made.
In this connection l take pleasure in ac-
knowledging the unremitting industry and
activity of the Adjutant General, in dispos
ing of the extraordinary amount of business
which has been thrown upon him.
1 would particularly urge upon your at
tention the absolute necessity which exists
that you should take some action by which
ottSA VI Jul CltIACuo nave NOW
Or may hereafter volunteer in the army of
the United States, shall continue to exer-
else the right Of suffrage.
The war into which we have been driven
by the southern rebellion has been, since its
commencement, without a precedent in the
history of the world, and every day seems to
carry it further beyond the bounds which the
expectations and hopes of mankind had pre-
scrlbed for it. Already our armies have alb.
sorbed nearly one-third of the entire voting
population of the State; and as in the past,
the magnitude of the struggle far exceeded
our anticipations, so in the future it may pro-
coed to lengths which no human prescience
can at this moment fOresee. Such is the de-
termination of our people to maintain un-
broken the union of the entire nation, and
such to ourselves and our posterity the great
ness of the material and vital interests at
stake, that this war will be prosecuted
though it should require the services of the
entire adult male population of the loyal
States. 1t is, therefore, not impossible that
the time may come when large majority of
those who, under our laws, possess the right
of suffrage, and of shaping the government
will be found in the ranks of our armies.
I need not enlarge upon the injustice of
any system of laws, whereby those who are
venturing health and life, and giving indus