The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1862-10-17


of free government if the armed minority
rule the peaceful majority ;-if the will of
twenty millions Of people is to sink before
the will of six millions IF five votes in
Minnesota are to be equalized by one rifle
in South Carolina?
Such state of things would be simply
a military despotism the despotism OF
mob ten thousand times worse than
the rule of a single able and intelligent ty-
rant.
Is there any road to peace, save through
victory?
Can it be found in the ACKNOWLEDGMENT
of our great country?
The blocking up of the natural channels
of trade, and the paralyzing of commerce
and industry, would be but a part OF the
evils that would follow in the train of such
an event
A great military nation would be estab-
lished close beside lis ever aggressive,
ever expansive violent beyond any his
tOrical parallel ;-aristocratic and military
from the very nature of its institutions 3
with all the skill of civilization and all the
desperation of barbarism The history of
the two nations would be a history of sue
cessive shocks war would be the rule
and peace the exception trade would
decline and prosperity die and the hap
piness and cOntentment of our early days
would be remembered as a dream of the
lOng-departed past.
What citizen desires to enter upon such
a career
If through war and victory lies the only
path to peace, let that war be brief and
that victory decisice.
Do not permit the hands of the Admin
istration to be tied, by sending disloyal
men to Congress.
Do not stop our armies in the full Ca
reer of triumph, by permitting the machi-
nations of desperate politicians.
Do not add years to the duration of the
tiOnal debt, by any effort to reconstruct
the government in the midst of the attacks
of a powerful foe.
Upon the sound Judgment, the resolute
patriotism of the people rests the salvation
of the nation.
If the people are equal to the task, the
day of peace will soon come, and the ma
ton, rising with renovated strength from
it's calamities, will advance along the vale
OF coming years, great, exultant and bless
ed of all men.
If the people give way to cowardly
doubts, to factious sentiments, to mercena-
ry motives, this great people will sink in a
sea of misrule and misery. When order
dies the love of liberty will not die with it,
but period of anarchy will bridge the
chasm between destroyed freedom and re-
stored peace. An immense multitude of
people, held together by no common tie,
spread over by vast region of country,
and possessed of the most determined love
Of personal independence will-if ever an
archy falls upon them-pass into excuses
which no human mind can at this moment
fOresee
Should such commissions visit the bosom
of our once happy country, the personal
prosperity of citizens would sink like bub-
bles in the wave
As war is ever dangerous to free gov
eminent, do not let us prolong and in
crease the danger of intestine dissensions !;
but, rather, close up the ranks and end the
danger by conquering peace.
We ask for our candidates for Congress
the support of every man in the State
whose heart is in sympathy with the OBJ
jects for which this war is now being wag-
ed; and of every man who desires to see
those objects attained by a brief and vigo-
rous prosecution of the war.
ROBERT F. FISK.
Chairman Republican State Central Com.