The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1863-12-25

community where every working man is a
freeman. 1t is as though Yorkshire and
Lancashire were to enter into a conflict,
and it was understood that in the case of
one, all the laborers who did the muscular
work of the country in the field, in the
factory, on the roads, or in the domestic
establishments-all the bone and muscle
of the country-should be eliminated from
the fighting population and ready to take
advantage for themselves if an opportunity
was offered them of running away; how
could community so circumstanced fight
against the neighboring country where
every workingman was fighting for his
country? How could the one have a
chance of succeeding, even if left to physi-
cal force, without the moral considerations
to which l have referred. This is the
condition in which the two sections of the
United States are now placed. In the one
case you have honor given to industry !;
labor is held to honor. What do we hear
Have we not heard by way of reproach,
by some people who fancied themselves
in alliance with our aristocracy-some Of
our writer's who wish to be supposed they
are themselves of the aristocratic order
as stigma against the North, that their
President was once a rail splitter?
[Cheers.] But why is that rail splitter
elevated to be President of the United
States? Because labor is held to honor
in the United States. [Cheers.1
ARIsTooRAOY AGAINST DEMOCRACY.
With such conflict going on, and with
such result as l feel no doubt will follow,
is it fair to speak of such a contest as
that and say that it is a struggle for en-
pire on one side, and for independence on
the other? say it is an aristocratic re-
bellion against democratic government.
[Applause.] That is the title l would give
to it. In all history, when you have had
the aristOcracy pitted against the people
in physical force and conflict, the aris-
tocracy has always gone down under the
heavy blows of the democracy. Hear,
hear When l speak thus let nobody say
am therefore indifferent to the progress
of misery and devastation and ruin and
bloodshed that is now going on. No;
my indignation against the South is that
they fred the first shot and made them
selves responsible for these results.
take, probably, a stronger view than most
people of this country-and certainly a
stronger view than anybody in America
of the vast sacrifices of life and of
economical comfort and resources which
must follow to the North from this strug-
gle. They are mistaken if they think
they can carry on a civil war like this,
drawing million of men from productive
industry, to be engaged in the processes
Of destination fo crapl 4hroo
hundred millions sterling-they are de-
luded if they think they can carry on
a war like that without terrible collapse,
sooner or later, and dreadful prostration
in every part of the community. Hear,
hear That being SO makes me still more
intolerant of the cause But of the result
l have no more doubt than of any sub
ect that lies in the future.
THE UNITED STATES AND EUROPEAN GOVERN
MENTS.
Now [ would ask you why do some peo-
pie wish the United States should be cut
in two? They think it desirable it should
be weakened Will that view bear discus
sion for moment Ihold not. I am of
the opinion which our statemen were in
the time of Canning, who thought it desir-
able for Europe that America should be
strong, because it would thereby prevent
European powers from interfering in Amer
can affairs. That has been the case hith-
erto. That country has prospered, and it
has never come to interfere with European
politics, whilst it has kept European gov
ernments from interfering in other Amer
can States which have been less prosper
Gus or less orderly than the United States.
What has followed of this disruption?
You have France going into Mexico and
Spain to st. Domingo. There are horrors
unutterable going on in St. Domingo be-
cause Spain has invaded that country
[hear, hear with view to re-conquest.
And the French Emperor has embarked in
a career in Mexico which will only char
acterlze as the greatest mistake he has
ever made loud applause
Those enterprises would never have been
undertaken if the United States had not
been in this difficulty, and it is the least
creditable part of these enterprises that
they have been undertaken because Amer
lea was weak. Hear, hear 1t only re-
quired that the North should have been
little weaker to have enabled those silly
people who are going about the country to
have carried their project, and to have in
duced England and France to interfere to
settle the rebellion. Hear Is that de-
sirable? [Cheers.] Don't you think we
have enough to do at home? Do you sup
pose that Europe has so little to do that
she can afford to cross over to America to
set that country in order?
THE EUROPEAN CONGRESS.
:'N:hat is the meaning of the utterances
we have heard lately from the French En-
.peroor. with regard to the project for Eu-
!nopear eahsl!sss:? The arrangements of
te treaty. Of :Nienna- use the Emperors
own words-are "torn to tatters." That
is not consolatory thought for us who
have fought for many years, and have
spent thousand millions in that war, and
now we are told that the treaty for which
we fought has been "torn to tatters." At
all events, We may take this to mean that
Europe has enough to do at home without
going to interfere in America
From this point Mr.. Golden branched off
into discussion of questions of European
policy, declaring that he was not unmind-
ful of the claims of Poland, but had no
faith In the power of any one country to