The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1863-08-07
The impending Danger.

on"o viz i0o0AioH uiust SOOn ylcIQ TO the
power of our national forces. The insur-
gents are daily growing weaker, while the
Union cause is gaining in strength at the
South as well as at the North.
There is undoubtedly growing senti-
ment at the South, favorable to the
restoration of the Union, under the old
constitution, without additional guarantees
or compromises of any kind. This senti-
ment is already sufficiently general and
influential to organize in the rebel States a
powerful Union party, which, il fostered
by the national administration, would soon
restore several of the seeded States to
the Union, and thereby infict upon the
rebellion a decisive blow, that would do
more towards the restoration of peace
than score of indecisive victories
But the impending danger is that the
radicals Of the North will prevail upon the
administration to enforce, to the bitter
end, their implacable policy of confisca-
ton, revenge, and subjugation.
They have announced this policy; and it
would seem that President LINCOLN has
sanctioned it. We trust, however, that
the impending dangers which forbid its
adoption, will induce linn to pursue safer
and more statesmanlike course.
The politicians, the orators and editors of
the radical republican faction announce
in plain terms, their new platform,
which they are resolved to enforce as a
substitute for the constitution of the Uni
ted States.
United States Senator PoMKRoY of Kan
sas, stated in a recent speech to the loyal
leaguers of Newark, New Jersey, this
new platform of his party, in the follow
ing language:
As to- the reconstruction of the Union, every-
thing demands it; we owe it to ourselves. to
our pOsterity, and to the brave men who are
spilling their blood in the field. If asked how
we shall begin, he would answer, begin as we
did in his State, Kansas,) establish the federal
ssuoAOAi'y III CfCIy OGbGC, duU Ilcu leu Inc
people come together, form constitution and
apply. for re-admission into the Union. He
would have it done by appointing delegates of
each district, &C., and then, after constitution
was drawn up, submit it to the people for their
approval, and let their be no restraint on the
franchise; let all men vote-men Of all nations,
no matter from whence they came.
According to this new platform, the Sc
ceded States are to be reduced to the con-
dition of territories; and, to enable the
radicals to mould the new constitutions to
suit their own views, they will let cal
men" vote, including the whole negro
adult male population; and "mea of all
nations, no matter from whence they
come, including soldiers from other States,
all are to vote.
We learn from the rebel press of the
South, that the planters OF the Mississippi
Valley are becoming unfaithfal to the rebel
cause, and desire, very generally, to re-
store the Union. During the last month,
a delegation OF Louisiana planters waited
on President LINCOLN, to represent to him
that they had been delegated by a large
body of planters of that State, to seek from
the general government full recognition
of all the rights of the State as they existed
previous to the passage of the act of seces-
sion. They asked permission to elect
State officers, and to return members to
Congress; and to bring the State back
into the Union, under the constitution.
The President declined affording the aid
they solicited. He informed the Louisiana
delegation that, since receiving their appli-
cation, reliable information had reached
him that a respectable portion of the peo-
pie of Louisiana desire to amend their
State constitution, and contemplate hold
ing convention for that object.
1t would seem from the foregoing reve-
lation that the President has kicked over
the Chicago platform, and now stands on
that announced by Senator PoMERoY.
Col. FoRNEY is recognized as an expo
ne 1t of Presidential policy. In an article
written by him at Washington on this sub
ject, and published in bis Press, he says !:
The only power that can make peace in the
South, is that composed of the men who have
suffered and bled for their hostility to Secession,
and the new element that has been liberated
from bondage. and that other which constitutes
the armed emigration that came first to smite
the territory and then to remain as part owners
of their forfeited possessions.
We have thus clearly indicated the poll
cy of the radical republicans, which, it is
supposed, has been approved, and will be
sustained by the President, Secretaries
STANTON, CHASE and WELLEs, while Sec
retaries SEWARD, BLAIR and BATES oppose
it.
The issue thus presented will, if insist
ed upon by President LINCOLN, expose the
Union cause to greater dangers than any
it has yet been called upon to encounter.
1t will re-unite the people of the South
against the North, and may invite foreign
interference, which is more imminent now
than at any other time during thr war.
We have heretofore escaped foreign in