The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1863-03-06
A Forty Years, War to Emancipate
the Negroes.

BEEcHER, of the Independent, thinks
war common place affair-not so very
Notwithstanding like the measles or
whooping cough, to be expected by all the
mothers of the land, and to be regarded as
"only "type of Sickness" Starting
out with couplet from TENNYsoN, in the
last Independent, he says:
is it peace or war? Better war loud war by
land and by sea,
War with its thousand battles, and shaking a
hundred thrones"
E"And this is not so terrible disaster as
at first appears. War is the normal con-
dition of all European society. Yet Eu-
rope is flourishing and progressive.
Mothers there as much expect to lose some
of their children in battle as by disease.
1t is no worse than disease, it is only an
other type of sickness. Human frailty
breaks out in human conflict. Burke
speaks truly when he says, AS to war, if
it be the means if wrong and violence, it is
the sole means Of justice amongst nations
Nothing can Danish it from the world"
The mild gentleman grows jubilant in
view of ''red and roaring sea" and a
s'forty years. war;" This is not to be a
''short war;" we were fools to have ex-
pected any such thing. Time and expense
are nothing. We can live on rye bread
and gunpowder, and live without money
without clothing and almost without food.
Perhaps the war will last seven years, or
thirty, or sixty. What of it? A war for
emancipation is grand one-worth fight
ing for forever-and thus the blissful ssnor-
NAL condition of European society" may
become our own. Emancipation is the
object Of the forward to liberty is
the battle cry. Hear the pulpit chieftain:
"Speak unto the children of Israel that
they go .forpard," is His PROCLAMATION.
Forward to Liberty-forward through
red and roaring sea, through great and
terrible wilderness, on the only path to a
peaceful and pleasant land. What if it
takes forty years to reach it /? 1t is better
than the bondage of the past generations.
The people have grown more in the last
two years than in the previous eighty. 1t
is July, not January storm. Every
drop is full of life.
We ought not to haze expected short
acor. We did not deserve it. We have
just reached the point from which our
fathers ought to have started. The De-
claration of Independence ought to have
been accompanied by the Proclamation of
Emancipation. Eighty-seven years sepa-
rate what should have been twin-born.
For almost century slavery has ruled us.
Can we expect to annihilate it in one day?
1t took seven years to make the Declare
ton fact. Can we hope that less time
will be required for the consummation of
this equally important declaration Brit
ain fought Papacy for more than sixty
years. From the expulsion of James to
the humiliation of the hopes of his family
in the battle of Culloden, was more than
two generations of almost ceaseless civil
war. At times, too, the Stuart cause
seemed far more likely to prevail than the
shareholders does to-day. All of Ireland
and Scotland and half of England were
held by their armies. Yet tie Protestant
purpose failed not and because it failed
not, God honored it with success. So
Germany had to wage civil war of thirty
years to secure religious liberty, and al
most every chief town was sacked by sue
cessive armies. Yet the prize was worth
the cost. Nearly thirty years were re-
quired by all the powers of Europe to sub
due Napoleon. A prize greater than that
of Professionalism in England and Germany,
far greater than that which inspired the
thrones of Europe against France, is held
out before us. 1t may take as long to
gain it.
We must cast out Of the question The
element of tinee; we must also that of ex-
pense. What if it cost thousand or ten
thousand millions? What if our currency
is as worthless as the Continental Our
fathers won their liberty with one more
worthless than that. We can live as Prus-
STA did in her struggle to become nation
ON rye-bread and gunpowder. We can
live as our fathers did, without money,
without clothing. almost without food.