The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1863-08-21
The Weak Point i'm the Rebellion
and the Strong Point with the
Radicals

as the leading organ OF the rebel govern
ment, and may be accepted as a fair ex-
ponent of the hopes, fears and policy
of the JEFF. DAVIS dynasty.
We can see clearly in its late earnest
appeals to the people of the South, what
the rebel leaders consider the weak point
of their enterprise. It is evident that
that they now fear and believe that q
conservative and forgiving policy on the
part of our government would pierce the
centre of the rebellion, divide the South
ern people, conciliate a large majority of
them, excite their hostility to the rebel
army, and thereby, aided by our troops, at
the same time accomplish its destruction,
and the downfall and ruin of the rebel
chiefs and thus speedily end the war, and
restore the unity, and fraternity Of the
American people. Every intelligent per-
son, North or South, must observe the
growing willingness and increasing hope of
the people of the rebel States, to return to
their allegiance and duty as American
citizens
This great change has been wrought by
the valor and constancy of our gallant ar
mics. An audacious minority coerced a
timorous majority of the Southern people
to embark in the mad experiment of def
ant secession. But the minority, beaten
by our armies, know that their final ruin
is only question of time; while in many
sections, a majority of their people, reali-
zing their own wretched condition, and the
increasing perils of their situation, do not
hesitate to confess their mistakes, their
penitence, and their desire to be forgiven,
and restored to the dignity of loyal men !;
asking no other condition than that they
shall be permitted to enjoy the common
rights of citizenship under the American
Constitution. But this is cousummaton,
however devoutly wished, which, it would
seem, is not so easy of accomplishment as
enlightened patriots might desire or an
ticipate.
There are two classes of political lead
ers, opposed in theory, but in disposition
and in practice Of one accord, who were
alike overjoyed with the commencement
of the war, and would alike deplore its
termination and settlement on basis of
fraternal unity, and restoration, or rather
perpetuation, of the old Constitution, the
charter of the greatness, prosperity and
power Of the American people.
These opposing leaders of the wild and
violent factions of our civil war-the fran
tic, exulting radicals, and the disappointed
and frightened rebel chiefs alike dread
ing the restoration of peace before having
more fully satisfied their thirst for blood
-co-operate in Jealous endeavors to con-
vince the ruined, repentant and imp!oring
people of the South, that all hope of re-
Cancellation and fraternal unity is delusive
These ministering demons Of sectional
animosity would have the people on both
sides continue to fight until they would
she'd their last drop of blood " in the
"last ditch" rather than sure nder their
own positions as leaders and champions of
our stupendous fraternal slaughter.
Consequently, they alike, on both sides,
insist that the war must continue to be
uncompromising, vengeful and exterraina-
ting. To destroy all hope in the South, of
any other issue, the rebel leaders keep be-
fore their terribly afflicted dupes, the
vengeful rantings and threatenings of
their cooperating friends, the Northern
Radicals.
Here is specimen of the appeals made
by the rebel press, and by JEFF. DAVIS, to
excite and keep alive among their victims,
the courage Of despair: it is an extract
from an editorial in the Richmond En-
qui1'er, of the 9th instant:
The President, who never exaggerates, states
plainly what the enemys success in this war
means: "Their malignant rage aims at no.
thing less than the determination of your
selves, your wives and children. They seek to
destroy what they cannot plumber. They pro-
pose. as the spoils of victory, that your homes
Shall be partitioned among the wretches whose
atrocious cruelties have stamped infamy upon
their government. No alternative is
left YOU but victory or subjugatiOn and utter
ruin" just so; this is precisely the alterna-
tive there is no middle ground to rest upon.
Promotions.