The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1863-05-22

"Oh, no." said Seward, 81 don't mean
to say anything. don't mean to say that
we indorse it or that we deny it. All
mean to say is, that niggers don't get pass
ports here"
"Oh, yes, they do," said the Senator;
"well see to that"
So he put on his hat to 60 up higher.
But before he left, Mr.. Seward turns upon
him and says: "Why with an expletive)
did you tell me that this was colored
man! Why did you not say that you
wanted a passport for John SMITH"
s'I was just reading his note as l came
in, and l should not thought of concealing
it. l did not suppose the fact had any
significance.
"Well, he can't have a passport. That's
all"
ooh, yes he WILL" was the reply.
''Sit down and write letter, asking me
for blank passport"
The man did so and signed his name.
Seward folded it up, put it on file as if for
his defence, brought out blank passport,
and said, "Put as many niggers into it as
you want to-" Oaughter.)
That was in June, 1861. VIM. H. Sew
ard acting out his nature-the monkey
with the nuts in his hand. (Roars of
laughter) Then came August. Then
came the battles which made the North
sore to vengeance. Then came wave so
high that it carried all such statesmen a
whole arrows flight ahead. And then Mr.
Seward fastened to deck himself with the
merit of giving this passport to colored
men, and let the New York press boast of
it through the Empire State.
THE INCoMPETENTs OF THE CABINET.
Now, that is just the kind of men who
will never lead us to victory-never. The
Hallecks, the Stewards, the Blairs, the
Chases, follow their own ambition strong
minds, bad hearts, corrupt purposes, and
all the means of this eventful hour turned
away to serve them. Nor shall we have
victory till the nation sends them so deep
that political plummet will not reach
them.
BUTLER, FREMONT, ETC.
The army will do its duty. The people
will do their duty. But to achieve sue
cesses which shall settle this question on
apermanent peace, you want men like
Butler, Phelps, Fremont, Hunter, Hamil-
ton, who mean that this Union shall mean
union at any rate, and if it does not mean
union it shall not exist; who know no ma
ton except one that secures liberty. (Ap-
plause.) These are the men who are to
shape the policy and guide the thunder
bolts of the Government. ] believe there
never will be victory worth having until
the second General shall be from San
Francisco and the quicksilver mine.
WEST POINT INCORRIGIBLE.
An old adage says, GA fool is never a
great fool till he learns Latin" And so a
man is never utterly incori igible till he
graduates at West Point Oaughter) My
policy is to step forward. Since this So
cety last met the President has freed three
millions of slaves. That is great sue
cess; but we are not warning with slave
holders, but with slavery, and Lincoln has
just as much right to destroy slavery in
Kentucky as he has to destroy slavery in
Louisiana.
THE PRESIDENT A CYPIIER.
Lincoln called Fremont to his right hand
and Hamilton to his left, and Butler to
stand in front of him. To each of these
men he pledged, from his own lips, SOL
emnly, reiteratedly, employment immedi-
ately, so Immediately that in one case he
would not permit one of these Generals
even to quit Washington for six hours
No one of them has the baton of COM
mand. No one of them can issue an Or
der to a soldier. Why? Because Abra-
ham Lincoln is not President of the Uni
ted States. Because a Cabinet, with its
own ends to attain, and General-in- Chief
loaded down with whole mountain of
West Point on his shoulders, presume to
make conditions. The press is the mouse
that is to gnaw the cable that binds the
President of the United States. The press
is to free him. The first slave to be eman-
cipated is Abraham Lincoln, Of the White
House, from subserviency to those who
surround him. (Applause.) The worst
rebellion in the land is the rebellion of the
Cabinet and Generals against common
sense and the Cabinet is bullied into CIV
ing us, and, like Oliver, to ask for more
He must ask those who are incapable of
being the Cromwells, of the Revolution to
step aside and allow the coming man to
enter in at the DOORS The men 1 have
named are the only ones who can safely
be trusted to lead in this crisis. They
will not need excuses nor explanations.
We explain defeats; we do not explain
victories. When Fremont chased Jack
son down the Shenandoah Valley, and lost
him in the end, he only did what every Gen.
eral did before him, and yet he is blamed
as if he was the only sinner since the war
began. And why? Because they knew
he could have done better if he had been
properly supported. The government
that had two years of experience, of
warning and of advice, without profting
by it, must abide the consequences. In
the words of the old proverb, ''He that
won't be ruled by the rudder must be
ruled by the rock" (Applause.) If they