The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1863-12-04

word, everything that can embitter
and madden contending factions. Sncb wos
the state of things for twenty years, and vet Inv
no gentle transition. but suddenly and when
the restoration of affairs appeared most hone.
less, the son of the beheaded SOVEREIGN was
brought back to his fathers blood-stained
throne, with such unexpressible and univer
sal Joy, as led the merry monarch to exclaim
= he doubted it had been his own fault he had
Deen absent SO long, for he saw nobody who
dld not protest he had ever wished for his
return In this wonderful manner" says
Clarendon, and with this Incredible expedi-
ton, did God put an end to rebellion that had
ragea near twenty years, and had been carried
on with all the hOrrid circumstances of murder.
devastation and parricide, that fire and sword.
IN the hands OF the most wicked men in the
world it is royalist that is speaking could
be instruments Of almost to the desolation of
TWO Kingdoms, and the exceeding defacing and
dsforming Of the third By these remarkable
steps did the merciful hand of God, in this
short space of time, not only bind up and heal
all those wounds, but even made the scar as
undiscernable, as, in respect of the deepness,
was possible, which was glorious EDITION to
the deliverance."
ana OF Charles " in the sixteenth century, the
thirty years war in the seventeenth century
the seven years war in the eighteenth century,
not to speak of other less celebrated contests
entalled upon that country all the miserics of
intestine strife for more than three centuries.
At the close of the last war; 'An officer"
says Archenholz, rode through seven vii
lagos in Hesse and found in them but one hui
man being" More than three hundred princi-
palitles, comprehended in the Empire, fer
mented with the fierce passions of proud and
petty states; at the commencement of this
period the castles of robber counts frowned
upon every hilltop; dreadful secret tribunal
froze the hearts of men throughout the land
religious hatred mingled its bitter poison in the
seething cauldron of provincial animosity. but
OF all these deadly enmities between the States
OF Germany scarcely the memory remains.
There is ne country in the world in which tho
sentiment OF national brotherhood is stronger.
In Italy, on the breaking up Of the Roman
Empire, society might be said to be resolved
into its original elements--into hostile atoms.
whose only movement was that of mutual re-
pulslOn. Ruthless barbarians had DESTROYED
the old organizations aud covered the land
with merclless feudalism. AS the new civili-
zatlon grew up, under the wing of the Church,
the noble families and the walled towns fell
madly into conflic! with each other; the secu
lar feud OF Pope and Emperor scourged the
land; province against province; city against
city; street against street waged remorseless
war against each other, from father to son. till
Dante was able to fill his imaginary hell with
the real demons of Italian history. So fero-
cious had the factions become that the great
pOet-exile himself-the glory of bis native CITY
and OF his native language-was by a decree Of
the municipality ordered to be burned alive. if
found in the city of Florence. But these dead
~ feuds and hatreds Welded to political influ.
ences, as the hostile cities were grounded into
States and staple governments the lingering
traditions of the ancient animosities gradually
died away, and now Tuscan and Lombard. Sar
dinian and NeOpolitan, as if to shame the de-
generate sons of America, are joining in one
cry for united Italy.
In France, not to 60 back to the civil wars Of the
league In the sixteenth century and of the Fronde in
the seventeenth not to speak of the dreadful scenes
throughout the kingdom which followed the reyOca-
ton OF the edict of Nantes. we have in the great
revolution which commenced at the close of the last
century seen the bloodhounds of civil strife let loose
az rarely before in the history of the world The
reign of terror established at Paris stretched its
Dloody brarean arms to every city and village in the
land, and If the most deadly euds which ever divided
people had the power to cause permanent aliena-
ton and hatred, this surely was the occasion But
TAR otherwise tie fact In seven years from the fall
OF RObespierre the strong of the youthful con-
queror brought order of the chaos of crime and
woe; JacObins whose hands were scarcely cleansed
from the best blood Of France met the returning
emigrants whose estates they had confscated and
whose kindred they had dragged to the guillotne in
the imperial anuchamber- and when, after an
other turn of the wheel of fortune Louis XVIII was
restored to his throne, he took the regcide Fouche
and confidence.
THK FuTuRR OF rHR RRBR LEAD1ns.
The people of loyal America will never take to
their confidence or admit again to q share in thrir
government the hard-hearted meu whose cruel lust
Of power has brought this desolating war upon the
land, but there is no personal bit erness tet even
against them They may live, if they can bear to
live after wantonly causing the death of 80 many
thousand fellow-men; they may live in safe OBJ
scurity beneath the shelter Of the government they
have sought to overthrow or they may fly to the
Of them already there seeking, happily in vain,
to obs~in the aid of foreign powers in flrtherance
OF their own treason. There let them stay The
humblcst dead soldir that lies cold and stiff in his
grave before us is an object Of envy beneath the
clods that cover him in comparison with the living
man who is willing to grOvel at the foot of for
eign throne for assistance in comprising the ruin
of his country.
THE PEOPLE or THE SOUTH.
But The hour Is coming and now is when the
power OF the leaders of the rebellion to delude and
infame must cease. There is no bitterness on the
part ofthe masses. The people of the South not
going to wage an eternal for the wretched pre-
texts by which this rebellion is sought to be JUSTIFIED
The bonds that un re US az one peOpl-a substantial
of origin, language, belief and law tthe
four great ties that hold the societies OF men to-
gether): common national and political interests;
common history; a common lride in glorious an
cestry; common interest in this great heritage of
blessings; the very geographical features OF the |
country the mighty rivers that cross the lines of eli
mate and thus facilitate the interchapg of natural
and industrial products; while the woodworking
arm of the engineer has leveled the mOuntan-wals
which separate the East and West compelling your
own Allegh MES, my Maryl' nd and Pennsylvania
friends, to open wide their everlasting doors to the
chariot heels of traffic and travel; these bonds of
lniOn are of perennial force and energy, while the
;anses of alienation are imaginary, fictitious and
transient TIE heart of the people North and South
8 for the Union. Indications too plain to be mis-
AIKEN announce the fact, both in the East and the
Vest of the states in rebellion In North Carolina
md Arkansas the fatal charm at length is broken.
1t Raleigh and Little Rock the lips Of honest and
,rave men are lied, and an Independent press is
Numbering it's artillery. The weary masses of the
,eople are warming the dear old flag floating
gain upon the captos and they sigh for The return
# the peace prosperity and happiness which they
njoyed under government whose power was felt
,nly in its blessings.
DEAD.
And now, friends, fellow-citizens Of Gettysburg
md Pennsylvania, and you from remOter States, let
ne again invoke your benedction, as we part on
hese hnnored graves. You feel though the occasion
mOurnu that it is good to be here. You feel that
was greatly suspicious for the Of the country
hat the men of the East and the men of the West |
he of nineteen sister States stood ride by side
N the per lous ridges of the battle You feel it
ne bond of union that they shall lie side by side
III clarion louder tnan that which marshalled them
o the combat shall awake their slumbers God bless
be UniOn 1t is dearer to for the blood of those
rave men shed in its defence The spots on which |
hey stood and ell these pleasant heights the fer
lie plain beneath them: the thriving village whose |
reets SO lately rang with the strange din of war;