The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1863-09-25
The Reasonable Spirit Of the NItnne-
sofa Peace Democracy.

The instinct of the people has been right
in regard to the reasonable spirit of the
Peace Democracy of Minnesota, as repre-
sented in the platform and candidates of
the late State Convention. All over the
State, upon the first receipt Of the Con-
vention's proceedings, the loyal portion of
the Democracy repudiated its action.
Every Democratic paper in the State, with
two insignificant exceptions, stigmatized its
action, not only as impolitic, but as dis
loyal. Nearly every County and District
Democratic Convention, held since, has
either directly, by plain denunciation, or
indirectly, by the adoption of a loyal war
platform, set its mark of condemnation upon
the action and policy Of the Peace De-
mocracy.
If further evidence were wanted, of the
reasonable character of the Democratic
organization of this State, as acting under
its present leaders, it might be furnished
from the representations made abr, ad by
those who have been prominent in govern
ing its policy. We come across these every
day, in the columns of copperhead jour-
mails, and they all unite in representing the
result at the State Convention as radical
triumph over the War Democracy. We
have specimen before us, SO frank in its
statements, ands SO truthful in its repre-
sensations of the spirit which controls
Minnesota copperheadism, that We think it
worth republication. We ask attention to
it on the part of the loyal portion of our
citizens, and especially on the part of the
loyal Democracy of the State. We find it in
the F'eeman's Journal, of New York, a
VIGOROUSLY reasonable sheet; and it ap-
pears there under date Of
ST.. PAUL, Sept ,, 1865.
Editor Freemdps JOundl-Dedr Sir:
Enclosed please find $1S to pay for the Jour
nal for the names herein enclosed. * *
Being entirely without Democratic paper
here. your journal is eagerly sought for by
genuine Democrats, whose stomachs reject the
nauseous doses with the lying labels on them
Democratic outside and full of Abolition
denominations within-served up in the so-called
"War Democratic" journals.
Our State Convention has just put its seal of
condemnation upon the outrageous Lincoln
dynasty, and its sympathizers and apOlogists-
the "War Democracy "-by adopting plat
form which gives the war the cold shoulder
and voting down by vote of so to AZ, an I'm
conditional war policy. This has caused quite
u,
are writhing and wriggling with endless con-
tortions and grimaces, and indulging in end
less intrigues with their black allies to split
and disorganize the party.
The cause of true Democracy is advancing
here us you may see by the action of our State
Convention. The people are determined to be
Free and they see no possibility for freedom if
they endorse the war, carried on as it is to
crush out the freedom OF the whites, in order
to give freedom to the blacks, and to destroy
and blot out the Constitution and our Repub-
lican form of Government, in order to subju-
gate and enslave the Southern States, and hold
them as vassal provinces, under as calling a
despotism as that which enslaves Ireland, Hun
gary or Poland. The shallow prctense that it
is war for the Union, can deceive no one
unless his mental vision is eclipsed by Niger
on the BRAIN
The noble sentiment of Patrick Henry is as
applicable and appropriate now as it was when
onr fathers met and vanquished the British
Lion in a seven years war for freedom, and
our motto now must toe 'Give me liberty CT
give me DEATH What will the Union be
worth without it: We had far better be as
limited and circumscribed in territory as Swift
Zerlahd, with our souls as expanded and free
as the air of her mountains, than to stretch
our domain like Russia and wear the manacles
of serfs and vassals to bigoted, puritanical
WITHDRAWING despotism. And we will be free,
though our rivers run with blood, and every
foot Of soil from Maine to Minnesota, be press
ed with the feet of contending armies. No
amount of sugar-coating the designs OF the
party in power, by labelling them The Union, ="
''The Government" Our Country" 1.-THE
Stars and Stripes" &c. &C., can blind us to the
real designs of this party to subjugate and en-
slave the South first and the North next; and
''sink or swim. live or die, survive or perish,
we will stand firm for the Constitution and the
liberties of the people; and when this cruel
war is over" we will see that there is "a sour
apple tree" for Lincoln. Seward and all North
ern traitors to the Constitution, as well as