The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1863-02-13
Then wed thee to an exiled lot,
And if the world hath loved thee not.
Its absence may be borne!"

TO the Editor Of the Pioneer:
The bill to raise niger regiments passed
the House last night-stage-drive Aldrich
and sweet-scented Window voting yea.
Scores OF officers and soldiers openly de-
clare their determination not to fight pro-
miscuously with niggers. As old Father
Richie used to say, nous re7vUus. 1t is
said that our forts are to be manned with
sections Of the Corps Afriquc that the
abolitionists may have a reserve qurtle,
"to keep up loyalty say, to keep
down the Loco-Focos. | know not. For
two weeks Congress has been exercised on
the subject. In this hour of death to men
ana to the nation, when armies are dying
and families are starving that the Com
gress Of the United States instead of
meeting practical questions loaded with
the eternal destines of millions of once
united people, should waste the resources
of the land in puerile discussions of wire
drawn theories Of a visionary humanity.
u temD0yo' d mo,'cst Wider and wider
spreads the gulf between the North and
South, more e'nbttered the hostile armies,
more intense personal hatreds and preju-
dices more complicated all questions of
finance, OF settlement, OF every thng--and
hope is changed into despair This Gov
eminent was intended to be & league of
love; what it may become, God only
knows This know: it is in a nation as
among indiyiduals-liate does not and can
not produce love The theory Of the great
American Government rests upon consent
Friends and equals were the States, and
thus only can they remain under its once
consolidated banner: because it is true in
communities as between individuals,
(sOme men, | VT OF, appear to forget
this )
There is not human power which can cyadc
if unfOrgiyen,
The patient search and vigil long ;of him who
treasures up Il wrong.
The ust demands and unQuestioned
rights OF Minnesota have no chance in this
Congress. Suffering from the horrors of
an unparalleled Indian massacre, the fault
or not of the very powers from whom She
seeks redress, she comes to Congress
with her country devastated, her women
ravished murdered a thousand times
Over-her sucking children hanging cruc-
fled to her door posts, her men lying on
the plains and in the bitches, the victims
OF internal tiends, and implores assistance
redress The answer is, Wait "Four
millions of Southern slaves must have
their freedom, and Atrica's children made
worthy OF their ancestors" The Congress
will pass some half measure for the reno
val of the Sioux, which it will take ten
years to execute appoint a Commission
er, it may be, (doubtfuD to audit our
claims. and not appropriate dollar to pay
us for our losses. | say, not dollar The
$4,000 about TO be appropriated meets
about one half the claims Just now audited
by the State herself | would Just here
suggest, however, that this amount be APP
propriated to meet the outstanding claims
audited by the late State Board, and with
out any reference to the loan made by the
State. am satisfied that Rice and Will
kinson have done all they could to get our i.
bill through the Senate. am not given
to praise of Republicans hut all being
black alike, believe would as soon trust
Wilkinson with the interests of the State
as any other of them.
. Mr.. Rice has introduced several impor-
tant bills recently in reference to our ex-
IRENE western borders, but | suppose
they will be yeferred. Indeed this Indian
matter is before and above all, and unless
the Sioux Indians are all killed or sent
beyond the Rocky Mountains, it is useless
to talk of canals between Lake Traverse
and Red River or any other improvement,
IN, bat
the next century. | tell you little is to
be expected of this Congress but the eter-
nal discussion OF the Niger question
They have got the elephant by the horns,
but to hold him or let him go-that's the
question, What q body is this great
American Congress! Beau Hickman who
has been before the public for the last
twenty five years, says that he has at
length become completely disguised, and
designs retiring to the shades of private
life. as Othello's occupations gone.
One of the absorbing questions here is
what does Napoleon mean by his late
Legislative address in regard to Mexican
affairs. He is deep Congress wont give
the country any satisfactorily there's
trouble in that direction-bet upon it.
AAlo OlIy 10 Iull vi oOllilclS, dAC- luuSiS,
police officers, mud, and rats They Gm-
persOnating mud), throng the streets, fill
the saloons, infest the hotels, and run the
machine generally. If any friend of mine
contemplates coming here, let me beseech
him not to stop at the National, as ne val
ues his pocket, his reputation, or his stom-
ach. Go to Browns, the Kirkwood, if he
can get in, or get private rooms, and eat
with his friends. The National is pile of
dirt, broken glass and rat-beds. And by
all means 60 to Halls for glass of good
whisky, and to Rauchs for cigar, before
leaving, as it will be the last of his expert
ence in that line until MacGregor 5 on
his native heath, once more.
Among the Minnesotians l have met
here are Franklin Steele, ESQ.,, H. R. Big
Glow, ESQ.,, G. D. Gilfllan, Gen. Emerson,
of Norfolk, Virginia, George Plunket, Pay
master in the Navy; Snyder and Cotton, in
the Departments Nat. Tyson, Weigh
master in the Army Mccormick and Joe
King, in Sully's staff Col. E. L. SprOat'