The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1863-06-26

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n tie PROCEEDINGS Of Union Repab-
lican) Meeting at Concord, N. H., held on
the 18th inst, we find the following: 6ai,
sPRKcH OF POSTMASTER GENERAL BLAIR.
Mr.. Blair said that the real object of,
the parties controlling the slave power
was to make use of it as an agency for
controlling the government. To oppose
this was the natural impulse of true DEM
ocracy. When the nulli6ers failed to mas
ter or break up the government with the
tariff question, President Jackson fore
saw that they would resort to the slavery
question, on which to consolidate the
South, and by its use they had perpetu-
ated their rule for many years. Yet there
were men calling themselve, Democrats,
and even calling themselves jackson men,
and at the same time following the nulli-
fiers, who thought that the people of the
North should not have rallied even in
1860 to assert their equal right in the
government, leaving out the fact that
Jackson, Benton and the true leaders of the
Democratic party in the South denounced
the slavery agitation as plot for domin-
ion. No one could accuse the North of
making the controversy. in view of the
repeal of the Missouri compromise or the
Kansas outrages, the people had scrupu-
lousy kept faith on the compromise of
1850. From the past the speaker drew no
unfavorable differences for the future; for
the self-reliance which was the distinguish
ing characteristic of the American people
remained mistaken. It was not to be ap-
pretended that the spirit or letter of State
or national constitutions was to be changed
by the present struggle There were two
knots of conspiring politicians at opposite
ends of the Union, playing see-saw with
the government on the fulcrum of slavery,
and they would willingly break it to ex-
pertinent on reconstruction. The Calhoun
and Wendell Phillips juntas sought the &C
complement of adverse ends by COM
mon means-the overthrow of the consti-
tuition the former sacrificing free govern
ment because repugnant to the perpetuity
of slavery, and the latter subjecting all our
systems of government to revolutionary
tribulatiOns, because recognizing different
races among us, and endeavOring not only
to alter the laws and enfranchise the races
held under it, but to abolish constitutions
recognizing that law as established, and
admit to equal participation the races
who have been hitherto excluded as infe-
riOr. Those who hold the sovereignty of
the United States abjured both doctrines
equally. The amalgamation of races de-.
manded by the Wendell Phillips school
was an impossibility. Despite attempts
to make fundamental change in the laws
of nature by blending different races, the
hybrid has gradually worn out in every
instance, and the old stock preserved it's
original type, as instanced by the inter-
marriage of French and Indians on this
continent, and also with the blacks in St.
Domingo, and by the attempted amalga-
nation of the Spanish and Indians The
repugnance of caste which had grown up
in the country, showed that nothing could
reconcile the dominant race to the mixing
Of white and black races in the manage
ment Of common government, and our
civil war closing on the manumission OF
four million slaves, to take equal rank
with six million enslavers, would be but a
prelude to servile war and determination.
The speaker favored the liberty, equality
and fraternity of the African race, but
not in the region devoted to the fraternity
of the pale faces. 1t could be done only
by gradual segregation of the two races,
each to regions congenial to tieir natures.
The Wendell Phillips school did not expect
the amalgamation and equality theory to be
acceptable to thepresent ruling class, but in
tended that the Northern white man, while
rejecting it himself, should enforce it on the
Snu fborr, x1,bi 70 INF ~, ~ g..
scheme, the Northern soldier inten's
to make the land which he redeems from
notification an inheritance for his own
posterity. All the propositions of the abb
clifton faction which is warning on the
President come to these conclusions de
struction of the constitution and of the
white and black races, or incessant war,
after the example of the Moors and Span
iards. The two different schemes-Those
of the Calhoun and Phillips school both
concurred in pressing the antagonism of
races, but looked to different races to give
them power; and the success of either
would induce the same result, as far as
popular government is concerned; so that
there would scarcely be much preference
between being governed by jeff Davis as
leader'of the slave power, or by Wendell
Phillips, as leader of the enfranchised
blacks. But the Calhoun scheme was a
failure, as a governing continuance, and
the Phillips scheme, the dream of vision
aries, was failure from the start. Eman-
cipation was then fixed fact, and the real
issue was in accepting for guide Phillips
or Jefferson and Lincoln. In this the peo-
Dle WOuld answer wisely
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