The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1863-03-06

In the debate in the Senate upon the
Banking Bill, Senator CoILAMER, of YER
mont, took the liberty to break over the
rules of his party, and to rank himself
with those who are able to reconcile the
obligations of loyalty with the duty of al
ways being true to themselves by respect
ing their honest convictions of public right
ana expediency. He repudiated the abo-
ltlon dogma that "the President is the
state " and exposed the attempts continu-
ally made to press measures through the
Senate on the plea of military necessity"
or "political necessity" We make the
following extract:
1t has been more than intimated to us in this
debate that if a man will not give mn tbe nro0
lection of any local interest that stands in the
way OF the great national problem before ms he
is unfaithful to the Government | cannot do
1t on this occasion. l know, too that men-T
will not call bad names-political reformers oct
up project which, with them, is an ideal of
perfection and an absolute necessity and thew
have worked upon it until they have got into
that condition when they think that every thine
on earth must give way to it, and every thing
that does not give way to it is an enemy to the
country, and every man who does not agree
to it is an enemy to the country. To add to
that, we are told in the Senate that the whole
Cabinet are in its favor. Mr. President. it is
not many years since a man would have been
called IT to 90, order tor using an expression of that
than intimated that we are not to consult our
understanding, not to indulge ourselves in rea-
sOnlng about the matter, but We are to be told
&c cothedro by the organ of the Administration
that the Cabinet desire and are all in favor of a
certain thing as an argument to induce US to
gree OF subserviency that can hardly be ex-
pected.
1 intend to consult my own Judgment in the
discharge of my official duties. If other GEN
tlemen are willing to let their conscience swing
loose from its moorings and to cease to consult
their own judgments in reference TO the mea-
sures, but rather to consult their own safety for
fear they will fall into contempt by being
charged with being untriendly to the Govern
ment, and will therefore give up all further con-
SHERATON OF the subject, they may do it; but |
should like to know when that time comes:
that is all.
This language, observes the Buffalo
Courier, is calm and digniied expose of
viz UlOCdCOl l1l uiSlnlleI III WlllCu the NOrJn-
ern disunionists have bullied both the
President and Congress. The most abiect
subserviency to the behests of faction is
regarded as the touchstone of loyalty, and
men who refuse to be echoes of its leaders
are stigmatized as unfaithful to the
Government. We are glad that a man
OF Senator CoLLAMER's stamp has had the
courage to assert his own manhood and
his individual independence If there had
been more such men in Congress, the Re-
public could not have been brought to its
present extremity. This radical, revolu-
tionary, abolition faction, described by the
Senator, have been the architects of our
ruin," because members of Congress and
thousands of men of influence have sub
mitted to their dictation for fear they
should fall into contempt by being charged
with being " unfriendly to the Govern
ment.''