The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1863-07-10
Good Sense from a German Radical,

The radical papers, who, a short time
ago, were so violent in their denunciations
OF whatever was spoken or written not
exactly in conformity with their views,
and who appealed to military power for
aid on all such occasions, have lately re-
ceived number of rebukes from the more
thoughtful of their leaders, and even Gen.
FREMONT has deemed the occasion oppor-
tune to remind his party of the sacred
principles which underlie all republican
institutions, without which they drift into
military despotism. CARL HE1NzEN has a
delightful article on the subject in the
last number of his Boston Pioneer, a
leading German Republican paper of the
East, which is translated by the St. Louis
Republican:
Gen. Burnside, as is well known, is ''Dem-
Ocrat, and devoted friend of his former SUI
perior Mcclellan. One might suspect he had
acted in this capacity, when he undertook to
throttle with coarse military hands the liberty
OF speech in Ohio. and shortly afterwards, the.
liberty OF the press in Illinois Nobody has
done more benefit of late to the Democratic"
party, and given it better position for party
agitation than Mr.. Burnside by his use of force
That party occupies now the position of the
defender nay even the saviour of the hottest
rights of the people" against the L" despotical"
and ''tyrannical policy of an Administration
which has done the worst even that can be
done, when dealing with such opponents. and
that is to say, violated universal rights, by
taking steps against their enemies, and attempt
ing the application of force, without having the
power or the right to carry them out to their
full, logical extent. If rebellion of the Dem
Ocrats" should occur in the North. there is no
question but that it must be beaten down with
will be morally paralyzed in attempting it. be-
cause it has given to the rebellion, however
bad its designs may be, Just pretext.
To such situations does arbitrary
power lead, when it thinks it can devate from
universal right, because its opponents are in
the wrong. And, nevertheless, it is the Ger
mans, the Germans, who boast so much of
their logic in principles, who can show the
most Jealous advocates Of that arbitrary power.
Greater traitors than Vallandigham and Wood
are those New York journalists who deliver I'D
the liberty OF the press for the pleasure of see
ing the mouths of their opponents shut up by
force, and who do not trust to make these op
pOnents harmless by free speech. But the
Nemesis has not waited long to teach them
also practical lesson. 1t was in vain that
they were told that the sword, which they lift
ed up against the ''democratical" press, was
two-edged sword. Full OF confidence in their
security, which they believed they had entitled
themselves to by their unprincipled servility,
they continued to cry out: against the trait
or press only force can help us, and the more
they raved about the dogs" and the ''rascals."
whom this force was to crush, the more they
believed that they had disguised the untenable-
ness of their arguments. But their fidelity
had to be put to a still stronger test by that
very arbitrary force they so devOtedly wor-
SHIPPED. We suddenly are told from the West,
that the editor of loyal Republican German
paper has been arrested because he ventured to
criticise some officers