The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1863-10-23
ABOLITION AND SECESSION
UNITY.
BOTH AIMING AT REVOLUTION.
Democratic Doctrine from a Cabf-
net Officer.

Democratic Doctrine from Cabf-
net Officer. q
Speech of Hon. Montgomery Blair,
At a Union Meeting I'm Rochester,
Md, Oct. 3, 1868.
Hon. Montgomery Blair, being loudly
called for, came forward and addressed
the assemblage as follows:
FELLOW CITIZENS: 1 congratulate you
on the hopes justly inspired by the cir
cumstances under which we meet to-day.
The progress of our arms give US good
reasons for believing that peace will soon
be restored to our country, and that when
it comes it will be an enduring peace, be-
cause obtained by preserving the integrity
of the government, and because it will be
followed by the early suppression from
our system of the institution of domestic
slavery, which occasioned most of the
difficulty in the founding of the govern
ment, and has been the only cause which
ever seriously endangered its existence.
But even whilst we are INDUCING these
well-fouuded hopes that our country is
saved from destruction by the rebellion,
we are menaced by the ambition of the
ultra-abolitionists,w which is equally despotic
in it's tendencies, and which, if successful,
could not fail to be alike fatal to republi-
can institutions. The slaveocrats of the
South would found an oligarchy-a sort of
fuedal power, imposing its yoke over all
who titled the earth over which they
reigned as masters. The abolition party,
whilst pronouncing philippics against
slavery, seek to make a caste of another
color by amalgamating the black element
with the free white labor of our land, and
so to expand far beyond the present con-
fines of slavery the evil which makes it
obnoxious to Republican statesmen; and
now, when the strength of the traitors
who attempted to embody power out of
the interests of slavery to overthrow the
government is seen to fail, they would
make manumission of the slaves the
means of infusing their blood into our
whole system by blending with it canal
gamation, equality and fraternity"
The cultivators of the soil must then be-
come hybrid race, and our government
hybrid government, ending as all such
unnatural combinations have ever done, in
degraded if not abortive generations, and
making serfdom for the inferior caste-the
unmixed blood of the conquering race in
evitably asserting despotism over it.
To facilitate this purpose, concerted
appeal is now made to the people of the
free States, through the press, to open the
way to this darling innovation, beginning
in the Southern States, unhappily now
brought under the ban of the Calhounite
conspirators. With this view, it is pro-
posed to declare the State governments
vacated in that section when they are re-
stored to the Union, and all the loyal men
of the South, whom the treason of Presi-
dents Pierce and Buchanan in completely
with Southern traitors has subjugated, are
to come under absolute submission to the
representatives of the Northern States in
Congress, without the vestige of State
right, State law or constitution to pro-
tect them. Nay, not even the franchise
vote to send single representative to the
legislative body to which their destiny is
to be committed.
Simultaneously, three leading organs
the Chronicle at Washington, Boosting
sort of official sanction; the Missouri
Democrat, the ultra abolisher, of Fremont
graft, at st. Louis; and the atlantic
Monthly, which lends to the parent stock
at Boston all it can boast of literary
strength and elegance, have struck the
, keynote of revolution, the sheer abolition
of State constitutions in the region suffer-
ing under the rod of the rebellion.
The article in the atlantic M0nthly may
justly be quoted as the programme of the
movement. 1t presents the issue on which
the abolition party has resolved to rest it's
hopes of setting up its domination in this
country. The boldness that marks the
announcement of its design to assume for
Congress absolute power over the States
recovered to the Union without allowing
representation for them in the body, ar
CUES much for the confidence of those
who have never attained an ounce of po-
litical weight until they threw themselves
into the scale of the Republican party,
adjusted at Chicago, wherein State rights
even the most doubtful one asserting ex-
elusive power over the subject of slavery,
was sOlemnly recognized.
"And now in this discussion" says the
new ukase, eve are brought to the prac-
tical question which is destined to occupy
so much of public attention. 1t is pro-
posed to bring the action of Congress to
bear directly on the rebel States. This
may be by the establishment of provisional
governments under the authority of Con-
gress-or simply by making the admission
or recognition of the States depend upon
the action of Congress The essential
features of the proposition is that Con-
gress shall assume jurisdiction of the rebel
States.''
One would suppose that ''the action of
Congress" had been already brought to
bear directly on the rebel States" by the
armies which Congress has raised and sent
against the rebel States; or, to use exact
language, the States in which the rebels
enforce usurpation over the loyal people.
But it is not over the States in the hands
Of rebels which the abolition programme
proposes 70 assume Jurisdiction, but over
the States when wrested from the usurpa-