The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1863-06-19
n, MAGNIFICENT President to proclaim freedom


his EXcellency Governor Andrew johnson was
recently authorized to recruit in Tennessee will
soon be ready for the good work of giving prac-
tical freedom to our enslaved fellow country
men, male and female, of African descent.
When that time comes, Memphis will be o
lovely city. Its walks and its prOmenades will
be Illuminated by the smiling faces and bril-
liant eyes of the graceful and accomplished
sons and daughters of Lincoln and Liberty; of
Darkness and DahOmey. True our State Con-
stitution and laws, like those of Illinois and
other loyal States, will not permit free negroes
to come within our State, nor enfranchised
slaves to remain there; but from military ne
cessity, Or as high official expresses it, ''from
the er necessitate rel of the thing" they will no
doubt be permitted to remain. The plan re-
Gently adopted in South Carolina of selling
them the lands of the rebels might be adopted,
and thereby Memphis might become "a varie-
gated city," Our white and colored brethren
and sisters might thus furnish an example of
that freedom and fraternity" which so MANY
unhappy Northern spinsters sincerely regard as
the only means of comprising the present un-
fortunate distinction of color
You should by all means pass a resolution in
favor of giving such rebel farms and town-lOts
as are not needed by any colored brethren to
our Christian friends of the North who desire
to live among their colored friends, particular
ly to the numerous and respectable class who
b
cross Of the Anglo-Saxon upon the pure Gui-
nea. "When this cruel war is over" how our
psalm-singing brethren from the Church of the
Puritants would enjoy a confederate farm on
Big Black, Red river, the Arkansas, or Pont-
chartrain. When the rebels are disarmed how
meek and lOw'y, docile and penitent they will
be, while behOlding our northern brothers Oc-
cupying their mansions and illustrating the
beauties of Gen. Banks apprentice system
With what impunity Gen. Butler would ride
from his plantation on Moon Lake to his rancho
on Deer Creek! Then would be made mani
fest the absurdity Ofthosc copperhead croakers
who fOolIshly Insist that while military power
can put down rebellion, moral power alone
can vindicate its consequences and keep it
down. 1t is true they cite the example of Ven
dee, which, in area is only about one fortieth
part of France. There, we admit the peasan-
try believed their religion was endangered.
and history records that they defeated six or
seven OF the best appointed armies which
the French republic, in that warlike age,
could hurl against them. 1t is also true tina
afterwards, when Canot was made Minister
OF war, he quletted the people by assuring
them that they should be undisturbed in their
religious faith. These mischevous faulUfinders
to give further force to their insidious assaults
upon our worthy President, point also to Po-
land, in which the fires of rebellion are ever
burning; but they forget that the Car of all
bic President, and is wholly ignorant of the
true means of quieting disaffected people. 1t
never occurred to the aforesaid Gar that to
squelch rebellion eifectually the cause must
be removed. Had he studied the history of
the rebelions in this country he would have
discovered that we always ascertained the cause
the evil, the sin which gave preteXt to the
Insurgents. For example: During the admin
istration of General Washington q portion of
the people OF Pennsylvania got up 4 rebellion
about whisky. 1t was crushed out by ''coer-
clOn." But the sagaciOus statesmen of that dav
determined to strike at the cause. The result
IS that the people of that noble commonwealth
have ever since eschewed whisky and turned
their attention to contracts. Nothing is now
known in that State of whisky, and though
MIR. buchanan used to recite some Evolutionary
stories of . Old Rye to the junior members
of his cabinet, it is we'll known that the sight
OF bottle OF pure Monongahea was as repul-
slve to his nature as ice-Water to a mad dog.
Subsequently, while General jackson was Pres
ident, the people Of South Carolina rcvolted at
taxation because some demagOgueS called it
high tariff, and asserted that the monster ''stole
money from their unconscious pockets The
rebellion, however, was 'subjugated' by the
military power of the Government, and the
cause-taXation-of course abolished No tax
gatherers have been known since in South Caro-
lima. At later day, during the administration
and TyiertO too some unWashed Democrats in
Rhode Island fomentcd grand instruction
against the sovereignty Of that large and popu-
lous State. The army and navy OF the United
States, by hearty cooperation with the
"loyalists" of that day, soon overthrow the in
surgents. Their provisional Govcrnor-Thos
W. Dorr-was captured denied the right of Il
belligerent," and sent to the penitentary
The Democratic party, the cause, was aboI-
ished, as all subsequent elections have shown,
throughout the United States. since when no
speck OF rebellion has been known within the
vast limits of that loyal State. The rebellion
in Utah. which occurred durin" the reign of
the Old Public FunctiOnary. is too recent to be
forgotten. The cause is no doubt fresh i'm the
mind of every maiden lady in the loyal States.
The republican instincts of our people would
not tolerate monopoly in heavens s. last best
gift to man." Gen. Albert Sidney Johnston
was sent to Utah with instructions TO CONQUER
the conjugal spirit of Brigham. The Mormon
war ended SlOriOusly to our arms. The cause
was removed. Harems are now unknown
among the latter day saints, and Brigham, like
some lone bird without mate, refuses to be
comforted." In Europe protractcd and san
culinary civil wars hayeiOften resulted from diff
terences of opinion in regard to the true mode
OF constituting the Bible, especially concerning
the operations of the Holy Ghost. They have
failed to abolish the one or deny the other: the
lSotllC Is lcW Ill EUROPE
the quiet which usually prevails along the
Rappahannock.
1t should not be overlooked that our people
were very ignorant, Or they never would have
been deceived by the reasonable enemies
North and South of our noble President
1t was falsely charged that he and his party
friends did not desire to suppress the rebellion
without first subvertng the rights of the States:
freeing all the slaves, and elcvating them to
political equality with the whites. Our people
being of course very ignorant, believed all
ments; and among the resolutions you will
adopt at your meeting, there should be one
thanking his eXcellency, our most approved
President, for the effectual means he has adop-
ted to give strength and moral power to the
Union men and women of the South, while ut
the same time he has shown how wickedly
false and libelous were the allegations of South
en traitors and Northern Copperheads that he
intended to use the army and navy to abolish
slavery. The Union men of the South will
ever gratefully cherish the name and memory
of one who, by scrupulous regard of his Oil
cial and other pledges, and his manly adher-
ence to the Chicago platform. has vindicated
the truth of all the pledges which, from time
to time, are made on his behalf and the trait
ors and Copperheads who thus falsely charged
our great and good President with designing
to subvert the institutions of the Southern
States, must hencelorth hide their faces in
shame.
You should by no means fail to adopt with
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