The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1863-08-28

chance war should ensue, it would be a
very short war; that it would not last six
mOnths-that the Yankees would not fight
that one southerner cou whip from ten
to one hundred Of them-that England
and France would speedily recognize US,
and render us every assistance we might
desire-that whatever might he their abb
stract opinions of the subject of slavery,
their interests would iinpel them to pro-
mote it's perpetuity in the Southern States;
that if, after all, they should not be dis
posed to assist US, Cotton was King, and
would soon bring all the crowned heads of
Europe on their knees in supplicntion to
us; would compel them to raise the block
ade-should one be established-in thirty
days, in sixty days. in ninety days, in one
hundred and twenty days, in six months,
in nine months, in one year at furthest.
Thirdly-They promised US that all the
Slave States, except Delaware, would join
|. the Southern Confederacy-that slavery
should not only be perpetuated in the
States, but that it should be exten led into
all the territories in which the negro
could live; that all the grievances Occa-
stoned by the execution of the Fugi-
tive Slave Law should be speedily re-
dressed; that slave property should be es-
tablished upon a basis as safe as that of
landed property. aj ol II, 't3 '.t
Fourthly-They promised us that the
new government should be mere confed-
eracy of States, of absolute sovereignty and
equal rights; that the States should be
tyrannized over by no such 'central des-
potism D." as the old government at Wash
ington; that the glorious doctrine of State
rights and notification, as taught by Mr..
Jefferson and Mr.. Calhoun, should prevail
in the new Confederacy; that the &c SOW
ereignty of the States and their judicial
decisions should be sacredly respected.
Fifthly-They promised US the early and
permanent establishment of the wealthiest
and best government on the earth, whose
credit should be better than that of any
other nation; whose prosperity and happi-
ness should be the envy of the civilized
world. IRE
And, lastly, they promised us that, if
war "should ensue, Z" they would go to
the battlefield, and spill, if necessary, the
last drop of their blood in the cause of their
beloved South.
While such have been their promises, /"
what have been their " performances -
Instead of secession being peaceable, as
they promised that it would, it has given
rise to such a war as has never desolated
any country, since the barbarians of the
north overran the Roman empire.
So far from the wars ending in six
| months thew cold - vyor1l cIor1l -
ensue, it has already lasted more than two
years; and if their policy is to be pursued,
it will last more than two years longer;
and, Notwithstanding their predictions, the
Yankees have fought on many occasions
with spirit and determination worthy of
| their ancestors of the revolution
of the descendants of those austere old
Puritans whose heroic spirit and religious
zeal made Oliver Cromwells arm the ter
rOr of the civilized world-or of those
French Huguenots, Swho, thrice in the
sixteenth century, contended with heroic
spirit and various fortune against all the
genius of the house Of Lorraine, and all
the power of the house of Valois" Eng
land and France have not recognized us.
have not raised the blockade have not
shown us any sympathy, nor is there any
probability that they ever will; and that
cotton is not king is now universally &C
knowledged. And Maryland has not
Joined the Confederacy, nor has Kentucky
nor Missouri ever really been with us.
Slavery has not only not been perpetual
ted in the States, nor extended into the
Territories, but Missouri has passed an act
OF emancipation, and Maryland is now
ready to do so rather than give up her
place in the Union, and the last hope of
obtaining one foot of the Territories for
the purpose Of extending slavery has de-
| parted from the Confederacy forever. The
grievances caused by the failure of some
| Of the Northern States to execute the fu-
| gitive slave law, have not only not been
remedied, but more slaves have been lost
| to the South forever since secession was
inaugurated, than would have escaped
from their masters in the Union in five
centuries. -,. 100 / }!da"5
And how have they kept their promise
that they would respect the sovereignty
and rights Of the States? Whatever the
| government may be in theory, in fact we
have grand military consolidation, which
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the States, and disregards the decisions of
their higher judicial tribunals. The great
central despotism at Washington, as they
| were pleased to call it, was at any time
previous to the commencement Of the Sc
cession movement, and even for some
time after it had commenced, most mild
and benefcent government compared with
the central despotism at Richmond, under
which we are now living ".' t'i.H
Instead Of an early and permanent es-
Establishment of the wealthiest and best
government in the world, with unbounded
credit what have we got? In spite of
all the victories which they profess to have
obtained over the Yankees, they have lost
the States of Missouri, Arkansas, Ken
lucky, Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi and
Tennessee, and in my humble opinion
| have lost them forever; and, in all prob
ability, Alabama will soon be added to the
number. This will leave to the Confed-
eracy but FIVE States out of the original
thirteen, and Of these five the Yankees
have possession of many of the most i'm
| portrait points, and one third of their ter
ritory. So far, the Yankees have never
failed to hold every place Of Importance
which they have TAKEN, and present indi-