The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1863-11-20

thousand SLAVES a month. Each month of pro.
eonged resistance increases the loss, and Mey are
cery'ng upon the time schen submission cou,i,g too
late. aoiH teare neither slace,y nor siaves IN the
land. This question of slavery is their bust
ness not mine. So long as they propose no
surrender, they are entitled to ask no terms.
What has happened to slavery thus far. has
been the legitimate fruit of their own crimes
but 1t was fruit ordained not by man. but by
God. Without seeking to divine His WAYS. I
think that the future will be like unto the past
The ansurrectaOn aoiU perish under ,niEtoyy Dosyer
necessarily and therefore lapfuNy exercised. and
slaue,y wiN perish a0iM IL.
DOORS OPEN ALWAYS TO THE PROpIGAL SON.
Nevertheless, am willing that the prodigal
son shall return The doors, SO far as am
concerned, shall always be open to him The
longer he is content to feed upon husks the
sooner he will hunger The longer he is con-
tent in his dalliance with the harot of rebel
lion the greater will be his ultimate disgust
with her embrace. The greater his hunger
and his disgust, the deeper will be his repent
ance and the more lasting his reformation.
BUT NO INVITATIONS.
I shall send no invitations after him and
yet, speaking not for myself, but for you and
the whole American people, 1 express the con-
VctlOn that neither man nor angels can prevent
the fatted calf being slain for his welcome
when he does come back, saying penitently,
6 Brothers, l have offended, and desire rec
onciiation."
The sympathizers with the rebels tell us of debt
taxes and blood Was ever sovereignty and freedom
saved without the expenditure of money and of life
1t is the lot appointed to nations to endure war with
its evils as well as to enjoy at intervals peace and
prosperity. Who caused the debts the taxes and the
shedding of blood? The nnonade of Sumter an
sWers the whole question at once In conflict like
this the question is not one of abstract suffering but
which of the cntendng parties suffers most Viewed
in this light the whole of the suffering which the
has produced has fallen upon theinsurgents and the
loyal part of the nited states is exempt In the in
surgent States there is not one citizen who is not
poorer and the more unhappy for the war. In the
loyal regions there is not state which is not strong
er, citizen who is not the richer for the same
cause The increase of wealth which arises from the
new national discipline of industry, which the war
has obliged US to adopt has enabled us to pay all in
creased debts and taxes as easily paid the debts
| and taxes existing when the war begun Nor must
we forget that 1t only question of whose debts
and whose taxes we shall pay-nOt whether we shall
gay any We pay either the cebts and taxes of Abra-
taxes of Jefferson Davis and Robert p. TOombs. In
the one case have equivalent of dollar for dol
lar for what pay and the grea equivalent of ma
tional safety and honor. In the other case we pay
twelve dollars in gold for dollar of Confederate
money: with the additional loss of eternal disgrace
and ruin
RETROSPECTIVE PROSPECTIVE.
Fellow-citiZena forty seven is near to fifty that
we may use round numbers. Fifty years ago, then
first saw and assembled the Hudson River. For
forty-six years 1t was constant study through the
agency of that river and artificial extensions of it
the lakes and the Mississippi to fortiy the Union and
develop the greatness and Operity of the American
people. Every succeeding year revealed new, en-
larged and gratifying success of that policy until the
year 1850 Then, on my way to the national capital
| descended the Erie Canal and the Hud on River
surveyed the cities that had grown up their banks
with wonder, and the vast commerce that lOated on
| their waters with admiration But then there was
the alarm, mutterings loud and deep, threatening
civil war and revolution was obliged to try to APP
prehend, to asp his danger if could and grasp it
with all its magnitude and terrors. What is revolu-
ton? 1t is the subversOn of all this trade all this
prosperity, and all this happiness, and the substitu-
ton in its place of scenes of blood and universal DIES
Oation. saii to my elf ia this inevitable? 1t is in
throughout the United States, which has virtually
held the reins of government for half century has
been overthrown by constitutional majo iy in the
its disappOint' chiefs have refused submission and
resorted to civil war If the Democratic party of the
United States lend themselves directly indirectly
to that instruction civil war is inevitable, and
ferOcious bloody all pervading revolution is ndef-
niely fastened upon the nation Tina revolution
will then end in successful invasion and pacifcation
| under foreign conquerr. What shall be done in
this emerg. ncy? The answer obvious Prevent
it by appeals to the patriotism of all parties and
surrender of all their conflicting interes preIdices
and passions to the common safety 4 his will enab
| us to prevent revolution. if ssble; to meet and
Il
know not. This i of the knowledge which God re-
tains to Himself He indicates the and with
| holds for the tr al of our virtue the results But
we shall not long be left without indications of
| the result Thee months, six months, twelve
months, twenty-four months thirty months will
disclose either the fact that the Democratic
masses of the United States disloyal, and
that the revolution will therefore prevail, or
the feet that they lise to the true spirit, 10 the
lofty heights of patriotism, and the country will
te saved That time has come ut last. Not
SC in our impotence wi-hed but as soon,
| we may believe WIS bet for we fare. The
democratic masses dscarding leaders, hare attained
the height Of patriotism They in the field they
are in he Cabinet; the are in the canvass counsel
ing: voting fighting generously Loyalty, nobly, to
make the election of Abraham Lincoln President of
the United States from 1861 to 1865 fixed ire
sstible fact 1t will be done. The country saved
and there remains nothing left to complete the great
and pain ul drama but that which cannot long be
delayed, the submission OF the insurgents and thus
| the re-tOratiOn to peace. And what a peace may
we not expect that to be! a peace that establishes
forever the practicabity Of free republican repre-
sentative federal go vernmen: the immediate or ul
| innate restoration of four million bonrmen to free
dom: the security of the American continent sgainst
eq ally the evils of internal anarchy and fore ag-
erosion The angels of heaven might tune their
| harps to the sympathy of such peace.