The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1863-08-14
Who Stand in the Way Of Peace !,

The radical party, as the tide of success
is rising, are rising in their demands as to
the conditions of peace; and tom its an
archical organs the cry is, no cessation Of
the war until the negro is recognized as the
citizen. 1t is not emancipation, but negro
equality, they are after; and a more for
mldable obstacle to peace cannot be named
than to insist on this. The Baltimore
american, journal that goes for eman-
cpation, for negro soldiers, and for
men and money to support the war,
asks: as there wise statesman who
does not know that if the constitutional
anchor is once lost, and all embarked in
the Government is thus committed to the
storm OF revolution, amidst so many dis
tracing interests as now exist, among
those who have to deal with It, that no
calm could come but under despotic
power And what would be letting 90
this anchor? Why is it that for thirty
years, the doctinaries have been at
work 10 eat the ship of State from its
moorings? Why have they called the
Constitution a covenant with hell? "Be-
cause, to use the words Of this Re
publican Journal the Constitution guar
antees 10 tie trhihe goce, NorI, ,30ull,
East and YES, sovereignty whicL then
hGve Merto rem But the Constitution
does not enslave even the white race. It
recognizes the divisions Of political power
that has prevailed since this Ameri-
can world vas peopled, aud the
limitations Of political action and
the sovereign right of the several
communities al which this nation is
composed, as a domestic question, to
determine, each for itself, when, and how
far the negro shall be admitted to
political power. Hence Massachusetts,
it right. may invite the blacks, as she
does. TO equality under the law: and the
whole Northwestern States, as of constitu-
tional right, may exclude these very citi-
zens from their jurisdiction. This is the
great practical fact that statesmen and all
have got to recognize and deal with,
whetl er it is liked or not
Now who stand in the way OF peace
What answer does the Baltimore An2eyi-
can give to this question? What Radical
vives attention to the non-slaveholders OF
the South? But they compose .lErr.
DAVIS army, i'll the main. Why are half
a million of these men now in the field?
Let the Baltimore Ame,1cop answer:
Their desperate yalor is by its resistance to
the force which they are told comes from the
North to free the negroes and reduce the whole
labOrlng landless people of the South to one
caste-1he whites and enfranchised blacks
being put on the same level and having an
equal share in the control o the Government
1t is against this avowed purpose of cOnquerng
tor the slaves, not emancipation but partici
patton in the right of suffrage as means of
maintaining it, and commanding an access to
full association with the white race in that SOW
erelgnty they have hitherto held and assert the
right to hold, exclusively and forever over this
continent that the non-slaveholders enlist under
the banners of jeff Davis, and pour out their
blood like water. Let them know that the
Constitution of the United States, which now
gives the white race in the South the exclusU e
privilege of saying who shall be privileged as
citizens-who shall and who shall not yote--s
not to be sacrificed to build up black party in
the Southern States, to hold the balance OF
power there for the use of their protectors
elsewhere, aud the white laborers Of that re-
giOn will see the present controversy in anoth-
er light