The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1863-04-03
SUPPRESSION OF THE REBEL.
LION.
An Appeal from a Loyal SOutherner
to the North.


to the North.
An eminent citizen of the Southwest,
living near Gen. Grants lines, has just adj
dressed (through Secretary Seward, STIR
ring appeal to the people of the North, in
reference to the duty of directing every en-
ergy to the immediate suppressing of the
rebellion. Living in the very heart of this
great conspiracy against civilization and
law, understanding perfectly its spirit and
intent, and agonizing over our Northern
dissentions, he implores the North to rise
up as one man, and never, under any
temptation or encouragement, to with
draw one moment from the work which
we have undertaken. 81 have watched
this rebellion" he says, " from the COM
mencement, and know its success, SO far,
has been due solely to the singleness of
purpose of those who have conducted it,
regardless of all else. Why not, your
selves, rising superior to every other
thought, and discarding every other in
terest, think and act only for the safety
of your country, your liberties and your
freedom" The North, he insists, animated
by such spirit, could end the rebellion in
a month. The rebels, he adds, have now
no hope but in the dissentiOns among the
Northern people. Deprive them of that
and they are lost Upon this point he
says:
"The enemy, in truth, are beating up
recruits with double vigor, and they are
taking unwilling and decrepit old men of
fifty and sixty years; all OF which how
ever, will amount to nothing before uni
ted and determined North. To-day we
have heavy gale from the north, attend
ed with a snow storm, the first that has
fallen since the fall OF Fort Donelson, and
which admonishes me that my friends are
coming. How glad 1 would be to well
come them. My prayer for them is, as it
always has been, that they will not be
long i'll coming; but, long or short, come
and make your boundary as it was before
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your united strength, that you will neither
bequeath this war to your posterity nor
fight it twice yourselves; out make a final
end of it while you are at it, The cost in
blood and treasure, though great, will
never be less and, in truth, if we prove
ourselves unequal to the task now, what
guaranty have We for the future? Who
can see the end, unless, with the examples
of other nations before us, we picture a
state Of things at which every loyal heart
will shudder?'
The utter hopelessness of permanent
peace under any armistice that may be
patched up, is clearly exhibited by this
loyal-hearted Southerner:
Think, my cOuntrymen, what would
be the consequence of 30 fatal a step. In
the first place, to gain a short and inglO-
rious peace, you will have placed on your
whole Southern border, running through
many degrees of longitude, and separated
by no natural boundary, people who de-
liberately went to work, in times of the
profoundest peace and greatest prosperity,
to prepare to dip their hands in their
brothers blood, against the remOnstrances
and prayers of all the good men of the
country, and thus attempted the destruc-
ton of the grandest political fabric that
was ever created by the hands OF man
a people who care nothing for the sacred
bonds of the Constitution, nor will, if
they succeed in their infamous design, hes
itate to violate the most solemn and bind
ing treaty, when it suits either their
convenience or interest, holding con-
stantly as rod over your heads the
mouth of the Mississippi River, mighty
stream that runs through and has
its birth in your territories. a people,
whose self constituted President, ignoring
the fact that we are all of the same origin,
took occasion to describe you, only Il few
days since, before the assembled multitude,
and the Legislature of his State. a. a peo-
pie whose descendants Cromwell had
gathered from the boys and ters OF Eng
land and Ireland, besides much other low
and despicable abuse and who Ostenta-
tiously and unblushingly parades before the
world the faults of those he is pleased to
call 'our enemies, only that they may en-
gross public attention, and thereby hide
Ills OWu viz OccuS-Sll1S lOT WHICH, Ii uS
and his satellites had thousands of lives,
they could never Observation-Disclosures
his scrupulous anxiety to enshroud all of
his works in the robes of holiness. Does,
then, the peace party of the North, if there
is any, think they see in this spirit any
means of an honorable or lasting peace !?
No, my friends, if you lay down your arms
for one day, without first accomplishing
the object for which you took them up,
then you are certainly lost, and our coun-
try gone to pieces. You are casting pearls
before swine to waste your time in peace
meetings, for they will avail naught."
To such an appeal from Southern man,
speaking for thousands of loyal citizens
waiting and longing for the appearance of
the old flag, what response can any peace
monger, having nature in him, make?
"A detachment of negro soldiers, from
Montrose, Pennsylvania, arrived in New
York, ON Friday, the Goth inst, on their
way to Boston, to join Gov. Andrews
colored regiment. The men were enlisted
by recruiting sergeant Greene, colored |