The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1863-10-23

ana roDaDlNCaCc the loyal men and their
States and republican governments. To
do this he must break the power of the
conspiritors; crush or expel them from
the region of insurrection. restoring the
persons of loyal citizens within the con-
fines of their respective States the repub-
lican governments which now have their
administration committed to our loyal
armies and loyal citizens, who have their
protection. Az soon as this protection is
needless, the State Government resume
their functions under officers chosen by
citizens who have been true to it, and by
such others as may be comprehended in
an amnesty, and who have given in sim
cere adhesion to it and the government of
Union, and the measures taken in its
maintenance.
Missouri, whose Governor, Legislature
and judicial officers betrayed her, expelled
her fatherless representatives with the aid
OF the Federal Government, and filled
their places with loyal men, abolishing
slavery as an earnest of her adherence of
the means and the ends for which the con-
spirators of the Union labored. Ken
lucky, temporarily paralyzed by the trea-
cherry OF her Governor, was soon put right
by the people when furnished with arms
by the Government, carried to them by
the lamented and gallant Nelson. In
Maryland the attempt to turn her over to
the rebels was crushed by the arrest of
reasonable legislators. Virginia was
overwhelmed for time; but West Nir-
ginia being delivered from the armed bril-
gands, called convention, elected Le-
gislature for the whole State, (the greater
part OF it being still held by the rebels),
was recognized as the law-making power
of the whole State, as such divided the
State and set up new State in the west.
This exemplities the Presidents mode of
saving the Union. He saves the States,
putting the powers OF the government, as
soon as they are redeemed, into the hands
of the loyal men; councils of the nation
with all its attributes and rights. He has
signifed his purpose of inviting Tennessee
and Louisiana, now in preparation, to fol-
low these examples, and every other State,
as soon as they can be rescued from the
rebel armies, will be aided to come in and
reintegrate the grand family of republics.
Now, what is the pretext for abandoning
this safe and healing policy of the Presi-
| dent9 So far it has worked well, and Sc
| cured the appreciation of all well-wishers
of the country. The abolition programme
| shows somewhat of the motive for convert
| ing States into territories, to carry them
back into colonial bondage, to take law
from Congress without representation. The
reasons assigned are, "slavery (says the
programme) is impossible within the ex-
oil ric of of ho
ment " For many years he had had this
| conviction, and he had constantly main
tanned it.
The moment that the States fell slavery
fell also; SO that, without any proclama-
ticn of the President, slavery ceased to
have claim to constitutional existence in
every rebel State.
In concert with the elaborate article in
the Atlantic Monthly, a department Or
gan, the Chronicle at Washington, strikes
the keynote of State humiliation in a
leading editorial. "There is (says this
prinD ga conflict Of authorities-of State
and Federal authorities it is clear
that one or the other must be annihilated.
If the State succeeds, the Federal author
ity is gone forever, nothing can restore it,
it; for in this case the Federal authority
would become subordinate to the State
authority and be no government at ALL
For the same reason if the Federal au-
thOrity prevails and succeeds in putting
down the rebellious States must the State
authority be destroyed" And then the
case is put of the present conflict, Gin |
which several States combine against their
common Federal government Here the |
power to be overcome is not only greater, |
but in moral point of view far more dan |
gerous to the Federal government. Hence,
when such rebellion is subdued, it is |
not only necessary to destroy the treason
able element in such rebeilious States, |
but also the power which these States had |
to combine against the Federal authority"
etc.
In conjunction with these movements at |
Washington and Boston to annihilate the
State governments which preceded and |
helped to create that of the nation itself,
the cOadjutors of Presidential schemes in
st. Louis and in Missouri are endeavOring
to throw that State into the cauldron of
OF revolution, that it, too, may be annihi,-
atied or declared vacated. Does not the
extreme anxiety evinced in certain quar-
tiers in these forced efforts to prevent the
States dropped out of the Union by con-
spirators from returning again under the
auspices of the President, the patriotic
army Of the Republic, and the loyal citi-
zens who would, through them, maintain
their own and the rights of the States in
question, indicate something of a design
to command great event in prospect by
revolutionary means?
Is the ban one third of the States, mark
ing them for exclusion from the Union,
from the when treason is defeated and
the traitors expelled, as just, as wise, as
constitutional, as likely to end the troubles
of the country as that marked out and
pursued by the President9 1t is manifest
now that the President must steer his
course through the strong, conflicting
tides of two revolutionary movements
that of the nullifers, to destroy the Union
and set up Southern Confederacy, and
that of the Observation-Disclosures, which has
set in to disfranchise the South on the
pretext of making secure the emancipa-
ton of the slaves.
Mr.. Blair proceeded to show that the