The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1863-09-11
A Copperhead Candidate Throwing
off his Mask.

cratic Convention, ana It's representative
candidates, has not been appreciated by
the people. 1t excels, in intense virulence,
any development of tyaitorous rancor we
have elsewhere found. 1t is fairly illus
trated in the Chatfeld Democrat, the
paper owned and controlled by MoKENNY,
the candidate for State Auditor. We
have before US number of that paper,
issued three days after McKENNY's nomi-
nation. It seems that MoKENNY had no
ticed in some Democratic paper an article
commendatory of the successful candidates
in the Kentucky State and Congressional
election, and endorsing them as good
Democrats and sound patriots. This
proves too severe dose for MoKENNY's
copperhead stomach. He therefore gives
his idea of the character of the Kentucky
canvass, and raves in his paper against
the successful candidates, as follows:
The position of the canvas was just this -
Mr.. Wickliffe and his party said, the war is
not conducted for the purpose OF restoring the
Union, with the rights of the States unim-
paired, hence, we can no longer vote money
and men to the Administration" Gen. Burn
side and his party said, I'VE agree with the
Confscation and negro arming policy OF Lin
coin, but ,ce aciU cote men and money!" Now,
what more do the AbOlitiOnistS want than men
who will give them men and money! they
have their determination bills all passed, and
man may believe in the abstract what he pleases
SO long as he gives aid and assistance to carry
out their purpose. This IS what the men elected
from Kentucky ciU do, and hence they are no bet
ter than AJolitonists; indeed acorse, for there as
q merit of honor and consistency about them Which
these men lack. Said the devil in looking over
the shoulder of q praying cd hypocrltlcal mer-
chant who always wet the sugar in his store
right after prayers That's the CHRISTIAN lor
will vote all the men and money want, is the
man for me-"
Let Democrats, who do not wish to sink
all their manhood, and every semblance of
patriotism, through blind adherence to
party, hold their just indignation in abey-
ance long enough to read this vile extract
over once more, and fully catch the mean
ing OF its infamous words. In MCKENNY's
Judgment, the man who is a Democrat
and who as Governor of State, or men,
Der of Congress, gives the influence of his
position on the side of the Government he
is sworn to sustain, is emo better than an
abolitionist; indeed worse!'' The man
who would "vote men and money! to
carry on the war against rebels in arms, is
stigmatized in the most opprobrious terms
at MoKENNY's command-for when he
calls a man an abolitionist, he uses the
most damaging invective in his vocabulary.
What is the difference between this talk
and treason? The rebels are in arms,
and as we have found these two years past,
most forlnidably so. If the war is not
carried on in their own territory, their late
invas;ons of Pennsylvania, Ohio~and 1ndi-
ana, prove that it will be prosecuted by
them on northern soil. If men and money
are refused to the Government, the war
can, not only, not be prosecuted south,
but the progress of southern invasion can
not be resisted at the north. And in such
state Of things, what alternative remains
but the subjugation of the North, the de-
struction OF the Federal Government, and
the national ascendency of JEFF. DAVIS
and his fellow traitors.
This result is just precisely what all the
scoundrels of the McKENNY stripe desire.
The spirit he manifests in the article from
which we have taken extracts, controlled
the Convention which put him and his
fellow traitors in nomination; and it is
this infamous treason to which the Cop
perhead leaders would commit the masses
of the loyal and true Democracy OF the
State, at the polls No man who has any
regard for the welfare of the country, or
for his present or future reputation, will
be found in their company at the Novem-
Der election.
THE LETTER from Sank Rapids Is from
the pen of prominent Democrat OF
MOI thern Minnesota, who states, in pri-
vate note, that he is authorized to speak
for other substantial and tried Democrats