The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1863-08-28

pie who have strained every nerve and made
every sacrifice to destroy the Union. indicates
dishonesty, or feebleness of intellect.
The only comment we choose to offer on
such theory, leading to such results.
shall be given in the following words Of a
member of the present Cabinet who has
assigned to Mr.. Whiting, without naming
him, a place among 'the actual aidersa and
abettors of the Oonfederates." We quote
from letter of Postmaster General Blair.
addressed to New York Committee Who
proposed to call a meeting to indorse the
views expounded by Mr.. Whiting:
! do not concur in the proposition that Ger.
tain States have been recently overturned and
wholly subverted as members of the Federal
Union upon which the call is based. This ia
In substance, what the Condolences them.
selves claim and the fact that secession is
maintained by the authors of this call for a
different purpose, does not make it more cou-
stitutional, or prevent them from being actual
aiders and abettors of the Confederates.
No one who knows my political career, will
suspect that my condemnation of this doctrine
is influenced by any indisposition to put an end
to slavery. l have left no opportunity unim.
proved to strike at it, and have never been
constrained from doing SO by personal consid-
eratlons. But have never believed that the
"oOAtoAoA Va oAuSSA VI Siuy great
could or ought to be effected, except by lawful
and constitutional modes. The people have
never sanctioned and never will sanction any
other; and the friends of a cause will espe-
cialiy avoid all questionable grounds when as
IN the present instance, nothing else can long
postpone their success.
In proportion as the prospect of restor-
ing the Union under the Constitution shall
seem to increase from the progress of our
arms in suppressing the rebellion, we may
expect to find that class of men at the
North who are denominated by Mr.. Blair
as "actual aiders and abettors of the Con-
federates, !" seeking to throw all possible
obstacles and to find all possible difficulties
IN the way OF such consummatiOn These
men, some of them consciously, like Mr..
Wendell Phillips, and some of them uncon-
sciousiy, like Mr.. Whiting, perhaps, are
essential disuniOnists from the very neces-
sity of their convictions. We do not doubt
that Mr.. Whiting supposes himself to be
"loyal " man, but Mr.. Wendell Phillips,
in his recently published letter announcing
that for nineteen or twenty years he was
disuniOnist, and will be so again lust so
soon as it may be made to appear that the
Union is not identical with the abolition of
slavery, has set before the country in
very clear light the fact that no consistent
abOlltlOnist can be true to his hobby and
at the same time true to the Union as the
paramount object of patriotic aspiration.
Mr.. Blair, in expounding the right doctrine
on this subject, does but reaffirm logical
conclusion, resulting from the repeated
declarations of the President, when he says
that all who concur in the proposition
that certain States have been recently
overturned and wholly subverted as mem
bers of the Federal Union ," are "actual
aiders and abettOrs Of the Confederates -
How this antagonism to the Presidents
policy strikes rejecting citizens in the
North, can be read in such comments as
the following, from the Springfield Mass
Republioan, an Administration paper:
William Whiting, Solicitor of the War De-
partment, has written letter to the Union
League, of Philadelphia, in which he un-
doubleday represents the theories prevailing at
the War Office as to the proper treatment of
the revolted states, and they are remarkable
as being in exact opposition to those frequently
and distinctly declared by the President and
by Congress. 1t would seem as if Secretary
Stanton were at she head of a little Govern
ment Of his Own-a sort of inape,iuns in impe-
rio-and that it is not considered necessary
that his department shall be in harmony with
the rest of the Administration, either in the
DRY or practice. Gov. johnson, of Tennessee,
acting under authority from the President, has
officially assured the people of that State that
he will issue writs for the election of Legis-
lature at the earliest practicable moment; that
is, as soon as the rebellion is so thoroughly
put down in the State by the military arm that
a general and free ballot will be possible, and
as the people shall show disposition to return
to the Union. We suppose this declaration
indicates the Presidents policy, and that Ten
nessee is not to be treated exceptionally, but
that the States now occupied by the rebel ar
mics will be permitted to return to the Union
in the same way whenever they are ready
But Mr.. Solicitor Whiting takes quite an
other view of the matter He supposes that,
after the power of the rebellion is broken, the
people Of the South will hate the Government
and the North as bitterly as ever; that they
will still be traitors at heart, and seek to get
back into the Union only to Obtain the power
they have failed to secure by fighting; that
they will make State laws excluding Northern
men and free blacks, destroy freedom of speech
and of the press, and send back to Congress
the conspirators who have brought civil war
upon the country and. finally, 1.-THE insanity
of States Rights doctrines will be nOurished
and strengthened by admitting back conquered
people as our equals. and its baleful influence
cannot be estimated" Mr.. Whiting, therefore,
protests against allowing the Southern States
to come back into the Union, until they have
changed their constitutions and abolished
slavery. and he argues that the rebellion has
given US the right to treat these States as Ter
ritOries, and re-admit them only on such con
ditions as We may chose to impose. Mr.. Will
ting sums up briefly his policy Of reconstruc-
ton briefly as follows:
''AllOw the inhabitants OfcOnqured territory
to form themselves into States only by adopt
ing constitutions such as will forever remove
all cause of collision with the United States by
excluding slavery therefrOm, or continue mill
tary government over the conquered district
until there shall appear therein sufficient
number of loyal inhabitants to form Repub-
lican government. which, by guaranteeing
freedom to all, shall be in accordance with the
true spirit of the constitution of the United
States"
We state the two theories, without at this
time discussing them. Whether the Presi-
dent or his War Secretary is right, and which
is likely to carry his point at last, time will
show.
THE IOWA GOVERNORSHIP.
Gen. Tuttlc's Acceptance Of the Dem.
. OcratIc Nomination.
10 the People Of Lowa: N
FKILow- CIrEENs-Having very frequently