The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1864-03-18
ploneer K Democrat.
S IN T P A q l..
Saint Paul, Friday, March is, 1864.
The IS Press,'' with Snakes on the
Brain, and the New Hampshire
Election.


The Press, now a-days, seems to be
addicted exclusively to Mythology and
Snakes. Every issue is filled with imag
mary Copperheads and delirous visions of
political hyGras Even in its attempt yes.
terday to squirm out of the dilemma it's
jubilant folly about the New Hampshire
election had tipped it into, it found it i'm
possible to get a'ong without dragging in
its snake story about LAM1NA and the mar
riage feast. We suppose our friends rad
ical madness might as well take the form
of snake on the brain as that its editor
shall suppose himself to be the Witch of
Endor, or JOHN BRowN's soul; but we do
think the unfortunate readers of that pa
per get more of the serpentine style OF lit
erature than can always be agreeable to
delicate stomachs and refined taste.
We published the language of the Press
cer5atim ct keratim, as follows:
"The news from New Hampshire is good
enough. 1t is glorious. 1t so far surpasses
the most sanguine expectation that it will Oc-
casion almost as much joyful surprise as if the
intelligence had come that Meade had captured
Lees whole army.
It will be confessed that it looks little
impudent and somewhat barefaced for that
dignifed and beautiful sheet to put forth
the following on yesterday:
And now that it the PIONEER has rcgained
tolerable degree OF mental compOsure we pre-
sumo it will be able to see that what we wrote
very different from the strained Interpretation
put upon its purblind commentator. We said
of the result in New Hampshire
1.-THE result is so unexpected that it will Oc-
CASTOR almost as much joyful surprise as if the
intelligence had come that Meade had captured
Lees whole army"
Now our neighbor has insisted on constituting
this sentence to mean that the result in New
Hampshire would occasion as much joy as if
Meade had captured Lees army; what we did
say being that it would Occasion-not as much
ioy-but almost as much surprise. IT We had
used the phrase las much yellow cory" would
1t have supposed we meant to indicate the
quantity of the corn, or the intensity of its yell
lOwness! There is good deal of difference,
you see, between hOrse-chestnut and chest
nuthOrse.
Oh yes you innocent victim of surprise.
1t was not because {" it was glorious" and
because SIT SC. far surpassed the saneuine
expectation" but that " the result is so atn-
enpected" that you have almost as much
''.joW'M surprise as if the news should
come of the capture of LEES whole army.
So it seems, too, that Joyful surprise
does not mean that the surprise is joWful
any more tnan "yellow corn" means
"yellow corn" Undoubtedly the in
tellect that composed the article in the
Press considered it's logic of italics as
very convincing
We do not pretend to much patience
with reference to such twaddle. 1t is sim
ply an insult to common sense for the Press
to claim that it did not mean that the
election news from New Hampshire was
nearly as much source of rejoicing as
would be the triumph of our armies over
LEE; and We leave the Press to the SEN
tence of candid public opinion on its guilt
for uttering such wicked piece of nom
sense. We appeal to the wise head and
and patriotic and altogether loyal heart of
the Press to know if it does not believe
that the spirits of the hundred thousand
Union soldiers, who have persisted or been
slain in Virginia, did not rejoice at the
New Hampshire neas as much as they
otherwise had at the capture of LEES
whole army? How consoling the result
in New Hampshire must be to the be-
reaved hearts 'of the orphans, brothers,
sisters and parents of the heroes whose
bodies bleach at Ball Run, Antietam and
Gettysburg? How much more important
this "resuh" has been to the county than
the triumphs. of our arms which drove
back the invading foe from our Northern
sell?
We expect the Press in its next issue to
answer all these interrogative suggestions
by Kissing at us more spitefully than ever
its favorite and eternal "Copperhead y!