The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1864-09-02

. In military matters it is an excellent
rule never to do what the enemy desires
is il not equally true in politics? Certain 1
it is that the only remaining hope of the |
South lies in Mr.. Lincolns defeat. /
Now, I am not enough of a politician to
know whether the election of democrat
can result as favorably to the South as it
anticipates. The wish alone may be the
parent of their belief But, l assured all
who expressed that belief that the North,
as a mass, is as united as the South-that
no democrat could be elected on the peace
platform-and that any President who
would lnaugurate any measure leading to
peace on the basis of southern indepen-
dence, would be promptly hung by loyal
reclamation, to the lamp posts in front of
his own Presidential mansion.
However that may be, if we are but
true to ourselves there can be but one re-
suit. What we now need is men-only
men-not substitutes or hirelings who 20
forth for any motive but the country's
good, and produce but little beyond de-
preclatlng our armies-but men-such as
reaiiy constitute the state, and boast of
Delng 1reemen and the sons of freemen.
II these fail to support their country's
cause In her hour Of peril. they are un-
wortny OF continuing freemen, and should
Didsn ever 10 exercise freeman's privil-
eyes.
But if bOunties must be paid. let it be
in Southern land, not in Northern gold
and armies of emigrants, whose sons NAV
aspire to even the rule of the nation. will
cross the seas to win the broad and fertile
acres that disloyalty has forfeited to the
state.
To every intelligent soldier who has
fought through all these indecisive CAM
| paigns on almost numberless indecisive
fields, the question constantly arises, with
touching force, why do we not overwhelm
our enemies? I.at tnas
Tens of thousands of lives are lost be-
cause our array of strength is so dispro-
portionably less than that against which
we battle. Everywhere we meet on nearly
equal terms, where we might wen have
four to one. The cost to us in blood and
treasure, OF a prolonged war, can hardly
be foreseen-the economy is infinite Of
such an effort as the glorious North should
put forth d -.
The South will fight as long as the
struggle is equal; it will submit to such
prepOnderance as we should show in every
field.
Glance at the summers campaigns. If
Sherman had but $4,000 to $4,000 more
men near the South would be lost, because
Hood would be annihilated. If Meade had
moved in the spring, with reserves of
$4,000 to 100000 men, Lee would have
been hopelessly crushed. Even at this
moment third column of 10000 to
$4,000, rightly moved, would give unop-
posed blows to the Confederacy from
which she could never rise.
What folly, then, to struggle on in this
way, when we can send to the field five
times the force already there! What
weakness to think we cannot conquer the
South! Behind the James only boys and
old men are to be seen, while here men
buy and sell as in the olden days of quiet,
and regiments of able bodied citizens
crowd the streets of our cities.
| There is but one course consistent with
safety or honor. Let the people awake to
a sense OF their dignity and strength, and
. few months OF comparatively trifling ex-
ertion-of such effort as alone is worthy of
the great work-and the rebellion will
crumble before US. Fill this draft promptly
and willingly, with good and true men;
send few spare thousands over rather
than under the call, and the summer sun
OF 1865 will shine upon q regenerated
land.
There are some who speak of peace!
Ut all Yankees the Southern most scOrns
those who do not fight, but are glad enough
to employ them, as they do their slaves,
to perform their dirty work. Peace for
the South will be sweet indeed; for us.
except through southern subjugation, but
anarchy and war forever. The Pacific.
the western and eastern States would at
once fall asunder. The South would be
dominant, and the people of the North
would deserve to be driven a-field under
negro overseers, to hoe corn and cotton
for southern masters.
But no faint-hearted or short-siehted
policy can set aside the eternal decree of
the Almighty, who has planted no lines of
dlsunlon between the Atlantic and the
western deserts-betwen the great lakes
and the Gulf of Mexico-that signify His
will that we should be separated; and
unless SO separated peace is delusion,
and its advocacy treason against the
wisest and hottest interests of our country.
1t has been with a trust that renewed
hope and vigor might be given, when Wig
or and hope are needful, that have writ
ten, and you have my consent to using
this as you please; and ] am,
Very truly your,
I. SEYMOUR.
Brig. Gen. U. 8. Vols.
To w. E. Dodge Jr., Esq. New York.
Artemus Ward on the Negro.
Teller Sittersuns, the Afrikan may be
our brother. Sevril billy respktable gem
tleman, and sum talented femails tell us