The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1864-09-30

| ing the rebellion. Such movement was
found, however, to be impracticable in this
State, and had to be abandoned.
Well, the war has now ragged for three
and half years, and the end is not yet.
The administration has had without oppO-
sition all the men and money it has asked.
Two million five hundred thousand men
have been called for and furnished, and
over four thousand millions of dollars, and
still the cry is for more men and more
money. Is it not prudent for US to pause
| for moment to see if all is right, to take
our reckoning and see where we now are,
and whittier we are drifting? Is it really
so difficult to overcome the rebellion, that
all these sacrifices are necessary for that
purpose, or has the administration broken
away from its original anchorage as to the
object and purpose of the war, and there
by been wasting our resources for the at
tainment Of other and unjustifable ends?
I apprehend there is no one who does not
believe that the rebellion could have been
overcome long ago by a judicious and pa
triotic use OF one half the means in men
and money that have been furnished this
administration. If this is so, is it not high
time that we had change of administra-
ton? But wherein have the acts of the
administration rendered of no avail these
terrible sacrifices of the people to suppress
the rebellion? The solution Of the diff
Guilty IS TO be. found IN the fact that the adj
ADMINISTRATION has completely reversed ats
position as to The object and purpose for
,ohich the acar is acaged. Instead of the
war not being waged on our part in any
spirit ofOppression or for any purpose of
conquest or subjugation or purpose of
overthrowing or interfering with the rights
or established institutions of the Southern
States" as declared and pledged in the out
set, it is now proclaimed that the war is
waged for the accomplishment of these
very purposes. Instead of the war being
now waged I" to defend and maintain the
supremacy of the constitution, and to pre-
serve the Union, with all the dignity, equal
| ity and rights of the States unimpaired, i"
as declared and pledged in the outset, it is
| now proclaimed that the war is not waged
for the accomplishment of these ends, and
will not cease by their attainment; but
that it must be waged until the South will
abandon slavery. Yes, Mr.. Lincoln has
violated his covenant and broken faith
with the people as to the object and pur-
pose for which the war is waged on our
part, and herein is to be found the reason
| why the rebellion has not been suppressed,
peace re-established, and the Union re-
stored, and which renders the attainment
Of these ends impossible so long as Mr..
Lincoln is in power. This change of pol
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purpose of the war on our part, was not
sudden, but gradual and by measured
steps. Although this change of policy has
long been apparent from his acts, yet it
was never openly avowed by Mr. Lincoln
until his proclamation, "To whom it may
concern" The Democracy saw with pain
and regret the administration breaking
away from its original and safe mooring,
and saw whittier it was tending, and pro-
tested against it. For so doing hundreds
were seized and cast into prison, and are
still confined there, without any charge
preferred against them, and without being
allowed trial. Printing offices have been
closed, newspapers suppressed, and the
whoe Democracy denounced as Copper
heads and traitors for denouncing this
change of policy and breach of faith.
In thus reversing his policy as to the
object and purposes of the war, Mr.. Lin
coin has had to cast aside the constitution,
which he took an oath to support, and now
recognizes no other restraint or Limitation
to his acts than his own individual will and
judgment. Every constitutional guaranty
thrown around the individual for his secu-
rity ard protection, has been violated and
totally disregarded. BY this change of
position, he has also united the South and
divided the North. So great is this dis
affection in the North, arising from the
present declared object and purpose of the
war, that there is great danger that an
other draft will lead to revolution and
blOOdshed in some of the States The
effect upon the States of Maryland, Ken
lucky and Missouri, which never seeded,
has been such that it takes a larger army
to-day to keep them in the Union and in
subsection to Lincoln's policy than was first
called out to crush the rebellion.
The effect of this present war policy Of
Mr.. Lincoln upon the Southern States, has
been to drive every man, woman and child
into the Confederate service, or support Of
its cause, with a resolution never to yield
to the demands of Mr. Lincoln And how
could we expect it to be otherwise with
them What is their fate under the Lin
coin policy? Destruction of their domes-
tic institutions, and reduction to political
if not social equality with the black race
loss of all their property by con6scation-
destruction of their State government and
laws, and general subjugation, if not star
walton, as their only portion.
| Now, waving all other objections to
this war policy Of Mr.. Lincoln, will it ever
succeed, or bring peace, or restore the
Union? We may overcome the rebel ar
mics, take Richmond, Wilmington, Charles
ton, Mobile and their other cities, and
probably will, and certainly no person will
rejoice more than myself in these sue
cesses, but this will not bring us peace nor
restored Union, nor lessen our war ex-
penses, nor lessen prices, nor decrease tax
alton, nor even destroy slavery, except in
the immediate presence of the army.
This will in fact only bring us to the
Threshold of the difficulties to be en-
countered in carrying out Lincolns pol
lev. If it takes now npo brndrod thnn.