The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1864-04-01
The /" Press - on Mobs.

attempts to excite the spirit of mobocracy
in returning soldiers against the political
opponents of such as cherish the crazy the
cries of that sadly demented journal, ought
to dep: ess it beneath the range Of legiti-
mate criticism. But, unfortunately, there
is clique of "he furies, who, through
the force of combined frenzy, are as capa-
bic as they are ready to stir up any new
mischief or horror in our midst. In the
sense in which the Press applies and uses
terms, everybody who does not agree with
it's lunatic doctrines is traitor and cop
perhead; and all such, that pious and
patriotic sheet declares, the soldiers ought
to shoot like dogs and rebels. 1t then adds
Let the law then take its righteous course.
Place the Judge upon the bench, and the jury
in the box, and bring this criminal before them.
Convict him if you can condemn him if you
will, this MAJ who, in an impulse OF patriotic
wrath, has avenged an insult to his country
upon the head OF traitor.
But. first 60 hang Gen. Dix, who ordered
his officers at New Orleans to "shoot down
Inc urSL ulau WHO dlGtIuptS W udul uOWu Iuc
United States flag" First turn blind Justice
into marble; pass the sentence Of a felOn's
death upon the husband who has wreaked the
jus. vengeance of his outraged honor on the
viOlatOr of his wife; and surrender to the muir
derer's ignOminious doom the son or brother
who has avenged mortal insult to his broth
er or his sister in the blood of the villain who
would have torn the spOtless seal of chastity
from the brow Of her who is dearer to him
than life. When you have done this-then
you need not blush to fulfil the demand
of the cOpperhead Vallandigham, and mete out
upon the soldier who fOrgets the respect due
to traitors in land of liberty, the full penalty
of the law whose letter he has violated in a pa
triotic vindicatiOn of what he believes to be its
spirit.
Now, if one were not acquainted with
the gentlemanly, generous, noble and
highly refined qualities of the urbane indi
vidual who penned the above, would it not
impress the reader that its author was
some specimen of gangrened humanity,
whose veins flowed with pale, cold, rep
tile sort of blood, and whose lean heart
only beat to set in circulation its native
element of venom? The reader, in his
ignorance of facts, might imagine he saw
the furious struggles of poor little weak
brain, almost expiring with its own exer-
tons to make itself heard, as it shouts and
raves with "sound and fury signifying
nothing BORON, in the part of PYRA-
MUS, never WAS more verbally sanguinary,
when he exclaimed:
''ApprOach. We furies fell
o fates! come come;
Cut thread and thrum.
Quail, crush conclude and quell."
l. would seem THAI this hyper-super-
extra loyal champion of faaaticsm has
formed taste for mob law and reign of
terror from his own little exp ,rience last
summer in barricades and night watching
We believe, too, that this valiant destroyer
of copperheads is the same person who
once proposed to tear down the telegraph
wires and We will add that we think it
qnite likely that when soldiers get to
shooting private citizens OF account of
their politics, this DANroN Of the Press
may be considered quite as proper " food
for powder " as anybody else.
Edward Everett on Our Navy and
the Alabama.
EDWARD EVERETT, who presided at the
dinner given by the merchants of Boston
to the Naval Committee Of Congress on
Saturday, made an eloquent speech con-
corning our navy and its work After al
luding to the extraordinary growth of our
naval force since the beginning of the war,
he said:
Every ship-yard pubic and private. has been
tested to its utmost capacity every furnace in
the country has been kept at white heat night
and day and an amount of work has been per-
formed on the coast and rivers and series OF
results achieved, without a parallel, as l be-
lieve when the disadvantages are considered
under which the Navy labored at the com
mencement, in naval history. Let Norfolk,
Hatleras, Roanoke Island. Port Royal. Pense-
cola the Rio Grandr, Fort Henry and Fort
DonelSon, Island No. Ten. Memphis, Vicks-
burg, Port Hudson, the shattered fragments
the ci y of New Orleans; The Atlanta, de-
moshed Ivy five shots tr m the Weehawken;
] ,O45 Vessels captured from the enemy W TO
the LIST of November, and from 20 to 50 since
added: the closure of every port save. one,
and that guarded by twenty vessels, on this
immense line of coast. bear witness 10 the ac-
tivitv and efficiency of this arm OF the service.
l need not. of course dsclaim any thought Of
what b 70 been done 10y our noble
armies and their gallant commanders who
have bOrnr their full snare in many Of these
nc achievements, but | am saie that they, one
and ali. will do justice 10 the efficient co-ope-
ration Of the navy -.
Aud then that marvellous creation OF the
genius and skill of Ericsson the wonder of
the ag liz. tui relied mUuiUr. II there is an
incid, il rlic history of the war which more
hal, ANY Ollier de,ervrs 10 be referred 10 al
rec in T. I"~iiIOn of al overrulin" Providence,
il is The arrival of iieavcI-'iirected little
vessel ri + r.Ies. Monroe alter her rough, UNI
va aye rom NV York on the
evening ~ he II 1T March, 1862 at the e use
~ IL da. OF livor had aln,.'>. SAID 'i terror.
TIE nil. iecUii- from The cant. mplatlIh III
tile staL, 81 Ihiuys which w.nilt hav, existed
had the ,ava.cs ~ ia NE rim e been rrn"wrd
Um i.r npr,inl of The sth But he aveng'r
was at hand after AZ ali bat SIC, Plies voyage
f. iii York Of fiiL,-.iX hours, IN YES
sci who's, construction whose range CHI
g,nery VII st a,DaulrIL - whore capacity
l;r ufienr,ve or defensive s,ivce were all
l,nlr,.u. me ailaMG Wor.i,n aC sunrise the
next morn ny bore talniiI down " tue