The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1864-10-28
The St. Paul Press and the Radical
Newspapers.

From the Springfield Republican. tRep!
If Gen. Wallace has stated fully his reasons
for suppressing the Baltimore Post, the act is
without any adequate justification. It was
done, we presume, without orders from the
President, but If he fails to order correction
of the mistake, he win be held responsible for
t. s, 80 also, N the case ct Governor Andy q,
oath against the Chicago platform than one
against the Assemblys catechism, as condi-
ton Of voting In Tennessee. It is to aislra9.
chise every Democratic voter in the state IL
is impossible to say one word in Justincatlon,
or even in palliation of such acts II they are
mere blunders, they are Of the sort that are IN
effect worse than crimes. They supply Inc OPP
position party with genuine and most effective
A great fault of Mr.. Lincoln has been that
he has trusted too much to the discretion Of
subordinates, and has then generously taken
upon his own broad shoulders the burden of
their errors. But there is danger that he may
stand under, and from motives both Of justice
and sound policy he should hasten to correct
these last and most extraordinary mistakes of
Gen. Wallace and Gov. johnson. A weeks
discussion on them will damage the Republican
cause much more than all the stump speeches
and campaign documents can help it between
this and November. Why should the folly of
reinforcing the enemy be so continually re-
peated?
We have already published extracts from
the Cincinnati Commercial and the New
York Commercial Advertiser, both strong
Republican newspapers, denouncing in no
measured terms the suppression Of the Bal
timore Post by ABRAHAM LINCOLN. Above
we give an equally denunciatory extract
from the Springfield Republican, one of
the ablest radical journals in Massa-
chusetts.
The St. Paul Press has never had the
manhood or the decency to denounce this
tyrannical blow, levelled at the freedom of
the press. The rights of free speech and
free press are indicated in this State by
Democratic newspapers, the Abolition Or
gans being silent under every new out
rage. Nearly two hundred newspapers
Democratic have been mobbed and sup
pressed by LINCOLN and the radicals since
the war commenced, and all these acts of
tyranny are justified by the Abolition
organs. These papers do the abjeot bid
ding of ABRAHAM LINCOLN, their military
master. No plantation slave is more COM
pletely under the whip of the overseer,
than such papers as the Press are under
the lash of LINCOLN. They dare not speak
out one free and Independent word in favor
of their own rights. WALLACE suppresses
a paper in Baltimore without the shadow
of an excuse, and the Press justifies the
act by its pusillanimous silence. ANDREW
JOHNSON requires the free citizens of Ten
nessee to take an oath against the Chicago
platform before they can vote, and the
Press justifes the damnable outrage by
its mean, contemplate, cowardly silence.
What a pitiable spectacle for gods and
men! Have you no spirit left, gentlemen2
Have you not one weak, feeble, tottering
word to say in behalf of free ballot and
a free press?