The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1864-08-05

personal considerations. trust however,
(and say this in the kindest spirt) that the
remarkable unanimity of your action will be
accepted everywhere as ain indication that the
people are resolved that the strictest economy
and honesty shall prevail in the administration
of every department of the Government. APP
| plause
! 1t is indeed a great point gained when q COM
mupity make it manifest, as you have done
that the path of political safety lies on the side
| of official honesty. l trust the verdict you
| have this day rendered will stand unimpeached
for generation; for surely no subject can
touch your own welfare more nearly. Without
honesty among officials and vigilant watchful-
mess among the people, popular institutions
| must inevitably sink in q sea of corruption and
proligacy, and the iairest hopes humankind be
| destroyed
A few words as to the present condition of
| our national affairs may not be out OF place.
We need at this time, it seems to me, two
things above all Others-mOderation and resO-
| luton; for one another, moderation for the
| common enemy, resolution.
1t is the tendency of civil war TO embitter
partisan hatred--it becomes, in fact, partisan
hatred armed. In our case, this should not be
| so. Our struggle is more geographical
than political one. There is, too but one
way of escape out ofall the difficulties that en-
viron US, and we should apply ourselves, as a
people patiently and calmly to discover il.
The wild turbulence of rage is unworthy a
great people, laboring for selfpreservation,
and whose highest boast is their capacity
for self.government, Or in other words,
for self restraint.
Let us rise, then to the highest plane posi-
BILE. Let us remember that the question at is
sue is not the safety of our parry but of our
country and that if we would be able to exer-
else our party preferences in the future, we
must save the nation in the present.
| On the battle field. under our flag, men stand
shoulder to shoulder, who represent every
shade Of loyal political sentiment. Does not
| their blood comminglng its crimson currents
send up voice of reproach from the ground
| against political intolerance among the people
| for whom It'll shed? Shall we, who may differ
as to details, not stand shoulder to shoulder in
this army behind tile army--in this reserve
| force of national sentiment,-and SO do as
| unanimous work in the war of opinions as
they are doing in the strife of the battle field
Hear. hear.
What we need. then. is moderation towards
one another, and a suhOdinating OF minor
questions to the few great issues on
which hang our existence as q people.
Save the nation, and all degrees of material
prosperity, all forms of moral and social devel.
Opment all imaginable political theories, are
possible under it; lose the nation, and one uni
versa) ruin swallows everything. Let us, then,
| cling with an invncible hold to the one great,
central fact-the nation-all things else are but
| incidents. Ifmy neighbor is ready to pour out
his life's blood upon the altar of sacrifice shall
hesitate to hold in allegiance for time my
opinions? Until this war is over, then, let us
consider every man who is sincerely in earnest
in his wish to save the nation and crush the re-
belliOn, as our friend and BROTHER, whether he
has reached his conclusions from the start
ing point of Wendell Phillips or Benjamin
Butler.
I have claimed that we needed one other
thing resolution. We do. 1t has been said
that with God one resoute man is major
ity." What shall stand in the way of the res
Olute majority of a nation armed in behalf of
God and humanity He'll has not in all It's le-
gions power enough to stop its onward march.
That grim, concentrated little soldier, Grant,
understood what resolution meant, when he
proposed to fight it out on that line if it took
all summer" The rebels understand it, One
Of their leaders, Robert Toombs. has said,
In the last analysis, liberty is but
the blood of the brave" Splendid
| thought National and individual prosper
EDUCATIONAL and individual happiness,-do
indeed rest at last ION the blood of the brave:'
upon the determination of free people in
the hour of direst extremity to carry their
point though it should leave every material
interest in shreds and tatters and crush out ev-
cry other object held dear by the masses of
mankind.
We must not fail. With numbers, with
wealth. with liberty, with God on our side. we
cannot fail.
Let us fling aloft the standard of the Union,
and rally to its support every man who loves
his country and desires its preservation. Let
us gather around the central figure, the stand
ard-bearer, the representative man of the
idea of the Union, Abraham Lincoln,
! and carry him forward upon our shoulders to
| triumph. Applause, Be assured his re-
al w hp roOaivad w nd hv
Europe, and by all the world as an evidence
that the American mind, undisturbed by revo-
luton, calmly affirms its irrevOcable purpose to
suppress all armed opposition to the laws, and
to hold together every part and parcel of this
great country. as with clasps and bands of iron.
AS Abraham Lincoln has, in all this struggle.
represented the idea of the Union as against
dieuniOn, let the sentiment of Union be re-
affirmed in his person, with all the majesty of
an unanimous and determined people. Let the
last glimmer of hope die out of the eyes of the
| rebels when they behold spread out before them
the dreadful prospect of four years like the last
an unbroken monotony OF misery, desolation
and death. Surely, human endurance must
have already reached nearly to les uttermost
limits i'm that fire-encircled and wasted land
Who shall say that the reelection of Abraham
Lincoln will not prove the death-blow of the
rebellion.
In all events our duty is plain-it lies right
before uS-Wo must go out Oh cur way ii we
would avoid il it is, to suppress insurrection,
TO punish treason, to restore order, and to pro-
mote the national glory, prosperity and liberty
throughout the length and breadth of the Lind.
Applause.
w. s. Grow, of Goodhue, offered resolu-
ton instr citing the Central Committee to call
conventions in future before or after the press
of harvest labor, which, after considerable dis
cussion, was modified to request the Commit
tee to call the Convention before the 15,h of
July, and was adopted.
The Committee appointed to recommend
Central Committee for the ensuing two years,
reported as follows: T. NJ. Metcalf of Ramsey,
q; W: Cutter of Hennepin. A. B. Stickney of
washington: w. s. Grow of GoOdhue and F.
A. REM OF Carver. The report was accepted
The Convention then adjourned with three
cheers for Donnelly.
The clerks and other employees of the
House of Representatives are not likely to re.
ceive the twenty per cent. additional compen-
sation voted them just before the adjournment
of the last session. The First Comptroller of
the Treasury has decided that it is not comma.
tent for either House to appropriate finds in
this manner without the concnrrent ,...- r