The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1864-09-16
A Gem From the DOnnelly Casket.
from Hon. Ignatius Donnellys Speech on the
"RecOnstructiOn Of the Union."l


clouding the horizon of the world, and ninng
| the air with the clangOr of his arms, into ne
cds.tet from which he escaped, to be nelo ~
peace forever under the SOlOmonlc sea- VI 'nc
Constitution. 1t was permitted us 10 MAXI .,
the cub of the lion plaything and PEI p9t
the beast has reached the age of maturity; his
eye-balls have learned to roll, ana us Hlane ~
bristle: he has broken loose from his 1asten-
ings, and betaking himself to the forest has
brought horror and death upon wnoie coun-
try-side; and now, now we are sooeriy asked
to restore him. unnamed and unframed, to the
tender bosom of our family circle, to become
once more the fondlng of our laps and the
plaything of our children.
The "monster here alluded to is the
monster of slacery, one of the
''gorgons, hydras chimeras dire"
that people the prolific imaginations of
Abolitionists, as thick as the
''gay notes people the sunbeam
But this monster that "clouds the hor-
rizon of the world" the embodiment, in
Mr.. DoNNELLY's fancy of MmroN's Satan
that in the horizon
''lay floating many road, -
this "grasping and insatiate monster" is
to be coaxed back into "the casket from
which he escaped. A monster being a
monster, and casket casket, we should
like to know how the former is to be
coaXed back into the latter? How q
monster" of form so huge as to "cloud
the horizon is to be wheedled into a
DoNNELLY "casket" Is it Lilliputian
monster? Or is it Brobdignagian cas-
ket? Quien Sabe!!
But it appears that this monster"
once recaptured, is to be held in peace for
ever under the "Solomonic seal of the
Constitution" We supposed that he had
been held in peace under the "Solomonic
seal " aforesaid, until liberated by the
JOHN BROWN fanatics and now it appears
that the JOHN BROWN fanatics are about to
capture him again, and restore him to his
original "casket under the "Solomonic
SEAL" &c. Well, the age does move, and
we shall soon have to welcome the radi-
Gals as colaborateurs in the great work of
restoring States rights. Just imagine
DoNNELLY engaged in that business!
Alas for our logic! Our monster, upon
examination, turns out to be-not lion
oh, no but the cub of lion, and now
We begin to see how cub can be "coaxed
into casket''
But this monster, alias cub, alias sla-
very, has been made "plaything and a
pet " OF, by-IGNATIUS DONNELLY.
Republicans of the Second Congressional
District Radicals of the State Of Mime
sofa! we call you to witness. The Hon.
IGNATIUs DoNNELLY has been making a
"pet of slavery he has absolutely had
the monster or cub up in his nur-
sery, and he has been g. fondling it.
This cub has not been stunted by radi-
cal brandy, or dwarfed by the glass case
which the abolitionists have built over and
around it. The cub is subject to animal
laws of groaUth, and the cub has shivered
the glass case, and turned up it's nose at
the brandy. But it is, after all, very
curious cub, for it did not "learn to roll
its eye-balls" and to "bristle its name 81
until it reached the age of maturity. u
Has Mr.. DoNNELLY ever been to the me-
nagerie? We opine not. But if he has, he
must have overlooked the "cubs," for we
can assure him they do roll their eyes
awfully.
And now we come to the catastrophe.
The cub having reached the age of matu-
rity has "broken loose" and got into ''the
forest '9here he is bringing "horror and
death On whole countryside" We must
be very cautious here, for we are walking
on thin ice. This cub alias monster alias
slavery, which was originally "clouding
the horizon Of the world - and l." filling
| the air with the clangor of his arms has
"broken loose" from the horizon !?
No! What then? FROM the casket? Oh
! No, but from the "tender bosom of our
family circle " to which we are asked to
restore him. The question here naturally
arises where did the cub come from %
Can anybody give us satisfactory inforrna-
ton as to the origin of the cub? But this
cub once filled the air with the clangor
of his arms - when he was up in the her-
rizon, and another question arises, what
. had the cub to do with drnas9 We never
saw cub carry arms. We never saw a
cub in the 'ttender bosom of family Cir
cle."
We can't vouch for all peoples &C family
circles or "tender bosoms." There may
be ''laps in which cubs are 'fondled,
and children who use them for "play-
things" We can only remark that we
hone the cubs don't scratch them