The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1864-03-11
desirable. That of Johnston is not os

desirable. That of Johnston is not os
good, and it confronts much better men
than those opposed to Lee. Nevertheless,
it is regarded as being now in much bet
ter condition than it has been for year
past, and fully up to all the work it has
to do.
REBEL GOVERNMENT OF LOUISIANA.
A newspaper of Alexandria, on Red
river, one of the places captured last
year by General Banks, has found its way
to this city, and from which it appears
that the rebel legislature of Louisiana is
now in session at that place. The paper
contains Governor Aliens inaugural ad-
dress, which does not breathe the spirit
of peace by any means. He says e
speak to-day by authority, speak as the
Governor of Louisiana, and wish it known
at Washington and elsewhere that rather
than reconstruct this government and 90
back to the Union, on any terms whatev-
or, the people of Louisiana will, in conven-
ton assembled, without dissenting voice,
cede the State to any foreign power. s-* 4
l speak to-day not only for the loyal citi-
zens of Louisiana, who have stood by her
in all her trials, but in behalf of the mis-
guided individuals who have been COM
PEELED to take the oath of allegiance to
the federal government. In their hearts
they are true to US, and are daily praying
for the triumph of our arms. They. have
felt the iron in their souls, and know full
we'll the curse of reconstruction. speak
by authority, for they write to me daily
that they would rather, by ten thousand
times, be the subjects of the emperor of
France than the slaves of Lincoln"
THE sUFFERINGs OF THE PEOPLE
Gov. Allen says that the world will
never know the sufferings of the people.
The farm-houses has been stripped,
barns and fences destroyed, desolation is
everywhere in the trail of the invaders
In the cities it is worse. Butler came to
New Orleans and instituted saturnalia of
thieves. He came there a bankrupt and
went away a millionaire. GA large por-
ton of the movable wealth of the city of
New Orleans and Lower Louisiana has
been transferred to the pockets of this
blear-eyed, incarnate devil great part
of which he put into foreign exchange and
sent to Europe, and he is now by far the
richest man on the continent. F" He dragged
from a sick bed an aged citizen, "thrust
him into cold and miserable cell, and he
died from the treatment. He "tore open
the tomb of Gen. Albert Sidney johnson,
and robbed the grave of that gallant SOL
der" In Baton Rouge the enemy not only
destroyed public but private property.
"Not satisfied with burning the State
House with it's valuable library, they took
malicious pleasure in robbing nearly every
private residence in the place. They car
ried away as part of their warlike trophies
fifty private pianos. The wardrobes of
ladies were broken open and searched by
Yankee commissioned officers, and silk
dresses we're taken by these officers and
sent to their own families in Yankee land. -
"In Point Coupee,S says the Inaugural,
"they deliberately fired their cannon on
the parish church while the people were
at worship, and in Florida they tore the
sacred emblems of the Savior from the
altar, and prostituted them in their filthy
camps If all the rich household furni-
ture, and jewels, and coin, and plate that
federal officers have stolen from the peo-
pie of the confederacy were heaped into
one vast rile, it would form huge monu-
ment of shame, at which the civilized and
Christian world would stand aghast. Yet
no federal officer has ever been punished
for these robberies on the contrary, all
have been promoted. The Beast and Neal
Dow, with a host of lesser scoundrels,
still go unwhipped Of justice.
There is wild hunt for plumber, mania
for stealing, from the major general down
to the humblest private in the ranks, and
all this is done in the nineteenth century,
and countenanced, yea, applauded, by peo-
pie who read the bible, and C aim to be
Christians"
High words, these.