The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1864-10-21
An Appeal and a Warning.

career OF prosperity.
An Appeal and a Warning.
Would to GoD that the people could be
reused to realizing sense of the dangers
anG calamities now impending over them.
To-day they proudly claim to be freemen.
Tomorrow they may be slaves, abject and
helpless, and that too, by their own e6er-
else of freeman's rights,-those rights
which are inherent in themselves, and
sought to be secured against violation or
subversion by the written Constitution of
the Nation and of the States. We SOL
EMMY appeal to every freeman to pause
and calmly consider the events of the last
four years and the present condition of
public affairs, and to remember that one
successful usurpation is ever succeeded by
another, until public liberty is lost, or the
usurper laid low.
Within the last four years LINCOLN has,
in palpable and undisguised violation Of
the Constitution, laid violent hands upon
peaoeable' and patriotic citizens, torn them
from house, home and friends, and hurried
them away to secret dungeons, there to
remain without communication with any
living mortal, during his will and pleasure.
This he has done, without accusation or
any pretence of process of law. He has
done it precisely as the Autocrat of Rus
STA would do it to one Of bis subjects.
Every man who votes for LINCOLN,
declares his sovereign approval of that
cruel usurpation and subversion Of
public liberty. He distinctly invites
LINCOLN to repeat and extend his unlaw-
full and arbitrary tyrannies over the whole
land and all the people, and pledge him
their support in so doing. They surrender
their own liberties to his will and keep
ing, unrestrained by any law whatever.
What a strange and unaccountable infatu-
alton it must be that will induce people to
thus surrender their freedom, and hasten
themselves as well as their fellows, into
slavery; for he who is sabject to the will
of another is slave. He who votes for
LINCOLN votes the people slaves-himself
a slave, to the usurper. he votes himself
a willing victim to the arbitrary will of an
irresponsible tyrant, and proper subject
to become the tenant of dungeon in a
bastile.
Within the last four years LINCOLN has
suppressed many newspapers, because they
had the courage and independence, per-
haps temerity, to enlighten the people in
regard to the true principles of the Con-
stitution, the true rights of the citizen,
and the true purposes and only rightful
powers of the government, and to con-
trast them with the usurpations, tyrannies
and corruptions of the present admins
tration which they exposed. Even now,
to-day, LINCOLN is engaged in 'abridging
the freedom of the press by excluding from
the army all papers that expose him and bis
acts or oppose his reelection. He is max
ing every effort that he yet dare make to
keep from the people all knowledge Of his
ambitious designs to rule over them, and
to circulate with unsparing plenty all such
servile and sordid papers as will adulate
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coin declares his sovereign approval of
the abridgement of the freedom of the
press-votes to put the whole press of the
country under surveillance and control,
invites him to take it and pledges him his
support in the usurpation. He votes him.
self wilful ignoramus, not knowing, and
worse, not desiring to know, anything
of the tyrannies, corruptions, or enormi-
ties practiced with IMMUNITY by LINCOLN
and his administration.
Within the last four years LINCOLN has,
in open, direct terms, assumed the re-
sponsibility Of acknowledged corrupt and
unlawful contracts and proceedings of men,
bers of his cabinet, and has signed bill
to suspend the criminal law to enable Off
GERS and contractors to defraud and rob
the treasury. He who votes for LINCOLN
declares his sovereign approval Of these
acknowledged enormities, frauds, ant
crimes, and justiies their commission. Ht