The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1864-09-09
The Baltimore Platform.

IcSOCUCO, xudt no bl0VCIy was buC ChuSC tuu
now constitutes the strength of this rebellion,
and as 1t must be always and everywhere hos
tile to the principles of republican govern
ment, justice and the national safety demand
its utter and complete extirpation from the
soil of the republic, ard that we uphold and
maintain the acts and prOclamatiOns by which
the government in its own defense has aimed q
death blow at this gigantic evil.
The above transcript from the Balti-
more Platform, tells US plainly what we
are to expect from ABRAHAM LINCOLN.
This war is to be carried on for the pur-
pose of abolitionizing the South and
confscating their property. The Con-
stitution, which stands in the way
of this scheme is deliberately set
aside as SO much useless parchment
The national safety, it is assumed, de-
mands the complete extirpation of slavery
from the soil of the republic; and to this
assumption and the tyrant's plea of neces-
sity, our constitutional rights are made a
sacrifice. The Baltimore platform is sim
ply re-echo of L1NooLN's abolition senti-
ments, expressed long before he was elected
President. He proclaimed from the stump
in Illinois that this country must be all free
or all slave, and that a house divided
against itself could not stand. He was an
abOlitionist then, as now-an enemy to the
Union, if it was to be a Union qcith sla-
very. He is faithfully fulfilling the promise
of his original principles, trampling con-
stitutional and guaranteed rights under
foot, setting aside the declaration
of Congress, solemnly made, that
this war was for the purpose of
restoring the Union under the Consti-
tuition, and for this purpose only, and per-
verting it into wicked and unholy cru
SADIE against State Rights and in favor of
the freedom of the negro. To this dia-
bo]ical end, everything is sacrificed. The
plea of military necessity is everywhere
get up as convenient excuse; and the
artful apologist proceeds from the usur-
per's stand point, to supercede civil liberty
by martial law, Congressional enactments
by Executive proclamations, and the free
dom o. the ballot by the threat of
the bayonet. The grand old writ cf
habeas corpus is suspended, and Forts La
fayette and Warren made infamous by the
purpose to which they are prostituted.
The right Of trial by jury, expressly
granted by the Constitution, is as express
ly and emphatically denied. For an ex-
preston of opinion an individual is con-
signed to the bastile; for the publication
of sentiment newspaper is suppressed.
The right of asylum-that right SO dear to
the heart of many wearied and hunted
patriot who has sought our shores, is sur
reudered-ignominiously and ingloriously
surrendered, by trimming Secretary Of
State, and timid, time-serving President
The catalogue of usurpations and iniquities
is nearly full An indignant people, rising
to the full comprehension of their rights,
and magnitude of the Executive crime,
demands the removal of taithless and
Improbable servant. The liberties of the
White man are no longer to be "swapped'
Tor the freedom Of the black, while a
backwoods adventurer is crossing q
stream." The sceptre which he is seeking
to grasp will prove barren one,"
Thence to be wrenched by an unlineal hand
No so"of theirs sa'cceeding";
and the stream which he is swimming will
prove the grave OF his hopes, and the
burial-yard Of all his ambitions.