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

The second resolution condemns the uncon-
stitutional acts of President Lincoln and the
policy of his administration and in that con-
demnation instructs the standard bearers not
to violate the Constitution, nor do anything
the platform condemns, and not to rely alone
upon war, which had hitherto failed, but to
tender the Constitution, with all its guarantees,
through q convention of all the States. There
vas not and ought not to have been q threat of
What would be done if the rebellious States re-
fused peace with the Constitution and all its
guarantees. The platform contained not only
a reversal of the Administrations action as to
the Constitution and the policy that existed,
and declaration Of contrary policy, but also
proposition r lecracy and the con
Union of all 6g States under the Constitution
with all its guarantees, and the assurance of
confirmed and renewed guarantees, If required
by convention of all the States, as provided
in the Constitution itself r
a treat of further declaration would have
been cut of place in the opening proposition,
for restored Union and peace. Gen. McClel
lane letter Of acceptance places him upon the
platform of opposition to the reelection of
Lincoln and the continuance of his policy and
as there were already two constructions upon
it, he placed himself upon the only fair one
that could be made, and one which nurtures
an unwavering adherence to the Union of all
the States to be the rule of action of the de-
mocracy and the conservatives of the nation.
The platform of the democracy and the con-
servatives is right, and Gen. McClellan's letter
of acceptance is right. b there any good
cause Of reason why all democrats and conser-
vatives should not sustain Mcclellan and PEN
dleton by their votess Is there any good rea-
son why all peace men should not prefer the
policy indicated by the democratic party to Mr..
Lincoln and his policy of subjugation, confisca-
tiOn and determination; to an executive and
party that set themselves above the Constitu-
tion and the laws, and stop free speech, and
free press, and do not forbid men to prevent
free elections, but requires them to do SO? Can
there be one outside of the abolition ranks who
will not vote for Mcclellan and Pendleton? Is
there any good reason why the free States
should vote for Mr.. Lincoln and his policy
Do they want to subjugate the Southern States?
Do they want to confiscate the lands? Do
they want to exterminate and drive out the
people, and repeople the land with the officers
and soldiers of the armies? Do they want to
hire the freed slaves, and force them, under
the whip and fear of starvation, to raise cotton
until they become cotton lords with princely
revenues? Or do they want them to emigrate
20 TIC free States, with the right to vote. and
all the rights of citizens in free country?
The freed slaves will not stay South with
their own consent. They will go North, where
they expect equal political rights and equal So
cial positions. They can be kept on Southern
plantations, after they are freed, only by the
strong arm of despotic power.
What have the free States determined upon
in this matter? Why should Pennsylvania
vote to continue President Lincoln and his pol
icy for four years more? The wealth OF Penn.
sylvania is in her iron and coal mines, her oil
wells, timber lands, fertile soil, ard an honest,
intelligent, Industrious, persevering, and en-
terprising population. Pennsylvania, the Key
stone State, wants free trade with all the States
in the Union under the Constitution, and uni
form currency of equal value with that of 9th
er productive countries. She wants no separa-
ton of the States, no subjugated States, no
wasted and devastated States, and no freed
slaves for the rural districts, or for the alleys
and bye.places of her growing cities. She
wants no deprecated currency. She wants no
discrimination against her iron and coal by
government purchasers abroad, or by the re-
mission of duties to fav0rite contractors who
purchase abroad, whilst she is required to pay
excise duties on her productions at home. She
wants free trade with all the States, and fair
field for action. Has she had it under the ad-
ministration of Mr.. LincOlne If the war con-
tinues, she wants the necessary and proper
military precautions taken to prevent the plum
dering Of her fields, mountains and valleys,
and the desolation of her people, so manifestly
neglected in the past, and that, too, against
the advice of our able standard-bearer himself,
neglected by MIR. Lincoln and his administra-
ton. Maryland, Kentucky and Missouri are
wasted by the armies of the Confederates, and
also by the armies of the Union; their fields
desolated. houses burned, citizens conscripted
into the Confederate armies, and plundered by
Federal soldiers their people arrested without
warrant, imprisoned and banished without trial
or the specification of charges, or shot by the
arbitrary mandate of the military, without even
the Intervention of drum-head court martial.
DWhat will become of these States if Mr.. Lin
coin be reelected, and his policy continued for
four more years? The destiny of these States,
for good or for evil, is in the hands of the peo-
pie of the free States. This administration and
its policy establish the place of constitutional
liberty, equal laws, and equal rights. The pre-
servation of the Constitution, the Union of the
States, and the preservation of the liberties of
q free people now rest upon the votes of the
citizens of the free States My earnest hopes,
in these saddest days OF the republic rest upon
them. Missouri, Kentucky and Maryland can
not elect President and change the policy of
the administration. Respectfully.
JAMES GUTHRIE.