The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1864-11-04

In 1860 a sectional party came into power,
! with the single idea of hostility to the So
/ cial and industrial institutions of fifteen
! States-which institutions were tolerated,
provided for and protected by the cOnstitu-
ton of our fathers, as the only means of
forming the Union, and making great
and strong confederacy of United
"States," bound together 10y friendship
and willing "loyalty."
The party being pledged to harrass,
hamper, hem in and crush out these insti-
tutions by the slow, indirect, insidious, but
no less certain and fatal policies OF the
irrepressible conflict which they claim
cd would SNAKE all the States free"
alarmed, alienated and made enemies of
those States who justly regarded such pol
icies as unfriendly and violative of every
principle of comfy and good faith on
which the Union was based. Disunion
and separation were the inevitable result,
and war which has devastated the land
ever since, the legitimate and logical con-
se4uence-springing out of the "irrepres-
sible conflict as naturally as the blossom
springs out of the bud
fit is answered that the result would
have been the same if any other candidate
had been elected, we reply that no other
candidate would have been able to " fire
the Southern heart " and drive tie people
into the net which Abolitionists and South
Carolina secession leaders had prepared for
| them thirty years ago.
! The efforts made to avert the war and
cave the Union by compromise of the
| Slavery question, were all opposed by this
Republican "Union party, who would
! then, 10 now, agree to no settlement
which contlcted with their party dOgmas
| requiring " the abandonment of Slavery"
The Democrats, whom they now denounce
as enemies to the Union, they then de-
nounced as friends of the Union, derisively
calling them " Union savers" They re-
| fused to send any delegates to the Peace
Congress, called together to make a last
| effort to prevent war and disunion, except
men opposed to any settlement stiff
! backed men-sO called by Senator Chan
tler-who said the "Union was not worth
8: rusi, without little blood letting"
They voted down the Crittenden Compro-
! mise and every other compromise proposed;
and We have the testimony of Stephen A.
Douglas, in the I'd volume of the Congress
sionM GIoJe Of l86O-61, page 1890 and
appendix page 4l, in his speeches of jan
usry Sd and March I'd, 1861, that 81 the
Republicans aloue stood in the way of a
| settlement, and that even Jefferson Davis
and Toombs were willing to compromise
on the basis of the Crittenden propositions
and maintain the Union"
The Union and peace therefore depending
upon the Republicans, who held the keys of
| war Or peace, Union or DisuniOn, in their
| hanIs-inen who had always been opposed
| to any Union based on the constitution
depended upon broken stick, and, as Mr..
Banks had promised four years before,
the, "let il slide" and var followed
! Flo~REs AND FRUITS OF LISCoLNlsM-rliE
! PROSPECTS BaFoHz Is.
! And here is our condition to-day. Here
! are the consequences of lincoins election {:
, The Union is broken.
The constitution is openly violated, and
its violation justified by Abraham Lincoln
in his communication to A. G. Hodges,
! representing delegation of Kentuckians.
Those who speak for it are deriled in the
! Senate of the United States as having
Sc constitution on the brain" Men like
| Phillips and Garrison, who have boosted
! Of their labOrs for nineteen years to de-
stroy the Union and oyerturn the Govern
ment, ara received as "loyal " mon, adj
| mitted to the councils of the Cabinet, and
With their friends to-day control this
Government aud shape its policies.
Liberty bleeds at every pore, and no
mans life or person is safe if it pleases
Mr.. Seward or Mr. Stanton to ting!e the
little bell I" at Washington and order his
arrest, Or some Gen. Paine or other au-
thorized plunderer and tyrant, or some
company of soldiers excited by fanatics
to violate his liberty or take his life. This
is the case in Missouri, in Kentucky,
in Indiana, in Ohio, in Maryland, and
in Illinois, and it will soon be so here
aud all over the North if Lincoln
is reelected. Draft has followed draft.
until all our young men are gone. Labor
Is too scarce or too high end farmers pro-
duce too low to hire hands. Our fields
are left to be cultivated by old men, wo-
men and children. Farms are deserted
and grown up in weeds. And there is
every prospect that the few men that are
left will soon be called for: as intimations
are plainly given out by Mr. Lincoln and
bis friends that as soon Is he is elected
on, million naea will he called ont to sup
! ply the vacancies which will be caused
next summer by the expiration Of the
terms OF tie soldier now in the field. This
MI be necessary under his policies which
refuse even 10 talk Of peace until every
I is doic away with.
For, ook over the past history Of this
/ admin iStratioD, and you viii find that tl.4
! rebellion WAS ''on It's last legs two years
ago. tnat the rebels had "notline 10
eats" no shoes, no money, no credit, no
! salt, no arms, no men left the cradle
ane the grave " had beer robbed, and that