The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1864-08-26

loyal states to drive all opponents from
the polls? It would only be doing on q
large scale what has been done on small
er scale in Delaware, Maryland and Ker-
lucky. And should he be reelected, and
any State Governments, or Congress it.
self, should presume to oppose bis policy
for the suppression of the rebellion, what,
upon this theory, is to prevent his sweep
ing them all away, and by the aid of his
white and more subservient black troops,
making himself the Lord Protector of our
liberties!
But there is a Constitutional "war
power, simple in its principles and readily
applicable to the present state of the coun-
try. It looks upon tile seeded States, of
right and in law, as much States in the
Union as they ever were. 1t looks upon
Congress as fully empowered to put at the
disposition of the President all the men of
the country, black and white, and all their
property, for the suppression of the rebel
lion. 1t considers it the duty of the Pres
ident to use these means for the purpose
of conquering and disarming the rebel
hosts and protecting the people in the re-
sumption and exercise of their civil and
constitutional rights and duties. Erery-
thing beyond this IS USURPATION. The
| seeded States need no reconstruction.
Let the Government but put down the re-
bellion, and the mass of the people would
Internationally and gladly return to their
allegiance. But you aoiU not let them.
You impose upon them harsh and degrad-
ing terms. Instead of Cancellation, you
drive them to desperation. To crafty a
Northern faction, one portion of which is
to ambitious of place and power to be pa
triotic, and another too blinded by fanati-
cism to be just or prudent, you have d.
verted the war from its only legitimate
object, and rushing over the dead bodies
| of myriads of Northern as we'll as South
ern men, are trampling on all the barriers
of the white mans liberty in pursuit of the
phantom of negro freedom! The world
has never witnessed a more wicked and
fatal delusion.
/, sir, would also appeal, not from the
| high position of candidate for Office, but
from the station of private citizen who
has long since lived out his political, and
now almost his natural life, "to my old
friends, the Democratic party proper" 1
look upon the great mass of that party as
the only truly loyal party in the country
loyal to "the Constitution as it is and the
Union as it was" No party ever had a
| better chance to honor themselves and save
their country than had that party in 1862.
The tide of public opinion was decidedly in
their favor, and had they been true to
themselves they would now control the
Government. But by equivocal discus
sions, timid counsels, and in some instances
the support Of men whose loyalty was
questioned, they suffered their adroit and
unprincipled adversaries to fix upon the
whole party the stain of disloyalty. Under
this imputatiOn they lost in 1868 the ground
they had gained in '62; let them not in
1864 repeat the errors of 1863. The tide
of public opinion is now decidedly against
the Administration but the people are
still devoted to the Union, and will not vote
for men who have the smell of disloyalty
upon their garments. Let the Democratic
party put forward candidates of undoubted
loyalty, who are prepared to say to the
people of the seeded States, in the Ian
guage of General jackson 1.-THE Federal
Union must be PRESCRIBED; but you and
tyOur States aotW become entitled to all y0als'
original rights and prioileges under the
Constitution, as soon as there shall be no
armed rebel aoithin y0ur borders"
1t is my firm conviction that such a
course will secure an overwhelming victo-
ry to the Democratic party in November
next, and to their country reunion and
peace. 1t cannot be that even New Eng
land is willing to sacrifice all Ler able
young and middle-aged men in protract-
ed war, waged, not for the Union, but for
the mere purpose of giving liberty to the
negro slaves in distant States.
But should the Democratic party this
year select for their leading candidates
men whose devotion to the preservation of
the country is doubtful, then woe, woe,
prOtracted woes, be to them and their
country. AMOS KENDALL.