The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1864-02-12


ward. [Great cheering Do. YOU suppose
that + Southern man, would implore YOU to
send the daggar to the heart of NV peonIe-
born and reared in their midst, with every i'm
pulse of my heart throbbing with theirs No.
sir, but do not want to see this war dragged
along and new loads of woe, and anguish and
sorrow weighing that people down, but want
them relieved at once, I want a keen. sharn '
powerful blow struck, in order that the whole
thing may collapse. Great applause. And
when yon talk about peace on any terms or
about peace conventions, or about missions to
them, and about electing peace candidate for
s s PRESIDENCY, you give them aid and COM
ior' whether you intend itor not. Applause.
~, MR. LINCOLN AND MR. CHASE.
we are willing to trust the soldiers of the
eSSuntfy 10 sustain the constitution upon fields
OF carnage and they will do it /: and when they
le.9rn tne swords that flashed at Vicksburg
anu st[eamed over Gettysburg and along the
IocKy panks OF Chickamauga, will strike home
;.t,, not' VI any man who dare violate that
instrument OF overturn these institutions in
their absence. Mr.. Lincoln is not insane and
amt as Dig fool as we all thought down
Soutn. lGreat laughter. We think the old
Fellow Is pretty longheaded after all. He has
cut under us pretty well anyhow. He has pro.
ciama!ea us, ana shot us, and done everything
that fame has higher niche for him when s na
retires from his position as Mr.. Lincoln. Ey.
President of the United States. than as the do
spoiler OF his country's rights and the DESTROYER
of a Sacred constitution. He will have a nrond-
er portion simply as EX-President of the Uni
ted States than the man who has diadems and
stars on his brow. Applause He has sense
enough 10 know tiiat; and the men who are
with him-Mr. Chase, who to orr astonish-
ment has upheld this queer financial thing that
we at the South did not undeis stand. and won't
understand, and can't understand. vet he has
held up this mighty financial fabric in the midst
OF a great and terrible war, and would he for
feit the good esteem he has in the hearts of his
couhtfymen by attempting to subvert the gov
eminent? And so by all the other Cabinet
officers, and so of all the good men who direct
She government of this country.
THE TENDENCY OF EVENTS
/ sag there Is no government except a re-
pubic, that could have succeeded in putting
down rebellion of this magnitude. IF il had
been despotisln. if there had been a life term
instead of one of four years. The disappointed
generals ard politicians would have INTRIGUED
and uEturned the government TO place them
selves In power. But four years is a short
time, and the people bear. knowing that they
have the policy OF the government in their own
hands AS to the future of the country and
Nas to the great philosophical question involved
10 TINS 1t Is clear to my mind that events are
10 make the government homoyenous-to
make us one people The North is a cold
bleak, unacceptable country. 1t may be hos
pltable to you, but it is cold and bleak to me.
The South is salubrious, fertile, with bright
skies, clear, rushing streams everything to in
ylte mankind to place his habitation there.
providence. in shaping the DESTINY of this ma
ton, provided that all parts of the country
might move forward with equal velocity.
Negro slavery was the instrument in the
hands OF Providence to accomplish particu-
lar mission. Ii came southwark, and finally
covered over and settled upon the southern
soil. 1t opened up all that miasmatic country,
and spread itself along the fertile tire inns and
drove to the North the population of the
world that came TO these shores for they would
settle on the bleak rocks of New HAMPSHIRE
or massachusetts rather than live with slavery
But now, when the North is peopled, the in
1uence OF this war has killed slavery, and the
south Will be open to white labor. The air be-
comes purified, and the grass springs green
over the footprints of recent desolation. And
SO 10 national affairs; and so in this great gov
eminent OF ours, o mighty whirlwind is abroad
and the South lies in its path. Desolation drcps
from its flaming pinions, and lightning circles
in its lurld pathway. The storm will rage and
roar until the national publication is accom-
piished and the defilement of negro slavery
washed out forever Loud applause. And
then now fresh, and green, and beautiful the
grass of wealth, and prosperity. and power
and happiness will spread over the path where
the war-dogs went. If you understand it, do
not If you please add more intensity to the
storm, but go ON with the current, and remove
II as quick as you can. TApplause. The
sooner it passes over the better for us and tor
the country, and you will have it in your
power to end the storm this very year
Cheers.
Having briefly alluded 10 the resources
and advantages of Arkansas, General
G INIT concluded as follows:
The Ouachita rises in the mountains of Ar
kansas, and on the banks of these rivers there
is room enough and employment enough for
every negro in tennessee, Arkansas, Missis-
sippi, Kentucky and Missouri, leaving all the
balance of the territory to white men. The
American genius will spread all over this land,
will climb the hills of the West and roam on
the shores of the Pacific, and the time will
come when your Yankees, and Germans, and
1rish will settle all over that beautiful land of
ours when churches and colleges shall spring
up where the wild Indians war whoop was
heard in the stiffness of the solitude, and
church spire will CLEAN to church spire; and
the time will come wiien OH some bright Sab.
bath morning, bells will answer to bells
from ocean to ocean, in one great diapason
rising upward to the skies. Cheers.
This Is nobody's work; it is not the aboli-
tionists. nor JET. Daviss, nor Lincoln's it is
God Almighty's work. TCheers And this
great government shall stand, and,
Though round its base the rolling clouds are
spread,
Eternal sunshine settles on its head.
Minnesota Indemnity Claims.
The Washington correspondent of the
New York Times writes on the ,31st ult
as follows:
The number of claims filed and regis
tered prior to- September, 1868, by the
Minnesota sufferers, before the Commits
sioners appointed by the President to as,
sess claims for damages, &c, was two
thousand. nine hundred and forty. The
parties claimed $2,45s,OOO damages
There was allowed S1,37O,O00 A great
many claims were Withdrawn, some for
warded to the Secretary of the Interior,
and seventy-six in which no testimony was
offered. The testi,nony-which is in the
hands of Secretary Usher-flls sieteen
thousand pages Of legal cap paper. The
appropriation made by the last Congress
$4,000. OOO) for the aid of the sufferers, has