The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1864-12-30


fourteen instantly killed and seventy-six
wounded, many MORALLY. For description
of the battles and list of killed and wound
ed, we refer our readers to the graphic
letter of our correspondent.
British Intrigue in the United States.
Over thirty years ago, few of Eng
lands leading statesmen, alarmed for the
maritime ascsndency of Great Britain, and
INDUCING q vell-founded fear that the
United States would grasp the empire of
the seas, conspired together, in company
with WILLIAM LLOYD GARRISON and few
other Massachusetts fanatics, to create an
anti-slavery sentiment in this country
sufficiently powerful to engender ill-teeling
between the North and the South, and
eventually involve Us in war and disunion.
For this purpose incendiary tracts were
written and distributed by British and
Yankee peddlers throughout the South,
and English agents were secretly accredit-
ed to this country in the guise Of mission
aries, to enter our Northern pulpits under
the pretenoe of preaching religion, and
prostitute the sanctuary for the purpose of
preaching politics. Millions Of dollars Of
British gold were spent in fostering this
diabolcal enterprise, and the patriotism Of
such Americans as GARRISON, PHILLIPS.
G1pDNas, PARKER, SEWARD and LovEJoY
was subsidized for the purpose of building
up geographical and sectional anti-sla-
very party, in spite of the ominous warn
ings Of WASHINGTON, JE.TkRsoH, JACKSON
and CLAY. The project succeeded, and
Exeter Hall was in blaze of glory. Mrs.
HARRIET BKEcHKR STOWE, accompanied by
the Duchess of SuTHERLAND-a woman
who drove the Irish peasantry off of her
Irish estates and left them to starve at lei
sure-sat side by side in Exeter Hall, while
the American flag was hung over their
heads draped in mourning. Europe be-
held the pitiable spectacle of Americans
80 lost to decency and patriotism as to
exult in their country's humiliation. The
coronetted nobility of Finland laughed in
their sleeves over the bloody develop
ment of their schemes, and the pigmy
Kanucks shook their heads with the crazy
and merconary Blue Noses of Nova Scotia,
as the lurid fires of civil war illuminated
the horizon of our country. These fires,
hndled by British intrigue and British
gold, are now fed by an Anglo Saxon Brit
ish-American press, re-echoing the exult-
ant sentiment of British orators. Prof
GOODWIN SMITH comes to US from England
and writes home about the Presidential
election:
In country town to which went in the
afternoon the aspect of thing was the same as
in the city; and there was negroes taking part
in town meeting, apparently on perfect
equality with the whites. In the city saw
the negroes going up in the line of voters
to the polls, mingled with the first men of the
place.
By the defeat of the Democratic party
England as well as America has escaped q
great danger. The concessions which the
slave owners they would certainly have had to
balance by "spirited foreign policy" of
which England would have been the object.
This party, as you know, are inveterately hos.
tile to Us. They rest on the slave-owners and
the Irish, both of them our mortal enemies
and the only enemies that, but for the reckless
malignity Of our aristocratic press, we should
have in this nation.
Republican newspapers like the Press
of this city endorse the above by republica-
ton as we might naturally suppose il
would from its British afinities. England
congratulates herself on an escape from
Punishment for the damnable wrongs she
has done us, by the defeat of the Demo.
cratic and the triumph of the Republican
party. Why? Because England knows
that the Democratic party have ever beer
prompt to vindicate the national power
and that the Republican party have beer
prompt to yield to her insulting threats
and demands. England exults over thu
defeat of the Democracy, and why? Be
cause their triumph would have beef
the triumph of the Union, and tn
triumph of the Union would have inaugu
rated ga spirited foreign policy (which
Mr.. GOODWIN SMITH sarcastically suggest
is thing the Republican party has no
got. England well knows that the inject
crate hostility of the Democratic party II
which Mr.. SMITH alludes, is founded on .
clear comprehension of British character
with its diplomatic duplicity, selfshness
and unscrupulous resorts; and such dupH
city, seyfshness, and venGlity, is nowher'
more completely illustrated than in the st
Paul Press, whose principal editor owe
his allegiance to the British crown.
CORPORAL GEORGE T. BARTLETT, Com
pany A, Heavy Artillery, died in hospita
at Nashville last week,
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