The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1865-11-03
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49, p,.eaacal Qneseaens - - DeciA.
ID Ney 80
Tho polieical issues before thepeople are
If present practical moment. They be-
lone not to thepsst. It is not for us to
;nouire. whether Democratic .er Repubi-
can Generslsied our victorious armies dur
ing the va, nor whether Democratic or;
Republioln soldiers fought more brsvely.
It is sufficient to know, that all nobly did
their duty. The war is over, and the
the country is at peace. The questions Of
the present hour are narrowed down to a
few simple propositions. 1t is not, wheth-
er the Union shall be restored at some flu
ture period, but moU; not whether the ne
gro may at some future time be allowed
to vote, but whether four millions ofsouth-
ern negroes just emancipated from oentu-
ries Of slavery, shall be enfranchised noD;
whether the administration of President
JOHNSON shall be sustained or not. The
Presidents policy is conciliatory, broad,
national, constitutional. II leaves the
settlement of these matters to the States
to resume their functions in the Union
with or without negro suffrage, as they
may decide. Slavery is, abolished, The
country from one end of It to the other is
free. That question is forever decided.
A But the Republican leaders are not sat.
isfed. They demand, as a condition
precedent to the admission Of Southern
Representatives in Congress, that the me-
groes of the South shall vote. Wise and
good men of all parties, and all sections.
Of the country, have doubted the wisdom
Of universal suffrage, without limitation,
as applied to Heterogeneous population.
There are few, comparatively, who favor
an elective Judiciary. But mos9 We are
called upon to enfranchise four millions of
a degraded and inferior race, after centu-
ries Of hereditary slavery, not gradually,
but at once, without preparation or quail
fcation. h1g H-'-Ho% a475 Is ~ "
The war was for the Union, and not for
the negro. The lives of the brave men
lost in it, were worth thousand Afticas,
with al their woolly-headed tribes. Re-
publican speakers, time and time again,
before the war, declared their opposition
to slavery 70 be. not because of is so
great injury to the slsve, under the cir.
cunstancss. but because of its injury to
the white man. Now they propose to
place four millions of negroes upon "a
equal footing with the white labosers Of
ahe country only with the poor
whites of the South, whose cauee they 90
pharisaically advocated. but, withsrthe
whites of the North. Their organ, the.
Press, invites them to this State. -. i.
Farmers, mechanics, lsborers of Mime
sofa in the field, beside the bench, on the
public works, whether American, German,
Irish or Swede, the question is for you to
decide, and to your decision we shall sub
init. 10 ~. IL
b But our duty compels US to raise our
voice against measures fraught with SO
much danger, As the friend both Of the
white and elack, We topposs it I The Bit
tsrsst enemy Of the negro could inhict
upsh him no greater injury. If the con-
fiict bstx1esn Free and Slave labor were
"irrepressible, as It was said, that b.
tween WAise and Black labor win b not
only irrspressible, II will b discriminating.
1t is the part Of wisdom to check it.
Whatever hastens it, hastens the eternal
doom of the negro. As sure Is the white
race is superior, 80 sure the negro must 60
under. He will melt away before the face
of the white man, like the frost-work of
the morning in the fret rays of the sun.
The experience Of all ages, the authority
Of our greatest statesmen, the opinion Of
the ablest political writer's bear us out in
the proposition. JEFRKsoN (whose opinion
has been 30 often quoted) says in his
memoirs, nothing is more clearly written
in the book of destiny, than the emsncipa-
ton OF the blacks; and tits equally certain
that the two races will never live in state
of equal freedom under the same Govern
ment, so insurmountable are the barriers
which nature, habit and opinions have es-
tablished between them" De TocQUR-
VILE says: 81 do not imagine that the
white and black races will ever live in
any country upon an equal footing AL
| luding to the condition of the free black of