The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1865-06-16
THE RADICAL WARFARE UPON
PRESIDENT JOHNSON.
It's Bitterness----The Coming
Rupture.

4L0 OlttOA uC00.eeeI No OVU44uH
Rupture.
CaARLRs SUMNER, in his oration In Boston
tho other day, said:
Surely the same authority which may limit
the electoral law of slavery may enlarge It. If
the national authority can do anything about
elections If 1t can order an election if 1t can
regulate an election if it can exclude traitor
who Is still at large, 1t can admit loyalist
whose only incapaoity Is his skin.
The cOl0red suffrage Is now q necessity. But
beyond this. In making it an essential condition
of the restoration of rebel States to the Union,
we follow: first, the law of reason and of ma
ture, and secondly, the constitution, not only
In Its text, but as Interpreted by the declara-
ton of Independence. By reason and nature
there can be no denial on account of color; and
we can do nothing which Is thus irrational and
unnatural. BY the constitution, 1t Is stipulated
that the United States shall guarantee to ev-
cry State republican form of government"
but the meaning OF this guarantee must be
which is the controlling preamble of the con.
stitution. Beyond all question, the United
States when called to enforce this guarantee,
must insist on the equality Of all men before
the law, and the consent of the governed.
Such is the true idea of republican govern
ment according to American institutions.
The slave masters, driven from their frse
intrenchments, already occupy inner defences.
Property in man is abandoned; but they now
insist that colored persons shall not enjoy pO-
litical rights. Liberty has been won. The bat
tie for equality is still pending. And now Q
new compromise is proposed by which colored
persons are to be sacrificed in the name of
But do not despair. The cause may be de-
layed; but it cannot be lost and all who set
themselves against it will b overcome, for 1t
is the cause of humanity. Not the rich and
proud, but the poor and lowly, will be the IA
vorltes of an enfranchised republic. The words
Of the prophet will be fulfilled: "And I will
Danish the people for their evil, and the wicked
for their iniquity, aud will cause the arrogance
of the proud to cease and will lay low the
haughtiness of the terrible. will make man
more precious than fine gold, even a man, than
the golden wedge of Ophir." l catch these
sublime words of prophecy. and echo them
back as the assurance of triumph.
At the anniversary meeting Of the Emanci-
patton League, held in Boston last week, Ex-
Governor Boutwell, set his pegs somewhat in
advance of the speakers who had preceded
him:
He declared he would never consent to the
readmission of State into the Union, unless
under constitution which gave the right OF
suffrage to black as we'll as white. The black
man must vote, at all events, whether the
whites did or not" He suggested, also, that
'at the next session of Congress, the districts
covered by the States of South Carolina and
Florida should be organized as new Territories,
and the colored people invited to settle there,
and build up States of their own, from which
they might In few years send black represen-
tatives to Congress"
Senator Wilson of Massachusetts, said 1.-THE
legislature Of Tennessee had passed, through
one branch, G law degrading the free blacks of
that State to the condition of serfs; and he
would tell the people Of Tennessee, Governor
Brownlow and President Johnston, that the
representatives of Tennessee cannot be re-
ceived in Congress with that law upon her Sta
tute BOOKS" The ballot. he declared, must be
put In the hands of the black man.
Mr.. Wendell Phillips is reported to have
saids
"He eontended that slavery was abolished
and that the reconstruction policy OF the
administration, as set forth in the proclama.
ton for the reconstruction of North Carolina,
was An absolute surrender of the helm of the
Union into the hands of Alex. II. Stephens,
and his co-workers. The construction upon
that basis was practical fraud upon the
North Every life and every dollar that had
been spent had been stolen from them. There
was but one way in which the people could
still hold the helm of affairs, and that was .
declaration Of reputation Of the entire war
debt. Such party would have his voice and
vote until God called him hence. He would
constantly oppose every step of reconstruction
that did not place the negro upon an absolute
equality and level with the white man. There
were but two parties in The cOuntry-the syco-
plants OF jeff. Davis and the lovers of liberty.
Every man who supported the North Carolina
proclamation was Davis sycophant. Better,
far better would it have been for Grant to have
surrendered to Lee than for President johnson
N a f,
The National Anti-Slavery Standard, of June
3, has leading article, under the heading
1.-THE Fatal STEP in which the North Caro-
lima policy Of the administration is assailed:
And the substance of the whole is that so
far as North Carolina is concerned, the admin
istration has declarged against negro suffrage.
North Carolina is handed over to the rule of a
merciless aristocracy, created by the act of
President johnson, and resolved not merely to
exclude the negro from suffrage, but to make
his new possession to freedom mockery and
sham. Let whoever doubts it look at Ten.
nessee and the black code which has already
passed one branch of its Legislature. Such a
tyranny is the necessary consequence of the
distinction in races. There is no party in the
South that is friendly to the negro, or disposed
to do him justice. The rebels hate him be-
cause he was true to the Union. The so-called
negro loyalists are the poor whites who al.
ways hated the negro, as negro, worse than
the slavehOlding class dld--a fact with which
every Southerner is familiar; so that to what.
ever class the fate OF the black race shall be
RENTED, there is not even chance that IL will
be tree from oppression-much less be granted
justice. BY the proclamation of the President
and the policy of the government the negroes
OF North Carolina are doomed to a century of
serfdom. VI
We can only hope the North CaroIisa polcv
ls adopted as an experiment, not as a fnalitv
The government, let US trust, is only feelinr
its way, and has no purpose to plunge head.
long into such vortex as reconstruction "n
the present theory would set whirling. IF the
President has really made up his mind to leave
the fate OF the negro in the hands of the whites
OF each State, there is no hope either for the
negro or for the Union. But we refuse to he.
lieye that such scheme is yet mature, and in
T Toe,t taat !. may not be, we summoned the
north 10 Its duty. Everywhere let protest
ana denunclation be heard. Let the admins
tratlon be compelled at least to hesitate-and
W gsin tiIne may be to save nation. Recon-
BLrucLlOn on this theory ia o,,ly 81