The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1865-11-03
Montgomerv Blair as 2 Democrat,
stump Orator. A sstsiaia

- ~>~"N-' - ~ $500 -l-'Ss - 49,
Lincoln Cabinet, appeared in New York,
on Wednesday evening Of last week, to
address democratic mass meeting. His
views on negro suffrage were thus ex-
pressed: raa3 aHe.a ts s4o!.se
It would bring in its train other incalculable
evils, the worst Of which would be the creation
of mixed, degraded cast Of laborers, much
more fatal to the peace of the government
than negro slavery during the first two centu-
ries of its existence. In Its first stage, four
millions of black freedmen as labofers In, the
field could not but give character to the whole
the mechanical classes. Every white man IN
the field would find himself reduced in wages
as In function 10 the negro standard and negro
equality thus established would bring down all
the white operatives TO their level; and thus
reduced in their political importance and man.
ual pursuits, every Anglo Saxon who had ca
pacity and enterprise for the effort would fly
from the section in which his habituaI PRIDE
of superiority and his instructive prejudices of
race were hnmbled. Those of the dispirited
class of the whites incapable Of effort from long
indulgence and dependence on the servile In
stitution, would sink beneath the negro. or at
least become his fellow, until the whole de-
moralised class et white iaBorers, in common
with the already adopted class of black hire.
lings in the South, weuld be the subjected vic.
Tins of the monlod and landed aristocracy of
that region. This new fehdal system Of white
and black and mixed serfdom would then be
more than oppressive and degrading becauee It
would be that Of hireling, menial service, not
military. under lords paramount selfrso @ i
North and of Europe, would be more thor
oughly than 'heretofofe deferred from emigra
tion to the sunny South, where they find up
start landlords and monied capitalists aided
by closer-fisted and more lynx.eyed agents aud
overeeefs than the titled gentry of the old
country or the cotton lords Of the new ever
employed to subdue the masses TO bear the
burdens of insatiate ambition and avarice
If ever . government Of white and black is
to be established, the white race must be as
thoroughly subjected to the blacks as ever the
blacks were TO the whites. The or cal of SER.
vitude must prepare both TO eubmit in peace to
the equality proposed , I here never can be
peace between the two races until the vicisei.
tudes of master have sutssued both to UNDER
sshnd that servile life is better than no Nfe.
do not think the white men of the South
have yet been taught this lesson 80 perfectly
as to permit The negro To take their place with
out struggle. 1aa a3fsssi e , 81 fs9d e
Does Mr.. Sumner mean to leave the arbitra-
ment of the blacks and whites to the South !:
or does he mean that the North shall step 10
and subjugate the whites t. the negroes? Il
would be- . dangerous experiment for the
friends of negro equality to have the issue 70
be decided by the two colors 10 the South, for
more than two-thirds of the slaves stood BY
the side of their masters In the late fight and
without . Northern army to give promise of
success 70 renewed struggle for emancipa-
ton, It is not improbable that many who have
been delivered by our soldiers would 20 into
the camp Of their old masters to secure their
freedom on easier terms than by 6ghting
against them. The controversy practically
comes to this: The North must conquer and
and it q dependency; or freedmen II they re-
main in the South, must relapse into servile
condition 70 Northern or Southern masters