The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1865-08-11
The Republican Parry on Ssate
Righss..InvasaoA OF Stases..What
they Preach W. what tAey PHae.
In the Chicago Republican. platform Of
1860 is the following good copperhesd t"

1860 is the following good copperhead
doctrine:
Resolced, That the maintenance inviolate of
the rights of the States and especially the
rights of each State to order and control its
own domestic institutions. according to its own
judgment exclusively, is essential to that bal.
ance of power on which the perfection and en-
durance of our political fabric depends; and
we den0ance the lawless invasion by armed
force of the soil of any State no matter under
what pretext as among the gracest crimes.
The above doctrine is insisted on now
by Democrats in Kentucky, who had an
election Monday, but the telegraph informs
us that "armed forces" are pouring into
the State in order to carry the election for
particular party, and that particular
party the very one who published to the
world that they denounced p" such things
as " among the graoest of crimes" 1t is
"lawless invasion, for no law author
ICES any men or set Of men to interrupt
the freedom Of elections in loyal State.
The same anathemas this party hurled
against the border rufians fer their
outrages in Kansas may be hurled back at
them now by theloyal Kentuckians who
are not only being robbed and plundered
by the order Of Gen. Palmer running off
their slaves, but are being made slaves
themselves by having laws AID legislators
hoisted on them at the point Of the bayo-
net and by a bogus election, Ia Kansas.
Yet they believe in maintaining invio-
late the rights of the States and especially
the right to order and control their own
domestic institutions according to their
own judgement euclasively."
This platform gives MS the principles of
the party. Kentucky, loyal State that
has sent nearly 100, 0e0 of its men to fight
for the laws and the onstitution-Ken-
lucky bleeding and weltering under des-
potism as grinding as that which brushes
under its iron heel the life of Poland, or
Ireland. or Hungary-Kentucky furnishes
Us the practice Of these principles.
If Kentucky can be thus manaeled and
dragged, to grace the triumphal Car of the
great New England Puritan Reform party,
why may not illinois, and Wisconsin, and
Iowa, and Minnesota? The pretext for
disfranchising Kentucky is that her laws
and customs and institutions are not
moulded after the Puritan style; they do
not suit Pharisaioal New England The
pretext for quartering troops in illinois
and Minnesota to control our elections,
will not be wanting, should our legislation
on United States bonds, on protective tar
riffs, on Maine Liquor Laws, or some other
pet New England "refoEm run counter
to their most loyal and pious pleasure.
Such things can be construed as disloyal,
and all in favor Of them excluded from
the polls by order of some usurper.
Let those who aatter themselves that
these things will stop when Kentucky is
reformed" just reflect that slavery is
only one Of the nest of reforms which New
England, in the dominant party, proposes
to hatch out, and not till all these are
brought out into vigorous life and power
under the gentle incubations of Republican
platforms like that of Chicago, On the
more vigorous "pipping" process at the
point of the bayonet, win she sheathe her
sword or quit the high mission in which
she proposes to labor for the Interests of
God and humanity" We cannot rule
Kentucky by martial law in time of peace
without destroying all law in every other
State. We cannot have freedom in the
North and slavery in the South, for the
irrepressible conflict +" forbids the idea.
The Republicans have inculcated it Is
"loyal" doctrine that "all must be slave
or all free" If Kentucky is enslaved,
therefore we have their word that all other
States will share the same fate. There is
not solitary reason for disfranchising
Kentucky by ooercing her electors that
will not justify DISTINGUISHING Minnesota.