The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1865-07-28

to- Addressing myself to the auulence, z
said: ,.aH r--.s 81" ~y ..
You have witnessed the rise, elimination and
overthrow of rebellion, in all respects. the
most astonishing in the worlds history; as
tonishing because of the numbers engaged, the
resources it so suddenly improvised, and the
duration and intensity Of the conflict. It was
only less astonishing than the numbers and re-
sources 1t encountered. 1t has ended as all re.
bellions must end when opposed by greatly
superior resources and numbers. The rebellion
Is over. Its leaders are captives, exiles, or sup
plicants for pardon; Its armed adherents have
saluted their Gag for the last time, and its
friends throughout the South have yielded the
contest. Their submission has been graceful,
NOT ss armed ieS s 3. Sc ssss filth @
the limits Of the State. Tho Federal govern.
ment professed to draw the sword only for the
sole purpose Of enforcing the constitutional
authority wherever 1t was opposed; It IL this
day supreme within the limits of the United
States. No opposition is anywhere attempted;
Dor, indeed, can any be organized. Why, then,
ask, are We threatened With . despotism a.
rebelliona Why are FREQ elections denied to
the Union men and qualified voters of the State3
Why have non-rosidents and loungers around
Federal camps. without your knowledge and
consent, and IN defiance Of Jour protests and
appeals, been permitted to usurp the high and
responsible places of power, and to declare
themselves your oppreesors and masters and
this, too, In contempt of those declarations of
rights, whose sacred principles are inviolable,
the general powers Of government ?" Why
are oftensive rulers being set over the loyal
people Of the State by those who are jointly
responsible for the WARP Why are bands of
armed negroes permitted to roam over the
country, Plundering and insulting the timid
and defencelessa And more than these, why
are You and ], whose souls are unstained by
treason, compelled to drain this cup of shame
at the hands of those who were the original
instigators of the rebellion2 ?" =
/ beg leave to assure your excellency
that, in using the words "original instiga-
tors of the rebellion, f" I alluded to you !;
further, that ! spoke in no Pickwickian
sense. And now that may invoke your
clemency, not for myself, but for those who
listened to my remarks, frankly confess
that ! submitted certain proofs of the truth
of my charges. I told the people that the
first time I ever saw you, you were har-
anguing the multitude to prove me an abo-
litionist; that it was somewhat straw
and gusty day." and that your vehemence
ia the open air caused you to contract
throat disease, from which, unfortunately
for the country, you profess not to have
recovered. Ialluded to your early speeches
in Congress, in which you resortsd to the
bitterest personal abuse of John Quincy
Adams because of bis religious anti-sla-
very opinions; to your reverential confess
sion that God had killed off Gen. Harrison
because he was an abolitionist. I also told
the people that you had, in 1856, in the
State of Tennessee, proposed that every
Southern man should "join in one frater-
nal hug and plunge into rebellion, if Fre-
mont and Dayton were elected In addi-
ton to this, informed the audience that
l heard you, in the Senate, in Decembec,
1859, denounoe Mr.. Seward and the Re-
publican party as wholly responsible for
the murderous raid of "this old man
Brown" whom you then stigmatized as
nothing more than murderer, q robber,
q thief and traitor" I said, also, that
you not only supported Breckenridge, the
candid ate Of the avowed disunionists, but
that after the election Of Lincoln, after the
meeting Of Congress in December, 1850.
and only one day before the assembling
Of the Convention which declared
South Carolina out Of the Union, you had,
In the Senate OF the United States, made .
labored speech, embracing q part of two
days, in which you positively pledged your
SELF in q contingency which has long since
to join these same rebels, to
I" perish in the last breach," to "burn
every blade Of grass, and to make your
grave in "the Last intrenchments " of
rebel freedom. I told the people that /
heard this speech during the delivery of
which Jefferson Davis offered you . most
insult the effect Of which I
viii not now attempt TO state), and that