The weekly pioneer and Democrat., 1865-06-23
The Cause Of the War mot Yet Re-
moved.

order to have Union and avoid agitation
and war, the cause of war must be abolish
ed. Democrats took no stock in this theo-
ry, but pointed to the peace and prosper
ity of the country for seventy years WIN
slavery, as full refutation Of the fallacy'
Democrats charged that the cause OF 'ne
war was the same which WASHINGTON
foresaw and predicted in bis FareWeil Ad-
dress. viz: the agitation OF irritating
sectional and geographical issues arraSine
the North against the South anu the
sontb aosinst the North, or what Mr.. Sew
.nn and LINCOLN called the Inauguration
oftbe "irrepressible conflict" or the same
which JEFFERSON lamented when the nor
tbern agitators sounded their "fre-bell
in the night " by drawing the geographic
cal Missouri line, which held up the an
ery passions of the people (was) never OBJ
literated until it ended in civil war;
In word, the Democratic theory was
that slavery like friction matches or gun
powder was harmless to the peace of the
country if let alone and not meddled with,
but left as the Constitution left il to the sole
control of the States; while they held that
the restless innovating, 81 am holier
than thou" meddling puritanism of the
Republican party was pregnant with the
greatest danger to our peace and union,
and unless checked by the conservative
elements of the country would precipitate
the very tragedies of war and disunion
through which We have passed. Well,
what was formrly by prophecy and specu-
lation is now history and fact.
War has run its curshing ploughshare
through our peaceful land. A national
debt has been piled up mountain-high.
The struggle has been protracted from one
to two years longer than necessary in Or
der to force 'the abandonment of slavery"
"remove the cause of the war;" and Sc
cure "a lasting peace, >" never again to be
broken. Republican prophets have pic
tured to us the Southern "lion lying down
with the Northern lamb" our "swords
beaten into plowshares and our spears into
pruning hooks" the little child playing
upon the hole of the asp" Cor copperhead)
and peace everywhere flowing like river
in all the grand and ever-expanding future
of our glorious career, and all owing to
the "cause of the war "-slavery-being
removed" Are these visions likely to
be realized" Let US see. Before the
last gun of this war is fired, even to-day,
while the smoke of battle is still ascend
ing and our dead not yet buried, We read
in the journals of the "three thousand
ministers, 4" who protested "in the name of
God, against STEPHEN A. DOUGLAS and his
Congressional course, and whose pulpits
have ever since bounded on the dogs of
war and clamored for blood until to-day
the land 10 Golgotha and an Aceldema
we read in the journals of these men
and in the resolves Of their assemblies:
That it is at this time an absolute necessity
to give the negro the ballot to counterbalance
the Irish vote, and to keep out of Congress
and the Senate men from the South. The
time has come when such influences as Irish
and Southern politicians should be held in
eheck.-Nsw School PTestytefiaa assembly a.
Brooklyn.
ARd again, At the anniversary of the
American and Foreign Christian Union in
New York, Rev. DR.. SCUDpER-said
That the next great battle must be fought
with Romanism. We must aid Mexico. Our
government must give Gs1imilian notice to
QUIT, and tell Napoleon that DO French rooster
shall ever crow in the presence Of the Ameri-
can eagle. Wemust fight Papacy with politi-
cal as well as moral weapons, and offset the
Hibernian vote with negro suffrage. We must
bury the Papacy deep down in the grave with
slavery.
And again, at a meeting held by the
Protestant Christians of the First Church
cod School Presbyterians) in Pittsburg:
Rssolsed, That . committee consisting of
four ministers and three laymen be appointed,
to ask the several assemblies to devise plans
by which q general and concerted movement
of all the Protestant forces Of the land may be
QfOUgut oUOut> oalU . OOa2s SAsOIOuS duu con-
tinuous protest by word and act shall be enuu-
ciated against both infdeiity and Roman Ca
tholicism, the arch enemies of truth in the
midst of the protesting Church of God, and
arch traitors to civil and religious freedom
throughout the world.
In the journals of the Republican agit-
ators and allies of the $4,000 ministers, -
We read the sounding of the tocsin of war
against President JOHNSON, to force negro
suffrage on the Southern States; and
| these journals boldly state that the Union
shall not be restored except on this basis
of negro suffrage; that Southern repre-
ssntatives shall not take their seats in Con-
gress that "it were far bstter that GRANT
should have surrendered to LEE rather
than that President JOHNSON should have
surrendered to North Carolina that is
to the constitution he had sworn to sup
port.
And everywhere through the North