The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1865-09-15

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Tho onssAsi1srr, ssase Csnventasn.
We have in this sparsely populated State
an army Of voracious ofice-hoMers, who,
for the past four years, have BEEN playing
the pleasant part Of loyal stay-st-home
patriots, feeding and fattening at the pub
lie crib. One hundred Aud twenty-three
of these anxious patriots assembled in
convention in this city yesterday, to make
. most responding and desperate effort to
devise ways and means whereby they may
retain and obtain Offices they are unfit to
hold, and avoid working for living, for
which they have not the slightest liking
or liberation. These men, and their com.
peers in other States, aided by their Co
workers, the fre-eaters Of the South,
mounted the negro and rode into power
on his sable back, inducing between the
two extremes a war Of sections, which
filed the pockets of the Northern wing of
these cooperating factions, and impover-
ished and subjugated the Southern wing.
But, unfortunately for the Northern
wing of the rebel factions, the war has de-
stroyed slavery. The Southern wing, tram
pied under the feet Of victorious armies,
and sick Of the game these two factions
have been playing to cheat the old Demo
cratic party out of power, cry out Justify,
"enough !" and give up slavery as the for.
felt of their perfdy and madness. By this
act the Southern people have stricken
down and demolished all the platforms Of
the Republican party, and left them not
a Solid plank to stand upon. as5e.
Negro slavery and all its agitations are
dead; and hence the Republican party,
founded on the single issue of negro sla-
very agitation, is dead also. The ultra
sincere men of that party are wild
fanatics, honestly in favor of negro suf-
frage, amalgamation and misoegenation.
The demagogues and politicians who seek
only the emoluments and spoils of Office
and power, see clearly that as soon as the
negro ceases to be an issue in politics,
their occupation is hopelessly gone. These
two Glasses of negroites made up the Re-
publican convention of yesterday, and pre-
sented the observing physiognomist with a
view Of the characteristic countenances of
each. - 1a, go0s ~ 90. -siI.
The fanatics who believe in SAMBo
AEKoANus as the gospel of modern phi
lanthropy, presented to the Committee on
Resolutions, as a compromise, the fol-
lowing: 1000. =, y :. ~. s...-3 z
Resolved, That the hands, whether black or
white, which have just laid down the musket,
borne in defence of the Union, can be safely
trusted to take up the ballot And while we
feel that in any scheme of reconstruction, edu-
cation and intelligence ought to precede suf-
frage, nevertheless If the ignorant and trail
torous white masses of the South are permit
ted to take part In the government of the ma
ton they have just sought TO destroy, we
claim that as measure of safety as we'll as of
justice the same rights shall be extended to
the loyal black men of the South. ai.b5r.r
But the demagogues, who ride the ne
gro for profit only, said this was too plain, /
TOO direct. Such ontspoken negro
suffrage might alarm the veteran soldiers,
who are almost to man opposed to negro
suffrage, and would certainly result in
the defeat of the Republican party of this
State So the Committee ''sugar coated"
this resolution. and reported it in the form
seen in the resolutions adopted by the
Convention. Iii r..
A more explicit confession Of weakness
could not have i'een made by the oonven-
ton. The Republ cans have but one issue
left, whereby the, Lave the slightest hope
of retaining pose negro suffrage land
this they are AFRAID to avow in all it's
naked deformity, but resort to the silly
expedient of presenting it in vague and
wordy generalities But the subterfuge
cannot succeed. Negro suffrage Is there.
It is the only live issue in the convention,
was the only live issue in the State Lcgis-
lature of last WHITE, will be the only live
issue in Congress next winter, and will
be the only live i-sue whereby the Repub-
icans can hope - drlnde the people and
retain power.
Upon this iss ne Democratic party
wage uncomproiD lug war against the Re-
publicans. If the Republicans carry negro
suffrage, they carry everything; they tri-
umph over all the safeguards ofthe Oonsti-
tuition; they. triumph over President John
son and his reconstruction policy, COM
pletely Africanizing and running the South,
and enslayinp the North. and abolish