The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1865-11-03
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rb. polisical issues before thepeopls are
- nresant practical moment. They be-
,one not to th1psst. It is not .for, Us to
;nouire, whetler Democratic 4er Republic
can Generals led our victorious armies dur
ipg the va, nor whether Democratic or
Republican soldiers fought more bravely.
It is sufficient to know, that all nobly did
Their duty. The war is over, and the
the country is at peace The questions of
the present hour are narrowed down to
few simple propositions. 1t is not. wheth-
or the Union shall be restored at some flu
ture period, but mo0; not whether theme
gro may at some future time be allowed
to vote. but whether four millions ofsouth-
ern negroes just emancipated from centu-
ries ef slavery, shall be enfranchised noso;
whether the administration of President
JOHNSON shall be sustained or not. s The
Presidents policy is conoiliatory, broad
national, stttntional II leaves the
settlement of these matters to the States
to resume their functions IN the Union
withror without negro suffrage, az they
may decide. Slavery is, abolished The
country from one end Of It to the other is
free That question is forever decided.
4 But the Republicans leaders are not sat.
isfed. They demand, as q condition
to the admission Of Southern
Representatives in Congress, that the nee.
groes of the South shall vote Wise and
good men Of all parties, and all sections.
Of the country, have doubted the wisdom
Of universal suffrage, without limitation,
Is applied to aahomogeneous population.
There are few, comparatively, who favor
an elective Judiciary. But s,ose We are
called upon to enfranchise four millions Of
a degraded and inferior race, after oentu-
ries Of hereditary slavery, not gradually,
but AZ once, without preparation Or quail
fcatioa. bsiis9 q rgT'hno3 SGD : = ai y
The war was for the Union, and not for
the negro. The lives of the brave men
lest il it, were worth q thousand Africas,
with Ill their woolly headed tribes. Re-
pablican speakers, time and time again,
before the war, declared their opposition
TO slavery 70 be. not because of its so
eatinjury to the slsve, under the cir
eunstances. but because Of its injury, to
the white nam. Now they propose to
place four millions of negroes upon "a
equal footing with the white labcsers Of
abe country. mot only q with the poor
whites of the South, whose cauee they 90
,pharisaically1 = advocated. but withsvths.
whites of the North. Their organ, the
Press, invites them to this State. 3ps cs !.
! Farmers, mechanics, lsborers of Mime
sota ID the field, beside the bench, on the.
public works, whether American, German,
Irish orSxede, the question is foriyou to
decide, and to your decision we shall Sub
init. jIio[ SO IL. q
But our duty compels US to raise our
voice against measures frsught with so
much danger, Aths friend both Of the
white md slack, we topposs it The Bit
tsr@t enemy of Tue negro could inhict
upsh him NO greater qlimy. II the con-
hict bstxissssnn Ftes and Slave labor we're
!" irfepreaible, "ess &c was said, that be-
tween W5ise and Black labor win b not
only irrspressible, sit win b estsvmindting.
1t is the p4rt Of wisdom to check it.
Whatever hastens it, shastens the eternal
doom of the negro. As sure Is the white
race issuperior, 80 sure the negro must 60
under. 4 He viii melt away before the face
Of the white man, like the frost-work Of
the morning., in the fret rays of the sun.
The experience Of all ages, the authority
Of our greatest statesmen, the opinion Of
the ablest political writer's bear us out in
the proposition. JEFREsoN (whose opinion
has been 90 often quoted) says in his
memoirs, nothing is moro clearly written
in the book Of destiny, than the elnancipa-
ton OF the blacks; and tits equally certain
that the two races will never live in state
of equal freedom under the same Govern
meht, so insurmountable are the barriers
which nature, habit and opinions have es-
tablished between them!" De TocQU1-
VILE says: 81 do not imagine that the
white and black races viii ever live in
any country upon an equal footing" AL.
luding to the condition ofthe free black of
the lNerth, he says: 1.-THE negro is free
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