The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1865-09-15
Some Views that the Radicals
Wont Like.
He Does Not Worship Negroes.
Correspondence Of the Cincinnati Commercial.

-. august lU, 1854.
DanSe3 NJ. Mwaia, Sand Mount0;n:.. M
MY DEAR FRsEND-When in Larkinsville;
last winter, inquired after you, and could get
no positive answer. I wish you had sent me
your letter of January 22-which have just
received-for could have made You feel at
ease at once. Indeed do I remember our old
times about Bellefonte, and the ride to the
cornmills, and the little farm where I admired
the handsome colt and tried to buy it. Time
has worn On, and you are now an old man.. in
want and suffering, and ], also, no longer
young, but leading hostile army-on the very
road / came when left Bellefonte, and at this
moment, pouring into Atlanta the dread mis-
siles Of war seeking the lives OF its people.
Sherman you knew in 1874, with as warm
heart as ever, and anxious that peace and
plenty shall prevail in the land and, to prove
It, defy JEFF. Davis, Gen. Lee, or Gen. Hood.
to make the sacrifice for peace that / will, per-
sonally and officially.
win, to-day, lay down my power and my
honor-akeady won-will strip myself naked
- we came, and begin HE anew. Il the people
Of the South win but cease the wax, elect their
members Of Congress, and let them settle, by
argument and reason, the questions growing
out Of slavery, instead Of trying to divide our
country into two angry halves, to quarrel and
fight to the end Of time. Our country cannot
be divided by an east and west line, and must
be one, and, If we must fight, let Us fight it out
now, and not beaueath it to our children. I
army and lived in California till 1857, when I
came back with my wife and three children,
who wanted to be near home-Mr. Ewings,
not Mr.. Corwins-but had the old army 90
ground in my composition that civil pursuits
were too tame and ! accepted an offer as Presi
dent of the Louisiana Military Academy.
Therefore, at the time Of Lincolns election, !
was at Alexandra, on Red River.
saw, and You must have seen, that the
Southern politicians wanted to bring about Sc
cession-separation. They could have elected
Mr.. Douglas, hut they so managed that Lin
coins election was made certain, and after they
had accomplished this, was il bonest to aalege
it as cause of war? Did not Mr.. Breckin-
ridge as Vice President, in his seat declare Mr..
Lincoln the lawfully elected President Of the
United States? Was It ever pretended the
know that Congress makes laws. the Supreme
Court judges them, and the President only ex-
ecutes them.
Don't you know that Mr.. Lincoln, of him
self, could not take away your rightss Now,
was IN Louisiana and while the planters
and mechanics and Industrious people were
happy and prosperous, the politicians and bu-
sy-bodies were scheming and plotting, end
got the legislature to pass an ordinance of Sc
cession, which was submitted to the people,
who voted against it; yet the politicians voted
the State out, proceeded to take possession of
the United States Mint, the forts, the arsenal,
and tore down our fac and insulted 1t. That,
too. before Mr.. Lincoln had got to Washing
ton. saw these things, and begged Bragg
and Beauregard, and Gov. Moore, and a host
OF personal friends, to beware. In that was
iOh R,,f fhav, ho
was made up of mean manufacturers, of trad
ers, of farmers. who would not fight. The
people of the North never dreamed of interfer-
ing with the slaves or property OF the South.
They simply voted, as they bad q right to do,
and they could not understand why the peo.
pie of the South should begin to take posses.
sion Of the United States forts and arsenals till
thing oppressive. The South began the war.
You know it. !, and millions of others living
at the South, know it, but the people OF the
North were as innocent of it as your little
grand children. Even after forts had been
taken, public arms stolen from our arsenals
and distributed among the angry militia, the
brave and honest freemen OF the great North
could not realize the fact, and did not until
Beauregard began to fire upon garrison of
United States troops, in fort built BY the con,-
mon treasury of the whole country. Then, as
bya mighty upheaval, the people rose and be.
gan to think of war. and not until then.
resigned my post in Louisiana in March.
1861. because of the public act on the part of
the State in seizing the United States Arsenal at
Baton Rouge, and went to st. Louis, where /
readily got lucrative employment, hoping
that some change would yet avert war. But
it came, and l, and all of military education.
had to choose repeat, that then, as now. /
had as much love for the honest people of the
South, as any man living. Had they remain
ed true to the country, / would have resisted
even with arms, any attack upon their rights
even their slave rights. But when, as a
people, they tore down our old flag, and spit
upon it, and called Us towards, and dared Us
to the contest, then took up arms to maintain
the integrity OF our country, and punish the