The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1865-09-08

arrived il St. Paul Friday, from Tezas,
where he has had an important command.
Gen. Andrews leaves for his home in st.
Cloud this morning, to enjoy brief res
p;te. after four years. active service. de
represents the submission of the Ie1ans
as complete, although there is consldera-
BILE bitterness of feeling towards the North.
This feeling, however, is well kept under
nv the counsels of the best men in the
State, and Just apprehension Of the con-
seouences of its expression in acts of hos
tility. The whole State is SO peaceful and
Quiet that long journeys are performed by
military officers, almost unattended, with
out fear or molestation. .-5-.t Id
Texas has suffered but little from the
war, beyond the loss of her men in the
field. Supplies are abundant, and the
crops larger than ever before raised in the
State. The negroes are generally at work
on the old plantations, in most places be-
ing employed with the promise of share
in the crops; in some parts, however,
where our military power is not present,
the masters are still holding them as
slaves, and compel them to work as Tor
merly. 49,.
Gen. ANDRRws entered the service AZ a
private in the Third Minnesota, and has
attained his present rank through honora-
bic service and the recommendations Of
bis superiors in command. In every posi-
ton in which he has been placed he has
conducted himself like a true soldier, and
heightened, honorable gentleman, ssI
be is. q, ,a.,, 3
Another speech by Hon. MONT,
gomery Blair. ..ta.
Hon. MoNTGoMRRY BLAIR, Postmaster
General under Mr.. LINooLN's Administra-
ton, made speech at GAINESVILLE, Mary
land, on Saturday the 26th ult. 1t is a
bitter excoriation of radical policies, and
contains telling hits at some of his form r
colleagues in the cabinet of President IlS-
ooLN. The following in regard to STAN
TON has the merit Of being strictly true:
Mr. Stanton, now Secretary of War, then
Attorney General, was in full sympathy with
the leaders in Congress who dragged the South
into rebellion. He met Senator Brown, of
Mississippi, at the door of the Supreme Court
as he passed from the hall of the Senate, after
taking leave Of it as secessionist forever. He
encouraged him; told him he was right; it
was the only course to save the South he
must keep bis constituents up to It; &c. This
is proved by Mr.. Brown, former Senator from
Mississippi, who mentioned it at the time to
Hon. James 8. Rollins, of Missouri. Mr.. Sauls.
bury Senator from Delaware, by resolution
offered to the Senate last winter, proposed to
substantiate it before committee of that bo-
dy, but the committee was not granted. The
fact is confirmed, too, by the known relations
of the Secretary to parties at the time, and I
have been assured by one of his colleagues in
Buchanan's cabinet that in his intercourse
with his associates of that ilk he was most vio-
lent in denOuncing any attempt to maintnn
the Union by force, and continued his denun-
Citations till he entered Mr.. Lincolns cabinet.
Mr.. BLAIR is also quite severe on Mr..
HoLr, now at the head OF the Bureau of
Military Justice. He quotes from letter
of Holt, dated on the 3Oth OF November,
1860, iustifying and encouraging the re-
bellion. The following is from HoIr's
letter: s--H- a.'. -l
The people OF the North have been taught
that they are responsible for the domestic in.
situations of the South, and that they can be
faithful to God only by being unfaithful to the
compact they made with their fellow-men.
Hence those liberty bills which degrade the
and which are cOnfessedly q shameless viola.
ton OF the federal Constitution in a point vital
to her honor. We have here presented from
year TO year the humiliating spectacle of free
and sovereign States. by a solemn act of legis.
lation, legahzing the theft Of their seigabOr's
property. l cay THEFT, since it is not the less
SO because the subject of the despicable crime
chances TO be q slave. instead of \ horse or
bale Of goods.
After much more ul The aiue purport,
H0LT says:
am still for the Union, because have yet
FAINT, hesitating hope that the North will do
justice to the South and save the republic be-
fore the wreck is complete. But the action
must be prompt. If the free States will sweep
the liberty bills from their codes, propose
convention of the States and offer guarantees
which will afford the same repose and safety to
Southern homes and property enjoyed by those
at the North, the impending tragedy may vet
be averted, BUT NOT OTHERWISE.
Mr.. BLAIR pitches into the resolutions
adopted at the Pennsylvania Republican
Convention, prepared by THAD. STEVENS,
in favor of DISTINGUISHING the white men
OF the South, confiscating their property,
giving the whole power to negroes, and
making the whites pay the whole war
debt, &c Mr.. BLAIR then says:
But who is 70 execute the Draconic DEGREES
of Thaddeus and his OmnipOtent parliament
Who is to squeeze out the taxes from the desc
lated South to pay the whole war debt3 Who
is to carry out the sweeping confiscation
throughout all rebeldom ana divide the lands
among the only loyal people OF the South-the
negroes!
The resolutions name the President as a
proper sort OF man; but he is plainly told that
his scheme of restoring the Union viii not do.
II is too rOse-water, ilk-water-tO lenient
and yet Mr.. Stevens says the rebels reject it.
But Thaddeus knows man who can compile
his doomsday book of conquests and confisca.
lions. Who could be better fitted for it than
the man to whose prodigious energies and ex-