The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1865-09-01
The DesPesasson q he eeP~slso~.
Parry.

0kSYs
Nov that the war and its absorbing ex
elements are over, and the wicked usur'
pations and cruel outrages committed by
the Republican party during the Last four
and half years are Bang exposed to the
people and submitted to their calm and
thoughtful delibsration, that party, or rath-
er those who constitute it's vitality and
control its action, feel that the power that
they have so long abused and used to op-
press and degrade white men, is departing
from them. They have reveled in un-
wonted power, and fattened upon the cor
ruptions which they have instigated and
practiced. Whomsoever would serve their
purposes they have set up and whom
they could not control or corrupt, they
have put down, regardless of merit or Ca
pacity. At last they have caught Tar
tar. Whatever ANDREW JOHNSON may
have done to conciliate their favor, be, in
his present position, has the dignity and
manhood to think and act for himself, and
sufficient political and moral fidelity to re-
spect the Constitution and his official oath.
The Republican leaders are beginning to
have visions and to fear fate like that of
NEsUCHADSHzzAR. They shudder with
horror at the prospect of being turned out
to grass. They see tho handwriting on
the wall, and like BHsHAzzAR, in the very
midst and enjoyment of the feast, their.
eountsnanoes change, their thoughts
trouble them so that the joints of their
ioins are ioosed, Gnstanoe, Gov. AuIzRs
weak backl, and their knees smite one
againAt tha other y2by5ss3L b4QoisTa5
During the time while they have thus
held the power, they have, With all the
strength Of old Federal instincts, inherited
from their intolersnt and Puritanic pro-
eeoitors, ssusht to provide against the
possibility of such calamity to them
selves. They have, regardless Of oonsti-
tstions snd oaths, used power with de-
sign to perpetuate it in their own hands
to control both the Government and the
votes Of the people for that purpose
Having purchased the slaves in thu Dis
tzict Of Columbia and proclaimed all those
in rebellious States free, what are they do
ing and going to do with them, Tho Re
publican, Black Republican administration
has assumed to be their guardian and
taken charge Of them as wards, just as
they have the friendly Indians; with this
difference, however, that the Freedmens
Bureau is attached to the War Depart
ment, and presided over by a Aajer Gen.
eral, to the end that its care of its negro
wards may be promptly executed by mill
tary power without any trouble from civil
or judicial interference. Though the ne.
groes are thus wards under guardianship
of the government, the Republicans are,
| in their desperate want of votes in the fu-
ture to preserve their waning power, de-
termined to make them citizens and voters
whether the States will consent or not.
| No member Of Congress must be admitted
unless the niggers in his District have
voted for or against him. They are put
ting niggers everywhere and drawing mil
| lion year from the pockets of white peo-
pie Except holders of government bonds
for their protection and support. They
are fattering the niger, that though be
is ward under guardianship, he is citi-
zen with right to vote, expecting that
through bis weakness and mental imbecil.
ity and love of praise and provender they
will receive his vote and control it for all
time. It is a desperate experiment
prompted by the fearful necessities of 8
desperate party, executed by desperate
men who are instigated by a des.
sperate love of power Even the
Chief Justice of the Supreme Court o.
the United States, whe is one of these DO.
litical desperadoes, to give the great
weight of his Office to the support OF the
desperate cause, comes down from hi:
high position, to perambulate the country
(like another kind of Professors who cour,
the favors of fortune and WOO her with
diabolical tricks in the miserable and des.
picsble business of peddling fulsome polit.
ical fattery to whole congregations of mig.
gers. The ermine Of that court was neve,
before polluted by any, in favor o.
any party. Now, upon the shadows o.
Chief Justice Chase, it it besmeared al
over with the most repulsive and obscene
partisan spittle, and tainted With the
odors of negro hastings
With the control of the Government
and its patronage through its finances il
one hsns and with the suffrage OF negroes
(partizsn slaves) to control the preponder'