The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1865-01-13
Our Glorious Future.

Saint Paul, Friday, Jan. ID 1866.
Our Glorious Future.
The position of the Republican party
to-day upon the negro question is precise
ly the same as that occupied by PHILLIPS
and GARRISON at the time the rebellion
broke out. All that was then demanded
by the radical Republicans was the abo.
lition of slavery, and the abolition of sla-
very is to-day the platform and stock-in.
trade of the Republican organization.
But while the Republican party has
been gradually coming up to the standard
occupied by the radicals four years ago,
the radicals have advanced and taken up
a new position, logically consistent with
their original premises, and necessary in
order to realize the full scope and design
Of the anti-slavery movement. The high
priests Of abolitionism, in the persons OF
PH1LLIPs and GARRISON, now beckon to
the advancing hosts of the Republican
party to come up and join them, and the
party unable to resist the pressure OF their
own doctrines, are driven by an irreslstl-
bic necessity to adopt the conclusions OF
their more advanced leaders.
The position of the radicals is ably and
eloquently set forth by WENDELL PHILLIPS,
in bis lecture delivered a few days since
before crowded assembly in New York
CITY. Starting out from the premises that
this nation to be morally and physically
great must represent one idea, and that
idea to be the absolute and unconditional
equality of the races, Mr.. PHILLIPS runs
through the anti-slavery category with a
severe and uncompromising logical con-
sistency. "When New England" says
Mr.. PHILLlPs, "kisses the waters Of the
Gulf Of Mexico with her ideas, we have
nation" In order to be strong and pros
porous and great, we must be dominated
by one idea, "thst shall welcome into its
bosom all the nations that have taken re-
fuge on this continent" The German,
with its Saxon branches-the latin of the
Southwest, sand the negro Of the South
err States are the great elements ont of
,Ohich God is to build up a nation. F"
"When America represents her eonquests
the negro" says Mr.. PHnnPL, "will join
with us in the same procession, equal in
the Senate, equal in the camp and at the
ballot box" .--i. a..ts. r ~
1t is to this platform the Republican
party are marching on. 1t is this plat
form they viii be forced to occupy. ~.
Black spirits and white, ~.
Red spirits and gray, .H
Mingle, mingle, mingh,
You that mingle may.
The dish which Mr.. PHnnlPs serves up
with so many Epicurean Aourishes of rhet-
ORC is certainly /" dainty dish to set be-
fore king" The negro isto be cooked,
baked, and stuffed for our benefit, to be
served upon our tables, and grace our fes-
tive boards. The intelligent SURFACES of
the Caucasian are to be illuminated and
purified by an infusion of Ethiopian poll
tics. A paradise more oriental in its
luxury than any conceived of by AAHohsr
In bis visions, is to be realized when We
have set up our great American harem,
and peopled it with Abysinian hours. We
are to exchange the eau de Cologne for
the odor Africaniensis. The apotheosis
Of misoegenation is to be seen, felt, and
smelt. 1t will be something to be an
oesorooa. 1t will be something more to
be . quadroon. But to be darkey, to
have your hair curl without the aid of the
curling irons, to be able to boast the blood
of all the Egyptians, and trace your an
oestry back to a mummy, to exult over
the fact that your great-grandfather dined
of baked missionary a hundred years
ago Oh the coast of Guinea, and come the
double-shufie in the kingdom of Dahomey;
IN brief TO be 6Ldck without nodlhcatlon,
a" totl eclipse amid the blaze of noon, "
viii constitute the acme of social and
physical perfection as illustrated in the
bon ton. The greatness of Rome will be
revived, when Julius Cesar is President,
and Pompey leads our armies to victory.
Returning Thanks.
The Democracy return their thanks to
Gov. MILLER for his exceedingly tasteful
and complimentary remarks to them in his
late message. One million, seven hun
dred and ninety-six thousand scheminR
politicians" all of them of course "sym-
pathlIlng with treason" and animated by
q sincere desire to "disnember the Re,