The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1865-10-06
Important Speech from Senator Doc.
lletle OF Wisconsin,

mad designs Of the Radicals, who are en-.
ragged beyond measure at his course
and have read him out of the party
We printed his letter, day or two since,
and now We have q speech delivered q,
GAINESVILLE on the 2sth ultimo, from which
the following extracts are made:
The question Wa, whether the great Union
panty could rise to the emergency, and be a
maGnanimous - It had been unflinching and
brave in the hour Of civil trial. If 1t prove
false TO the Union Of the States under the con-
etitution; Hit admit that the war has been q
failure and rebellion did succeed In taking
States out Of the Union, that party, great and
glorious In history ~ It has been, win be
charged BY the masses Of the people q false to
the Union. Letsuch policy be firmly estab.
lished, and there would be Capitalization, the
government, backed BY military power, chang
ing the republic into . consolidated empire.
We can have no difference with the South
hereafter. except differences ofopinion. Hthe
party shall seek to give all power Of legisla-
ZION over the States to Congress, and to hold
them, it may be for thirty years, Is conquered
provinces, It win prove false to the constitu-
ton, and the spirit which gives It life; for that
instrument expressly guarantees the rights of
these States as clear as language can describe
A State never dies Though It changes its
form Of government. though 1t be one year
civil and tho next military, and changes as q
dies. Though England had enlarged her do.
main, and she had been in anarchy and in
peace ct various periods, whether under the
Williams or the Tudors, the State was not
changed. The people of monarchy say the
King 10 the State, and hence the State never
dies. Here we say the people are immortal.
The people constitute the State, and the State
never dies. II, at the assassination of the
President ial the officials had been murdered,
would the Republic have died? The speaker
drew several like SMILES, to prove the theory
to hold good In case of States and even coun-
tries, and declared that all ordinances Of seces-
sion that could be passed did not destroy the
identity of the State. Though martial law
might be declared, yet, when the rebellion
ceased, civil law remained In force, and all the
States were entitled to representation and the
exercise Of the civil law, as before.
The constitution gives the power to raise
forces to put down rebellion, and to disband
the forces when their work is done. This the
President Is doing to-day. Before the forces
of the United States entered those gates in
rebellion, military law was in force there.
When we entered them we did so not to de-
stroy, but to save them as States. Though
We held them by force, 1t did not destroy the
States. We changed them from rebel military
rule to Union military rule. We made no con-
quest of these States. You cannot conquer
your own. They were ours already. We re-
established the re0ccupancy, In fact of what
was ours in right. Every State Is still In the
Union, under the Union. One flag floats over
every State, not one star erased, nor one stripe
obscured. The language of the government TO
all Others has been that the United States did
not admit that the governments declared by
the rebellion were such de facto. As
often as this doctrine had been
advanced by Great Britain. it had been denied
by the United States. When Sherman bore
the flag at the head of his victorious legions,
ard Grant carried it with thirty.six stars, was
it the emblem of glorious truth, Tor was it a
" Haunting lie" The resolution declares that
our triumph put an end to the idea that any
State can fOrcibly or peaceably withdraw from
the Union. Upon this line, and under the
lines, has my oldest-born laid down Lis life,
and q quarter of million of our brothers
sons, and fathers had found martyred graves.
God helping him, he would stand by Preei-
cy, come what may. Tremendous cheering
The idea that we hold the States of the
South as conquered Territories is In express
contradiction Of the constitution. If we adj
NIT they did secede, and had q government
de facto, then we become the direct Successors
of the rebellion, and responsible for their
debts. If these States be kept a. conquered
provinces. In what condition shall we be to o..
sert the Monroe doctrine? If we continue to
hold these States In vassalage, how easy it
would be for Napoleon to SOW the seeds of dis
cord and revolt In case Of difficulty between
this country and France.