The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1865-11-03

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Five years ago a. sxoold have been use-
less and absurd to argue against negro
suffrage and paCnsg MALT y. becaase the
public mind wss utterly eoppesed to dec
trines so repugnant and atsecioas, and
nobody pcetendsd to entertain thena.
Now the people Nf Minnesota are called
upon blythe Voice aad action of the para
mount party, 70 render 8 decision upon
the question: Surprising az 1t may seem
to rejecting man, this setregradatisn in
public sentiment 10 oalled 'pregress . and
what was, formerly held to be revolving
and degradiAg, is new promulgated as an
advanced idea Of cwilnation. and urged
upon tie white peoese Of this state as a
most important fis-ps presented to them. '
If the negro suffrage amendment is
adopted, Will the radicals be satisfied 2
This question Is best answered by the fol-
lowing quotations from q political pamph-
let entitled "Miseegenstion, |" issued BY
Republicans, for the purpose of educat-
ing the'people" mp to the advanced idea
Of Niscegenatioa and Amslgamatien-a
blending of the white and black races.
This pamphlet which has been widely
circulated and warmly approved iby many
of the leading minds of the Abolition
party says, On page1s: e'e'a 81 eai;.sg5 z
II win be our noble prerogative to Get the
example of die rich 6lesdssg Of Hood. It Is
idle to maintain that this present war d not .
sonA rights or physical ffeedom-it is war
II you please Of samalgamation, % called q
war looking - It. 1nal fruit to the blending of
the uhitS 0sd ksdce. 9rf9 70
From pages forty-nine and fifty Of the
same pamphlet We quote: ss
When the President proclaimed emancipa-
lien, he proclaimed, also, the mingling Of the
races. he one foIlops Ge other as sure as noon
yo.osos sanrise. The party. as whole, VIII
not admit this yet They denied that they were
Abolitionists. And now behold! The. great
Republican party has merged into the little
Abolition party. The drop has colored the
bucketfnn.. There are only two parties now,
the Abolition, which In effect Is the party Of
INCARCERATION and behind them that contempt
tbae crowd who have no policy but expediency
But we can give higher authority than
the above to prove that the ultimate de,
signs Of the radicals contemplate amalea.
nation. Hon SKLMoN p. CHASE, since he
attained the position of Chief-Justice' Of
the Supreme Court, on his tour through
the Southern States, addressed variou.
rowds Of negroes In, language similar t,
that We have quoted. In Florida he ad.
,vancsd the idea that stshe white race ha,
become enersste,t. and that an infusion o
African blood, (nieaning the amalgamatiol
of the race would alone save the whit
race from decay and destruction. h
repeated the same thing in his Dartmouth
College speech, in which he claimed tina
tho negro is as competent to exercise tn
elective franchise as the white man. 6 g
These Developments of the progress "a
the radicals, and of their designs in til
fatuDe, should cause every white man 1
Linnesots to pause and carefully refsec
before lending himself to negro suffrage.
scheme frausht with such peril to the Gov
eminent and the best interests of the su
perior and most numerous race on thi