The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1865-08-25

the citizen may, and when necessary VIII De-
come and be soldier and the very best OF SOL
1iers 20 long as the necessity for it may con-
tnue, he d not lost Or absorbed IN .tnS sosolef.
He IL citizen still, and when the miltary ex-
igency has passed, he returns with all the ardor
Of hast or frst love, to the pursuits OF civil
life and peace This happy and encouraging
scene, resulting from our civilization and form
Of government. is being enacted daily all over
the country. Such a scene is this here TO-DAY:
And what earnestness and faith does 1t smpart
to us all in giving welcome home W ne
citizen soldier
SOLDIERS You are soldiers no longer, and
NAV Cod in the dispensadon Of His fsvors,
grant to the people of this nation, and to those
who have been and shall be selected to admin
lister it's government, that moderation ana WIS
dom which shall be sufficient to avoid all wars
and causes of war, and TO secure peace ana
prosperity in all the land, from this time hence
forth and forever. Is soldiers, You have
fought the good asht you e nave keRt sse
forth there is laid up for you in the hearts OF
your countrymen, agrateful memory OF your
services and fidelity, that viii be cherished az
q treasure, and transmitted from generation to
generation. Henceforth there is woven for your
brows, by the hands of your countrywomen,
chaplets of honor that shall be perennial.
Henceforth there is secured to you, as well a.
ties Of American citizens, as declared and e.
tablished by the old constitution. and protect.
ed by that dear old flag that still floats aloft
in the breezes and light of Heaven" over
this land of the free and home of the brave"
But while we thus congratulate ourselves
and all the people upon the successful termina-
ton of the war and the return of peace, we
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dition in which the mighty evils OF the war has
left the country.
You have been soldiers in the grand armies
of the Republic, are now citizens, precisely as
are those who have been. during the war, la
boring, producing and sustaining citizens in
the pursuits of civil life at home. We all now
stand upon the same platform, and are entitled
ject to the same public duties and obligations.
If we would preserve to ourselves and success
eors those privileges and that protection, we
must know and perform those duties and dis
charge those obligations.
A moments thought is ample to exhibit to
the mind the appalling calamities OF war, and
the magnitude of the obligations which it i'm
poses upon q nation. The same patriotic ar
dor that prompted the citizen to volunteer a. q
soldier in resistance of rebellion, must sustain
him and all of us in bearing with patience
those calamities, and meeting with cheerful
ness those obligations, for those calamitaes and
obligations are irrevoca5ly fixed upon the
country. The calamities must be borne.-the
obligations must be discharged. Neither can
be avoided.
The prosperity of q patton is dependent upon
the producing and transforming labor OF it's
people, directed by intelligence and controlled
BY integrity in all the departments of industry.
When war raises its bloody visage to men,
ace the land, and soldiers become necessary to
an army, all, or nearly all Of those who enter
the military service, are Withdrawn from the
productive occupations of labor in civil lite,
and become not only consumers, but destrOyers;
for while an army must be subsieted and sup
piled with the arms and munitions of war. so
far from producing it consumes and destroys
as it moves. Its march through q country 10
marked by the deeOlation which it leaves in it's
path.
Day by day, week by week. month by
month, and year by year. does war accumulate
it's liabilities upon the nation, with fearful "a
pidity; and during the same days and weeks
and months and years. does it, with the same
fearful rapidity, diminish. by it's consumptions
and distinctions, the means with, which to
meet those liabilities.
Every material used and consumed and de-
strOyed in war is the product OF manual labor,
for ever.
All the millions upon millions Of pro-
perty consumed and destroyed in this
war, are gone for ever. The vacuum
thus made in the wealth of the nation must
remain untitled until the patient hand of
productive labor shall have brought out the
material with which to supply it. The mil
created by this war, and all the accumulating
interest thereon, must be paid, not by the pro-
perty that has been consumed and destroyed,
but by new material wealth, to be brought out
of the forests. the lands, the mines and the wa
tiers, by the hand of laborfng man.
And go. TOO. is every man who has fallen in
battle or by disease in this war, to be
mourned by his family, his friends and his
country; gone from the active scenes and
pursuits of life forever. The nation has not
only lost the men. most of whom were in the
midst of health and in their most useful period
of life, but also all the benefit which it might,
and in peace. would. have derived from them
as citizens engaged, during the ordinary term
OF human life. in the various useful and pro
duclive pursuits of civil life They are gone,
and wei! may the nation join with their heart
stricken friends, in mourning their loss and
grieving their absence. They are gone, forev-
er gone. and the vacant places which they have
left in home circles all over the land, are sadly
Stained with past aud present tears"
but their names are all upon the rolls of honor
to rem.in as long as the Republic shall stand,
(mav it ne cO-eXistent with the world) and to
be more and more cherished and revered and
venerated, as time, in its ceaseless course, shall
transfer succeeding. days and years and cenlu-
ries from the future to the past.
In view of the incalculable labor that must
be performed 10 produce the material wealth
necessary TO supply the place of what has been
consumed and destroyed in and by the war,
and to pay off the public debt, we are serious.
~, yea intensely. admonished to pause and anx-
iously consider and inquire what is our duty
What is the duty of the people TO themselves,
and to their government? and what policy can
be devised which shall be efficient to the dis
charge of every obligation, and at the same
time render the yoke which bears this mighty
burthen most easy upon the necks of the PEG
pie? Cavil not at the expression, for this yoke
and its burthen Is upon the necks of the peo-
ple,-upon the necks of Us all, and it must be
borne, patiently borne, until the task is done,
and the burthen honestly and honOrably dis
charged.
These duties and obligations cannot be fully
or properly understood or performed. without
direct reference and strict adherence to the
principles on which our government rests, and
the purposes for which it was created and e.
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