The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1865-07-28

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All the accounts We get from the South
ahow that the psopl. :. : aequiescing in
the restoration Of IT,. .thodty Of the
government; that the, e adapting them
selves with alacrity to Il .r changed con-
dition; that the abolition of slavery is
everywhere accepted as an accomplished
fact; that not only all resiF:"rce 20 the
Federal authority has ceas.~., but that ali
hostility of feeling is rapidly disappearing,
and devotion to the Union is taking the
place of hatred to the government, and
that harmonious relations are fast being
restored. But in the face of these indis-
putsble facts, there is large class at the
North who seem determined that, the
States of the South shall not resume their
old political relations for many years, or
until it is made absolutely certain that
the late insurgent States can be trusted to
adopt the dogmas and the candidates
Of the Republican party. A "veteran
observer" in the New York Times
thinks it win not be safe to admit
the South to political equality in the Union
for ten years to come, because of the addi-
t;onal power the South has gained by
emancipation the recognition of the right
of suffrage to those who held it before Sc
cession; and because he thinks the rebel
States will come back into the Union as
completely rebel as they ever were. This
doctrine and its probable effects are COM
batted with much ability in the Eoening
Post which paper will not be accused of
undue sympathy with the rebels. After
quoting from the speeches of the most
eminent men of the South, wherein is ex-
pressed the determination to conform to
the new order of things brought about by
the war, the Post says:
But suppose the spirit of rebellion is still &C.
cretly vigorous, the question is, whether these
6OutQcIQ COIuuUulIlc6 Cdu U0 UCttCI IOXC1os
rated by holding them in subsection or by con-
ceding them, as rapidly as we can with safety,
their old political rights. Can there be doubt?
Has political history been lived for Us in vain
Are men trained into the perception and
love of justice and liberty by force, or by the
use of our faculties? Are they made to re-
spect and trust each other by the end of the
penal settlement? We had imagined that ia
this country we had outgrown that old-world
folly we had imagined that the fate of Fo-
land, Venetia or Ireland had taught Us q
larger wisdom we had imagined that demo-
cratic life had imbued rs with confidence in the
democratic principle; Keep the rebel States
ten years out of the Union, says Veteran OBJ
server, until they have shed their disloyalty,
until they have forgotten their prejudices, nm
til they have sweetened their bitterness. until
they shall have accepted our ideas and notions.
But win they de all this In ten years of subiec.
ton? viii it not rather, on the other hand,
aggravate the disloyalty, deepen those preju-
more between the parts We know what the
Italians of Venetia after one Of these political
probations, think of the Austrian supremacy
we know what the Poles think of Russian in
situations; we know the attitude of the Irish
Celt towards the English Saxon; and we
should expect no better results from similar
trials In our own country. 'l4ae '"@
Outside of the circle Of the Union the South
ern States would only be confirmed in their old
economical, social and moral corruptions.
The foolish and dangerous political heresies,
which were more the outgrowth Of the isolated
plantation than of any other cause, would be
nursed into lie again amid the solitudes of
national isolation. Slavery, State sovereignty,
the superior intelligence and breeding Of the
South, notification, secession, filibusterism,
hatred of labor and the North, and in short,
the whole miserable spawn of Southern vaga-
ries, would be Matched anew. All our old bat.
ties would have to be fought over again. But
open the penthouse to the light and air, and
the whole internal flock would fly as bats do
on the approach of dawn. Bring the Southern
mind, with its fine susceptibilites and unques.
toned courage, in direct contact with our free
civilization, and it would fling off its piddling
arrogance and aristOcratic and diabollsm, and
become manly, enterprising, humane and dem
Ocratic-humane in the true christian sense of
just-mindedness towards all men, and demo-
cratic in the true American sense of equal
rights for all men. That result would be too
grand and glorious for Us to lose by any short
sighted policy of exclusion and fear.
The Church tM the War REGIONS.
A New Orleans correspondent who has
just returned to New Orleans from visit
to Mobile, Selma and Montgomery, fur