The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1865-09-08
Another speech by Hon. MONT
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Hon. MONTGOMERY BLAIR, Postmaster
General under Mr.. LINooLN's Administer
ton, made a speech at GAINESVILLE, Mary
land, on Saturday the Goth ult. tt is a
bitter excoriation of radical policies, and
contains telling hits at some of his former
colleagues in the cabinet of President IAS-
COLIN. The following in regard to SrAN-
TON has the merit Of being strictly true: q
I Mr. Stanton, now Secretary Of War, then
Attorney General was IN fln sympathy with z
into rebellion. He met; Senator Brown, of
Mississippi, at the door Of the Supreme Court
as he passed from the hall of the Senate, after
taking leave Of it a. q seceesionist forever. He
encouraged him; told him he was right; it
was the only course to save the South he
I must keep his constituents up to IL; &c. This
Is proved by Mr.. Brown. former Senator from
Mississippi, who mentioned it at the time to
Hon. James 8. Rollins, of Missouri. Mr. 6auls.
bury Senator from Delaware. by resolution
offered to the Senate last winter, proposed to
ssubstantiate it before o committee of that DO
dy, but the committee was not granted. The
fact is confirmed, too, by the known relations
of TIE Secretary to parties at the time, and I
have been assured BY one of his colleagues in
Buchanans cabinet that In his intercourse
with his associates Of that lk he was most VIC.
lent in denouncing any attempt to maintnin
the Union by force, and continued his denun-
Citations till he entered Mr.. Lincolns cabinet !
Mr.. BLAIR is also quite severe on Mr..
HeLr, now at the bead of the Bureau of
Military Justice. He quotes from letter
of HoLr, dated on the s0th OF November,
1860, justifying and encouraging the re-
bellion. The following is from Horrs
letter ia9Di 5hNtss1 ogaiAva,9 9dE
! The people OF the North have been taught
that they are responsible for the domestic in.
stitutiOns of the South, and that they can be
faithful to God only by being unfaithfnl to the
compact they made with their fell0w-men.
Hence those liberty bills which degrade the
statute books OF some ten Of the free States,
and which are confessedly shameless viola.
ton OF the federal Constitution in q point vital
to her honor. We have here presented from
year to year the humiliating spectacle of free
and sovereign States. by solemn act of legis.
lation, hgalizing the theft Of their seig66or,s
property. / cay THEFT, since it il not the less
SO because the subject of the despicable crime
chances 10 be slave. instead of = horse or 3
bale of goods.
After much more ol III. aine purport,
HoLT says: .,@sF'
am still for the Union, because have yet
FAINT, AesitGtsng hope that the North viii do
justice to the South and save the republic be-
fore the wreck 10 complete. But the action
must be prompt. If the free States will sweep
the liberty bills from their codes, propose q
convention of the States, and offer guarantees
which will afford the same repoee and safety to
Southern homes and property enjoyed by those
at the North, the impending tragedy may vet
be averted, But NOE OTHERWISE.
Mr.. BLAIR pitches into the resolutions
adopted at the Pennsylvania Republican
Convention, prepared by THAD. STEVENS,
in favor of DISTINGUISHING the white men
OF the South, confiscating their property,
giving the whole power to negroes, and
making the whites pay the whole war
debt, &c. Mr.. BLAIR then says:
But who is 70 execute the Draconic DEGREES
of Thaddeus and his omnip0sent parliament
Who Is to squeeze out the taxes from the desc
lated South TO pay the whole war debt? Who
is to carry out the sweeping contiscation
throughout all rebeldom ana divide the lands
among the only loyal people Of the South-the
negroesl
The resolutions name the President az a
proper sort of man; but he is plainly told that
his scheme of restoring the Union win not do.
II Is too rOee-water, milk-water-tO lenient
and yet MIR. Stevens says the rebels reject it.
But Thaddeus knows q man who can compile
his doo:nsday book of conquests and confisca.
tons. Who could be better tilted for it than
the man to whose prodigious energies and ex-
cellencies it would seem all our successes are
to be ascribed! He has q resolution of ex-
tollatlon In the platform all 10 himself, exalt-
ing hum by name, in contrast with the poor
cilal made OF the President. to make him like