The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1865-08-11
saint Paul, Friday, Aug. II, 1865.

saint Paul, Friday, Arg. II, 1856.
TheiNecessity for Denocratic Frin.
ciples and Democratic Measures
i'm 1.-THE Conducs 81 the State and
Nation nj Affairs.
The American people have just emerged
from the most stupendous and destructive
civil war ever known among civilized ma
toms war provoked by the violent am
bition iof two extreme parties, the nor
thern abolitionists, and the pro-slavery &C.
cessionists of the south. In order to COM
menoe this war, it was first necessary for
these twoparties to unite their efforts to
effect the disorganization and defeat ofthe
Democratic party, the only conservative
power in the country. The moment they
accomplished, by their systematic co-ope-
ration, this object, they plunged into war
for the humiliation Of each other, which in
it's issue involved the fate of the nation.
The democratic citizens of the north,
true to their principles, and to their love
for the Union, sprang to arms with great
unanimity, in defence of the Constitution
and the Union while the northern aboli-
tionists lost no opportunity to divert the
war from q battle for the Union into a
meroenary campaign for promoting party
purposes, for gratifying personal ambition,
and grasping oupidity.
Whilst few Democrats became the
purchased minionso of the dominant power,
many, who could not be purchased or
corrupted, regarding the preservation of
the national integrity as vastly superior to
unavailing assaults upon the crimes, follies
and usurpations of the sbolitionists, aban-
doned, for the war, active hostility to the
party in whose hands had been intrusted
the direction of public afaira Whilst
others, irritated and goaded to madness
by the conduct OF the Northern dema-
gogues, who had united with those Of the
South in forcing the war upon the eonn-
try, became hopeless of the restoration OF
the Union. Thus, during the war was the
morale of the Democratic party seriously
impaired; and it's ranks became divided
into factions, of which weak men became
the leading spirits. But the restoration Of
peace calls for the restoration of the old
Democratic party to power in the councils
of the state and nation, as the only organ
ization whereby unity, fraternity and pros
perity,:: with individual and local rights,
the equality of States and the nainten-
ance of the constitution, with all the en-
joynents and advantages Of orr free in
stitutions, can be pespetuated to the Amer
Jean people.
This, then. is the greet work oosamitted
to the Democratic party: restoratiom-
the restoration OF States and citizens to
their respective rights and duties under
the constitution, which can be accom-
plished only by the practical application of
Democratic principles and Democratic
measures in the conduct of our public az
fairs, State and National.
The rights of every section and ofevery
State, under the constitution, the Demo
cratic party has ever maintained and de-
Tended, against all opposers, in veal or
woe, whether the issue thereof were popu-
lar or unpopular, whether inducing political
success or defeat.
50 long as the people of the South had
the right under the constitution and laws
to hold slaves, the Democratic party ofthe
North. true to all constitutional obliga-
tons, maintained them in that right. But
now slavery is dead, and all questions re-
lsting toslavery are dead issues, which must
be cleared away like 80 much dead wood
from our political platforms.
But the sbslitionists who rode into power
ON their black charger will not consent
that he shall be withdrawn from the polit-
cal course, for they have no other avail
able hobby. They are therefore groom
ing the African for a race on the track of
social and political equality. They know
that among the white men of the country
they must at once sink into the condition
Of 8 weak and contemplate minority.
Their clamor for social equality is to Gre
ate another civil war at the South, a war
of races, the most terrible of all civil con-
ficts, which will end, they hope, in the
destruction of the white population, and
the Africanization of that whole section.
With the aid of these negroes, whom
they rely upon as their reserve of "black
heroes" they expect to establish an abo-
Etion empire, and retain perpetual power
over the country
On this issue the Democratic party viii