The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1865-05-12
Andy johnson on Northern ana
Southern Disunlonists.

Andy J0hA0oA on NOfenor0 ou0
Southern, Disunionisss.
If President Jo1nson has not forgotten
and does not repudiste the words be ut
tered before the rebellion, some OF our
Northern disunionists will be very likely
to receive their deserts. In reading bis
speeches We feel that he justly appreciates
not only the present condition OF tne
country, but all the causes and instrument! :
which worked to bring about our OWL
war. In a speech delivered in the Senate
| in 1861, (see Congressional Globe, 1861
do. 1900, he spoke these truthful words:
There are two parties in the country who
vont To break mo the Government. Who are
thew The nullifers proper OF the Soutn. the
Sacessionists or disunionists- use them
all as synonymous terms: inere poruon
| of them who DER Sc, desire the disruption OF
the Government for purposes of their own ag-
| orandization. I do not charge upon them
that thew want to break up the Government
for the purpose of efecting slavery; yet
charge that the breaking up OF the Govern
ment would have that effect; the result would
he the same Who else is tor breaking up the
Government? I refer to some bad men in the
North. There is set OF men there who are
called A6olitienists, and they want to break up
the Government. They are Dss,uionists; they
are Secess;on;sts; they are Nullifers. Sir, the
I6olitionists and the distinguished Senator from
Mississippi both stand in the same attitude, to
attain tie same end, q dissolution of this Union;
the one party believing that it will result In
their own aggrandizement South, and the other
believing that 1t will result in the overthrow of
the institution of slavery. : ,,sl4I :. .aaol T.
he then quotes resolution passed by
the Massachusetts Abolitionists, that the
one great issue before the country is the
dissolution of the Union, there
fore we give ourselves to the work of an
muling this Cooenans ,ciA Death, as e.
sential to our innocency," &c. aa
Resting from the work Of quoting the
reasonable language of his own present
leaders in the North, and resuming his
speech Mr.. JOHNSON proceeds: r..
Then when we come to talk about I" allies"
whose allies are these gentlemen? Whose
allies are the Abolitionists of the North if they
are not the allies of the Secesssonists and Dis
uaionists Of the SouthP Are they not all labor
ing and toiling to accomplish tie same great
end. the overthrow Of this great nation of
ours? Their object is the same. They are
means. Here Is Wendell Phillips; here is
Garrison; here is the anti-slavery society of
Massachusetts,; and all, in the very came
point Of view, the allies of the distinguished
Senator from Mississippi and his coadjutors;
all in favor of disrupting and breaking down
this Union, with the view of destroying the
inst ytvpS{N 49,
to destroy the Government" Who else are
laboring to destroy it but the disunion;sts and
secessionists of the South, and Garrison and
Phillips and the long list that might be emu
merated at the North? Here they stand pre-
senting an unbroken front, to destroy this glo-
rious Union, which was made by our fathers.
Mr.. President, l have alluded to this subject
this unholy and nefarious work of breaking up
this Union. We find first the run-msd Adolf.
tionists of the North. They are Seeessionists;
THEY are for disunion; THEY are for dissOlu-
ton. When we turn to the South we see the
rec. hot disunionists and secessionists engaged
In the same scork
We were brought up among the class of
disunionists to whom Mr.. JOHNSON refers,
and know that his estimate of their char
acter and objects is correct. They labored
for thirty years in conjunction with their
allies in the South to bring on civil war
and disunion. We could furnish volumes
of evidence to substantiate this statement,
but q few sentences from the mouths Of
those persons named by Mr.. JOHNSON, will
be sufficient. In speech delivered in
1850, WENDELL PH1IL1ps said: "Our aim
is disunion, breaking up of the States! 1
have said our work cannot be done under
our institutions. Tear it 1.-THE Constitu-
toni in pieces and make better
In a speech delivered at Hartford
as late as February, 1862, PHILLIPS said:
I" have labored for twenty years to break
up the Union, and glory in the fact!"
Was not ANDY JOHNSON right when he said
PHILLIPS was an ally of JEFF DAVIS? In
1856 WILLIAM LLOYD GARRISON said: "The
specific work the abolitionists are striving
to accomplish is the dissolution Of the
Union;" and, again: zone of the primary
objects of this agitation is to dissolve the
American Union" Extracts might be
multiplied indefinitely, and al tending to
prove that Mr.. JOHNSON knew what he
stated to be true. It is an interesting
question, how these allies of JEFF. DAVIS
shall be punished. Mr.. JOHNSON places
them first in the nefarieus work of break.
ing up this Union" Shall their punish
ment be less severe than the rebels of the
South, who, Mr.. JOHNSON says, were
"engaged in the same work"
Northwestern Sanitary Fair. a.
This fair which has been in nrenaration