The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1865-10-06


At Lake City On Wednesday. Oct A..
Al Wabashaw on Thursday. Oct s.
At Winona on Friday, Oct. 6. IS
At st. Charles on Saturday. Oct 2.
At such hours in the afternoon or eve
ming as local committees q citizens may
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OAeering for sAe Dsnaocracy q m1n-
49, .H ge grag
There has never been time for six
years when the Democracy Of this State
had a more reasonable prospect Of success
than they have to-day. The issues OF the
past four years, upon which we were di-
vided, have given place to new issues upon
which allare united. Thousands OF Demo- 40
esxts who thought the war should be carr
lied on TO the bitter end, and were fearful
that the strong peace element OF our party
might hamper the energies OF the nation
Ia the giant struggle pending, were led
10 cast their votes againstit. Now that al
apprehensions of this sort have vanished
With the war, these thousands are return
! ing to the fold Of their party, and giving
,ener voice and influence to the support OF
President JOHNSON in the manly stand
mich he Is making against the Northern
Wig Of the disunion party-the radicals
and nisoegenationists, who are for en-
broiling the sections again upon the ques-
ton of negro suffrage and white vassalage.
The Union is not yet restored. State
governments are not yet in full operation.
The people of the South are leaving the
country by thousands because Of the vim
dictive policies sought to be visited on
them by the ruling party at the North.
Confidence is not yet restored. The peo-
pie have not yet been convinced that this
is to be "a union of hearts none can
. sever "a country they can be proud to
call their own, and to- fight for because OF
the blessings it shall bring to them and to
their children.
A dark cloud, charged with the blacklist
malignity and hatred, is still suspended
over them. L spirit of vengeance and OF
hate crashes its teeth and whets its beak
to rend and tear them even in their fallen
condition. They are threatened with a
long probation of pupilage and vassalage
under the rule Of their own negroes, by
enfranchsing this class and DISTINGUISHING
them. They are threatened with the con-
fiscation and spoliation of the blighted
remnant of their estates, which are to be
distributed to the loyal" black and white
vampires who are lying in wait to rob them
when they are fully Frustrated and tied
hand and foot by the radical policies OF the
abolition dynasty. ~
Now that war has broken the armed
power of rebellion, all that is wanted is for
the people of the South to be made to feel
that the cords which bind them to this
Onion are the silken cords of a common
interest, common protection under a
common flag, and not the iron chains that
bind a subject people to despotic and
vindictive ruler.
If they are 70 be the Poland or the Ire
land of the North. they will add nothing
to our strength, while our Republic is de-
stroyed in the act which Polandizes them,
All these principles are recognized in the
polides Of justice and Cancellation adopted
by Resident JOHNSON, and embodied in
the sentiment uttered by him, and so dis
pleasing to the radicals, viz: that "the
people of the South must be trusted with
their government" and in the other sem
timent, that "this is white mans coun-
try, and while he is President it shall be q
white mans government These senti-
ments place him where all Democrats can
support'him and in every State where the
political issues of the country are being
cauvassed they do sustain him. sss
Thousands of Republicans have no SYM
pathy with negro suffrage, and will vote
against it here and elsewhere. What Is
there to make them vote for she party
when they vote down Its principles Its
ssmain issue"-ssits prominent candidate, /"
as the Press says: Hundreds of open
voters and hundreds more ofsly ones win
be cast from this quarter for our party and
our candidate, and all that we need is
confidence, q rigorous cdnrdss, and work
by every Democrat and Union man till the
It'll of November We cannot be cheated
out of the soldier vote this time. They
are here, and as in Iowa, they are
with Us on this "main issue this
prominent candidate NEGRO suffrage.
A change Of 1000 votes is all we need.
The soldiers alone should nearly give us
this while the hundreds of good Union
men who are not prepared to desert the
President of their choice, will sustain the
oolv marty In Minnesota which srstains