The Minnesota pioneer. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn. Territory) 1849-1855, 1849-08-23
THE MINNESOTA PIONEER.
ct. paul, minnesota,
Thursday Morning, August %. 1919.


the bulwark of religion. If there be religion
divorced from morals, this may be true
John Bull is good theorist John preach
es well--he prays well. John is good ex-
horter, and often speaks in meeting,-can
drop down upon hts marrow-bones at any
time TO pray, and will roll up the white of
bis eyes in devotional exercises, like duck
in thunderstorm. John is profound
moral reasoner Next 10 the massacre of
the nations OF India, or to bullying China
for refusing to swallow Johns opium, moth
ing suits his taste better than to descant up
on the horrors of African slavery, or Tile
atrocities Of revolutions. John has uasu-
raj turn for preaching. His venerable bald
head shines in church every Sunday like the
face of Moses; and bis eye noisIens while
be listens to the word;-hut unfortunately,
in his youth, he was always in street fight,
or quarrelng with market-woman, or en-
gagged in dog-fghr, or had his eyes bunged
up in pugiisni, or was so badly corned, that
he never seems 10 have had a fair oppor-
tunity 10 cultivate his talent for the pulpit.
But John was always stickler for morals
and would fight, at the drop of the hat, at
any ones inning that he was not the most
orthodox, godly, humane, charitable, meek
old saint thar ever followed the banner of
the cross. John is Il great reforlner. He
i,,f foo ,,,,rtt fp his
own experience OF the evils OF hard drink
ing, it he did not fancy that he had always
been the very pattern of sobriety; but john
never does anything out Of the way hi. self.
There are two or three little British corpora
tons to be sure, that have All odd way of
doing right; but John knows nothing as TO
what they are about: but then, he WON'T
stand by and see his servants abused or
whlpped-not he.
4 lie East India Company throws China
down and Commences examining the mouth
of the Oriental old daddy who wears his
hair In queue, with peoples. China re-
sists. The Company danris its eyes if Chi
ma shan't submit. A row ensues. John Bull,
with neck curved and tail extended, pitch
es in, like bull into a china shop, knocks
pertinent To his servant, and requires China
TO pay him for all the crockery John has
broken in the scrape, and to swallow the
opium without another word of complaint.
john is very humane. He turns from his
workshops, filled with lhs groans of halt-ied
Labor aud from vast subtorranean mines,
where ,nutitudes live and die almost with
out a glimpse of the beautiful light of the
sun, and where women are harnessed like
oxen to mineral cars under ground, to SYM
palhze with The poor plantation slaves OF
our Southern States. Amiable cid gentle
man! John always abhorred the atrocities
of war; yet he never engaged III ii quarrel
with our country, without ensting the toma-
hawk aud the staipingkn to redden our
frontiers with the blood Of our women and
children. John is great temperance lee
turer; and this brings Us To that part of our
subject, to which we wish particularly 10 d.
reel the attention of our country:nen aud of
Chflstendom. 1t is well known to the world,
that the Government Of the United States,
without any especial oslentation of doing
good. has used the most strenuous exertions
TO suppress the sale of ardent spirits TO the
indians of the North West; and that these
exertions have been crowned with much
success. Through the exertion of our ira
ders and Indian Agents, hundreds Of the
Sioux and Chippeways have been induced
to sign the temperance pledge; and what is
more they keep their pledge. Maj. MUIR
Ply Su6-Agent, at Fort Smelling, has sent
US a long list of Sioux who have signed the
pledge, which list we publish to-day. Not
gallon of whiskey Can be bought from here
TO Pembina, our northern line. At Penn
bina there is considerable Indian trade.-
How have these temperance measures on
eur si,ie, been seconded on the British side ?
We state as fact which challenges contra
sliciion, that the factors. aud agents of the
British Fur Company at Red River and all
along the British line north Of us, jealous of
the increasing trade with the Indians on our
side of the line. are freely selling ,ehiskey
to ne indians, for the purpose OF securing
their trade; and the most brutal and heart
rending crimes are the daily result of this
traffic. Our Northern Indian frontier is
DELueED WITH THE wHisKEY OF THE Brit
,ss FuR CoMPAsy,
Will our Government tolerate these
things? Shall the cupidily of . British
Corporation be allowed to line our frontier
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