The Minnesota pioneer. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn. Territory) 1849-1855, 1849-06-14
THE MINNESOTA PIONEER.
St. paul, nIinnesotd,
Thursday Morning, June IL. 1919
PARTY WARFARE.

thuS; an appropriate sphere. w omen SHINE
least in the political circles. Boys had bet
ter be in the school-room than in the camp.
Ii is more appropriate for those who. have
the control of public affairs, to agitate po-
litcal measures, than for those who are
s'ony passengers" What would be thought
Of the wisdom of our neighbors in the Sell
kirk Settlement if they should divide into
parties and wrangle and hate each other, as
wings and tories! If they should get into a
fever heat on the question of repeating the
Irish Union? or quarrel like cats and dogs
about the English corn. laws? or interest
themselves so deeply in a contested election
in the House of Commons, or become so
bitterly opposed in the array of party on
some disputed question Of Parliamentary
privilege that they could scarcely address
each other with cIvlity' Would such a
state of things as this further the interests
of that settlement? There, where concert
of action is Indispensable, where union
alone can afford any respectable show of
strength, how is any measure to be concert
ed or any scheme for the general welfare,
consummated without union? For let it be
remembered that where party ism plants its
foot, there is no recess too private and no
sanctuary too holy it to violate. 1t is
omnipresent. 1t is not only in the election,
but 1t is the town meeting, the school meet
ing, the road meeting, in the church, in the
highway, at the fireSide, at the table, at the
very altar of God; like the lice Of Egypt, it
is in the very kneading troughs, coloring,
defIing, poisoning every thing it touches.
There is but one condition Of things that
makes partyism tolerable, anywhere; that
condition, thank God, we are not in. 1t is
where the people who take part in politics,
have to decide political measures by their
uotes, and where there is sufficient popula-
ton and strength to warrant division Of
the people into parties, without inducing
great feehleness and insuficiency of action.
The effect of two opposing forces is to neu-
tralise both forces. Therefore, a division
into parties, naturally Induces weakness of
the whole. A division of small State into
parties is like separating two sticks which If
bound together could barely support each
other; while a division of large State, is
more like separating bundle of sticks into
two parcels, either of which still retains
much strength.
Does Minnesota fill the first of these con-
ditions: Have our people any vote to cast
on the question Of tariff? Have they any
thing to do with sub-treasury? Can they
thrust their fingers into our foreign relations?
Have they to decide whether or not negroes
shall be subject to slavery in New Mexico
or California? Let us not forget our true
relation to the Federal Government We
are not State. We have no vote in the
Senate, none in the House, we have no.
thing to do with making Presidents or cabi-
nets. Sometime we may have; so may
Canada; so may Cuba; so may Yucatan
but now, in our callow Territorial condi-
ton, almost without Territorial pin-feath-
err upon our back, without a vote, we had
almost said without anybody to cote, with
everything to ask of Congress aud with no
power to command anything--for Minneso-
ia in this condition, to attempt to launch out
upon the dirty sea of National Politics,
would be as disastrous as it would be for a
chicken with the shell on its head to try to
swim out into the lake with a flock of swans.
What have we to do with Congress? To
ask and obtain all the faYors we can. Do
we want to carry up our applications for
appropriations as a Wig Territory to a
Democratic Senate? or as a Democratic
Territory to Wing House Of Representa-
tives? Fools! What we want let us ask
for. TASK and you shall receives but to
hold out one hand to receive gift and the
other to strike the giver, is the conduct of q
mailman.
The President has appointed friends OF
his administration for our Territorial Offices.
That was right. Nothing else was expect
ed; but is any one to infer from this that
these appointments were made with refer
ence to b'assing the politics of Minnesota
Those who believe it, know but little of the
politics and principles Of the President.
Amongst all these appointments there can
not he found bitter partizan-not one who
would attempt to use his official station to
sway the political opinions of our people
When this Administration or any other en-
cages in the business Of PROSECUTING terrific
ries, we will oppose it; but while it gives us
capable, moderate men for officers, who at.
tend To Their nfficial dntiaS and ,,hiIn III.