The Minnesota pioneer. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn. Territory) 1849-1855, 1849-04-28

names Of the persons voting for and against
the bill shall he entered on the journal Of
each House, respectively. If any bill shall
not be returned by the.Governor, or within
three days Sundays excepted) after it shall
have been presented to him, the same shall
he law, in like manner as if he had signed
II, unless the Legislative Assembly, by adj
Journment, prevent it; in which case it shall
not become law.
.4pProued March s, l849. 49,,
Correspondence of the Philadelphia Ledger.
From Harrisburg.
The New Governor of .Minnesota-His
Life and Charac!er-.4n Example for
.nechanics.
HARRisBURG, April A, 1S49.
We had scarcely got over the surprise OF
the. veto, ere another excitement WAS pro-
duced by the intelligence communicated by
the morning papers from Philadelphia, that
the Hon. ALEXANDER RAMSEY, of this place
was appointed Gorenor of the Territory of
Minnesota. The intelligence was confirms
ed by the reception of his commission in the
same mail. The new Governor has the fac
ulty of attaching to him troops of friends,
and the first feeling among them, and per-
haps entertained also by himself, was that of
disappointment, that the National Admins
tration had overlooked his claims and quail
ifcations for another and apparently more
advantageous post.
lam under the impression, however, that
he will accept the appointment, though re-
luctanily. But certain it is, that while the
Territory of Minnesota gains first rate
Governor, the Wing party of Pennsylvania
lose cool, sagacious and most influential
politician, one who has been above the at
mosphere of faction, and the only man prob
ably IN the State who could he looked to,
in case of difficulty in future, as a mutually
, acceptable moderator of the contending ele-
ments of dissenson.
! Mr.. RAMSEY has many qualities which
peculiarly fit him tor the station conferred
upon him. He is still young man not
over thirty-shrce years OF aye. Fen years
ago he was a journeyman house carpenter
in This town. By untiring industry and per-
severance he struggled through the study of
law, and was admitted to the bar OF Dau-
phn county. The first public office ever
held by him was that of Secretary of the
Harrison Electoral College of 1910. 4
month afterwards, in January, lS4l, he was
elected Clerk Of the House of Representa-
tives OF Pennsylvania. which station he held
during only one session Of the Legisla-
ture. In lS43, he WAS dominated hy the
Wing Conference rs candidate for Con
gress, to represent the District embracing
the counties of Dauphin, Lebanon and
Schuylkill, district then supposed to be
doubtful
He was elected by decisive majority;
and in Harrisburg, his place of residence,
which before and afterwards gave some 200
OF Loco F0co majority, he obtained ma
,Jorlfy of leo votes-nearly every young
man and mechanic in the place, of either
party, voting for him. His course in Con-
gress was marked rather by practical bust
ness devotion to his duties than by any eff
fort at oratofical display He made but one
set speech, devoted mainly to facts and sta
tlstics bearing upon the great mining and
agricultural capacity Of his o,yu district
, He was nominated and reelected for a sec
ond term; and in 1916. declined in favor of
DR.. Eckert, of SchuyikilI county.
He represented his district to the univer-
sal satisfaction of his constituents, and re-
tired to his practice with an increased popu-
iarltv-high station, as it too Ofteh does in
persons suddenly elevated to it, not having
in his instance made him either arrogant or
forge,ful of his old companions, or former
brother mechanics. Appointed chairman of
the Wing State Committee, his system of
operations IN conducting the late political
campaign in this State, it is sknerally conce-
ded, contributed most essentially to The sue
cess of his party in Pennsylvania.
Gov. r. is native Of Dauphin county,
and is of Irish descent by the father, and
German by the mother, and his character
embodies some Of the best features of either
nation. He is social, hearty and good-hu-
mored, but cool, cautious, Shrewd and ,,er-
severihg. He Is man of very large percep-
i've powers, and Of much grasp of intellect
altogether what might lie termed man of a
good deal Of force of character.
He speaks well, but not eloquentIy, but
nervousiy and to the point, quite as fiuentIy
in German as in English. Those Senators
ton, on the gronn2z :. wsn..ef ,,upas;,,.-
appearance" sufficient to impress the lndi-
ans with when he had to deal, will not make
that objection to Gov. II. He is a married
man. having in 1S45, married Miss jerks, a
Quakeress, the daughter Of the Hon. Moses
jerks, of Newtown, IA former member of
Congress, from Bucks county.
He had purchased, aud has just removed
into the fine mansion lately occupied by
Judge Eldred, next to the residence Of Ex-
Governor Porter.
enter iuto these details to give an idea
TO the nation of the kind of .nan entrusted
with the rule over one Of the largest of our
and with the rearing Of an infant
State to sovereignty and power. and be-
cause II is another striking illustration of the
advantages Of our republican institutions, in
opening the honors Of the nation to every
man, however humble his station, who DOS
sesses merit, to whom God has given talent,
and who has the perseverance and industry /
10 climb mp, and the nerve not to be dis /
by obstacles.
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