The Minnesota pioneer. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn. Territory) 1849-1855, 1851-09-18

Minnesota, which we promised should appear in
our next number, is delayed few weeks. until
We can get snail map engraved TO illustrate the
subject.
The Winnebago Fur Company.
Against the combinations Of Rice and
Mitchell men, Wings, Democrats and Alb
olitionsts, who arc now assuming to be the
organized Democracy Of Minnesota, il is
well known thar This Journal wages perpet-
ual war. We know the history, the OBJ
Jects, the charac teristics and the very anat-
oiny, of this sham Democracy. That there
are good men and good Democrats in il, we
know. There are honest men in all par
ties, however corrupt; and in all sects, how
ever insane their creed. To combat go.
li,ical combination which has "siole the
livery of Heaven 10 serve the Devil in,''
whirh sticks at no Islander, however false;
which hesirales at no bribery, no violence;
falters a! no crime, TO gain uscendancy
which scorns to reason, and nvokes brute
rforce aud an open Disregard Of law and
contempt for the will Of majorities, is a
duty fiom which we cannot shrink, come
what'may. May; to oppose such combi-
nation of reckless men, who are determined
To 'ru!e or ruin," and who would ruin il
they ruled, will excuse, nay justify,a union
of all true men and conservative citizens
who regard tho ascendancy Of law and the
supremacy of peace, as paramount TO every
thing else, whatever may be their abstract
religious or political opinions
F., Where the leader and founder of any
party. IS wicked, reckless, unscrupulous,
Perh'lious man, it is easy to Judge what the
character of tina, party must be. Elk pede
Herculem! DO men gather grapes OF
thorns or figs or thIstlesi This party had
its origin in the personal ambition of one
man in this Territory, to he Delegate
That man, possessed of active talents, great
hope, ever revealing in anticipations of fl-
turc greatness, having then the control OF
unbounded credit and capital, which he new
er hcsilate,l to use for the purchase of his
own adv ancement, with productivity often
mistaken for generous impulse, which daz-
zled and puzzled all who witnessed its ex-
hbitions, generous without justice and lib
era! withou, honesty, cunning and intrigue
the element in which he burrowed, with
men for instruments, not won to him, by
admiration of his sterling qualities, hut pur-
chased at a price, either actually paid, or
oftrner promised, that man, scrupling at no
means to nuke money, plunging from one
scheme of reckless speculation into enoth-
er, changing, swapping, buying, selling, SO
| often, as to battle executions, one day with
thousands and the next penny less, uncalcu-
latng in business and dash;ng into the most
hazardous operations, rs if he were playing
brag. attitudinzing and assuming that sort
of oracu!ar air, whick always strikes weak
minds with wonder, without the slightest
sympathy for the million, with Democracy
on his lips, but the pride of Lucifer in his
heart, that man, changing in every thing
but an ambition that burns unslaked and en-
ergy and vigilance and cunning that never
sleeps, is the man who created, and the
handspring who now moves, this organiza-
ton. His counsels, his exertions and his
money, brought into Minnesota, the Ohio
autonaton; which however cunningly con-
lad h,s b.,
call it the WiDnebagO Fur Company or
ganization, because he is at the bottom of
most Of the Winnebago trade--it is carried!
Oh with his capital and by his agents and
employees; and the organization is design
ed to advance his ambitious ends; and with
out the recruits which he marched into it,,
fresh from his fruiIlcss attemps TO cleo,
Mitchell delegate, there would not be e.
nough of the whole party to swear by
Palm off such an animal as this Winneha-
go Fur Company, for the Democratic party
Of Minnesotas' Not if we can help it =
They might as well lead a donkey about
covered with the skin of sucking elephant,
to impose upon the crcdulous. We know
how to reach the seams of this elephant
skin in which they have sewed up their
jacknss; and we'll strip it clear over Jor-
dam" m
The GATHERING TOGETHER OF THE
SAINTS. We perceive by the following,
that the leaders of the Morlnons are making
strong and united effort to concentrate
their forces in tbs Salt Lake Valley. The
Guardian exhoris It's readers as follows:
The daystar gInmers, from yonder dis
tant vallics of Ephralm 10 illumo the path
of the righteous, in the line of their duty;
aud ike the Polar Star, it is fixed, SO that
the mariner through tilne,s ten,nest,,nn. LII