The Minnesota pioneer. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn. Territory) 1849-1855, 1851-06-19
THE MINNESOTA PIONEER
st. paul, Minnssota.
Thursday Morning, June 10, 1851.
winnebago Fur Company Meeting.


Ramsey county, after long notice and much
parade OF staring handbills, assembled at
Mazourka Hall on the 5ih instant, and num-
bered twentynine persons, according to our
port Of it in the organ of the Winnebago
Fur Company, and the links of 'resolu-
tions' streaming, like n kite-tail, through a
column Of that journal, with /" The Hon.
James 5. Norris % string of Irvine, stream
ing out at the extreme end, this was one Of
those "large and respectable meetings"
which we have heard of, down South, con-
sissing Of Cat grocery-keeper, a deacon and
a negro, who having assembled SIN pursu-
ance Of previous notice. the fat grocery
keeper nominates The deacon for President.
Carried. The deacon dominates the fat
grocery keeper for Secretary. Garfield
Fat grocery-keeper offers ninety resolutions,
each one commencing with "whereas. -
Resolutions carried. Fat grocery keeper
then reads the report Of the meeting, to the
deacon and woody bead, commencing SAT
large and respectable mass meeting of
rhe"-"hold," says the deacon, show can
You call this large and respectable meet
ing, which consists Of only US three !''.-
"Ali right" replies the Secretary; 81 will
tell you how it is large and respectable
meeting. Look at me Am not large !?
Look at yourself, deacon in the church,
are you not respectable! These proceed
ings will have to appear in the journals
consider the effect-beside, who is here to
contradic. that this is large and respecta-
Die mass meeting?' The deacon was sat-
isiied, the preamble, proceedings, and reso-
lu,ions adopted, signed by The President and
Secretary, and the meeting adjourned sine
die
In the resolutions read and adopted at the
Winnebago Fur Company meeting, we
look, but look in vain, for any declaration
Of principles whatever, any platform, any
thing bur an avowal Of hostility to the old
Fur Company, from which the Winneba-
go. or Rice Fur Company, was sloughed
off and yet the writer was weak enough to
think that his resolutions embrace princi-
ptes-speaks Of democratic principles laid
do,rn in the resotutions,' Let US handle
these resolutions, and see whether the Win
nebago Fur Company, are, as they pretend,
standing upon platform Of principles, or
dancing upon nothing3
The first resolution is chow startling y
that all governments should he conducted
upon uS- principle "a word which the
writer evidently does not know the defini-
ton of,) and that democratic principles are
our principles. and that we ought to organ
ize upon democratic 20 principles.
The second resolution, 'is merely a para
phrase of the first axiom of the Declaration
OF Independence, viz that all men are en-
titled to the enjoyment of certain inal,enable
rights, SIC. Does that look like piece of
party platform, or does it not look like
piece Of canting clap-trapi
The third resolution, assumes to be neg
alive principle, and opposes class Iegisla-
ton. Now the only thing like class legis-
lation, that we have ever known attempted
in Minnesota, was Capt. Rollins bill to
take charter of The Mississippi river
lengihways, and Capt. WIN. B. Dod,i's bill
70 charter him a mammoth manufacturing
to manufacture every thing, from
patent gas and patent engines, up to patent
voters, to turn out Of the machine shops on
election day. Are these the men to pirate
about class legislation! No, no; their prin-
ciP!es really are, Legislation for my class and
for no other class. The devil take all hyp-
ocrites hu
The fourth resolution, in like manner,
gives the lie to every act, public and pri-
vaie, Of the Winnebago Fur Company,
from Henry NJ. Rice down to his lowest re-
tainer. Ii is that they SNAKE no war upon
capital and private enterprise, so long as
confined to their legitimate sphere" Ifthis
were true, it would no more he entitled to
be called principles party principle
than if they had resolved not to rob and
steal (!
The fifth resolution is, "that we are IN
favor ofthe distribution of the public lands
20 actual settlers, in quarter sections."-
Now there is not stripping politician, who
does not know, that this Is measure, (not
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