The Minnesota pioneer. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn. Territory) 1849-1855, 1851-10-02
Morals in Politics.

Morals in Politics.
The only legitimate end of politics, is
good government. Good morals and a
healthy, active, public OPINION, that recoils
at Injustice and frowns a, violence and
wrong, is mightier thar laws. party that
courts profligacy, that has venality for its
nucleus, tina, gathers up drunkar'ls, profit
gates and rowdies, like Il SNOWFALL, as it
rolls onward. attaching to itself, by natural
aflinities, all bIackguards and bIacklegs and
violaters Of the peace and wretches who
have all their lives been slipping through
the meshes of the law, robbing jails, peni-
tentares and gbbets Of their just dues, is
The mos: dangerous association that can ex-
list III free government, whatever patriotic
party watchwords it may adopt, and what
ever noisy profession. It's leaders may make.
of devotion to popular rights and popular
reforms. The sans culottes of Paris, were
comparatively harmless, until they were
banded together and drilled and disciplined
into a political party; and when thus band
ed together, they were formidable only
through The discipline and power Of active
to conceal their felonions designs aud their
real purpose of pundering, under mask
of patriotism. BY these hollow professions,
good men, who sincerely desire to see truth
and justice and I.eace prevail, are too often
drawn into the ranks Of political ruffianisn,
and by aiding il with their countenauce and
their suffrages, are instrumental in deceiv-
ing and drawing in other honest men, and
in giving some responsibility of appearance
to party which is really held together,
from centre to periphery, by the cohesive
power Of public plumber. In this way, we
have seen men, who naturally loved justice
and sbu,idered at crime, so blinded by the
prejudice and frenzy Of the party which
they had joined, as to witness. almost with
appreciation, the seizure and destruction of
the ballot box, and the most fragrant at
temrts summary to seize upon and control
all legislative power, by ejecting a portion
of the representatives. Of the people. at
temPts to overcome the press by violence
and threats of destruction, foul conspira-
cies to murder, and system Of cowardly
caluinnies and assassin-Iike attacks upon
the characters of good men, carried on
anonymously through the columns of dis
iant presses, and open, daring attempts,
to throw the Territory into q state of abso-
lutte anarchy, by breaking up the Legisla-
turs in the mids, of their unfinished labors.
as If it had been lawless mob.
We appeal now, TO good men, through
out Minnesota, to look at these things and
consider them calmly and dispassionately.
Pause and consider. Raise yourselves
above the smoky, polluted atmosphere of
bar-roorn politics, and look at this question
in The light Of morality and truth. Ger
tainly, there are men in the reckless Rice
party, who are deluded into it by nothing
under heavens but the name of Democracy,
which, like gilde.l sepuichre, covers the
! foulest political corruption tina, ever Tester
ed aud SUNK under the nostrils Of high
/ Heaven. Fathers, brothers, sons, Catbo-
lies, protestants, Wings, Democrats, ci,i.
zens of Minnesota, one and all, who love
justice more than wrong, peace more than
violence, equal representation more than
the government of an oligarchy, religion
more than infideliIy, and who really, heart
lily desire the true and lasting prosperity o.
Minnesota, we couture you to come on
from the ranks Of the sham Democracy o.
Rice anal Robertson, and give your inffu
euce and your votes for the supremacy o.
peace, honesty and good order. If forty
Of you, good men but deluded, who ar,
now in that faction will come out of it, and
join the true friends Of the 1 erritory, yol
will wonder when you look back Into til,
Rice ranks, by wha; optical delusiop 20,
had ever mistaken such men with such
leaders for the true Democracy--whon
they really resemble, no more than chain
gang resembles giistening regiment o.
volunteer riflemen.