The weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1852-1858, 1852-06-12

a white curtain hanging inside. The effect
of Mr.. Sibley's effort is seen in the ac-
ton of the committee-refusing TO take
any notice riaterer Of the petitions and
the Democratic circular!
SO down we go again, and overheard
we are horse, foot and dragons p
petitions Democratic Central Commit
tee circular and all * Bodies moccasins
and bar meat MISUNDERSTANDING Cass,
Hennepin, Oak ota and Wabasha are in,
and Robertson and company, the faction
lists, are still out of the ring, where they
will have TO remain. TIL. three or four
hundred people who have settled upon
the Indian lands since last fall, will be
happy to learn that they are still voters,
even if the treaties should 90 over, if
they have been in the Territory six
months. The base scheme of the Demo-
crat, aid its co-laborcrs, to disrranchise
them has been thwarted. Rest in peace !
WHIPPED AND CRAWLING FOR MERCY.
Perhaps it is travelling little out of
our sphere to notice certain article in
tn, last Democrat, relating TO Mr.. Sibley,
but we can't help it. Referring TO some
Of Mr.. Sibley's recent efforts in the House
in behalf OF the Territory, our neighbor
says:
+" 1t will be seen that Mr.. Sib!ey has
MlanIale4 ihe no7parIy position which Is
bud previously occ1pied, ald classes him
self among partiSan d DEMOCRATS. Inthis,
BE acts w!>e y, for no-party, or neutral
position, can never have weight, or COM
mand respect in Congress, or elsewhere
Mr.. Sibley has heretofore acted in concert
with Gov ernor Ramsey, and other lead
ing wings Of the Territory. If like Gen
10 Lane, he acts the part of decided
Democrat at home, for the future, and
gives his voice and influence to the DEM
ocra,ic party in the Territory, without
regard to fear or favor, he will cntitle
himself TO full communion in the Demo-
cratic church. We hope that Mr.. s., and
every friend OF his, of democratic predi-
lec'ions and sympa'hies, will so act-anl
that ali lnyidlous COMPARISONS and dislinc-
tions wll be Iorborne; and lhat misunder-
standing and reer. mina!ion about the &C.
cidcnIs, erToES.inl mistakes-or the past,
may Ie buried in e5,lliau."
Now what does the reader suppose he
bases this assertion upon. that Mr.. SibIcy
has abandoned his position in relation to
local politics. Simply a casual remark in
one of that gcntlcman's speeches, that he
was a Democrat, an assertion he makes
invariably whenever he refers to politics.
and which the Democrat traduced him
roundly for making, at the dinner given
the Governor and Secretary.
Why, the crawling, crouching creature
that thou art. To go and write such
paragraph as this, the very day almost
that news arrived in town, that Mr.. Sb-
ley has just applied his scalpel to thy
great favorite bantling, the disfranchisc-
ment of the Indian country, until there is
not piece left of it as large as his hand.
Is this the man from Lancaster, Ohio,
who boasts that, with Sam Medarv, he
welded the destinies of the party in that
great State?
'sWhaf, will the aspiring blood of Lancaster
Sink i'll the grUuId?;'
We all recol!ect when the Democrat
echoed back the triumphant challenge,
thrown out TO Mr.. Sibicy and his friends.
by enc Of its co-laborcrs in the Lcgisla-
turc:-
IT. Lay "; c !utf,
And ID be he who first cries hold, nonch =,
This was the way the Democrat talked in
those days. Now that Mr.. Sibley has