The Minnesota pioneer. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn. Territory) 1849-1855, 1852-02-26
TdE MINNESOTA PIONEER
st. Paul, sfIiaussota.
Thursday Morning, February rs. so.
New Advertisements.
foP See Erst column on this page.
The Presidency.


A Territory being an immediate depend
ent upon the Executive Of the United States,
for the nomination of Federal officers in
the Territory, has really q deeper interest
in the result Of Presidential elections than
State; aud although, our Territory, like
our Delegate IN Congress, has no vote, j,
has right Ike him to be heard We shall
then proceed to express our opinions Of the
Candidates and our wishes, just as freely as
If we had vote to cast. Minnesota not
only wishes, but demands, n change of ad-
,ninistration. Not merely because very
large majority of our people, are democrats
and not wings, in their party preferences,
aud predilectons and in whatever really
constitutes the difference between Demo
crais and Wings, but because our expert
ence thus far, Us a Territory, under the
rule Of Wing administration, is very far
from reconciling our people TO a continu
auce of thu same sort of rule. Without
quarreling with our Wing neighbors here
in the Territory, who are not responsible
for aud could not correct the outrageous
wrongs inflicted upon us by this ad,ninistra-
ton, in the appointment aud continuance in
office of some men, wholly destitute of ca
pacity, integrity, sobrie'y, or any other
qualification. we have continued at all times
fearlessIy aud even fiercely to denounce
those men, and the Administration that
quarered them upon Us. We want to see
1 change Of administration. No change
uan be worse. We want to see a Demo-
Graf made president---a president who will
appoint our officers. not for their partizan
services, bu; for their sterling qualifications.
Amongst Democratic candidates, we have
our preferences too. ...I.
OF all the candidates. there is no one so
peculiarly Western man, as Mr.. Doug
lass.
BY this we DO not mean that he is not a
national man; fer if there is any public man,
who more than another has enlarged his
ideas and theory of government to the ex-
tent of the broad Union, and mt the same
time has made consistent with his plan Of
national politics, the widest freedom and
the most distributve justice and equality to
the several parts Of the Union, that man is
MIR. Douglass. identified with the valley
OF The Mississippi, he alone perhaps, of all
The candidates of either party, is the only
man who kecny feels The national import
ance Of making navigable the Mississippi
r!Fer through It's whole length. He has a
Jnster view OF the national importance of
this work, Of its political importance espec-
rally in keeping open and active this i'm
niense artery of trade and intercourse be-
tween the South aud the North, ADD giving
10 this valley It's natural and proper share
of commerce and thus checking the danger
Gus tendency Of all trade to concentrate in
New York, than any other public man.
With hm for President, we should rely
confidently upon seeing the improvement OF
The Rapids of the Mississippi, become a
iea,ling measure of his administration.
To Us. to the whole valley Of the Missis-
sippi, anu To no part Of it more than to Min
nesota, this is a question OF vital interest
We have tried for years in vain, to accom-
plish it by Legislative influence; let lis now
try 10 accomplish i, by Legislative and Ex-
ecutive influence combined. Equally safe
in tina hands Of Mr.. Douglass, would be our
pinery interests; for 40 public man so well
knows as he, that the interruption of our
lumber trade, is blow to the prosperity OF
this whole valley, from Poka.oma to the
Balize. SO far as our local interests and 10.
cal wants are concerned, Mr.. Douglass
knows them well. He has been here, knows
our geography and has always been warm
aud decided in supporting the interests Of
Minnesota, from the hour when our present
faithful delegate left here upon the ice, in
the dead of winter, to go at his own ex-
pense and ask Congress TO give This REM
nan, of Wisconsin separate territorial! ex.
'stence and name, until this hour. To
the powerful influence and untirin, energy
and aid of MIR. Oougless, well sustained by
those sterling men, Gen. Dodge Of Wiscon-
sin and hi. son. the distinguished Senator
from Iowa, Mr.. Sibley has always declared
himself largely indebted for his unexpected
success in the accomplishment of this mea-
sure, upon which depended nil the prosper
ity we now witness in our Territory. a
Mr.. Douglass is q young man; not yet
forty. Ia this respect, he suits the charac-
ter aud impulses of the Young West. From
Il careful observation. Of the character and
the capacity of Mr.. Douglass, for 10 years,
AMI ever since he has been known as pub
lie man or even as a lawyer, observing his
growth, his unexpected developement of
new powers and fresh intellectual vigor
ever ample for any sphere into which he has
been called, we have no hesitation in saying,
that he is the mos. thrifty, expanding man.
of our tines---a. man of whom the whole