The Minnesota pioneer. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn. Territory) 1849-1855, 1852-01-15
THE MINNESOTA PIONEER
st. Paul. ttlii,uesota, (
Thursday Morning. January 5,sj2.

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Thursday Morning, January lj,s52.
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Pay up-Larpenteur.
Good. at Carbohydrates.
Commission Merchant--Charles w. Kelley.
For the sake of laying the Message Of the Gov
ernor early before our readers. we issue two days
il advance Of our date.
The Government Piundering Raffs
and Pirating, Pine Logs. Petty Lar
.ceay permitted by the Administration,
District Attorneys and Marshals.9 1st
wears in the babi, Of calling things by their
righ, names Instructions have been issued and
an agent sent out here, TO seize pine lumber, cut
by our luGbermen, in the pineries. That this has
been done, under preteSt Of economy, but for
the real purpose Of creating fees and providing
official epoluueu,s. we eau come very near prov
ing, That il has been recommended. by men
now living IN Minnesota, expressly to make fees
we are well convinced. We have seen the same
thing done id Wisconsin, Cor the same purpose.
Every seizure, every prosecution, makes fees Cor
the District Attorney, the Clerk Of the Court and
the Marshal; beside making lucrative employ
,nent for Especial agent" A seizure Of lum-
her is a mere farce; and the Government well
knsws il, The raft is always discharged upon
payment TO the agents Of Government, Of what
ever can be e1torted from the poor lumberman
who owns il. It is mere system Of blackmai-
ing riftsmen. The officers extort what they can,
| and account 10 Government for what they extort,
by making out yillainous bills Of cost, and con-
structiye charges, for services. mileage, &C., never
performed. The Treasury Of the United Sta,es
never realized one cert from these seizures and
never viii, if every pine log and every board
were seized, that honest labor has made its own
by The long established permission Of the Govern
meni, to cut logs 10 our pincries.
! The Governmon, knows very well, or ought TO
know, that its acouisccnce for wears, in permit
ting pine logs to be Gu, in Minnesota, has peopled
our Territory and given extensive employment to
industry here; that mills Of great cost, have been
erected in various parts Of our Territory; tina,
Villages have sprung up. dependent solely upon
The business Of numbering: that every solitary in
disidua, in this Territory who does not live upon
Federal salary or upon Federal fees, derives his
living. in no small degree from tb;. business, III,
numbering is, in fact. the basis Of our industry
and production; and moreover. thai our lumber.
ing has been and il, indispensable TO the growth,
prosperity, development, or even the settlement,
Of the whole valley of the Mississippi south Of us
to the mouth of the Ohio. Houses and barns "a
he built, fields to be fenced, bridges and plank
roads to be constructed, all commercial. sgricuI-
,ural and manufacturing developement, in fact,
through many parallels Of latitude and through
several parallels Of Longitude south of us, depend
and have depended and must continue to depend,
upon our supplies Of lumber. gf d. Ea
There is no question, but that millions Of dol
lars have been paid into the Treasury Of the
United States, Tor lands in Wisconsin, Iowa, Hi
nois, and Missouri. that would not have been re-
ceived, if purchasers and settlers had been de-
prired Of the Indispensable supplies Of pine lum-
Der, which the Government has permitted our
lumbermen annually to cut and to raft down to
them But for our pine lumber which has quick
ened agriculture upon the vas, parties south Of
US, there would now be only Territories and fec
Die settlements where there are aifiaent States.
Phaian1 Of States, bordering upon each shore
o. The Mississippi have been invited in by the
'o'ern nenf' relying upon such facilities for build
ing anu improving The faith Of the Govern
ne"' Is virtually pledged 10 every settler and to
every purchaser o. pubic lands along the coast
o. Tue "''''s'pp'' not 10 rob those ia nd' OF hall
'"e" '''ae, W cutting on 'he" supplies OF pine
"oe "e purchase OF '"ese pine ian 'is. rom
s'P1 i''. ." was expressly maze, 10
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~ '"o 'A''us pe'o"' s ''' Ole"
nc e0n''''e'ce o. 'ns r'ef' no" nper'ously de-
''anu'' an'''eu'a'e anu ample appropriations t.