The weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1852-1858, 1852-07-24

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many staunch friends in Minnesota, who
were very anxious that he should be nom-
mated for the Presidency; and who
rightly regarded him as the highest intel
lect Of our age. To such it will be graf
flying to hear the report that Mr.. Web
ster has been nominated for the Presi-
dency, and that he has agreed to "stand
the fire." If this is 50, it is with the
hope Of throwing the election into the
House, where his friends say. he stands
better chance than in the late Wing con-
vention.-Pioneer.
Fudge! The idea, or pretended idea, of
some Of these opposition editors, that Mr..
Webster will run because he has received
the nomination of the faction of faction at
Trenton, is the merest nonsense that we
have yet seen this year. The idea, too,
that the election will 60 to the House,
even if Mr.. Webster should run, is
equally ridiculous. There is not Wing
paper in Massachusetts, of sufficient char
acter to be known ten miles from home
in fact, we have not heard of one of any
character, known or unknown-save the
Boston Courier, that has not hoisted the
names of Scott and Graham, and is bat
Ting manfully for their triumph. This
is the case with the Boston Advertiser,
the Atlas, the Journal, and all other
presses which at first spoke disparagingly
of the nomination. In New York, the
Courier and Enquirer, a paper of late
years Of no influence whatever, threatens
to come out for Webster; but these
threats are well understood to mean that
Col. Webb, its editor, is in the market,
and wishes the Scott men to buy him. On
the other hand, the Commercial Adver-
tiser, known for the last twenty years as
Mr.. Webster's organ in that city, is ur-
ging upon that gentleman's friends, with
all its power, the necessity of their falling
in and supporting Gen. Scott. Touching
the Union Convention of Georgia, if it
should nominate Mr.. Webster, he will
then have proper opportunity of defin-
his position, which he has not yet had.
That he will do so TO the entire satisfaction
Of his party all over the country, we
have not doubt. 1t is true, there is a
bakers dozen of aristocratic old fogies
about Wall Street, New York, and State
Street, Boston, who threaten to form
themselves into "Picrce Clubs of Webster
men," if Dan refuses to run, and we hope
they may. As was the going out of
Toombs and Co., it will be "a good rid
dance of bad rubbish
A man down in Tennessee, who has
knitted more regulations, merely to ans
wer his own base and selfish ends, than
any other individual living, and who, Pc
riotaio~lly, 10 compelled, for weeks, to
shut himself up, or hide in the mountains,
to keep from meeting his just deserts by
being knitted himself coward and
worse than cut-purse-a man of " shreds
and patches"-is now attempting to knife
Gen. Scott. He tried the same game
upon Old lack, and will meet with about
the same success in this instance. The
Democratic papers parade this mendicant' S
name, with much gusto, as Parson Brown
low! He is the only editor in Tennessee,
claiming to be Wing, who does not zeal
ously support the old hero of three wars.
Some vicious wretch, without the fear
Of the Minnesotian before his eyes, for
chilly and with selfshness aforethought,
wrested, took and converted to his own
use, in the streets of St. Paul, on We'd
nesday of this week, fine mess Of
green corn, which our friend Baker, OF
Groveland, was in the act Of conveying to
our office, to present to us as the first
offering Of his luxuriant fields this year.
Let us not meet the hungry vagabond
along the bluff Of dark night, or aboard
Capt. Tapper's ferry boat at the brink Of
the Falls Of St. Anthony. May he keep
corned the remainder of his days!
The river still continues to recede. 1t
is conceded now on all hands, we be-
lievc, that we are to have a season of low
water, and perhaps, before the close of
navigation, our manifcent Galena packets
will fall back into the plain, unassuming
style of the Black Hawk, Jenny Lind,
Badger State and Enterprise. So mote it
not be!
Vegetables, such as cucumbers, pota-
toes, turnips, squashes, cabbages, &c., Of
Minnesota growth, arc now plentiful upon
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