The Minnesotian. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn. Territory) 1851-1852, 1852-03-27

very carcIul In SelcctlnS tnelr captain
We're afraid that :'small chance of legs"
in the Sucker State won't answer.
GEO. L. BECKER.
The points at issue between this indi-
vidual and the Minnesotian had their ORR
gin in his false, cowardly and hypocriti-
cal cant to the President of the United
States, touching the moral conduct of GER
tain Wing officers of the Territory. He
never made any charges against the late
Marshal, neither had he the manlincss to
reduce TO writing his endorsement of false
hoods manufactured to his hands here ;
but that he endorsed them vcrbally to the
President we have the strongest circum-
stantial proof for believing. His late mis-
sive against us in the Democrat does not
deny this, the main charge against him,
and in fact the only charge that we care
anything about holding him to. Feeling
grossly indignant at his cut-throat attack
upon an esteemed personal and political
friend-a man reduced by bodily infirmity
to position which required that he should
look elsewhere than to physical labor to
earn a livelihood for himself and family
we wrote of Becker what we did. In
what we had occasion to say, all the
intimate friends of Mr.. Tilden conceded.
And Mr.. Becker need not lay the hatter-
ing JUNCTION to his soul, that he has thus
easily cleared his skirts of the blood of
that prosecuted man. The circumstances
are too strong of his guilt, 10 be thus
"whistled down the wind" by his flip
pant letter to his fellow-criminal, the ed
itor of the Democrat. We hope he will
bear in mind when he reads this, that what
we are now asserting, and what we have
heretofore asserted, is fully sustained BY
the political party of Minnesota Of which
Mr.. Tilden in his lifetime was promi-
nent and active member, and to which
MIR. Beckers "cousin," the President,
would be attached, were he citizen of
this Territory. And what is more, the
last conversation we ever had with our
lamented friend upon this subject, only a
few days before his sickness, he said he had
become doubly assured in his own mind,
that Becker was the great master spirit
in bringing about his Affections, and he
wished all his friends to remember him
(Becker) for it, in the way he should. In
this beliefhe remained. We have a strong
presentiment, at least, that if our life be
spared, we will do our part in executing
the legacy.
MIR. Becker opens his communication
to the Democrat by asserting, that in the
Minnesotian of Jan. 24th, we purport to
give the substance of /" conversation ~
between the late Mr.. Tilden and himself.
Now, this is entirely false. But it an
swers Mr.. Becker's purpose of decciving
certain men at Washington, to whom he
will carry this letter of his, and compel
them to read it, but who will perhaps
never know what we really did say. Here
is our paragraph to which he refers, in
full:
1.-The Democrat announces the depart
ure, for the third time within six months.
of Geo. L. Becker, for Washington. An
other batch of falsehoods, we suppose,
freshly collected for the Presidents ear.
We understand this canting hypocrite had
the temerity to call upon Mr.. Tiiden, when
on his death-bed, to assert that he Beck
err had nothing to do with his removal as
Marshal! Will moral justice permit such
hardened iniquity to go unpunished?"
Does this embody the substance of a
'conversation," pray tell? We said he
called upon Mr.. Tilden to make an asser.
lion he says we professed to give the
substance of conversation. We did not
even 60 SO far as to say he ever made the
assertion, nor could we be so lost to all
sense ofpropriety as thus to invade the pri-
Vacy OF the DEATH chamber of a dear friend.
We remember we took great care in word
ing the paragraph. We only wished e