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

old of Mr.. Tilden, the motive Of the act
was "to assert that he Becker had moth
ing to do with his removal as Marshal"
What occurred within we have never car
ed to know, and notwithstanding our init
macy with the deceased and his immediate
friends who were around him at the time,
we never enquired.
Having thus shown how Mr.. Becker
sets off in his philippe against us with a
false statement, we could well afford to let
the whole matter rest just where it is
But we must say word in regard to our
old friend and acquaintance of long stand
ing, Colonel Mitchell, who is here brought
upon the stage at the bidding of Riceism.
The Colonel is eternally playing Roderigo
to Rice's Iago, and he is good at it. He
is kind, easy, accommodating soul. He
will sign any paper that is brought to him,
or SKY anything you wish him to, all to
accommodate his friends. We know him
well, and could give hundreds of instan-
ces where he has injured himself to grant
the request of friend. We of Mime
sofa have all heard about his endorsement
of some ridiculous charges against Gov.
Ramsey, which the Rice folks placed on
file in one of the departments a year or
more since; and how, when taken to task
therefor by some of the Governors friends,
he said he had not examined the character
Of the charges. and proceeded forthwith
to erase his endorsement, and to make an
apology to the head Of the department for
the act. Were we in the habit of betting,
we would wager something that the Col
onel, this moment, if asked, could not tell
whether he had, or had not, signed the pa
per submitted by Becker in his commune
cation to the Democrat. Owing to this
weakness of the Colonel's, we never have
used, and never will use, certain docu-
ment left here, under his own sign man.
uel, executed the last evening he was in
St. Paul, giving his opinion of the ''whole
Rice fraternity" as he styled them; which,
sooth to say, is great deal worse opin-
ion than we ever entertained of them.
But we must hasten to close. With
the glaring fact staring him in the face,
right there at Washington, that he has
filed charges against almost every faithful
officer of the administration in Minnesota,
he speaks of himself as zone who has new
er sought part in public affairs!'' Oh,
hypocrisy most foul! We dare him, or
any Of his friends, here or elsewhere, to
deny the fact we state. And then the
emissary Of the Rice fraternity" as
Mitchell calls them, 10 talk about carry
ing politics into the social circle! 1t sounds
well to lis here in St. Paul, where all their
little, mean, narrow, contemplate acts in
this respect are so we'll known, does mt
it?
But the most glaring falsehood in Beck
er's whole article is the assertion, that a
Wing officer Of Minnesota, "high in the
confidence of his party" condemns US for
the course we have taken in tearing the
mask from his hypocritical countenance
and exposing his duplicity. This is also
for Washington consumption. Here,
where the Minnesotian stands endorsed
upon the record as one of the acknow-
lodged Wing organs of the Territory, hav-
ing the confidence Of all the Wing officers
thereof, save one or two renegades who
play into the hands of the Rice Locofoco
reorganization" the thing is simply ridic-
ulous. We throw the falsehood back in
his teeth, and defy proof that any Wing
office-hoidcr, in the confidence of his par
ty here, ever wrote him condemning our
course in this or any other particular.
But let him wrigglc and twist. Our
haying has just had the effect upon his
position at Washington that we wished it
to. Here at home, his course touching
the removal Of our lamented friend Til
den is well understood and properly ap-
preciated by the numerous friends of the
deceased. The mark is fixed upon him as
indellibly as that of the Almighty upon
the brow Of the first murderer.
P.S. We are sorry we are compelled,
in order to redeem promise, to go so
much into detail concerning this matter at
this time. Important matters of informa-
ton which we expected to have on hand
on this occasion, have not yet reached us.
But what we have said we think will prove
sufficient, at least for this once.