The weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1852-1858, 1853-02-26
For the Nlnnesotan.
A Letter from Sausage to the new Superintend-
emit Of Indian Affairs.

| For the NInnesotian.
| A Letter from Sausage to the new Superintend-
| emit Of Indian Affairs.
| SIR:-Like our new Governor. you Will DE
early called upon. in March to assume the duties
of this responsible post. You had better come
on with that functiOnary, and the editor OF the
Democrat, in order to relieve Minnesota at as
early day as possible of the powerful pres
sure under which she rests in having man at
the head of this important branch of the SER
vice, who has very odd way of compelling
Indians as we'll as whites, with whom he deals,
to be honest and pay their just debts. This is
all wrong, and inimcal to the future prospects
and success of our branch of the Democracy
The Sweetser and Robertson code acknowlc ges
no such base subserviency to antiquated forms
and practices. The peoples representatives,
year after year, repudiatc our ''Organ," even
after we have swept the last vestiges of Whg-
gerry from Minnesota, and caused the Demo-
cratic banner. to "fioat triumphantly over her
soil;" consequently it must be sustained from
some other fat shelf of the public larder. 1t is
now on its last legs. Something must be done
| speedily, or it is as dead as a Nova Scotia her
ring in the smOke-hOuse. Therefore, my dear
sir, you will please hasten on in company with
the new Governor, and get hold of the funds
disbursant through your hands at the spring
payments. Inasmuch as we claim that a pre-
cedent is now established, we will look, of
course, to deduction of fifteen per cent. from
all future Indian payments. which you will
please hand over to the editor of the Democrat,
to "pay expenses" If this be not done soon,
over goes our kettle of fish! Bear this in mind.
Another reason why you should hasten on,
and assume the duties of your new Office, is
that when once the restraints of the guberna-
tOrial position are taken from Ramsey, he will
be, in measure, let loose from all responsible
ity to the white people of the Territory. He
will ram his hand into his Indian breeches
pocket and keep it there, while with his ex-
gubernatOrial foot he will kick out of his pres
ence every one of us who may come whining
about him for per centage. This will be dire
state of things under a new Democratic admin
istratiOn. 1t must not occur therefore hasten
as fast as steam-motive and locomotive-in-
ternally and externally-will carry you.
BE careful you do not allow to attach to you,
and follow you into the Territory, any person,
or persons, pretending to belong to the medical
profession. with the expectation of giving him,
or them, the post of Sioux or Winnebago doc
tor. Those places are already provided for
We have some of the 'smartest' kind of doctors
here, who have Travelled a great distance from
the apron strings of their anxious mammals, and
done great deal of the dirtiest kind of work
for the party" in order to esconce themselves
into the places now held by the rascally feder-
al Wing "medicine men," One, particularly,
considers himself the great medicine" OF the
Democratic party, although most people re-
gard him merely as sort of hospital chamber
maid, at this time employed in that capacity
about the establishment wherein the numerous
sick and wounded are slowed away, who suffer-
ed in the recent complete rout and overthrow
OF our branch of the party. He can generally
be found at the Democrat office.
Bring Sweetser along with you. He is indis-
pensable in the discharge of the first duty which
will dcvOlvc upon you. We allude to the driv-
ing out of Sibley and his whole clan from the
Sioux country, and confiscating all their prop
erty and effects to the future uses of the g. De-
mocracy.' Sweetser as a reward for his inval-
liable services in leading off in the grand swim
die which we all attempted to perpetratc upon
the Indians and their traders, must be first cared
for. To him should be allotted Sibley's build
ings and property at Mendoza. The other eff
fects now in the hands of the traders can be
parceled out as circumstances may require. 1t
is no detriment to the claims of Sweetser, and
the rest of our friends that they failed in their
schemes through the intervention of rascally
Wing officers, who compelled the Indians to be
honest and stand up to their contracts We
will have no more of this. The Indians hence
forth are ours, and we will see if they will keep
set of traders among them who, for the last
twenty years have clothed and fed them, and
kept them from starving and freezing merely
with the slight expectation that they would
some day or othcr-at some indefinite period
get about halfpay for the goods and provisions
which they advanced.
Ramsey has done great injury to his private
resources, and made enemies among certain
INSCRIPTIONS Adventures by strictly adhcring
to the law in the business of letting contracts.
This is no good way for an officer who has con-
troll OF very large amount of public money,
aud is expected to disburse it for the uses and
ends of the party in accordance with the time
honorcd custom established by Price, Swart- |
won't, Boyd, Harris, and Others
But your great leading duty will be to 60
exactly contrary, in the administration of In !
dian affairs, to your predecessor. What he has
labOrcd to build up among Them you should
hasten to pull down. The advice and counsel
he has given them to eschew war and hunting. |
and bctake themselves to the peaceful and |
profitable pursuits of observation-disclosures |
they have been inclined to listen-you must |
revoke. The trade and intercourse laws for
bidding liquor to enter the Indian country, al |
though they have been comparatively we'll |
obeyed the past three years, are all humbug.-
Let the Indians all get drunk, and die off as
speedily rs possible. The number of souls be-
ing thus rapidly diminished, there will not be |
SO many to quarrel over the annuity money at
payments; consequently the p;ckings will be |
better for you and the rest of the party.
shall next time write to the new Secretary. |
SAUSAGE.