The weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1852-1858, 1853-07-02
Sic Transit Gloria Robertson.

Sic Transit Gloria Robertson!
The event we so long predicted has come to
pass D. A. Robertson has been forced to re-
tire from the Minnesota Democrat. 1t is true,
he cndeavors to impress upon the minds OF his
readers, that he retires voluntarily ; but the
bare-faced effrontcry of the false assertion is
only equalled by the general character of his
whole course, during the nearly three years he
has conducted a public journal in St. Paul. 1t
is well known he has never had the confidence
of the whole of his party and for the past year
he has been losing ground daily with those who
had previously stood by him, until now he has
scarcely a corporal's guard left. He states in
his valcdctory that he does not leave his post
in the hour of his party adversely, when if
are to take for truth what he says further on, i'll
regard to the pecuntary support he was receiv-
ing at the time he sold, his party must be in
more wretched plight than ever before : for no
one believes that the Democracy of Minnesota
are not able and willing to sustain an organ at
the capital, and sustain it well and handsomely
No, no! This will not do at all. 1t would
have been better for himself hereaftcr,-for the
future success of the Democrat and for the pre-
sent welfare of the Democracy, had he made a
clean breast of it, and told the truth-honestly
confessed the causes which have compelled him
to a separation from his heretofore cherished
project Of building up the great and leading
Democratic journal of the Northwest. How
mn ,vonJI bn how hoo bop hut l,o
upright and just of all parties had he stated
the notorious fact that he had failed to enlist
the conf lcnce and support of his party; had
made losing business by publishing the Dem
ocrat both in reputation and purse, and felt
constrained, as matter Of duty, not only to
his party but himself, to retire and leave others
chance to try their hands at the difficult and
perpleXing business. But had he done this, it
would not have been d. \. Robertson. People
would have considered the valcdictory a forge
ry-the product of some other pen, using his
name without authority.
1t Will be recollccted we have, more than
once in these columns, pointed out the newt
able fate that awaited the late editor of the
Democrat, did he persist in pursuing the course
he started upon. We claim no gift of prophecy
or unusual faculty of discernmcnt in all this,
now that our predictions are so thoroughly We
rified. What we saw and forctold could have
been (and was) seen and foretold by any and
all who had the faculty of discriminating be-
tween right and wrong, and reasoning from
cause to effect. Failure, disgrace and degrade
ton are just as sure to reach those who prac-
tise Islander, falsehood, deception and tcrgivcr-
sation in politics, as those punishmcnts are to
fall upon the man who deals upon such princi-
pies in other transactions and vOcatOns of life
!" The way of the transgrcssor is hard whether
he transgress at the head of Il political ncwspa-
per press, in the ordinary business vocations of
life, or in the bosom of his own private circle
The late editor ofthc Democrat has been trans
gressOr--a great transgressor-false to his po-
itical trusts-to say nothing of the moral obln-
guy he has hcaped upon himself by his ISLANDERS
of upright public men and good citizens and
therefore he has failed. He has the requisite
qualifications and business tact to enable him to
conduct successfully public journal; the elc-
mcnts are here to ensure the SUGGESTIVE bril-
liant, paying success, Of Democratic paper
Why did he not control them?
We write in no spirit of triumph over the
downfall Ofthe bttcrest and most unscrupulou.
personal and political enemy We ever cncoun
tered during our editorial career of eight years
While we would commisscrate the punishment
so deeply and humiliatngly inflicted upon him
self by even the most ahject wretch in the uni
verse, we should feel it Il duty to set forth. fo
the benefit of good morals, the healthy les
son the attending circumstances and events
teach. Tor this purpose, and for this alone, W,
comment as we do upon the editorial reti
racy of d. y. Robertson. We might, will
propricty, as applicable to his case, quote thu
words of bitter rcmorse which flowed from tn,
heart of Wolscy, in the hour of his downfall
but we refrain. As aprivate citizen, surround
ed by his friends and respected family, we wsl
him all the success his acknowledged business
energies should command, and all the pcac,
and happiness the conscience of a man Sc
stepped in political iniquity, and persona
wrong to individuals public and private. will
allow.
The new editor and proprietor of the Demo
crat is David Olmsted, Esq.-formerly the bona
.fde publ shcr of the only Wing journal at the
time in Tie Territory. "We shall see what We
shall sce.''
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