The weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1852-1858, 1853-06-04
NOTICE

rs hereby given that the Copartnershp existing between
P Chsuteau, jr. & Company and the undersigned, will
expire on the first day Of July next BY its own limitation
business TO conclusion. All unsettled accounts OF Min
neseta Outfit Will be attended to by Charles W. Borup Of
St. Paul; and those Of Sioux Outfit Called by Henry H..
6ibley, Of n endota. CIV BORUP,
H.H. SHELLEY,
st. Paul, May 30, iS53-3St3 F.B. SIBLEY.
Democrat, Mnnesoan and Express, please copy three
times.
This awful, astounding, painful, agonlzlng,
heart-rending and, we think, ill-advised an
nouncement, appears in the Pioneer OF TINS
week. We are thunderstruck, amazed, knock
ed clear into the middle of next week. The Fur
Company dissolyed-going to wind up its bus
inessi It can't be possible! What; strip
whole party of its stock in trade by simple
dash of the pen, a click or two of the types, and
q Jerk of the Press! What are we coming to?
We have ever been 10th to believe the oft-re-
peated averments of the Democrat and its Dem
ocratic party, that the Fur Company was an in
satiate, implacable, carniyerous omniverous
all-devouring Leviathan-
ga monster Of such hideous mein,
That TO be hated only need be seen 5"
that DR.. Borup was the Giant Grim of the oft
beseiged but never conquered castle that Mr..
Sibley was his second in command, who kept
watch and ward from the outposts. to warn
when an enemy approached, or set the decoys
for poor, innocent citizens; and that a majority
Of the people of the Territory Indians included,
were the daily inundated victims, sacrificed
and devoured by scores and hundreds, within
the gloomy walls of the stronghold. We say
we have been slow to believe all this, but the
fact is forced upon us now, and believe it we
must.
Yes, it is even SO. Men who do not hest
tate at one fell swoop' to strike from existence
every vestige Of capital upon which great
democratic editor has traded for nearly three
years-capital which was peculiarly his own
and his ali-are base enough, savage enough
tyrannical enough, heartless enough, despicable
enough, diabolcal enough to do anything -
Great Heaven! There goes DR.. Borup this
moment, right past our office, within few steps
Of where we are writing! Well just lock the
door for fear he may come in. He looks as smi-
ling and pleasant as June sunrise but that's
all assumed-'a weak invention of the enemy
w Aioh " AICNCy III oluSI tustt uS may SouUiC
us up, and all our stock in trade, just as he has
our neighbor Robertson. Now he has passed,
and his back being toward US, our extended fin
gers can perform certain meaning gyrations,
with sinister thumb applied to the prominent
part of our countenance. No sir-ee-yOu can't
come it over US If one stock of editorial cap
ital is not a meal for you, you must look else
where. 'Forewarned, forearmed' We know
what you're up to now, and will be on our
guard. We have no idea of following poor
Rob- down into your capacious corporation.
Poor Rob- indeed. Three years in full blast
and now all he had to trade upon is dissolved
melted away-vanished into thin air 4! And just
at the time too, when he deemed it most availa-
ble-when it had really become something
substantial by its grab from the Sioux Indians
which he and his man Friday, Sweetser, tried
to make but couldn't quite come it. But this
was all just as he wanted it. Had he got hold
OF the money itself, it would have been of no
avail. That's not what he trades upon. His
legitimate capital was the Fur Company and
when there isn't any Fur Company, he hasn't
any capital. lagos famous moralizing about
stealing trash in taking apurse, becomes par
adox with this only Democratic editor in Min
nesota.' The reading of the latter clause, rem
dered into plain prose, with him is: "When
fitch from the Fur Company, or any other body
corporate or physical, their good name, do
not impoverish them in the least, but make my
self rich indeed" Horrid contemplation, then,
that after July the Company will be among the
things that were! Yes,
The earth has bubbles as the water hath,
And this is Of them.''