The weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1852-1858, 1853-09-17
From the st. Anthony Express.
The Democrat and the Wiunebaro Treaty.

| From the St' Anthony Express.
Ihe Democrat and the Winnebaso Treaty.
We last week declared that we cared not ui-
DER what administration the measure might
nave been consummated, it should have met
our most uncOmpromising opposition. And
"heh the democrat can show by fair statements
and plausible reasoning that the Whic party or
Its agents. ever desired the removal Of the Win
nepagoes 10 the mouth of Crow river as a per-
ihanent possession, we will furnish that editor
with the most lndubitable evidence that we are
hot moved by any private or partizan consider
ation III our condemnation OF Gov. German s
treaty.-Erpress.
| Candid, plausible, very. Now will the Ex-
press read the extract which we publish to-day
from the letter of Secretary McClelland. and
sneh answer US lew questions. Have You not
ior more thah year past, been aware that it
W.. was the policy OF Gov. Rams y to bring the
Mnhhepagoes sonth TO Grow River? 1fso, why
.: uu 1. hOt meet your "uncoml romising OPPOSE
lio'', before MS removal from Office: Have
you no' pecll aware tnat 1or more than three
pas,' urge pcrtioh Oi TINS tribe have re-
uou eI 'nc m,o0" " CTOtc fhoer with the sane
.ion VI uov. RAMSEY DldMtS meet your - un-
oonpi oills'hs oppositioh Were you not
go .na' d. thE ciose VI Eov. kahsey's ad-
a;"t a.'on .iie "ihhcpa2oes were located at
'Iu.h n.i y. she lnoutn Vi Crow river, near
,uh;tn sot,Ily' '.iu IN 'ne very htost OF The
'aad s., u,,,l,;.' ~ .'nu Una. 'hey were encour-
tios eou ~ 'a aa .neie s ny tne payment OF their
"nt a,var Inu., tha. ,,s. ms 'uctloLs! were you
nal cnrSa and annn,,a wy. my "tie coh'ih
.a, ,'Saa an" anoe W .ne "hite setliers
thiS oyau ,,oot Iii. ~ - ~ uueu. Diu
onnos;tinn 81, W. A. - o.nli oihislhS
upw CO raod;,v ~ ho ,,soa ~ .I y, y1ul si,ee'
nation thsr Sro,S. ~ ~ =" d ~ .ne Morh ., ueia
OUTRAGE Rv sbow;nC the otfirmati,o n f thae
onestions roy LII than ~ shia VI tnese
that vom ara not 8. n,oroJ o., 1 o ~ oon. .ioe Us
siderationso At nresent howaxsr i lnols so t
a candid nrh,;o ,,or,, ,nai ~ ..., ~ 'oono W
atfact;na !" Stra;n ~ uon n. as .nousn you were
dv s,nn fIo,,aJ on 80, Nv s aile"
! g. d. na''n ' VI N"S' "inienaiohe'-
| ",
! we nave examined the extract alluded 10,
and proceed to answer briefly the interrogato-
ries OF the Democrat.
we are not aware that it was the determined
policy OF Gov. Ramsey to bring the Winneba-
goes south to Crow river" but we are abso-
lutely certain that he never contemplated to
settle them at the mouth of Grow river, as the
editor of the Democrat would fain have his
readers believe. The Governor, finding that
the Winnebagoes were dissatisfied with their
allotted lands on the Crow Wing and would
not remain on them. but persisted in occupying
a portion of territory south of Crow river
where they were continual annoyance to the
white settlers, did think, as Il temporary expe-
dent, of removing them to a portion of the
Crow river country, beginning seventy miles
from the mouth of that river. and running west
ward toward the Minnesota. The land howe
yer, to which the Winnebagoes were to be con-
vtyed was then in possession of the Sioux and
no white man had vet settled either upon or
any where near it. 1t therefore involved no
trespass upon the claims of settlers-no out
the recommendation made in defiance of the de-
tcrmned and unanimous opposition of citizens
in that quarter. Indeed we have 10 reason to
doubt that the settlers on the Mississippi above
st. Anthony would have hailed such measure
for their temporary relief from an insufierable
nuisance as a God-send, and would have inter
posed no objection to its immediate consumma-
tion. The Express notwithstanding, (tIen un-
der the editorial charge ofanother) with wise
forecast, looked to the future, and anticipating
the rapid settlement of the entire valley of the
Crow river. presenting as it does the most ir-
resistable attractions to the farmer and the
manufacturing capitalist, opposed the measure
as one which would retard the occupation of
That Icrtile region by the whites, and as contra
ry to the wontcd policy Of the government to-
ward the Indians which has always been to To-
cate them at each successive removal as remote
from the white settlements as possible. We re-
ieieo rno bGniooiat ~ ouI mes, III the Express
OF the 10th ult, and do not deem it necessary
again to insist on the reference. Ii he desires
to know the course We then pursued we pre-
sumo his own files OF our paper would enable
him to satisfy himself in much less time than it
would take US to quote from those papers.
The most, therefore, that can be alleged.
against GOV. Ramsey's policy on this sui ct
Is that he proposed to bring the WinnebagOes
to more southern latitude, but not any nearer
the whites than before. They would indeed
have been some ten miles further from st. An
thOny than in their previous homes. The OBJ
jectionable feature in Gov. Gorman's treaty
and that which makes it the more palpably an
outrage. is that having but few weeks ago re-
moved them from the mouth of Crow river.
where they were daily making murderous at
tacks upon the whites in the vicinity, he now
brings them back to that point as owners of the
soil, In plain violation OF the rights of white cit
lzens, to become perpetual dread and annoy
anGe to settlers in the nelghborhood.