The weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1852-1858, 1853-02-19
State Of Public Sentiment Abroad.

we nave watched long and attentlvely for
the echo which the editor of the Democrat and
the actiue party to his attempted Sioux swindle,
Sweetser, SO loudly prophesied at the outset
would come back from the Democratic press of
the States endorsing their base charges of fraud
against Gov. Ramsey. We have waited patient
ly, VIC say, but as yet there is no reverberative
notes to their " thunder We have looked in
the Washington Union the Philadelphia Penn
sylvanan the Boston Post, the Concord Patri-
OF, the Ohio Statesman, the Cincinnati Enquir-
er, and numerous other leading organs of char
acter and standing in the country; but not a
line endorsing, or copying even, these immense
and annihlating charges has there appeared.
1t is true, some of the obscure country journals
have taken up the howl, and sent it the distance
allowed 10y their collapsed and feeble lungs;
but this is all. The last Democrat contains a
specimen of these consumptive wheezes, in the
shape Of an article from the Ohio Eagle-Rob-
ertsons old paper-published at an inland
town which has no railroad communication
with the rest of the world, and in a county the
majority OF whose people abhor school houses
and hate school masters. At least. this was the
state of their feelings when we knew them
And even this feeble response has been so long
in reaching here that the conclusion is inevita-
bly, forced upon the minds of its readers, that
Robertson himself wrote it and sent it to the
editor-fnding even him slow to believe-and
requested its publication in the Eagle.
After delivering this hopeful prodigy from
the columns nf fba T.. I'll
ment claiming its paternity in the person of
Daddy Robertson-the sapient quack who now
controls the columns of the Democrat, proceed
ed further among his exchanges in search of an
other professional job All, here it is Eureka.
he exclaims! The old abortion of the st. Louis
Union, has entered anew into the Saturday
Morning Post" (rather indefinite, that; what
Saturday Morning Post, and where published y
and must be born again. So to work the Doc
tor goes, ever ready for a proftless job of this
kind; but so lily does his nurses dress and dis
gulse the offspring, that its original paternity
cannot be mistaken by the most casual observ
er. This is the extent-the final gathering to-
gether of democratic endorsements" after
two months hard labor! One, probably writ
ten by Robertson himself and sent abroad for
publications; and the other, from the st. Louis
Union, now published in the Democrat for the
third time
Let us look little farther. Sweetser, the
originator and engineer of the conspiracy is at
Washington, blowing and casing with his ac-
customed success. Finding he could do moth
ing, he sent for the editor of the Democrat.
who has gone on to help him. This is all right
and proper. Beautiful in their lves-in
their deaths they should not be divided Mr..
Sibley's demand for an investigation has COM
pletcly taken the wind out of their sails. We
happen to hnoU, positively, that among leading
men of all parties their charges are regarded as
nothing but an overlooking of the filthy scum
of disappointed, knavish avarice-an outpour-
ing of venemous bile, cngendered by long
delayed success in schemes of personal ambi-
ton