The weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1852-1858, 1853-12-03
be uses the inde6ulte term several to cover
remarkably short space Of time. But he par
TALLY contradicts himself in the FIRST paragraph

be uses the inde6nlte term several to cover
a remarkably short space Of time. But be par
TALLY contradicts himself in the first paragraph
OF the article before us, wherein he says:
"Whilst in Galena a few weeks since, our at,
tention was called to an article which appeared
in the Jeffersouiau. rejecting sOmewhat se vere-
lv mon our delegate elect, and calculated to
nlace the Democracy OF Minnesota in q false
tight before its readers. Believing that the ed
tor had been imposed upon. and that he relied
for information upon some source. unfriendiy
alike to Mr.. Rice. and the party which he rep
resents, We, as soon as our leisure would per-
nit (which was on the following day. address
ed him letter vindicating Mr.. Rice and the
Democracy of the Territory from the unjust
Implications Of the article alluded to. The let
ter was not published until two or three days
subsequent to its delivery ut the JeffersOnian
Office"
Thus then it seems In the first place. the
day after he arrived there he wrote the COM
munication. That was one day. The editor
kept it in his drawer three days. That makes
four. &c. according to his own showing. his
several days dwindie down to just three -
But the facts all leak out and drip through this
befogging tissue of his. purpOrting to give a
history OF the leisure acts and trembling deeds
of this brace of Democratic editors. The
trath il, they both approached the refntation
with fear aid trembling. This is plain
ly shown by the delay of publication and
a certain point now at issue between them.
as from whence the information was derived up
on which the attack was based. Olmsted asserts
above. that he believed the editor Iof the JEFF
fersonian1 had been Imposed upon, and that he
relied for information upon some source, I'M
friendly alike to Mr.. Rice, and the party which
he represents" without abiding to the fact
that Mr.. II. does not represent party, but the
people of Minnesota let us just see what the cd
itor of the Jefcrson;an Gays himself Of his source
Of information, which by the way is copied into
the Democrat Immediately following the he
lief Gifts editor as above quoted. 1t places him
in the very position we did last week, namely
Of fearing to vindicatc Mr. Rice on account o.
l.. Democratic sentiments at home. held by some
of his best friends. Who they are, We do no.
pretend to say, but here is the extract from the
Jefcrsonian
'For all political information from that llar
ter MinneSOtaj we have depended upon Oth
ers !; if they abuse the confidence which we have
rcposcd in their personal good faith and poiiti
cal integrity-theirs. not ours. is the blame, ev
en- though they make us the medium through
which their gall is poured ont TO poison tn
public Judgment in regard 20 true man..
The JciIcrsoniaa is known everywhere as on
of the most violent Democratic partisan sheet
in the West. The editor here distinctly states
that he has confidence in the political intcgri
ty" of his inIormants, touching his attack up
on Mr.. Rice. Does any one believe for mo
ment that the Ietlersonian editor has conlidenc,
in the political integrity. in matters of thi
kind of any Wing. Yet the Democrat cdito
believes, notwithstanding the JcffersOnian'
positive assertion to the contrary, that Wing
did all the mischief! Having shown that thes
good and faithful Democratic editors in gettin,
out of a very dirty scrapc, have at least gotte,
one OF thcmsclves-thc Democrat man-int,
a mach worse one, we leave them to make wha
they can out Of the entire affair.