Minnesota weekly times. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1854-1859, 1854-08-29

ET Our c0mpoSltOr made some awful plumbers
in our Dedication article yesterday. In speaking
of the congregation of the church, he made us
say &c soithout its wallis" when it should have
been "within its walls" Also "dedicating"
prayer, instead of &c dedieatory." Also "elegant
appeal, ;" instead of " eloquent appeal" The ar
ticle appears day in corrected form.
SOUND REASONER.
PUFFY BLOWERHARD, bellows rinder-in-
chief to his honor, H. NJ. Rice, is out in the Min
nesotian with an article to try to prove-what
We have carefully read his article and positively
fail to discover. Now this Puffy wants to say
something about railroads, Congress, reports OF
Committees and II. NJ. Rice. Puffy is a learned
man and knows all about these things. Why, this
Puffy has a bigger, rounder. redder face-can
wheeze louder than broken-winded horse, eat
more lobster salad, take in more of the s'crea-
ture," explatarate more argumentative nonsense
can string together more vile ndmalicious ep-
ithets denounciatory of the best and most virtu-
Gus men of the territory, than even the " Senior
himself, and is his equal in impudcnce not blush
ing to sign himself 'sJustice." Every body
knows Puffy when they see him. HIS big, round
bald face, elegantly tinged by the reflected rays
of his own aorid eloquence, his porrly frame as
majestic as well-6lled sack of potatoes, and his
strong predictions to spi,atualism," designate
the man without mistake. Cesar-lke, on the
public forum, Puffy has frequently borne off the
civic crown.
As we said, this Puffy is great man in his way.
He SAYS Rice didn't kill Cock Robin, by a direct
stroke; that the worst he did do (and for that he
shouldn't be blamed) he stood by the poor bird
which was in his keeping, and coward-like beheld
without resistance others give it the mortal wound.
Puffy thinks this was not direct sin on the part
of Rice-only a sin by construction. Now Puffy
is dabster in theology well as in spiritualsm,
and knows the difference between the sin OF omis-
sion and commission but for heavens sake let's
be done with this Puffy and his nonsense, for al
though he is schooled on all sides of all political
parties, and is now principal trumpeter for II. M.
Rice, he is in fact too rotten in principle, and too
Insignificant in point of influence to merit from
ms tn,c amount of notice we have given him. lie
has laboricusly raked together everything that
could be said, IL, extenuation of the conduct OF
TT. NJ. Rice, as our delegate in Congress ana the
representative of our interests, aid has done more
to blacken and sink the delegate in the ESTIMATION
of this community, than all the charges that all
the newspapers have brought against him.
We have here in the person of Puffy Blowerhard,
the principal champion for H. NJ. Rice. For weeks
he has been swelering in tn, heat, furnishing his
arms to do battle, and behold him as ne stands
putting and spluttering and cursing the meanness
of the weapons with which ne is forced to wage
his warfare. Poor fellow, this is his misfortune
and not his fault, and if he did not richly merit
our contempt, he should have our compassion
lie and every one knows that all the service Fl.
NJ. Rice rendered the Territory of Minnesota du-
ring the last Congress, was, that he Accidentally
CHANGED to be present, as Delegate, when an APP
propriation was made for the construction OF
government roads in this Territory in common
with all the other Territories of the U. States
Such appropriations were obtained by Mr.. Sloiey
during his term, and will ever be obtained as long
as we remain & Territory. 1t smoothing more nor
less than carrying out the standard policy of the
Government That II. N. Rice should rest his
claims for s!ory on this point alone, shows how
meagre and poycrty-S stricken in usefulness his adj
mnistrat;on has been. Nevertheless we must add
init that II. N. Rice is 4 good tactican. Failing
in his schemes on the haf-breed tract, in which
some thought he designed to make grand specu-
lation, he Immediately goes in pursuit Of the
Railroad, Left Hand River and the idol city that
is TO be on Lake SUPERIOR but even here, as if the
genius of adversely pursued him, and n this IN
stance to the detriment of every soul IN the Ter
rtory. he is again Eoundered, or in more classical
LANGUAGE, knocked higher than kite, carrying
the ra.-oad c. G.: =. with him. Congress, growing
disguised with tho srf;. of desperate speculation,
that was overriding all justice, civl! or political
safety, determined to crush it en- masse; repealed
the Railroad grant ard left the poor, ayaricious
Delegate, with staring eyes, standing trembling
beneath the frown of Congressional contempt.
But let US examine some Of Puffy Blowerhard's
positions. Puffy says:
"If Congress had no more to justify its action
in withdrawing the land from us than is found in
the published report of its proceedings, then in
deed have the members who voted with the major
ity made an exhibition Of petulance and want of
wisdom most dsgraccful to themselves and the
country"
That's Pufy's opinion. "Thcre's wisdom for
YOU" He sits in judgment on Members OF Con-
gress and considers them destitute Of not only
common sense, but disgraceful to themselves and
those whom they represent. Puffy, Puffy, when
did you take that last brandy toddy? Puffy con-
tnues and quotes the report of the Committee and
Mr.. Stevens remarks, in which he virtually ad.
mits the very ground that has been claimed, viz
that the matter should be left to the future actor
of our Legislature, assuming (as we infer from
Mr.. Stevens remarks) that no Territorial Legis
laturc has the right to give away any land which
it subsequently, comes in possession of by an &C
of Congress. In other words, it is impossible fo
an act of the Territorial Legislature to superced
an act of Congress. We gave away the land il
February, lS43-Congress gave us the land
June of the same year. Hence Mr.. Stevens ar
CUES, that the Company was not even constituted
(although they supposed they were,) and conse
quently the alteration of the word "or' to Sand
was of but little Importance, as the Legislature
of our territory had yet got to take action on TIL
disposal of the land. He says:
The gentleman from Ohio, speaks of a com
| pany that was not organized until the LIST of July
we'll, it could not have been constituted either; TO
constituted and organized in this connection
must mean the same thing; and it does seem Il
| be very immaterial whether we saw CONSTITUTED
and organized" or constituted or organized"
Now according to Pufy's own witness, tn
company were not constituted or organized anc