The weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1852-1858, 1854-11-04
THURSDAY MORNING. NOVEMBER 2, 1854
Personal ISLANDERS.

tain editors ard their correspondents during
the past four months, must have come to the
conclusion long since, that the chief means
they had determined TO employ to accomplish
their ends. consisted Of the vilest cpithcts and
ISLANDERS that could be hurled by their prolific
pens upon the personal characters OF those who
had the independence to differ with them. 1t
is likewise not unknown, that the senior editor
of this paper has been one of the chieirecipients
of this abuse The editorial columns of the
Times. especially, have teemel with the low
est scurrlites of the fish market: and when
the pen of the editor has fallen short, he has
had recourse to certain anonymous cOrrespOn-
dents. who, assassin like. stab in the dark.
and whose names the editor has repeatedly re-
fused to give up to those who were thus vii
lainously assailed.
One of these magnanimous specimens Of gen
tlemanly character and deccncy, is Il scribbler
for the Times, who writes from Minneapolis,
and signcs himself ''Ilcnucpin." He wrote
and published malicious falschood against us
before election but when the editor of the
Times was asked after the election, Through
respectful communication written 10y rcspon-
sihle friend of ours, to publish denial Of the
allegation, the editor refused on the ground
that he did not wish to rake up old sores"
While feeling thankful to our friend for his dis
interested act Of kindness we did not care
straw whether his communication appeared in
the Tines CT not, for Tic all, CATION, although
conceived with the lowest and most cowardly
feelings OF malice, was too absurd for any one to
believe whose opinion We regarded as worth a
laithing. Oar friend. however, succeeded in
getting his communications or one similar, i'll
to the st. Anthony Express, and iisit appears
has given "lIcnncpn another chance to throw
his filth at ,us. Among other characteristic
lalschoo,ls, we find in his communication Of
yesterday the following. He is speaking Of
the Shakopcc Wing convention:
"Pres ious to election, AID ahou, the time
the VIII rs wcr" in convention at Shakopcc. Mr..
Owens in an editorial said that probably the
Convention would pas resolutions cnmpl-
mcntary to, and sustaining the course OF Mr.
Rice
The man who ponn"d the above sentence,
must indeed be one deeply sunk in the depths
of degradation aud inla'ny, Whoever he may be
for he certainly is aware that he here writes
and publishes as base Il talschood as any imp of
Satan ever conceived. Nothing bearing the
least scmbuMcc to such an editorial assertion
ever appeared in the columns Of the Mnneso-
/ tan in reference to the action Of the Shakopec
! Convention, OF any other Cony
! But a bo!dcr and more reckless omul.at0r
! of barc-taced faischood through the public
prints, is Isaac Atwatcr, one of the chief. of the
gang WAC have set ont TO rise in the world
+ through defamation Of private character In
his paper. the 81. Anthony Express. of the 4th
October. he makes this statement over his own
! 81 signature:
/ az the Legislative session OF lSj2 the con-
! test for the public printing. As usual lay lac
! tween the VI big presses and Pioneer. The En-
press claimed IL share With the M!nucsotian
and had many warm friends among the mem
bcrs who stood Ivy its interests Owens being
unwilling to give any definite amount of the
! part he should receive 10 th5 Express. the
Wings refused 20 unite and give him the print
/ Ing with the Pioneer Things stood in this way
! for some iln". without being able to elect a
printcr. untii at length the riliicr was COM
! promised hv the agreement of the friends of the
! Express. to take SZo0. which was to be paid hy
! Owens out of the ayails Of the printing which
/ the Inncsotan should obtain. This arrange
mcnt vas made in the evening AZ Earring ton :
store. and John L. Owens, express y agreed aud
, asSented 10 il.
Nov. il there is any sense of shame yet left
in the composition OF the uttcrrr of the above
libel. he will tiu,h to his very ears when he
sees il announced. as We now Jy anihority all
nouncc, that the above assertions are false in
every particular. There never was any such
agreement; Mr.. Atwatcr never attended ::
meeting OF the WIZ. members of the I.c9isla-
| turc at which We wcr2 present. and We never
! exchanged word Of the above pUrpoTt with
him about public printing during the session Of
lSJ2. The entire statement made by him aho, c
is one OF the basest Of ialschoods. manulautul cd
| entirely out Of whole cloth. in that Lcgisla-
lure there were n;uc Wings. who acted to.e-
Their on most occasions Eight out of the nine
we have referred the statement OF Mr.. Atwa-
tor TO; seven out Of The eight pronounce ii IN
qualilcdly false the eighth has no recollection
OF any such understanding. and the ninth We
have moi seen. All these gentlemen arc vet
alive and in the Territory. and Mr. Atwatcr
can have the full benefit OF their views of hi:
statement, if he wishes to call upon them
| Some Of them have been any;oa, that we should
use their names in rtfn,"g his base and mali
cious SANDER, but We deem such a course un-
necessary. Their names will not be used uu-
less he persists in his work Of falsclooI and de-
! f.,mation.
! We trust our readers will excuse us for de-
voting this space to matter in which they may
| feel little interest. But now that we have
shown up the pcrlily Of the men who are CON
tinually as>aling us, we trust to have no more
occasion to allude TO these matters
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