The daily Minnesota pioneer. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1854-1855, 1854-12-13

nesOta, in the Cause ''The United states
v. The Minnesota and Northwestern
Railroad Company"
Appeal to the Congress Of United States.
This cause, which was argued before the
Supreme Court of Minnesota, on the 9Th
December, was decided on the morning of the
Sth. The decision, under the fraudulent is
sue made up by the attorneys of the gov
ernmcnt and Company, was, as we predicted,
and as everybody anticipated, against the
government The points made by Judge
WEIGH at the trial below were affirmed
by the Court in bonc We understand that
Judge CHArFIELD, while acquiescing in the
Judgment, places on tie record some objec-
tons which would have led him to dissent
thercfrom, could such dissent have been
made cffectual in altering the decision. AS
it was, however, he joins in the Judgment,
through sentiment of courtesy towards
his associates.
We have already exposed the imbecility
or criminality which is stamped upon the
management of this important action by the
United States District Attorney Wchavc
shown that the prosecution presented the
weakest possible case in favor of the gov
crnment, and the strongest possible case in
favor of the Company We have shown
that the District Attorney upheld and en-
dorscd in his plcadings an act of Congress,
which the public records show to be utterly
invalid, and on which the Company relies
in its defence to the action. We have shown
that the government had to contend, not
only against the Attorneys of the Company,
but also against its own officers, appointed
to defend its rights, and bound thereto by
the solemn sanctions of oaths We have
demonstrated that this could have bee the
result only of gross ignorance or of still
more gross corruption.
1t is not necessary that we should 60
over the whole ground again that the char
acter of the cause may be clear to the APP
prchension of our readers. The avoidance
in the issue by the District Attorney of the
legality Of the act of Congress of the goth
of June, 1854 the framing Of the plead
ings on his part that they should testify to
lie the refinement of audacity and scoun-
dreism exhibited in making that lie thus
sanctioned, to initiate against the United
States, his own client the attempt, through
these means to swindle the government and
the people of Minnesota of millions of mon
ey, and to bind our Territory hand and foot,
that Wall street vultures may batten on
her fairness these things are all understood
and need no further exploitation. Nor have
we any desire to follow the cause into the
Supreme Court of Minnesota, and elaborate
upon the prostitution Of the judicial arm of
the government there, in forcing it, through
the chicanery of lawyers, to conservation
Of crime, in legalizing the robbery of the
public domain by band of swindling cor
poretors. r. instruments in the hands of
the Minnesota and Northwestern Company,
who have attempted to bring about this end,
need no aid from us to hasten upon them
the infamy which is the sure portion of their
future notoricty. We leave them to the
imprecations Of the people, who, in the
spirit of Macduf's curse, will bid them
ssLvc to be the show and gaze O. the time -
and who will have them
t'As rarer monsters arc,
Painted upon pole; and undcrwrit,
Here may you see the rallatns."
No different decision is to be ANTICIPATED
from the Suprc..e Court of the United
States, whittier, we learn, the cause will be
sent by the prosecuting attorney. 1t will
be managed there on the part of the gov
eminent, by one whose skill as a lawyer,
and whose eXpertness as a rascal, a. far
transcend the United States District Attor-
ney of Minnesota and his assistant as the
high tribunal before which it is to he sent
excels in ability that in which the cause was
first introduced. Whatever may be lacking
to insure the defeat Of the government be-
fore the Court of last appeal, will be sup
piled by the satanic ingenuity of the gov
ernment's Attorney General. 1t is no Sc
cret that CALEB CUSHING is pecuniarly IN
tercsted in the success of this Railroad Com