The weekly Minnesotian., 1854-02-04
&c That Extract

column Of special pleading last week, attempt
Ing to preve-and no doubt did prove to his
own satisfacten--that he is entirely guiitiess OF
the charge of Inconsistency and trucking to
executive power. by copying and endorsing a
certain slanderoas extract from the Dubuque
Herald. But By this loundering he only gets
himself into deeper water, as can lie shown III !
few words:
The position Of the DEbaqae Herald in re-
gard to matters growing out of controversies |,
touching Indian affairs in Minnesota, the past
eighteen months, isweil known. 1t has stood
&brouchou. ,pea the side Of the Minnesota
Democrat, and consequently antagonistical to
She Ainnesotian and-as we had thought until
now-the Pioneer also. thas joined as loudly as
any cur in the pack in bowling and yelping at
the heels of Ramsey, Sibley, Rice and others
gnawing the same bone, sleeping in the same
kennel, and tapping filth from the same pool
with the enemies and prosecutors of these gen
tlcmen here in Minnesota-growling when they
Notwithstanding about them and licking
their chops, with all the good nature and fra
tcrnal feeling characteristic of the most happy
anu udTtuOuOus CatlluC oh Soith. VI
these facts the Pioneer editor cannot be igno-
rant. In truth, we are much mistaken if the
Pioneer has not, even since it came under the
charge of its present editor, felt itself called
upon to rebuke the slanderous and false accu-
sations put forth by the Dubuque Herald, in
this essential particular. Since Gov. Germans
advent among us, the Herald has alluded to
these matters-placing his Excellency in direct
antagonistical position with the leading trad
ers Of the country-with harsh severity con-
demning the policy Of Gov. Ramsey-and con-
graduating the country upon the glorions mil
iennium which was about to be commenced un-
der the new state of things. in the adminstra-
tion of Indian affairs in the Northwest In
short, the Dubuque Herald is notoriously op-
posed to the policy which obtained in Minnie
sofa during the former administration, Of which
there was not (apparently) more Jealous up
holder than Joseph II. Brown. And he either
writes himself or his readers down as fools, or
IL willing to undergo selfstultiication for the
benefit Of those who formerly heaped the most
bitter denunciation upon him and his best friends
when he expresses beliefthat the article he CO.
pied and endorsed was not intended by its au-
thor as thrust in the dark at the integrity of
Gov. Ramsey and the leading Indian traders of
Minnesota. 1t can have no other interpreta-
tion for that journal has known no other peo-
pie, or class of people, in our Territory, whose
scts called for its ccnsure and abuse.
The construction the Pioneer puts upon the
extract is ridiculously amusing. 1t is scarcely
worth the space it occupies, but we give il -
'This, then, 1.-THE Watab Treaty. being the
great question of the day. and the only subject
on which the press of the Territory had de-
nounccd the official acts Of Gov. German Zip to
the time the article in the Herald was penncd
is it probable that the editor of that paper could
have referred to any class within our Territory
Was it not wholesale dcnunciation OF the
people? Did not the article evidently NEAR
the inhabitants Of .ninnesofa act as it the In
dians lived only for their especial benefit sub
ject to he driven from the locations they hav
selected under treaty stipulations with the go
vernment, whenever said locations become de
sirable to the whites? This is the natural con
Etruction to put upon the article, and no care
full reader would in our opinion. construc it di
ferently. We give it this construction
Now, We do not believe the Watab treaty wa
at all thought of by the Dubuque editor whe
he penned the endorsed extract. His Who'll
previous course shows that he was after othe
game-thc Sioux disbursement and the Sion
traders. 1t was the investigation Of that trans
action on the part Of Gov. German which ha'
from the start been nearest the heart Of th
Dubuque Herald, and touching which it ha
frequently referred to his Exccllcncy as right
eous and prosecuted officer, battling against
horde of corrupt Indian robbers. And there
not the slightest doubt, that in alluding TO til
rumored charges against Gov. German q
Washington, it meant to be understood tha
they emanatcd from these same men, whom
.conceives to he class :'wlo act as if Indian
were made only for their especial benefit
But our neighbor betters the matter great
by the construction he puts upon the extract
He says it evidently refers to the uhole reop.
of Minnesota. Thus it is. then All the pei
pie of Minnesota believe Indians were made ft
their especial benefit, to be kicked about an
robbed Of their means, just as they--the SOW
reign pcople-plcase. Gov. German, kint
humane philanthropist that he is, don't believ
anything Of the kind. The Dubuque IIeral
commends the Governor for his unbelief an
goodness of heart, and the Pioneer endorse
both the charge and the commendatfon 1t
thus in endeayoring TO escape from the unenv
able dilemma in which he first placed himsel
our Leighbor gets into much worse one. II
has either endorsed the chargc-unqualifcdl
endorsed it-that the traders arc set of inhu
man Indian opprcssors Or that our people arc
or both. Either is slanderous and unjust, TIL
latter much more SO than the former. We cas-
either back into the teeth of both principal an,
endorser, as a vile and unmitigated SANDER
and the press, or the public men, that clair
support from those whom they thus abuse ar
unworthy the liberation Of any people posses
scd Of the least particle Of scifrespect.
May it please the public, we rather think ou
neighbor has now gotten himself--to quot
from noted member of the st. Paul bar"