The weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1852-1858, 1854-09-09
THE MINI ESQ TIA N
WEDNESDAY MORNING, SEPT. 6, 1854.
The Medicine Working.

The Times of Monday takes manly and can
id stand in regard to the testimony Of Gen.
.Iones and Gen Patteu before the COMMITTEE
o! Investigation" We are always pleased to
record the evidences of returning candor and
srnse on the part of those who have been fight
ing even ourselvcs and still more are we pre-
pared to rejoice over the return to sound sense
of those belonging to the Quixotic editorial
corps of st. Paul who now come back to ra-
t'oualiiy, and acknowledge that Senator and
y Clerk, in Congress, who were striving, per-
hops with over heated zeal, to give us rail
road at the earliest day possible, have most
BEAUTIFULLY "cleaned out" their opponents in
Minnesota who have been anxious to pursue
course of jog trot, old fogy policy, and leave us
all to wait for the iron-horse" until defunct
politicians and transported hucksters holding
federal offices, could bring their private ends
to bear for Minnesotas especial benefit We
ray, in more direct terms, We are rejoiced to
find the Times acknowledging that Generals
Jones and Patten have administered dose to
the internal parts ofitselfand its hackers among
Nebraska Locofoco oficc-holdcrs of the Terri
Tory. and their lief hacker, II. II. Sblcy, the
present writing editor of the st. Paul (?) Pho
neer. which any genuine Down-Easter who
might be caught in their desperate gripping pre-
,licament would acknowledge "good for his
bowls
The Times of Monday says:
"Now either Mr.. Jones or Mr.. Patten have
committed PURGERY"'
Gentlemen, we cry you pardon We have
been grossly uncharitable, and unneighborly
inhuman, admitting for the time We are in the
false position you wish to place us-that is,
parties to the "fraud." We cut all acquaint-
ancc and "collusion'' with Jones and Patten,
because they have been purging you, our former
healthy" opponents, and had never the man
ncrs and dccency to advise us of the cause OF
your extreme weakness in this controversy
What right had they to set up as dOctors--as
burgers Is the person or thing that purges,' as
Webster defines it, without consulting their
friends in Minnesota? What excuse can they
offer, after committing gross "fraud' upon
the whole of Minnesota, for further consummat-
ing hasty and untried experiment upon the
stomach and bowels and digestive organs OF
our st. Paul editorial champions, our Indian
hanging Governor, and our "retired" ex-DeIe-
gate? This explains the whole thing--ac-
counts for this entire diarrhpa of words which
has been flowing from the Pioneer, the Times, and
from other equally laxative sources for the past
six weeks. Billings, it is said, has set up as
doctor to Ii. N. Rice, but it remained for Jones
"or' Patten to administer the purgative-to
commit ':purgery" upon Newson, Goodrich,
German, Sibley, Rosser and Van Etten, which
has worked SO terribly upon their inards. =
No wonder the two last named gentlemen were
SO terribly Frustrated while absent Fie on
you. Jones and Patten. BY this purging med
icnc of yours, you have rendered some of our
formerly supposed strong men powerfully
weak, as they say down in the anti-rairoad
land Vi" Old Virginia