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


and the enforcement of its will, which has
been dcfed. The last clause of section six
of the Organic Act Of Minnesota, reserves
to the Congress Of the United States the
right of reviewing and disappearing all laws
passed by the Territorial Legislature, in the
following terms:
All laws passed by the Legislative Assem-
Div aud Governor, shall be submitted to the
Congress of the United States, and if disap-
proved, shall be null and of no effect"
We appeal to Congress to interpose for
the safety of the Territory, its powers of
negation with which the law has invested
it. We ask Congress to throttle now, in
its infancy, this corporate monster viii, h
was born in fraud, and has been nurturel
in corruption. We call upon the National
Legislature, constituted by the laws the
guardian of our rights and interests, to OK
anime the Charter of the Minnesota and
Northwestern Railroad Company, with all
its unprecedented grants of powers, ilnmuni-
ties and privileges, and determine whether
the folly of the past shall bind us through
out all the future under the control of an
absolute, irresponsible corporate despotisnl.
We appeal to Congress to vindicate its own
honor, While it secures our safety. Let
Congress look to the enormit:cs which have
been practiccd by this Company within the
walls Of the National Capitol. After the
rebukc which was given the Company in
rejecting the bill introduced in the early
part of the last session, on the avowcd
ground, that the grants therein made would
inure to the benefit of a corporation rather
than to the Territory; after the framing OF
a bill, excluding this and all other compa.
mics from a participation in its benefits, and
its passage by the House, We ask Congress
to recall the means by which this Company
through its agents, sought to defeat the
law, and turn from its designed channel
into its own treasury, the generous and mu
nifcent gift of the nation. Recall the for
gerry in the Senate, and the indignant
haste with which vengeance was visited
upon those who sought to fattcn on THEA
villainy
Follow the Company in its operations
within our Territory. See it impudently
claiming the grantworth millions, which was
twice refused the Territory, on its account
See it subsidising the sworn officers and
defenders of the government, and prostitut
ing the Judiciary, by the introduction Of
false issues, and the conccalment of true
ones, that the wishes Of the people, and the
will of the nation, may be oycrriddcn, and
set at nought. Trace this Minnesota and
Northwestern Railroad Company through
its whole course of audacious viIainv, and
then, armed with the prerogativc where
with the law invests you, strike home at lis
heart, and blot from existence a CORPORA
ton whose infancy has been marked only
by a prccocity in crime. Tie people Of
Minnesota have given you their warrant fol
this action in the most solemn and decisive
form. With an unanimity almost unparal
leled in politics, this Company, their acts
and their defenders, received at the polls, tho
public condemnation. We only ask that
the peoples voice be interpreted in your ac-
ton, and that the charter of the MinncsOt;
and Northwestern Railroad Company be
disapprovcd by your votes. Let Congress
look to it.
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