Minnesota weekly times. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1854-1859, 1854-10-10
THURSDAY, OCT. 5, 1854.

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CY AS general thing we are opposed to the
insertion in the Times of anonymous communi-
cations, but the following recently received from
an unknown correspondent, has induced us to de.
part from our usual custom. While we give it a
| place in our columns, We wish the editor of the
Democrat to understand that we do not vouch for
the truth of its statements, yet from what we
can learn, We are disposed to believe that our
neighbor is q ssnew born Democrat" But to the
letter:
PAUL AND THE DEMOCRAT MANA PAR
ALELL!
.'.' BUFFALO, Sept. 20, 1854.
To the Editor Of the St. Paul Times:
notice by the St. Paul exchanges, that an old
Whig acquaintance of mine is now the editor of
the Democrat of your city. Well, this strikes me
as somewhat singular. It reminds me that more
than eighteen hundred years since, Paul, (who
was subsequently sainted) was an eminent barris-
ter at Jerusalem a devoted friend of the High
Priest; devout member Of the Hebrew Church,
and violent prosecutor of Christians through
out all Palestine, "being exceedingly mad against
them, he prosecuted them even unto strange
cities he shut the Saints up into Prison he COM
PEELED them to blaspheme, and when they were
put to death, he gave his voice against them.''-
Thus Paul retarded the growth of Christianity in
Judea. In the fullness Of time, as Paul journeycd
towards Damascus, the scales fell from his eyes.
He then changed front 4 use military phrase
that l may be the better comprehended by the
Democrat man; J in short, he joined the party
which up to that hour he had cruelty prosecuted.
With his new associates, he preached, wrote, was
scourged, shipwrecked, and finally lost his life.-
1t is impossible for me at this remote period to
ascertain the extent to which the cause of Judea-
ism on the one hand or Christianity on the other,
were advanced or retarded by the conduct of
Paul.
During the 10th century, and within the past
few years, our late worthy fellow citizen, now of
the Democrat, was not only a resident of this
goodly city, but here, like your patron saint, he
was Jealous member of the Wing Chnrch; ss In
slant in duty he verify thought he ought to do
many things contrary to the name of''-Democra-
cy. He cried aloud he spared not. From the
rising to the going down of the sun, his voice
might be heard in the thckest of the fight, cheer
ing on his brother Wings. How oft has he carried
disnay to the centre of the Loco-Foco CAMP
For these causes, the growth of Democracy was
for time much retarded. Unfortunate was the
Democrat who crossed his path about these days
All such found Sc Jordan hard road to travcl.'
In the fullncss of time, like Paul, he also jour-
neved from the city of his habitation and as h.
drew nigh unto the city of St. Paul, the land Of
his adoption, your climate wrought an amazing
change in the customs and habits Of this man, in
somuch that the scales either fell from or upon
his eyes. You now beholl him at the head of the
Loco-Foco PARTY. e. his part Of that party in
Minnesota, to whom he discourses Democracy
through the columns of the Democrat, through
which he also persecutes his former friends. prin-
cipes and party.
Whether the Democrat man is yet like Paul
destined to offer up his life in the cause to which
he has so rec ,ntly become a convert, remains to
be seen, or whsthcr he will one day deny his mas
ter. Iwould suggest that in these days of muta-
t on in which the spirit Of John Law is so visible
in Wall street, the halls Of Congress, new cities,
and railroad schemes, that it might have been
well for the Democracy Of Minnesota, as mat
man for a time on trial, previous to admitting him
to full communion in the church: and especially
before he was ordained to preach. But this is all
matter of taste, and we shall see what we shall
see. Inasmuch, however, as the highest boast of
his patron saint (H. NJ. Rice,) with the early De-
mocracy Of Minnesota, is, that he expended large
sums of money in the purchase of liquor, hire of
livery, and sending runners, ''from Dan even un-
to Bersheba," to secure the election of Alexander
NJ. Mitchell, the Wing Marshal appointed under
Gen. Taylor, to the Office of Delegate from your
Territory, and for the purpose Of defeating his
Democratic competitor, it would seem that the
mutations of the Democrat man had admirably
qualified him for the station to which he has been
so recently called. ''Paul may plant, and Apol-
lus may water," but if Wall street don't give
increase, the railroad swindle is no 60.
Yours in haste.