The daily Minnesota pioneer. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1854-1855, 1854-08-16
Upon Whom should the Responsibility
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who represented the interests of the Schuy-
Ter Railroad Charter at Washington, the
great wrong of having deprived our Terri
tory of the land which had been granted to
it for railroad purposes. Bat while doing
this, we have desired, if possible, to conline
Our structures to those who were aliens to
Minnesota, and its best interests-who were
bound by 10 obligations of fealty to guard
its present good, and its future prosperity
who from the circumstances of their To-
cation and position might reasonably enough
look upon us as vultpres do upon their prey,
as proper food for their fattcning-who
were bound by 10 solemn;ties of oaths Ia
ken, and no obligations Of trusts reposed,
to save us from the nav Of the SPECTATOR,
and the swindIe of the forger. The wrong
itself, alone considered, surely comprised
enough Of villainy to be laid on the shoulders
of any man, or set of men enough to make
them abhorred by the people who have been
sacrificed at tie shrine Of their cupidity.-
If beyond this, justice obliges us to concen-
trate the odium Of this iniquity upon the
only man who is lcgitimateIy and directly
responsible to our people and to add
thereto the crimes of treachery and in2rati-
tudc, tie whole forms Il burden of guilt
which we are 10th to reveal and which 10
man can bear.
We have waited 10 see the proceedings Of
Congress of the date at which the report Of
the Investigating Committee was offered,
and the repeating law passed, in the hope
that the records might show something to
screen Our Delegate in Congress from the
dark suspicion of traitor;sm to the Terri
tory which has horored him but the rec
ord is silent. The Representative of Min
ne:ota, having in charge bill, upon the
success Of which rested the destiny of his
people, permits by his neglect, or secures by
his conniyancc, its forgery to an extent al
tering its whole intent and meaning per-
mits or secures its signature by the Presi-
dent in its fraudulent shape, and thus jeop-
ardizes the interests of the Territory he is
sworn to protect {; keeps quiet under a
knowledge OF the enormous wrong makes
no attempt to ferret out the guilty perpe-
traitors even when the crime is asccrtained
by others who are under no special obliga-
ton to guard our rights suffers the law,
upon which we had builded our hopes for
prosperity, to be repealed, without word
of protest in behalf of the people whose
Delegate he was, but whom he misrcpre.
sented by these, and by other acts, both
of commission and of omission, duplicating
himself with the swindlerS whom it was his
duty to expose and denounce, and thus
causing whole Territory to suffer for theil
crime and his own these facts, and many
Others which we shall hereafter notice, force
us to charge upon HENRY NJ. RICE, the
Delegate to Congress from Minnesota, q
share in the guilt which has been perpctra
ted within Congress, and so far as Mime
sofa is concerned, the responsibility of the
repeal of the law making grants to oul
Territory for railroad purposes. Wechargt
this upon him without reservation, and up
on such proof as every day convicts crimi
inals of offences against the law. The in
fanny of the transaction is his-fairly at
taching through his criminal Indifference
or his more criminal interference and i
will be awarded him to the full, by the pee
pie he has either neglected Or betrayed.
MILO WISE and GEORGE HARRIS, the pei
sons who broke into Mr. LARPENrEUR's stor
and distracted about five hundred dollar
worth of property, Oh the night of the ST
inst, had preliminary examination befor
Justice SMoNs yesterday afternoon, an
were bound over in five hundred dolla
bonds for their appearance at the next teri
of the District Court. Failing to Civ
+ bonds, they were committed to the Jail i
this place.
p. S.-Since writing the above, we ar
Informed by Justice SMoSs that, deenin,
the jail here to be insecure, he will sem
them to Saltwater for safe keeping
The CoSCERr.-A large and fashionabl
!, audience assembled last night to listen t
: the sweet music made by the RILEY FAM11,
We have no hesitation in nronouncinr the1