The daily Minnesota pioneer. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1854-1855, 1854-12-13
For the Ponce
For the Pioneer.
Jno. r. Owens and the M. d n. W.. II.
H. Co.


Mr.. EDITOR u. z. Owens of tic Minncso.
tian is again at his mean work of attempting
to whccdlc the public. He has so long been
at the degrading business of sclfdeccption,
that now he appears only at home when he is
rejecting some of the false chatoyant hucs OF
his depravcd and wicked nature. SO little has
he cultivated the direct line Of truth in his in
tcrcOursc with his fellow men as an editor,
that now he seems to think they are made
only for his special prey, and never is he more
exulting than when he iInagines he has cozcn-
cd them into some humiliating act Of wicked
ness The Railroad fraud was for time with
him no fraud, and he affected to believe
and represented that the people believed with
him, that there had been no fraud, and that
those that differed with him were only the Pr
Oneer and Times, and few of the Government
officials. The elections, however, came off,
! and the great question throughout the Terri
tory was-Who shall represent the people in
the Legislature, those who utterly repudiate
and abhor the greatest National Fraud which
has ever been sprung upon the country; or those
who connive at ana attempt to cover it up I? =
The answer was trumpet-tongued Away
with the fraudites-they are utterly unworthy
of the Territory! All this was but two short
months since, and now, because, forsooth, this
same fraud company have in their hardihood
gone one step forward to clinch for themselves
the avails of their stupendous fraud this same
editor, true to his instincts, affects, chatoyant-
ly, to believe that the people have undergone ii
change in their views! But in this he will find
he has been practising fraud upon himself
and the people, as he found at the last election
that all his assertions of the people being with
him in his complacency with the fraud act,
were utterly faSilicd by the result He NAV
affect to believe as much as he plcases that the
great question decided at the last election was
"a railroad now and by the NJ. & NV. RR.
Co.. or Railroad by another company at
some future day. But his mere aflectation of
this, will not change the real fact as it was
and as lie knows i'll his heart it was that the
people repudlated the company, not because OF
the enormous mOnopoliZing features of their
charter, but because of the enormous wicked
ness they had been guilty of. in foisting upon
the country an act which the people, in their
representative capacity, had but a short while
before passed upon and rejected. And does lie
suppose, or docs any man of common sense
suppose, that because the company have gone
one step further, and are now cndeavoring tc
cntoil the Territory in their treacherOus en-
brace, through mere scmblancc of law, that
they have by such a course made themselves
any the less odious to the people, or washed
themselves one whit-of their crime?
Mr.. Owe S may in one breath as
scrt and try to make the people believe, that
the Courts Of the Territory of Minnesota have
decided in favor of the ri hts of the Territory
to the lands coded by the Act Of Congress
and in the very next, inform them that the
Company at their own legal risk are willing to
go Gil and complete the road but he CHI
tire Y undertakes the understanding of tie peo-
pie he is dealing with, if he srpposcs they
are to be caught by such miserable logic. No,
MIR. Owens, the people of this Territory will,
through their next Legislature, cOnsign you
and all who, like you, are base enough to drag
them down to the footstool of an arrogant and
wicked railroad company-toth the depths of that
ignomy which you deserve.
An AMERICAN CITIZEN.