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

Railroad COmpany.'
Appeal to the Congress Of United States.
This cause, which was argued before the
Supreme Court of Minnesota, on the 9th
December, was decided on the morning of the
9Th. The decision, under the fraudulent is
sue made up by the attorneys of the gov
ernncnt and Company, was, as we predicted,
and as everybody anticipated, against the
government The points made by Judge
WEIGH at the trial below were affirmed
bv the Court in Janc. We understand that
Judge CHArFIELD, while acquiescng i'll the
Judgment, places on the record some ohjec-
tons which would have led him to dissent
therefrom, could such dissent have been
made cffectual in altering the decision. As
it was, however, he joins in the Judgment,
through a sentiment of courtesy towards
his associates
We have already exposed the imbccility
or criminality which is stamped upon the
management Of this important action by the
United States District Attorney We have
shown that the prosecution presented the
weakest possible case in favor of the gov
ernmcnt, and the strongest possible case in
favor of the Company. We have shown
that the District Attorney upheld and en-
dorscd in his pleadings an act Of Congress,
which the public records show to be utterly
invalid, and on which the Company relies
in its defence to the action. We have shown
that the government had to contend, not
only against the Attorneys of the Company
but also against its own officers, appointed
to defend its rights, and bound thereto by
the solemn sanctions of oaths We have
demonstrated that this could have been the
result only of gross ignorance OR of still
more gross corruption.
1t is not necessary that we should go
over the whole ground again that the char
actcr of the cause may be clear to the APP
prehcnsion of our readers The avoidance
in the issue by the District Attorney Of the
legality Of the act of Congress Of the Goth
Of June, 1854 the framing of the plead
ings on his part that they should testify to a
lie the refinement of audacity and scOun-
dreIism exhibited in making that lie thus
sanctioned, to initiate against the United
States, his own client ; the attempt, through
these means to swindle the government and
the people of Minnesota Of millions of mon
cy, and to bind our Territory hand and foot,
that Wall street yultureS may battcn on
her fairness these things arc all understood
and need no further exploitation. Nor have
VIC anv desire to follow the cause into the
Supreme Court of Minnesota, and elaborate
upon the prostitution of the judicial arm of
the government there, in forcing it, through
the chicanery of lawyers, to q conservation
of crime, in legalizing the robbery of the
public domain by band of swindling cor
poretors. L. instruments i'll the hands of
the Minnesota and Northwestern Company,
who have attempted to bring about this end,
need no aid from us to hasten upon them
the infamy which is the sure portion of their
future notoricty. We leave them to the
imprecations Of the people, who, in the
spirit of 1lacduf's curse, will bid them
"Lirc to be the show and gaze o the time -
and who will have them
GAS rarcr monsters are,
Painted upon a pole; and undcrwrit,
Here may you see the ritlains.
No different decision is to be ANTICIPATED
from the Supreme Court of the United
States, whittier, we learn, the cause will be
sent by the prosecuting attorney. 1t will
be managed there on the part Of the GOV
crnment, by one whose skill as lawyer,
and whose expertncss as a rascal, as far
transcend the United States District Attor-
ney of Minnesota and his assistant, as the
high tribunal before which it is to be sent
exccls in ability that in which the cause was
first introduced Whatever may be lacking
to insure the defeat of the government be-
fore the Court of last appeal, will be sup
piled by the satanic ingenuity of the gov
ernment's Attorney General. 1t is no Sc
cret that CALEB Cushing is pecuniarily in
terestcd in the success of this Railroad Com
pany, and it has been more than surmised
that the proceedings which have transpired