Minnesota weekly times. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1854-1859, 1854-09-12
WEDNESDAY,. SEPT. 6, 1854.
THE FALL ELECTION.

We have already given our views of the kind
Of men who should be elected to the Legislature
this FALL deeming it necessary for present and
future good. to wash our hands of any connection
of the recent fraud. 1t will not do for us to re-
main silent. We must let our voice be heard, not
individually alone, but collectively: through oul
Lerslltu-, We ini that this feeling is be-
coming general among the people as the only and
proper course to pursue to enable US TO ask ana
receive of Congress any future donation of land
Let it not be said that the inhabitants of Minneso-
IA are so destitute of honor, integrity, manhood,
as to endorse and sustain any one who had any
thing to do with the alteration of the Minnesota
Land Bill. We must repudate the acts of base
men,-wipe out the foul stigma upon us, and hav-
ing done this. unite our forces in securing such
appropriations of land money of Congress, as
will rebound to the prosperity and sratness oil
the futu >tltc of Minnesota.
The follownE communication from gentleman
who is IA true and tried friend of our Territory,
although couched i'll strong terms, we think, Will
be read and approved. In common with others
he feels that it is time to act-to come out boldly
and bravely and to elect such men to Office as will
hazards:
This Fall.
We will soon be called upon to select suitable
men to fill the lower branch of the next Lc9glsla-
tive Assembly Before that Assembly will come
matters of very great magnitude: of such mpor
tancc to us Individually and collectively, aS will
admit Of no trihn-. We have suffered already
sufficient from our past folly and political bicker-
ings, to teach us a lesson that may guide Us for
the future. The good andtrue men-the peaceful,
ordcr-loving men, have heretofore dreaded poli;i-
cal warfare in this Territory, and by stunning
it, gave their interests, important and precious rs
they werc into the hands of reckless demaGosues.
One set of men have monopolized the political
power and influence to tn emselves, and have effect
ed the election Of othors for the ostcnsihle pur-
pose of doing the dir;y-work, by way Of reniu-
ncration for the fa, or, that they would not have
done for themselves Every body will agree that
last winters legisation, so far at least the
granting of the Minnesota and North Western
railroad charter and the disposal of over million
of acres Of land to few Legislative favorites,
was direct AMI positive curse to the Territory.
No body of men could have been reasoned with,
or importuncd more earnestly than that, not to
commit so dabolical outrage, but arguments
were Of no avail: the masters ofmany were in the
lobby night and day, whip in hand, and the servile
creatures did their bidding. But know it is idle
to crimnate now. The dcplorable consequences
of their work are upon u.s. yet it is hard that II e
innocent should suffer with the guilty. Had the
SCHUYLER charter been kicked out of the Lcgisla-
ture last winter, it should have been, we would
have had no Rice, Billings and Stevens fraud upon
onr land donation. Minnesota would have pos
sessed TO-DAY, in her right, toward the con-
struction of a railroad, property to the value of
millions. Without the previous passage of that
Internal charter, there would have been 20 fraud,
rs there could have been no temptation to fraud
on the land bill.
Oh! there is direfu story to lie revealed some
day of how this fraud was pcrpctrated, and the
defeat effected. and woe to those upon whom the
guilt falls. Better for these would-be political
tvrants, that they had never seen their imagina-
tive cities upon Lake Superior, and their vast de-
pots near st. Paul, than bear the odiula that a
wrongcd and oura, ed community will visit upon
them. This dev'lsh graSpln- after fortune and
power this wild haste to he rich this bargain
ing to sell whole ctieS to railroad men, drew the
operators in the councils of the Nation, and fail
ng to corrupt that body, counterfeitcd the record
to suit and fit their plans. They obtained from
our Legislature all they demanded, and when they
could not make this legislation fit upon the legis-
lation of Congress. they determined to accomplish
bv fraud what they could not do by money or in
flucncc.
And these are the men who have held the polit-
ical power in Minnesota. These are the men
whom the more vrtuous and timd have feared to
encounter. These the men who have entaied
upon us the fruits of their hellish Vaccinations
for -aggrandizcment. Men, each one of whom,
should have the stamp of Arnold upon his fore
head. Men, whom small party have fought, and
fought nobly, but always Intellectually.
1t is painful that things are as they are our
prospects blasted and thrown back into the inde-
finite future, yet We partly deserved this. We
have unresistingly stood by and seen unprincpled
icmagogues control elections; have seen and
connived at corrupt means and appliances used to
promote men to Office; have seen packed conven-
tions, that represented the political sentiments of
no party or body of men and have seen to our
shame and disgrace men 60 into Congress and the
Legislative Assembly, with scarce sufficient INTEL
ligencc to herd swine, and from such slough of
political degradation, should we be astonished Mt
the fruit which has sprung up? Pestilence and
devastation was to be expected, and it has come
upon us thick and heavy.
know this is strong language. but is it not
time for US to stop and listen to the truth The
sooner know our actual condition. and see our
past folly, and feel the biting effects of experience
the sooner will we 20 in search of the remedy.-
Another election is now approaching, and will We
trust the same class of men that has brought thi,
ruin upon us? Are we so fond of hard toll ant
labor that we will continue to respect and foster
those who render that toll and labor almost val
ueless? entreat the people to reflect and answer
that question.
did think, sir, when commenced this commu
ncation, that had laid all feeling aside, and tha
could write calmly and dispassionately, but a