Minnesota weekly times. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1854-1859, 1855-10-02
COUNTY NOMINATIONS.


ELECTION OCTOBER NINTH
ANOTHER BLUNDER By THE DEMOCRAT.
".ffer the Presidents proclamation was
published in our Territory, Mr.. Rice did write
a letter or two desiring the postponement OF
the sales.
The above is an extract Of letter from Sec
rotary Rosser, TO the Daily Times, of this city,
rabid Abolition paper, and the organ OF the
Republican party in the Terrtory.-Ddily
Democrat, Of Sept. 2S
=. Render unto Cesar the things which are
Crsar's." Secretary Rosser did not write that
letter to the Times, nor have we received any
communication from him on the subject. The
letters in question came to us from another
source but no matter whence they came, the
truth OF their statements is unimpeachablc-
The material part OF the whole matter is. that
Mr.. Rice was The cause of G,00O, 600 acres Of
land being offered for sale, at one time, In the
Territory OF Minnesota. This, Secretary Nc
Clelland states in his circular TO TIE Land Off
GERS on tic subject. On this head, therefore,
Mr. Rice shares no divided responsibility. -
He alone urged on the sa!cs-hc alone furnish
ed arguments 10 the government why tie land
should be Immediately brought into mari et.-
When he wrote his letter OF June 2S;h, in
which he sets forth the settlers us clamorous"
for tie sales, lie was well aware Of the pecu-
mary distress it would entail upon those very
settlers and the whole Territory. Mr.. Rice in
his letter of July 30th, taking the Lack track
and asking that the sales might be postponed,
says
The lanl rinJraccd in his proclamation con-
,ai.is about trer hundred townships, and it will
iasr over six millions o! dollars to pay Ter them
Il, onc dollar and Twenty-Five cents per acre
Whcrc IS l:iis large aoul, o money 10
iiont
Way dilu't AIr. Rice ask himself this
prrtinrn; qu,s.Iol ju> one noniL before, when
lac wa urging the sales forward! Perhaps We
,.an tell Why he did uo care then 10 ask tits
qucs ion. On the 26;il al June lir. Rice lad
made up lis mind mol to lc candidate ior
Congress; but to go IN for maklnS nsoney.-
Under this conc usion, 10 throw tie lands into
market vixen moucy Was sc;;fcc and difficult TO
procure, just suite! him and his fellow srecul,-
tors; they could thereby feather their nests the
warmer. But it did mol suit Mr.. Rice, when
he had yielded 10 TIE opportunities OF TIE cor
morant friends he keeps around him. who forrei
him into again running for Congress, in
order to accommodate them. 1t did not then
suit Mr. Rice, because he found the people
"clanorous" the other way; and disposed to
hold him, or any other man who might favor
the sales, to strict accountability at the ballot
boxes! Thence his newborn anxiety to have
them postponed. In the first place when not
designing TO be Il candidate for office, he cared
nothing for the people and their intcrcsts--nor
where "this large amount of money was to
come from" In the second place, after he had
concluded TO run again for Delegate, his inter-
est leaned, for the time being, the other way
he could make more by the postponement OF the
subsistence he took the back track and oppo-
scd them. 1t is lucky, however, for the people,
that there were other men, Of prominence and
influence, who, without Mr.. Riccs interested
motives. also opposed the sales. The officers
OF the government angry at being made Mr..
Riccs tools, refused to yield to his solicitations
TO undo, what at his urgent reques, they had
Just done. The credit of the postponcmcnt,
therefore, is due to others and not to Mr. Rice;
but the odiun of attempting to crowd the mar
ket with 100000 acres of land, Mr.. Rice can
divide with no one. Solitary and alone he put
that "ball in notion" and very black ball
he'll find it ere long.
THE PIONEER SOLD OUT TO RIcE-MoNEY
Is POWER!
WALL STREET AND Mn. RICr.-A gentle
man in New York city writes: " My Wall
Street friends are very anxious for the election
of Mr.. Rice. You know why" -N. .7nthoay
Republican.
icy The Pioneer, of yesterday, pulls down
the name of David Olmstcd from the head OF
tina, paper; and closes muddy leader of two
columns with this paragraph:
1--WE cannot follow our friends in their po-
lnical vagaries; and feel compelled to withdraw
the Pioneer from any further participation ip
the present Delegate canvass"
This step has been for some time expected
10y the leading friends OF Mr. Omstcd and
will have no effect upon their cause or
upon the election, any more than pouring wa
ter on a ducks back will wet i, to the skn-
The political vagaries" most noticeable til,
present campaign, have been those of the Pho
necr ITSELF since the return of Mr.. c.
Whether the "hunan necessity of daily bread,
wide j. b. Brsbin's letter Il year ago) hat
any thing TO do with this new dodge, we d,
moi know; but 1t is rumorcd that tn.
Democrat and Pioneer are to be united aite
election, and the "twain become one flesh.
.Nimporte Mr.. Rice may buy up all the presses
in the Territory-but the election will SHOW
that the people are unpurchasable.