The weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1852-1858, 1855-07-28
Republican Candidate for Delegate,
VIM. r. MARSHALL

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WIN. r. MARSHALL
The Repsblicams--The Platforn--The Candi
du,s.
In another Column will be found that PORTO
OF the proceedings of the Republican Conveu
tion which we were compelled to omit in on
report Of yesterday.
We have been in the habit of attending po
iitieal assemblages since we were of an age II
take An interest in politics; but we rust b.
permitted to say, that body Of more intelli
geat, respectable appearing and earnest mer
than met 10 the east wing of our Capitol OF
Wednesday, We have never before seen gath
cred together. Politicians of the opposite par
ty who have been sneering at the Republican
movement in Minnesota, we're compelled to ad
init that they were most egregicusly dsappoin.
ted, in regard to the character and talents, Of
the delegates, as we'll as the number in attend
ancc. Nearly every settled county 10 the Ter
ritory vas represented, and there were more
than halfa dozen men in the meeting who pos
sess the ability, did they hold the position, of
making themselves known and felt in the halls
of Congress. However much any one present
may dissent to the views of certain gentlemen
who addressed the convention upon the various
questions which came before it, the fact which
we here state cannot be disputed by any Impair
tial mind.
As might have been expected from the assem-
bling together CT mass Of men from every
part Of the Territory; strangers to each ether;
Of all manner OF former political associations !;
natives of all countries and States, foreign and
domestic, and consequently of all manner of
minds as to the right and proper way to accom-
plish the one great object for which they had
assembled. there arose differences of opinion
which at times threatened the harmony of the
convention. Bat the correct judgment of tire
majority kept the better OF their feelings, and
even the undignifed, and we must say ungen.
tlemanly, taunts and sneers of two certain del
egates from St. AnthOHy, thrown out against
those who did not agree with them on one or
two points, failed to accomplish the apparent
wish of the assalants to break up the conven-
ton without settling the business which had
called it together, and thus destroy the party
just at the incipient stages of its formation
The good sense of Mr.. Ames, editor of the St.
Anthony Republican, in moving to table
resolution offered by one OF these discordant
delegates-a resolution apparently offered inten-
tionally to insult the feelings of other delegates
had the effect of restoring entire harmony
and good feeling.
The platform is not nearly so ultra as many
Of the lIcnnepin. st. Anthony and Rice county
delegates would have wished it to be, and yet
there are planks in which were put there with
about as much propriety and pertinence to the
main issue as would have been resolves for or
against infant baptism. or in favor of the doc
trne of election and reprobation and against
universal salvation. Nevertheless, there was
a general acquisccnce in the will of the major
ity; and the delegates separated with a full de-
termination to stick to the cause as one man.
and laying aside all private views in regard to
the matter. to go to work with that united and
determined will which is ever a sure prestige
of success. Any apprehension that might have
been entertained in regard TO any one "bolt-
ing' the nomination. we feel certain. after
mingling freely with the delegates before they
left the city, need not at all be felt. There will
be nothing of the kind--much to the chagrin
of the rowdy rabble which nominated Mr.. Rice
at the Court House in the afternoon.
The reader will naturally infer from what
we have remarked above, that We do not think
much of the platform. This is even so. But
then we have one of the very best of candi-
dates-an old citizen; gentleman we'll quail
lied by talents and experience for the post; a
man not ultra in his views upon any subject;
an enterrrising and highly useful member OF
our own community. and withal proverbially
honest and sincere man. We can get along a
great deal better with bad platform and o
good candidate than we could with a good
platform and bad candidate for after all, it is
the man who has in his keeping the principles
we would vote, that should the most c. ncern
us. We have no fears of VIM. r. MARSHALL in
this regard. We have known him too long and
intimately to be afraid to trust him at this i'm
portant crisis. All the support that our hum
BILE pen and energies can give him he most GER
tainly shall have, and have freely and gladly.
The voter who would not rejoice at the oppor-
tunity Of casting his ballot for a man of Mr.
Marshall's high stamp of character and moral
worth. deserves not TO be allowed the priv
lege of voting.