The weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1852-1858, 1855-09-29
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Bravely On !---Let the Ball be kept Rolling!


Bravely On LET the Ball be kept Rolling!
In less than two weeks the great day Of
contest comes. The people everywhere are
alive to the importance of the leading issue
to be decided on that day, and are at work
in earnest and with a thorough good WILL
The Republicans are confident that they are
the only party in the field representing the
great living principles of the day; and they
intend to elect their candidate. Such is the
determination in every quarter of the Terri
tory from which we have heard.
Here in Ramsey County, and on the east
side of the Mississippi generally, mighty
change has been wrought within the last
two weeks. We set out in the canvass with
The calculation that Mr.. Rice would lead
Mr. Marshall 800 votes in Ramsey: But the
Republican leaven has been at work, and Mr.:
Rice is this day defeated man in the coun-
~. His friends here are daily becoming
aware of this fact. Marshall is gaining
ground every hour. We can scarcely step
out of our Office without learning of some
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delusive hrimbtig, that Mr.. Rice can do more
for Minnesota than any other man. The
pretension is an insult to the sense of any
intelligent community, and an irdgnity to
men who are Mr. Rice's superiors in every
respect. 1t is not strange, then, that SEN
sible and intelligent community should COM
mence preparing to rebtike such consummate
arrogance at the polls. And it will be re-
buked most powerfully. Mr.. Rice will fall
largely behind Mr. Marshall in Ramsey
County, SO surely as the day of election
comes.
Over on the st. Croix matters are tending
in the saffie direction. There it was claimed
six weeks ago that Rice would get all the
votes. But the Rice screws are sadly loos-
ened now in that quarter. We have before
us the names of over twenty of the leading
citizens of Washington County, upon whom
the Rice people here counted as their main
supporters, who will neither work nor vote
for him.
In Benton County the whole Rice party
is overheard, neck and heels We are as
sured that he can have no majority there,
but on the contrary will be largely beaten.
The above are facts which we have ascer-
tanned by dispassionate and careful investi-
CATION. We do not put them forth to de-
ceive any man into the support of our ticket
We will be more mistaken than We ever
were in our lives, if the result does not
prove the truth of all we here assert.
Mr. Rice will be the worst used-up mar
that ever ran for any Office in the North
West, if all the Republicans do their whole
duty. Let the canvass in every county ant
precinct be actively closed up before the day
of election. Let every voter be seen, ant
let our principles be fully explained to ALL
Let no argument be neglected to confirm th'
wavering and strengthen the weak. We have
awily foe to contend with. Mr.. Rice is evel
now down in the strong-holds of our party
the Southern counties-heaping the viles
personal abuse upon his opponents promis
ing one neighborhood one thing and another
something else entirely inconsistent with tn
first. He is even denouncfhg the Admins
tration, and claiming TO be an anti-Nebrask'
man. And all this in the face and eyes
the fact that he made Nebraska speech a
Washington-that there his boon companion
were Douglas, Richardson, Breckenridge
Bright and other leaders in the Nebraska in
iquity-that even now Douglas is writing t
Minnesota urging Rice's re-election-and tina
he is the particular candidate of the Nebras
ka Land Officers Of the Southern districts