The weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1852-1858, 1855-08-25
TO ADvERrtsERe.
Rsrss'teas csndidafe for Delegate,
VIM. e. MARSHALL

WIN. IL. MARSHALL
ssashera MlnMessta---Onwatd March Of the
Republicans.
We have just returned from trip of eight
days through the Southern Counties of our
Territory. We will not say that the Republic
can organization in all the localities of that
region is perfected, or that the good causc is
sure to triumph at the October election but
this much is certain nine-tcsths Of the public
sentiment in the counties Of Winona, Olmsted,
Fillmore and Houston is with US. We declared
Immediately after the nominations of the 18th
of July, that this large proportion of the vo-
tiers of Minnesota would not vote for Pierce
and-Douglas Doughface-if they knew what
they were doing. And so the fact has proved
itself to us by actual Intercourse and obscr-
walton among the people of four Of the most
densely populated counties of the Territory.
We found all through our late circuit oftravel
that Mr.. Rice's political acts and associations
at Washington were much more familiar to the
people than we had supposed. His second
fdlership to Douglas, Bright, Richardson and
other leaders in the Kansas Nebraska treach-
cry his sympathy with the whole proceedings
of these men and the Executive in connection
with the repeal Of the Missouri Compromise :;
and his final joining in with the general re-.
joicing Of the traitors after the dark deed of
treachery to the North had been consummated,
are about as we'll known and understood at
the 6rpsis1o Of fha -, Al
corner of Fillmore County as they are here at
Mr.. Rice's own home.
Locally, the people of Southern Minnesota
have no debt of gratitude to discharge to Mr..
Rice. They have received no appropriations
for roads, or anything else, during his Con-
gressional term. About the only thing they
have to thank him for is the location of the
Winnebago Indians in position where it is
convenient for this tribe of vagabond savages
to depredate upon the settlers grain-felds !;
steal their cattle rob their houses of provis-
ions, and set the most dissolute examples of
immortality before the rising generation of the
several neighborhoods which they are in the
habit of visiting daily. To please few per-
sonal friends engaged in the Winnebago trade,
Mr.. Rice, in an evil hour, assented to the
present location of these worthless creatures
in the heart of the Agricultural Garden of
Minnesota and it is but an act of retributive
Justice for his want of proper sense of duty
to his constituents Immediately interested,
that he should be made to feel the wrong he
has done in the premises. And he will feel it
MIR. Rice's Land Office Oligarchy 10 the three
U. S. Land Districts, whose head quarters are at
Red Wing. Winona and Brownsville, is not Y
any means idle. 1t appears that the grades OF
scrvhe Doughlaceisni so far as this Oligarchy
is concerned, dcscends TO third degI ee from
The central power. Rice himself is sworn to
obey the will of the chief propagandists at
Washi ngton. and the land Offices named are
sworn TO obey the behcsts Of Rice. Thus we
find, that it is almost as much as an honest set
tiers legal pre- emptiOn claim is worth to re.
fuse to support Mr.. Rice for re. election. But
from what we have seen within the past week,
We are led to believe that the members of the
Oligarcey in Southern Minnesota have mis-
taken their men. Slaves themselves, they
would cnslavc the Frcemen who arc for the
justice and fair Interpretation of those Land
Laws intended by benifcent Government for
the protection of the pioneers who are brought
hither by legal inducements to settle and cul
tivate our unbroken wilds. But the Land Of
fee Oligarchy will fail in it's attempts to bring
the people under the survilcnce of its LASH
We are very much mistaken if the vote on the
second Tuesday of October does not prove, so
far as Southern and Central Minnesota are con-
cerned, that the names of Phelps, Smith, Up
man, Mckinney and Bennett, are names that
have added no weight to the Rice and Douglas
cause in the several localities over which they
claim political jurisdiction, and political die
tatiOn. The influence of the Oligarchy is be-
ginning to breathe its last already, and before
two weeks elapse we hope to see it dead and
sinking.
To sum up in few words, we have returned
home fully convinced that the mass of the peo-
pie of Minnesota are prepared to meet and vote
decidedly upon the Great Issues Of the Day.
All that is wanted is a concentration of action.
The Sentiment is all right. Our principles
have fast possession CT the hearts of the
masses. The scniking, scheming, tampering.
Indian trading politics of Rice and his few ad-
herents here about St. Paul, have the thorough
aversion of the voters who are to decide the
matter in this contest. The pure aud IRE
proacbable character OF WI. Il. MARsiIALL-a
man who has always stood aioof from such po-
Iitical ass citations, is coming up in bold relief
to overshadow and crush out the old dynasty
A few weeks of solid work-a determined and
concentrated will and purpose-a thorough
and heartfelt energy that knows no such word
as fall" and the Republican cause is won in
Minnesota. Work is the order Of the day, and
work is the only means that will fuse and con
ccntrate our energies and sentiments, and thus
give US the victory.
DoDGING--We found the few Rice men that