The weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1852-1858, 1855-07-14
THURSDAY MORNING, JULY IL, 1855


MIR. Rice In the Field gain!
Wecould scarcely have believed the fact,
but it is even so Circumstances that are
daily TRANSPORTING at this time, render it posi-
lively certain that Hon. II. NJ. Rice is seeking
denomination for Delegate to Congress at
the hands of his party. His decided pledges.
so often reiterated in his home organ, the St.
Paul Democrat, that he would not, under any
circumstances, again be candidate, are now
set aside by him, it appears, as idle words
words given out to please the ambitious of his
party, or to lull the unwary of his opponents
into security and ease until he could get all
bis electoneering plans for a second canvass
consummated
We are sorry to find Mr.. Rice now appear
ing In this attitude before the people of Min
nesota. He must know, unless he has lost his
former shrewdness and forecast. that his politi-
cal sun has set for the present. He should know,
at least. that notwithstanding bis eminent serv-
ices rendered the Territory during the last
Congress, another era has dawned upon the
politics and politicians of the country that
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trusted with power; and that even had he not
at Washington loaned all his energies and
sympathies to help cOnsummate that treach-
| cry to the North identified with the repeal of
the Missouri Compromise, the mere fact of his
intimate party associations and movements
with the chief traitors in the Nebraska camp.
is sufficient to politically damn him in the es-
timation of any intelligent Northern constitu-
cncy. It is we'll known here at his home.
that all the while the infamous bill was pend
the treason and when the treason was consum-
mated, he was sercnaded at his own house, in
compliment of the aid he had rendered in
bringing the unholy result about That he
considered the attention thus paid him COM
pliment, and that he felt proud of it at the
time--and in all probability so feels yet-is a
fact that we presume be would not think o!
disputing.
And now, as the war between National Free
dom and Sectional Slavery has fairly COM
menced Mr.. Rice must stand on the de he has
chosen. We belong to, and in part represent a
party which is arrayed under the banner OF
Freedem--Mr. Rice has chosen to array him
self under the dark flag of Slavery. The Repub-
iicans Of Minnesota can therefore know him
only as others such as he--"enemies in war,
in peace friends' However much many Of
them may admire his works and appreciate his
sci vices in the last Congress, twill ncyerthe-
| ,ss be their determined end and aim. from now
till the second Tuesday of October-should he
in violation of his plighted word again be, a
canddate-to defeat him under the lead of one
of their own true men--One who is every way
his equal in point of talents and industry, and
one who will not shrink from standing on the
right side of the contest when the question Of
Freedom and Slavery is at stake. Minnesota
cannot, and will not at this crisis, debauch her.
self by falling into the arm. Of men who stand
ready to deliver her over to the Illicit bed OF
the Southern Slave.breeder. Mark that, you
! gentlemen who have sold yourselves to Doug
las and bis dough-faced traitor gang!