Minnesota weekly times. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1854-1859, 1855-10-02
From the S-''I hcra Minnesota Herald.
Tac CoiHinc Election.

1t has ben the policy of the supporters of Mr.
Rec, to pursuadc the people of the territory, that
the election of Il delegate to the next CONGRESS-
could have 10 eject upon the question of slavery
extension, and l!crcucncnn efforts have been
made by raraiiiut before the people the list of
appropriations made by the last Congress. for the
Territory OF Minnesota. to keep out of site the
principles really at stake IN the approaching eiec
ton. But the game was commenced too soon.-
There has been time for investigation. and the
people see with Amusement the uiminutive pro-
portions Of the Office holders canldate when
stripped of bis Borrowed plumrS. The Fact is
thoroughly substantiated that of all the appro-
prat;onS male by Congress for Minnesota, only
thirty five thousand dollars were Appropriated to
objects suggested 10y Mr.. Rice himself. The hal
ance of our appropriations were made upon the
recommendations of MIR. S;blcy. our former dele
gate, and OF Capt. Simpson of the Engineers de-
nartmcnt now resident among US. 1t also appears
from the official documents. that New Mexico.
with a delegate unable to speak one word of Eng
lIsh, has IN the same time received appropriations
to three times as large an amount as Minnesota.
Failing to make out his claim to our votes on
the score of gratitude for past labors, the ex-del
eratc now puts forth in especial claim to our sup
port on the of his being democrat. TO
the numerous conscientious wings among us, this
will seem NJ great recommendation, however it
may be with the silyer-grey, prO-slavery wing of
the partv-men who have ALWAYS been fighting
for the spoiis Of rictOfy alone, regardless of prnci-
pie. NOR will the real democrats of the territory
men who fought the battles of democracy under
jackson, and still cling to the democratic princi-
pies of jefferson, be long deceived by the sham de-
mocracy of MIR. Rice ami his friends. When they
see whig Mr.. WatrOns his chief fuglemen in the
convention that nominated him, and such old
wings as y. Nj. Fridlcv Of st Anthony, and Isaac
Atwater of Minneapolis, editor of the St. Antho-
ny Expr css, to be his leading supporters in Ram
al r. II.
Mr. Rices claim to the support of democrats. And
when democratic conventions organize with arIig
officers, they fee! as if they had stumbled upon a
very different kind of democracy from that they
used to know in the homes they have left in the
states, for homes in Minnesota.
Frank Pierce Democracy, like that of Stephen
\. Doug las and the rest of the Nebraska con-
spiratOrs, is slrcady stencil in the nostris of
every honest man. And can any one who re-
members the serenade given to MIR. Rice in
Washington upon the passage of the Kansas Ne
brasSa bill, and his speech congratulating his
serenadcrs upon Its passage AMI pledginS Mime
sofa to its support, or who knows the intimate
political relations existing between Mr.. Rice and
MIR. Douglas, doubt that by re-electng MIR. Rice,
Minnesota will Practically endorse the Kansas
Nebraska fraud, Douglas, and the Adminis.ra-
ton?
But if further proof were wanting, let the peo-
pie read the Washington Unions endorsement of
IL ". lAICe, anu cEoftS maze DIV all
the federal officers IN the territory for his reeec-
ton, and then say if there be any doubt that's
vote for Henry NJ Rice will be vote for Pierce,
Douglas and the Nebraska swindle.
1t has now become too plain to admit of argu-
ment, that the contest between Mr.. Marshall and
MIR. Rice il one that affects not merely our local
interests; it is contest between the antaconis-
tic principles Of freedom and slavery. Every
man WHO believes Eht that our national govern
ment should its power to extend slavery. every
man who approves the Nebraska bill, and would
signify his approval of the of PIERCE Doug
las, Atchison and Stringfcllow, should vote for
Henry 81. Rice. Bat how any man, whether
IN former Years wing or democrat, who believes
the passage Of the Nebraska bill an unmitgated
evil, who believes that more slave states should
be admitted to the Union, that slavery should be
local, and freedom national, how can any such
man reconcile it TO his conscience to vote for
Henry NJ. Rice. the cOnfere and boon companion
of Stephen A. Douglas?
DEMOCRAT.