The daily Minnesota pioneer., 1855-08-17
HON. DAVID OLMSTED.
III. NJ. Rice the cause of the Present LO.
cation Of tho WiMnebagOes.

H. M. Rice the cause Of the Present Lo.
cation OF the WinnebagOes.
We learn that Mr. RICE is, or has been
on a visit to Rice and Steele Counties,
where he has striven to gull the people into
the belief that Governor GoRMAN, was the
cause of the removal of the Winnebagoes
to their present location, and that he, RICE,
had nothing to do with it. This is about
as impudent fabrication as could we'll be
manufactured by even H. NJ. RICE, who is
known to be by no means stickler at trifies,
in such matters. The Democrat and other
papers in his interest have invariably claim
ed that RIcE's influence in Washington, in
every transaction, but especially where In
dian affairs were concerned, completely over
Shadowed that of Governor GORMAN, and
consequently, the latter could effect nothing.
This has been the burden of their song from
day to day, and from week to week. But
no sooner is it found that the people of
NCA Atoih SouhtiCo, iiuNC hdO luStCuCu uDOIS
them beggarly, thieving, vile set of In
dians, the very off-scouring Of the redmen,
with whom Mr.. RICE has traded for years,
and with whose particular interests he has
been so long identified, than he has the
effrontery to assure the people who are daily
victimized by the depredations of these
scoundrelly Winnebagoes, that GoRMAN,
and not himself was the man to be blamed
for their transfer from Long Prairie to the
Blue Earth valley-one Of the best por-
tions of Minnesota. but Mr. RICE has,
for once, counted without his host 1t is
a fact well known to the old settlers, and
which can be proved by documentary evi.
dence, that H. NJ RICE, when appointed
10y the Winnebagoes, years ago, to select a
country for them, under the stipulatiOns O:
treaty with the Government, fixed upon
the Blue Earth region as the place for them,
and he was only then defeated in his pur-
pose 10y the refusal of the Sioux to sell the
land. From that day, up to the period
when the Government, through the exer-
tions and instrunentality of H. NJ. RICE,
gave this splendid country to IA set of out
cast and vagabond Indians, he has never
failed to press his darling project. And
now that the result is marking itself daily
as the greatest outrage ever perpetrated
upon frontier population, Mr.. RICE, with
an snscrupulousness and audacity which
but adds insult to injury, tries to shift the
responsibility to other shoulders. But due
pains will be taken to fix it where it pro-
perly attaches The people of Blue Earth,
Steele and Rice counties win all lie made
acquainted with Mr.. RIcE's instrumentality
in placing in their midst these Wmneba-
goes, who are already at their work of
stealing horses and other property from
the white settlers, and annoying them by
daily acts of petty villiany. Mr.. RICE is
the man who is Justly chargeable with be-
ing the head and front of the negotiations
which have resulted in the transfer of these
Indians to their present location, where
they are to prove the pest of the settlers
around as they have ever been OF the
white people in their vicinity. Mr.. RICE is
in the horns of dilemma from which he
cannot escape. Either he originated, aided
and abetted the movement for the removal
of the Winnebagoes to the Blue Earth re-
gion, as We know, and charge to be the
fact; or he has not had the influence as Del
egate from the Territory, to avert from a
large number of the people whose interests
it was his duty to protect, a most crying
and enormous evil In either case he is
unfit to be trusted in o station where he has
already, to make the best case thae his
friends can for him, manifested his utter in
ability to guard the rights of his constitu-
ents against unjust invasion. If the Dele
gate from Minnesota had protested against,
and resisted the change of the location of the
Wimme6dgces, Instead Of faro'1ng 1t, the
Blue Earth Valley acould not mono be cursed
qcith their presence.
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