Minnesota weekly times. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1854-1859, 1855-08-21
FRIDAY, AUGUST II, 1866.
AT ITS OLD TRICKS.

AT ITS OLD TRICKS. /.
The Democrat, instead Of improving under
its new editor, is growing worse-that is, SO far
as unfairness is concerned 1t starts out
with asserting that e
The Times Of Monday, astonishes the
world with the intelligence that Mr.. MARSHALL
was the author Of the Railroad from the Iowa
line to St. Paul, and from thence to Lake Su-
perior." ,..t
This is not denied on the part of the Demo
crat, for the simple reason that MIR. MARSHALL
himself has declared it to be true, and Il any
further proof is wanted, Mr.. Riee's letters can
be procured to substantiate our assertion. Stick
pin there, ye who boast so much of the In
ventivc genius and potent influence Of Henry
M. Rice.
| 2. The Democrat says that we
Opposed the charter Of a company fofmed
| for the construction Of "a Railroad from the
Iowa line to St. Paul, and from thence to Lake
Superior
| So we did but that opposition was based on
the ground that the chaseer was eencectea in
Wall street, New York, by Robert Schuyler
and his crew, who boasted that they would
"pull the wool over the eyes Of the Legislature
Of Minnesota, that it was niberal to- the
Territory and gave the company too much
power-that it placed the Territory in the hands
Of = menopoay, and that it was hurried through
the Legislature without due consideration
We did oppose the passage Of the charter, and
these were our reasons for so doing. Stick
pin there.
| 8. Thas we
| "Opposed grant Of Eand fsom Congress to
the Territory, because It was intended to assist
that company in the construction of that Road"
This we deny. We never opposed grant
of land from Congress to the Territory, but we
opposed the manner in which an unprincipled
company sought to set that land into
their osxn clutches, by deliberately essnaais,ing
a fraud, which induced Congress to repeal the
Bill and take the land from us. We have
never been opposed to Congress giving the
ses, but we hare opposed the company which
sought to appropriate these lands to their own
purposes without shadow ef right
| A. Opposed every species of Legislation in
the Territory which was calculated to confirm
the grant Of land to the company"
| That is SO, because those very /" species Of
Legislation" We're humbug@got up to gull the
people, as the people are now weN aware Of.
S. We did labor late and early, in season
and out Of season." to prevent the lands from
falling into the hanets of a company which con-
nived at fraud, and we have nothing to re-
gret. Congress did the same-frst, passed
bill ercludimg the company from coming in
possession Of the lands-then unanimously re-
peaFing the bill when the agent Of the company
committed the fraud, and at last the House of
Representatives annuled the charter passed by
our Legislature, considering it an outrage and
swindIe. The Senate refused to concur with
the House, the annnlmens falling into the hands
of those who We're interested in the road
Jones, Douglas and others Now, if the
TIMES hbored in and out Of season" to de-.
feat the road, Congress did the same, and so
did some Of the best men in the country. Why
was Mr.. Warren removed2 Was it not in
consequence Of his connection with this road
And did not the judges come very near losing
their heads 2 and is not the question, whether
the company have or have not a right to the
land, now pending in the Supreme Court Of
the United States? The Democrat would
make its readers believe that everything was
| right-that there had been no fraud-no oppo-
sition-no skullduggery, but that the TINES had
opposed the construction Of the road, simply out
Of perverseness, when it knors that it is raising
an issue it cannot sustain.
The Democrat talks about the preliminary
arrangements Of the company approaching
completion" That will do for a hobby Just
before election, but how is it that the "prelirn-
mary arrangements" were not commenced in
May last, as the people were promised should
be the cases How is that men have bought
property on the strength Of these promises and
have lost thousands of dollars therebya How
is it that when gentleman came to this city to
get the co operation Of the company to construct
a telegraph to St. Paul, (Which, according to
their charter they are obliged TO do in twenty
months from the passage Of the charter he
received no encouragement How is it that
Mr.. Edmund Rice, the Attorney for the road,
on his return from Washington, wished to re-.
sign his office? How is it that the capitalists
of Wall street, N. Y, take no interest whatev.
er in the road? How is it that Mr.. Rice HIM
self, believes that the road cannot be built g.
What does it proves That the whole thing is
humbug, and the people Of Minnesota will
find it out SO to their sorrow Notwithstanding
the efforts Of the Democrat to make them be-
lievc otherwise. Gs..
But we have wandered over considerable
space in our efforts to follow our willy cotempo-
rary, and come back to the main point, viz -
{" That WILLIAM r. MARSHALL first conceived
the idea Of railroad from the Iowa line, to St.
Paul, and from thence to Lake Superior. 80
Our object was to show that Mr.. Rice claimed
credit for thai which did not belong to him, and
having done this, we leave it for the Democrat
| tn DENY our assertion or nrovc nor yos;,;o,, o.