The weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1852-1858, 1855-12-22
NUMBER IA.
Wood ~

Wood!:I
8 We don't mean the Mayor of New York
we have no controversy with any man named
, Wood-not even with our amable cotempc:
rary OF the Frontierman-but the question
is-WooD! We give below, verbatim ct
iiberatum, communication on wood, and
our correspondents wood-man-says we
shall have no wood unless we repeal the
Wood Ordinance! Let the City Fathers
the " Common Council "-look to it /! How
scossla the Fathers feel if they should wake
up one of these Geld mornings, and find
themselves frozen TO death for want Of
wood -!
St Paul Dec 1855
Written for the Weekly Minnesotian
Mr. Editor: Please give the following a
pace in your columns, and publish your bill,
at the bottom, & you can receive your pay
through the post Office,
Wood Inspector. At recent meeting of
the City Council, Mr.. n: j. Sanderson was
appointed Wood Inspector for this City. Mr.
| S. has his office at the Court House. He
| requests us to state that he is prepared to
enforce the ordinance, and no citizen should
purchase wood unless the vender produces
the certificate Of correct measurement. Pr
oneer & Democrat
Now doubt but what mr.. S, would request
the citizens, that they should not buy wood
with out the vendsr produces correct GER
tificate of measurement. We wander if Mr.
S. has all that he can make, measuring
other peoples wood? Mr.. S. is stranger to
us. lie may be a fine man, but he, or any
other an, would look full as well, out in
the woods a chopping cord wood, as he
would a measuring other peoples wood
after it is clipped That Law is an unjust
one, & I hope that it may not stand, When
it comes to such pass, that man cannot
sell his own property, & make private bar
gains, without the Town Council interior
ence, then sir we should not call ourselves a
free people. But a people, that the nanny
are governed by the few. But if that law
must be lived up to, then the wood dealers
have hit upon plan, that they can get JUS
tice done them. They intend to call meet
ing, & form society, pass resolutions, & live
up to them. By SO doing, 700 St. Paul
folks, that likes to have evry thing all your
own way, will have to pay for the measuring
of your own wood, and the trouble of haul
ing it, up to the Court House, & back: How
will that suit you. If the City can make
laws, so can the Country, & laws mad in the
country, are just as good, Us those mad in
the City. If evry man that has got wood
to sell, will pull together, they can freeze
st. Paul to death before next spring, Or
else make her pay for it. The best thing
st. Paul can do is to have that law REPEALED.
And in the future make laws that are adapt
ed to a free country. And if Mr.. S. must
measure wood any way, let him have an
office on the bottom, on the opposite side of
the river from St. Paul, & measure wood
their, but not until he has manufactured it
out of those big elm trees hymseE. The
spirit of the wood dealers have commenced
to arouse, & St. Paul must not think strange
if they hear from them soon, & in tone of
thunder, and voice to harsh to be pleasant
to their pockets. If evry man that has got
wood to sell, was of the same feelings, as
myself, Mr.. S; would starve unless he got
his bread, in some other way, besides meas
ureing wood at the court House. Rest as
sured sir, that something will be done, &
that before long, that will give more salts
faction, to the man that earns his money by
labor, and not by trafick. If Mr.. s. hooks
onto me either the Town Council, or myself,
will have to pay the cost of trial before
more impartial body than your city justice.
Yes sir, the Constitutionality of the thing,
is doubted by many. & 1 hope to see it
tested.
Yours Truly,
A LOVER OF LIBERTY.
[Minnesotian's bill for publishing above,
one cord of wood but don't send it through
the Post Office.l
A LOYAL SUBJECT OF HER "Mosr GRA-
c1ous MAJESTY" Exc1rED.-A writer in the