Minnesota weekly times. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1854-1859, 1855-08-07
THURSDAY, AUGUST 2, 1866.
HENRY M. RICE.---No. III.


tleman aoundering in tho quagmire of politica
filth, into which he had so determinedly precipi
tated himself during the campaign of 1850. Here
in the blindness of his impotent rage, despoile'
of that traitoreus satisfaction he had vainy coun
ted upon, he wallowed in the puddle, concoctinl
plans for future operations. He bsthoueht him
self of contesting the seat of Mr.. Sibley, ant
gave out loud threats that the latter gentleman
would not be recognized as our delegate in Con
gress, because of his residence on the west sid,
of the Mississippi river, and upon Indian lands
In all these disgraceful sndeavors, it is hardly
necessary to state that he was ably assisted by
two Others, both protesting partisan democrats
but both Of sohon, openly voted for Col. Mitchell
at the polls. 1t was subsequently ascertained
that contestng the seat of Sibley would prove flu.
tile, for the reason that Mitchell, not having re.
signed the Office of U. S. Marshal. was himself
consequently ineligible to the Office of Delegate
to Congress hence that move was abandoned
and the warfare was commenced at home, as the
best means of obtaining the coveted consum-
nation.
Edmund Rice, having been elected to the Terri
torial Legislature, became at once the head au-
tomaton of his brother, and an aspirant for the
Speakershp of the House. Through him, there
fore, it was deemed advisable, to operate, and
when the Legislature convened in January 1851, 4,
it was found that the sderil rolled nine pis' in
other places than in Wall street.
A scurrilous, filthy little sheet, anonymously "
edited, called the Watab Revielle, made its ap-
pearance and was circulated gratuitously through
out the community. Its columns, (if We may use
that phrase homoeopathicaly speaking,) teemed
with personalities of the grossest character, indie
cent and immoral, in which all persons who had
not prostituted themselves to the sinister purposes
of Mr.. Rice, were maligned, and recklessly insul-
ted. This, bear in mind, was anonymously per-
petrated--ths most reprehensible and completely
villainous procedure that man can use against
man. A midnight assassin that plunges the dag
ger in the heart of his victim, is comparatively
brave, for he risks detection and its penalties,
have everything to gain for the accomplishment
of their own dire purposes, risk no penalty, and
scof at detection.
1t was supposed Mr.. Rice was the instigator-
the editor merely a tool, or particeps cr,n,inis.-
But, be that as it may, the dirty little sheet, was
heralded and openly admitted to be the &c organ''
of Henry NJ. Rice. The election Of Speaker and
public printer was warmly contested, but resulted
in the entire defeat of Rice and his co-laborer.
Michael E. Ames was the successful candidate
for Speaker, and the late lamentcd James M.
Goodhue was elected printer. live mistake moi, the
TVatab Revielle, or its pseudo editor, Mr.. Chask-
arak "a nom de plume, being the Winnsbago for
the words " "don'tkno or an expression to that
effect, received vote or votes for the Office of
public printer. So says the journal of 1851.
After another defeat, ambushed warfare be-
came burdensomc and useless. The fight became
general and terrific, open and undisgusedly
3" carried into Africa" Messrs. Randall and
Faribault, members from the western district, to-
gether with the Pembina delegation, were the
concentrated points of attack On the part of the
Rice faction, but the latter, after the most
fearless and INSCRIPTIONS attack, were repulsed
with as much loss politically speaking, as the
Allies were from the " Manelon Tower"
1t is not our intention to review, at this time,
the many cunning and disreputable devices which
characterized this faction during the renowned
session. We will leave them for future reference !:
but we will say that the crowning acts of political
villiany, sought to be accomplished at that time,
taken in connection with the inconsistencies since
marking their career, completely " "out- -Herod
Herod,' and ought to astonish and overwhelm
the worry conspirators themselves.
We shall speak hereafter of the appearance of
gentleman before the august Senate of the
United States, dressed in aesut made Of the i'm
maculate sheets of the Watab Reviellc, asking
that body to disapprove of the odious apportion-
ment bill, (Which was based upon the ratio of
population,) passed by the Legislature of 1851
We shall refer in future to the terrible effect his
presence produced in the Senate Chamber-how
Cass, Clay, and Webster tainted, and old Asbury
Dickens was carried out in the struggles of an
epileptc fit. How, it is silently whispered, that
Clay and Webster never recovered from their
prostr'ftion, and sank gradually into the grave,
from the effects of the terrific apparition of the
gentleman who then represented himself as " ua-
decided'' in politics, and whom tho world has
since identified as the realization of the allegorical
opening Of the seventh seal Of Revelations''-
the beast with " seven heads and ten horns.''
Is IT so?-We should judge that the present
editor of the Satanic had had or was about to
have the Delirum Tremens. for he saws that he was