Minnesota weekly times. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1854-1859, 1855-09-11
St(inlresota Ginrts,
SATURDAY, SEPT. 8, 1855.

our prosperity will be greatly retarded. These
men have no particular friendship for the hon.
orable gentleman-on the contrary they are
free to admit that Mr.. MARSHALL is an ADLER
and more worthy man, but still the peculiar and
fortunate circumstances that surrounded Mr..
Rice when in Washington, and which enabled
Minnesota to procure so much for her benefit
(not through the influence or exertions Of our
delegate) but through the influence ofthe friends
of the Territory, has led some honest, unsus-
pectng men to believe that nobody but Mr..
Rice can do anything for US in the Halls of
Congress. This faith, however, in the man,
has in a great measure been shaken by the re-
cent exposure Of Mr.. Rice's acts while in Con-
gress-by the plain statement Of facts put forth
by Captain Simpson wherein he shows that the
$1,000 900
Of appropriations said to have been procured
through the indefatigable efforts of our Dele
gate, have dwindled down to the insignificant
sum Of
Mr.. Rice strutted in his borrowed plumcs
for long time, not having sufficient manliness
was due" and his friends planted themselves
behind this strong citadel in the vain hope that
they would be safe from the bombshels of their
enemy. Unexpectedly, however, they have
been driven from their hiding places, and now
stand shaking in their boots, looking "seven
ways for Sunday" terrified even at their own
shadows. The class of mcn to whom we al
Jude, beginto see these things---begin to realize
the truth that there are other gentlemen in
Minnesota who can represent us equally as
well as Henry NJ. Rice. The scales are falling
from their eyes. They will no longer be ca
joled and bamboozled or even frightened into
the support of man whose antecedents are
not worthy to be placed in the catalogue of
second-rate conjuror, much less in the catalogue
of man Of shrewdness and ability.
The real state Of the case as to the amount
OF money procured for Minnesota by Mr.. Rice,
having been made public, the question arises
"what has that gentleman done to enttlc him
to the suffrages of the people7" Was he not
instrumental in defeating the first bill for the
grant of lands to Minnesota for Railroad pur-
poses! Was he not directly interested in the
alteration of the second bill, which caused Con-
gress to repeal said bill, and thereby deprive
Minnesota of
1000 600 Acres Of Land:
Did he not cause the Point Douglas and ST.
Louis road, for which Congress appropriated
large amount Of money to build, to terminate
in Wisconsin TO benefit his interest there, when
the road should have terminated in Minnesota
Has he not repeatedly said to his friends that
he intended to make La Pointe, in Wisconsin,
his residence instead of ST. Pauls Has he not
now large interest at Superior, and is he not
working with others to make State out of the
best portion of Minnesota, including the best
harbors on the Lake, in the hope at some flu
ture day of representing that State? In a
word, is he not bound hand and foot to the will
of certain clique of moneyed men whose
only object in his election is to benefit their IN
terests outside and independent of the Terrific.
ry Of Minnesota!
But aside from this, the party or faction that
nominated Mr.. Rice, refused to either endorse
the Administration or even the Nebraska bill,
and yet he is well known to be opposed to the
Republican movement, and an intimate friend
of Douglas, Atkison and other cut-throat Ne
braska men. His relusal 10 stand on platform
endorsing the Administration, will cut him
loose in that direction $50 says recent inforn,a-
ton from Washington while on the other hand
his well-known sympathy with the South, will
cause him to be spurned by every lover of
Freedom in the North. Besides all this, it is
well known that the Republicans in the House
will be greatly in the ascendancy, and he will
have no influence there. Now then, what good
can Henry NJ. Rice do Minnesota, if elected
in the next Congress!
The Fact
OF his peculiar connection with the two Bills
for grants Of lands for Railroad purposes. will
initiate against him and cripple if not utterly
destroy his influence with members from one
portion of the Union
That he is well known to be in favor Of
advancing the interests of Wall street Railroad
spectators and land sharks, will destroy his in.
fuence with members from another portion of
the Union--.
That he is interested with company to build
up Superior to the detriment Of Minnesota,
will iniure his influence with members from
another portion of the Union-..
That he did not succeed in procuring appro-
priations only to the amount Of $35, 900, in
stead of 100000, as his friends claimed for
him, will lessen his influence with members
from another portion Of the Union-..
That he and his friends refused to bolster up
the Administration, will injure his influence
with members from another portion of the I'm
ion-..
That he is in favor Of the Nebraska Bill will
kill him with the Republican members from all
parts Of the Union-.-