The weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1852-1858, 1855-10-06
MONDAY MORNING, OCTOBER ], 1866.
Mr.. Rice's Suicide in Southern
Minnesota-The Southern Minnesota
Herald for VIM. r. Marshall

The Southern Minnesota Herald, publish
ed at Brownsville, Houston County, we have
heretofore regarded as one of the main pill
lars of the Rice-Land- Office dynasty in that
region. We have accused its able editor,
Mr.. Ross, with being an organ of that dy-
nasty, and supporter of the Pierce-Nebras-
ka Administration, although we never doubt
ed that if Mr. r. should speak his honest SEN
timents, he would declare for the Republican
nominee for Congress-heart and soul. We
are glad to know, by the last number of the
Herald, that we were not mistaken in the
true sentiments and principles of its editor.
We were mistaken, however, IN supposing
that he had not the disposition to avow those
principles boldly at this crisis, and herein we
did him injustice. He gives convincing proof
of the faith which is in him, by openly re-
pudiating the Nebraska candidate and strik-
ing in manfully for the election of Mr.. Mar
shall
We think Mr.. Rice had better go back to
Southern Minnesota, and do his first works
over He came home the other day in high
feather over the I" conquest he had made in
that quarter; but 10! the following leading edi-
torial from the last Herald comes to us as the
first fruits Of his sweeping victory. We do
hope he will pay the southern counties ano-
ther visit before the election. He has done
SO much there already that he really ought
to GO back again.
But read what the Herald has to say of
Mr.. Rice and his late electioneering tour. We
also copy well-timed communication ffoin
The same number of the Herald:
From the Southern Minnesota Herald of Sept. 27.
Issue Of the Coming Election.
1t were better for Mr.. Rice had he staid at
home instead of coming to canvass this part
of the Territory, better for the people that
lie came as he did. We are glad he came
He has done it " just in time to prevent
hundreds of men from voting for principle
and measure they abhor. We have advocat-
ed the election of Mr.. Rice under the gen.
cral impression that has existed here. that he
would be the most efficient delegate. We
have always understood Mr.. Rice to be op-
posed to the Nebraska Bill, and that he
avoided an expression of his political senti-
ments because he did not wish to be con-
sidered candidate of either party. As an
'llustration of the manner in which this illu-
sion was created, an anti-Nebraska man in
this vicinity wrote a letter to Mr. Rice,
asking an expression Of his sentiments on
that question, to which he received no other
answer than newspaper with paragraph
conspicuously marked, accusing him of being
opposed to the Nebraska Bill! 1t is a ns-
tural consequence that, as Mr.. Rice has
been public man for several years. he should
be the most prominent candidate; but it
does not follow that lie is the most efficient
man ON the track; and the fact of his being
ready to advocate any measure the most
popular in certain localities, does not prove
him the most honest; nor does the bungling
manner in which he has sought to find favor
with everybody, indicate the shrewdness
that many (and we among the n,rmber) were
led to believe him possessed of.
We have looked in vain for appropriations
secured hy Mr. Rice for Southern Minneso-
ia; all his good works seem to be applied to
the benefit of the Northern portion of the
Territory. The St. Anthony Express has
taken the trouble to ascertain and publish
a list of all the appropriations secured to the
Territory while Mr.. Rice was Delegate, and
very indiscreetly sent a large number of ex-
tras for circulation Eere. We publish the
list in another column, and the people of
Southern Minnesota can judge for themselves
what they have to expect from the man
when they see the partial manner in which
he has represented the wants of the differ
ent portions of his constituency. Why does
the Express say nothing of the action of Mr..
Rice in having the Winnebago Indians re-
moved from the Northern TO the Southern
portion of the ETerritory-or would that
show too much consideration