Minnesota weekly times. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1854-1859, 1855-09-18
FRIDAY, SEPT. IA, 1855.

HENRY M. RICE AND KNOW NOTHixGIsM.
We have been convinced for some time past
of the position Henry M. Rice occupies on the
Know Nothing question, but absence from town
has prevented us from giving the matter that
attention we contemplated. Our friend Of the
Winona Express, who fully understands the
ropes, and speaks from knowledge of the facts,
thus places Mr.. Rice just where he ought to be,
in the article which follows. Will his friends
now dare to deny that he ever belonged to the
Order, and does he not now sympathize with it?
Let those who have been duped read the article
and then Judge of the character of the man who
asks the suffrages Of the people Of Minnesota
to send him back into the Halls of Congress:
K. N.Isx IN MINNEsorA.-When the news Of the
'pro-slavery action of the Minnesota delegates in
the Philadelphia National Council reached sc.
Paul, every Lodge IN the Territory, except that
at Saltwater, threw up its charter and dissolved.
That Saltwater Lodge is now the only one in ex-
lstence, and it. of course, supports Rice, the
Pierce Administration Nebraska candidate for
Congress- Chicago Tribune.
When the fact is known that the Tribune pre-
vious to the Philadelphia Convention, was the
leading Western organ of the proscriptionists,
and that its editor is still one of the Grand Sa-
chems of the order in Illinois, the authenticity of
the above information cannot he doubted. The
only difference between the Know Nothingsm of
I. N. Stewart, of the Tribune, and that Of Ii. NJ.
Rice, is this-Mr. Stewart bolted the extreme
Pro-Slavery action of the National Council, while
Mr.. Rice swallowed the Southern bill with alacrity.
This is the secret of the antasoni>m existing be-
tween Messrs. Anti-Slavery X. n. Stewart, and
Pro-Slavery X. n. Rice-an apt illustration of
the adase that g when rogues fail out, honest
men get their dues.'' The Tribune is follower
of Senator Wilson, of Massachusetts,, while Rice
is the abect slave and plant tool of Atehison Of
Missouri. Hence, the Tribune divulges the dis
astrous results to its darling order that followed
the Pro-Slavery action of Brother Rice and his
co-adjutors. And the paragraph quoted above
also furnishes an explanatory commentary on
Rce's letter to the Germans of st. Paul, in which
he very adroitly denies that he is not mo,c mem
Der of the organization, but has not the hardi-
hood, brazen-faced and unscrupulous as he is, to
deny thathe has rerer been heretofore leader of
the Dark Lantern" conspirators. Though Mr..
Rice may perhaps deny his present membership
with some show of truth, but he will not deny,
without uttering palpable fasehood, that he
,cds g member Of the Supreme Order Of the Star
Spdngled Banner, commonly styled Know Moth
inJs preri0us to lis dissolution subsequent to the
adoption Of the odiOus Philadelphia Platform.
II he denies this, we will prove by unquestionable
testimony, which we have, in our possession, that
he utters an unmitigated and bare-faced false
hood. Come, Rice, no quibbling. Have you ever
been a member of the Supreme Order of the Star
Spangled Banner? +? We know that you, in its
Council Chamber solemnly promised, "with your
left hand upon your breast and your right hand
raised toward heaven in token of your sincerity,'
never to reveal the existence of such an order but
it you will fatty and unequivocally deny that you
were ever member Of the band Of midnight con-
spirators, your denial will be entitled to the re-
spectfu considerations of the adopted citizens.
But the quibbling exhibited in your recant letter
will never do. 1t is too transparent-too old
ruse-and will never deceive an Intelligent public.
We have &C confirmation strong as Holy Writ"
that the statement of the Tribune in reference to
the Council in saltwater is undeniable true. The
cloven-foot of the vcilcd monster sticks out too
palably.