The weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1852-1858, 1855-03-31
For the Minnesotian.
Who llluminased tho Capitol


sWsdid it, Messrs. Editors. The Governor
had noting to do with it, and knew nothing
about it. The Secretary is equally innocent of
any participation in or cognizance of the pro-
ceeding. It's our opinion that neither you,
nor Rumor," nor any body else ever for a
moment supposed those gentlemen to be either
principals or accessories. They were not, any
way. We got our idea from the moon. The
moon shone upon the tin dome of the capitol
the tin dome Of the capitol reflected back the
silver light 1t looked very pretty,-it was
like the answering of face to face in polished
minating the ,Uindo,os-to the moon belongs
the glory of furnishing the tin dome. we fur
nished the candles-,ce cut them into short
pieces-sce arranged them in r0ws-,ce ignited
the matches-we applied the sulphureous fame
| to each individual wick. In short gentlemen.
zoe conceived and carried out the brilliant
thing in all its parts. "My friends" and why
did we illuminate the capitol? Is it because
we countenance fraud? No. Is it because we
wish to bow down to stupendous monopoly
No. Is it because we would bring blot upon
our own fair history, by unfolding the wicked
deeds of the Schuylerites? NJ. Is it because
we care continental mill-dam for men who
buy and sell ayes and noes in the halls of legis-
latiOn? No. Is it because We approve the
! charter of 1854, and think it should not have
did we illuminate the capitol, "my friends ?''
Because we wanted to because we had a mind
| to because we thought it would look nice be-
cause we happened to have the candles to dc
| it; because we think the capitol should, on all
occasions, be regarded as great, and bright
and burning and shining light, from which all
| little lights are supposed to emanate. This is
why we did it, "L,y friends"
| The truth is, Messrs. Editors, ,ce haven't had
justice done US. We haven't been regarded as
| "some pumpkins" at all Wehaven't been pui
in the papers. While the Legislature was in
session. several columns of each of your puny
city Dailies were devoted to the public history
Of lot of fellows up stairs (ther private hsto-
| ry was in COMMITTEE rooms'') but the moment
they event out" the whole capitol was sup
posed to be in darkness again. But it wasn't
we still remained 80 shining on, shivering on''
long after those, members had passed and
gone and subsidized like the angry waves of ''the
troubled sea, whose waters cast up mire and
dirt."-(B iJle.)
We have had positive injustice done us,
Messrs. Editors. 1t was only q little while ago
that wallower in some spurious Parnassian
spring got lot of verses and had them printed
telling about "there's silence at the capitol
"Her (meaning the capitoD glory has depart
ed, and all such nonsense. We had mind 10
reply to that, and just let all the world and the
rest of mankind know that we saint dead YETI;
but finally concluded that as it was only perses,
we wouldn't notice it. We bided our time,
Messrs. Editors and when we saw Third street
and circumjacent places stuck full of candles
and combustible rubbish, we just pitched in,
| and did it.! The plan first thought Of was to
get one small tallow candle and gallon OF
something to take'-thinking that judici-
GUS application of the latter would multiply the
former into sixty thousand particularly bright
stars; but on ransacking the back rooms and
finding more candles than whiskey ready to
hand, we concluded to use candles which we
did-naOsty.
When the cars come in, Messrs. Editors, we
are going to illuminate again. Until then be-
lieve us, not dead but only slightly extin-
guished CAPITOL BOYS.