Minnesota weekly times. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1854-1859, 1855-02-13
From the Financial Advertiser.
POPULAR LITERATURE.


The mosquito of the Mnnesotian, in his issue
of the 5th, has the temerity to buzz about our ed
itorial nose, and to measure his microscopic sting
with the elephantine PROPOSES of the Financial
Advertiser.-Thus
Chas. H. Parker, a banker of st. Paul, and the
handspring of the financial wheels of the Times,
is one Of the Hyatt Smiths and John B. Macy's
men. He has worked faithfully for them, and
were he here in St. Paul to-day, he would cry as
bitterly over the milk which our Legislature has
spilled,-iust as Wisconsin interests thought it
safely appropriated to their use-as any other Of
the ten or twelve nominal citizens of Minnesota,
comprising the leaders of the opposition to our
Minnesota road.
Now nobody blames the editor of the Minneso-
tian for this unprovoked and cowardly liberty
with the name of an unobtrusive private citizen
in his Observation-Disclosures carefully ascertained be-
fore-hand-any more than one would think of
imputing any moral quality to the foetid odor of
the skunk, which intrudes, without special invi-
tation, into your premises at night.
We do not hesitate to proclaim the allegation
of the above extract, in SO far as it may tend to
the disparagement of MIR. Parker-a mean false
hood-not because we know any thing about the
facts themselves, but because we know the edi-
tor of the Minnesotian, and know that single
act of honesty -manliness or candor-would be
incompatible with the grand purpose of his being
would destroy tho integral effaot of the picture
he is anxious to present to posterity and impair
the harmony and completeness of life devoted
to meanness, as to God.
A tool by nature-shaped in the subterranean
FORCES of party for the lowest purpose of dema-
gogueism,-we do not blame him for fulfilling
the mission for which he is so admirably adapt
ed. In being mean he only yields to constitu-
tional necessity.-meanness is not merely the alb
sence of moral sense in his case. 1t is the active
principle of his life-the paramount law of his
organization. If by q typographical error that
paper should blunder into statement of facts,
we are confndent the accident would throw the
Minncsotian Office into commissions and end fatal
ly. As the usual issues of that paper continue
we conclude that Mr.. Parker has no political con-
nexion whatever with any Macy or Smith extant.
Now if our readers want to know why we have
prosttuted our columns to this ex-oficio notice
of Mr.. Owens-our apology is firstly, that we are
sadly in want of something to write about. Sec
ondly, that this kind of literature seems to tickle
the discriminating palate of the public. And
thirdly, it suited our purpose to proceed upon
the assumption, that an Interior purpose lay con-
cealed in the shallow malignity of the far-fetched
falsehood, for which it ought to gain currency be-
fore Mr.. Parker should return.
He expects us to deny it, and to decoy us by
provoking our vengeance from the dignifed neu-
trality of our present position-to commit our
Leviathan sheet against him on the Railroad ques-
tion-and since his existence cannot be much Ion
ger prolonged he would prefer being swallowed
whole--at once-to the slow horrors of the piece
meal photographic mastication to which he is SUBJ
jected by the smaller fry of Daily Journals.