The daily Minnesota pioneer. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1854-1855, 1855-08-08
For Democratic Delegate to Congress.
HON. DAVID OLMSTED.


Mr.. Rice and ACKNOWLEDGMENT
1t has been charged on the streets, and
elsewhere that HENRY M. RICE, the pre-
tended democratic candidate for Delegate,
is Nothing in feeling, and that he,
at one time, dispatched messenger from
Washington to this place, for the purpose
of establishing lodge Of this Infamous or
der in this city. We do not vouch for the
truth of this charge, but the course of Mr..
RICE himself, his organ, and his convention,
would seem to indicate that there is some
foundation in the allegation. 1t is we'll
known that some of his most particular
personal and political friends, long before
becoming citizens of this Territory, were
identified with the exploded Native Ameri-
can party, and it is even asserted that one
of them was an active participant in the
riots which levelled to the ground several
Catholic Churches in the city of Philadel-
phia Be this as it may, neither Mr.. RICE
nor his friends have seen proper to deny
the charge, so boldly made, and the pre-
sumption is, that there is so much truth in
it that he has not the temerity to deny
that which might be so successfully estab-
lished, should he do So Although this
question of Known othingism, is the great
question Of day, the Convention which nom-
mated him dared not to express any
views in opposition to the spirit of bigotry
and intolerance which has been sweeping,
with fanatical zeal, the States of the East
and the West, and creating discord, confu-
sion, and even bloodshed, between the ma
tive and foreign born citizen-the Protes-
tant and the Catholic. Was this silence of
the Convention, on this vital question, a
part of the programme adopted by the
secret caucus which assembled the evening
before the Convention? Secrecy in their
movements, and refusal to commit them
selves upon any question, was the policy
which enabled the mis-called Americans"
to carry, with perfect whirwind, the cleo
tions of last fall In many places so secret
and deceptive were they, that they actually
in places got foreigners arrayed on their
side, and lauded them as "good fellows"
until they obtained their votes, when they
threw off the mask, and became openly and
avowedly in favor of the repeal of the ma
turalization laws and the disfranchisement
of foreign voters, and in every corner was
heard the cry of "down with the Black
Dutch" "down with the dirty Irish,"
''down with the foreign paupers, who dare
presume to put themselves upon an equal
with American citizens" We little appre-
hended that any set of men would dare to
attempt to re-enact this game in Minnesota,
in the face of the hundreds of intelligent
foreigners who have come amongst US to de-
velope our fertile soil and to build homes
for themselves and their children in our
thriving city. 1t would seem that there is no
depth of deception to which the partisans of
Mr.. Rice will not resort. They are following
in the lead of the Know Nothings in
the States, in their refusal to commit them
selves upon any question. Let them succeed
and the result will be the same as it has been
elsewhere.
The question is, will the foreign voters Of
Minnesota sustain man who is thus tainted
with the stigma of Know Nothingism?-I
Will they support the nominee Of Conven-
ton which dared not avow its opposition to
the infamous policy of party which would
place them upon level with the Indian and
the Negro? We do not belive it, but rath-
er that they will vote for DAVID OLMsrED,
the man of the people, who stands right up
on the record upon this absorbing question.
sabbath Zebi and the Mahommetans.
In thu unor 16dA oox>a