The weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1852-1858, 1855-10-06

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Rice has declared in sundry places that he i;
IN favor of the Nebraska bill, that he stands
on the platform of the present Administra
ton, that he has no claim to the support o.
any but Democrats, and if he be elected
(Which Heaven forbid y Minnesota will be
represented as fayoring the principles ac-
knowledged by Pierce, Douglas, Stringfel.
low & Co. 1t cannot, therefore, be expected
by Mr.. Rice that we will continue to support
him after such declarations having been
made by himself for he knows that, as a
democrat, he ''has no claim to our support. -
VIM. r. Marshall is every inch man, and
will perform his duties faithfully and impair
tally as delegate. He is, an uncompromis-
ing opponent Of the further extension of
slavery, and believes in the sovereignty Of
the States. Let the people of Minnesota
who are opposed to the cursed policy of the
present administration, vote for man who
will truly represent their just Indignation at
the Nebraska outrage.
1t is no longer possible for delegate to
be elected Oh local grounds alone, and now,
since politics is made the issue, we can, as a
neutral paper, no longer side with either
party, nor publish matter of manifest poll
tical nature; but since we have already said
SO much in favor of Mr.. Rice, thus present
ing him to our readers in the most favorable
light, and since Mr.. Rice and his friends have
changed their tactics and he has now adopt
ed a platform which he has before avoided.
and which is wholly at variance with our
ideas of truth, justice, humanity and good
policy, we can do no less in this number of
our paper than present the s'causes that i'm
pei us'' to the support of man as Delegate
to Congress who has not only the talent to do
as credit, but PRINCIPLES to do us Justice-WM.
r. MARSHALL.
Here is Mr.. Rice's opinion of Mr.. Mar
shall, being an extract from Mr. Rice's letter
of last winter in reply to j. Ross Browne:
"Mr. Browne further says, that William
r. Marshall, the principal purchaser, is a
merchant and speculator. Now, Mr. Mar
shall is simply merchant, and his character
for integrity will compare favorably with that
of any man either East or West He is uni
versally respected; and for that reason poor
men solicited him to go and bid off the lands
upon which they had settled, to save them
from the expense of attending sale. Not one
foot of land was purchased for himself. but
he attended the sale and bid it off for the
sole purpose Of accommodating the poor.
And had Mr. Browne examined the records
with the same care he seems to have bestow-
ed upon advertisements in newspapers, and
." notices stuck upon trees" or with the will
lingness he gave ear to the idle gossip of idle
persons he would have found Mr.. Marshall
had, true to his trust, conveyed to each ind-
vidual settler, the lands he had improved.
Nor did he charge the settlers one farthing
for the services rendered them"
p. S.-Since the above was in type, we
have received the New York Tribune of the
22d inst, in which we find the following
paragraph FROM THE PEN OF HORACE
GREELEY:
MINNEsoTA.-Itisv is very desirable that the
Territories should be represented in the next
Congress by Delegates earnestly, unpurchas-
ANY uC'oteu " lHc CduSc VI L CTccuOlll IOf
all. William r: Marshall is the Republican
candidate for Delegate from Minnesota, and
is pretty certain to- be elected over Henry
NJ. Rice, the late Pierce-Douglas Delegate,
unless too many votes should be thrown away
on David Olmsted, a third candidate, who is
opposed to the Nebraska Iniquity, but who,
We are assured, must run considerably be-
hind Mr.. Marshall. If the Anti-Nebraska
votes shall be concentrated on Mr.. NJ, his
election is morally certain We urge, there
fore, all Minnesotians who would have
Kansas and Nebraska come into the Union
as Free States, and thus arrest the westward
progress of Slavery, to draw out every vote
for William r. Marshall.''