Minnesota weekly times. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1854-1859, 1855-08-14
MONDAY, AUGUST l3, 1855.
..aONoR no WHOM HONOR BE- DUE"

"HONOR TO WHOM HONOR - DUE"
A great deal has been said in the st. Paul
Democrat, st. Croix Union, and other knock
down and drag out Kansas and Nebraska jour-
nails in this Territory, of the inestmable services
rendered to Minnesota, by II. M. Rice, in his ef-
forts to procure grant of lands for Railroad
purposes. We have pcrused these articles with a
smile, and have only waited for q fit opportunity
to tear off the mask which has been thrown over
MIR. Rice by his friends, in order to aid him to
seat once more in the Councils of tbs Nation.
Who first conceived tho idea of n Railroad from
tho Iowa line, to st. Paul, and from thence to
Lake Superior Was it Henry NJ. Rice? No.
Who was entrusted to go East and seek the CO.
operation of capitalists to construct Railroad
on the West side of the river to st. Paul? Was
it Henry NJ. Rice? No. Who was instrumental
in arousing the feelings of the people of Minneso-
ia to the Importance of Railroad connection
with some of the Eastern States? Was it Henry
M. Rice ? No. Who corre,ponded with gentle
men on this subject and spent his time and money
in seeking to advance the great and praise-worthy
scheme? Was it Henry NJ. Rice? No. Who
was an carly friend and an early advocate of the
great Northern Pacific Railroad route ? Was it
Henry Nj. Rice? No. Who then the man
None other than
WILLIAM r. MARSHALL,
the present Republican candidate for Delegate to
Congress. Don't start, reader !-wo are treat
ing of facts which can be substantiated, and we
challenge a contradiction of what we here assert.
1t was Mr.. MARSHALL who first gave Mr.. Rice the
idea of the Railroad scheme, which his friends
talk so much about. 1t was Mr.. MARSHALL, who,
by personal exertion and the CO operation of ma
nv of his friends, succeeded in getting the first
bill before Congress, and it was through the ara-
riciousness of Henry NJ. Rice that that bill was de-
feated. Letters arc now in existence in this Ter
ritory, wherein Mr.. Rice says that he adopts the
views advanced by MIR. MARSHALL on the Railroad
subject, and with the legitimate thunder thus
stolen from a modest, and retiring, through saga
cious and far sighted humble citizen, Mr.. Rice
has rode into notice on cloud of glory.
We have stated that it was through the ardri-
ciousness of Mr.. Rice that the first bill for grant
of lands defeated, for proof of which we refer
the reader to the proceedings in the Congression-
al Globe of the session of 1854. Now, we
ask, who drew up the second bill? Was it Mr..
Rice? No. That bill was drawn up by Mime
sotians who were in Washington just after at
the time the first bill was defeated. Mr.. Rice
had little or nothing to do with it and did not
wish anything to do with it, from the fact that it
contained clauses not agreeable to his feelings
The course pursued by Mr.. Rice on the first bill,
had paralyzed his inauence,and when he accosted
the members relative to the passage of the second
bill, they turned their backs upon him. 1t was
then through the instrumentality of such men as
Gov. Ramsey, Gov. German and II. ii. Sibey,
and their friends, that the bill passed the House,
and finally passed the Senate, and it could not
have passed those two bodies without the under
standing that "the lands should not inure to
any Company now constituted or organized," and
that the bill should be " Submitted to some future
legislation.'' What followed? A fraud. Where
was Henry NJ. Rice? Did he watch the interests
of Minnesota and detect the fraud? Did he raise
his voice against it ? Look to the record Ito
the evidence he gave before the Investigating
Committee, and seek an answer there. Had Mr..
Rice been watchful, as he should have been, Of
the interests of our Territory, Congress never
would have repealed bill giving munifcent
grant of land, but on the contrary would have
added ten-fold to the appropriations already pro-
cured.
Now, we ask the citizens Of Minnesota if they
want such man to represent them again. We
ask if it is rot time to place man in our Con-
gressional Halls who will not sacrifice the interests
Of the pc ople to the interest of his friends, uhO
pay hm ,cell for services rendered. We ask them
that of the two candidates before the public, who
Their they would not prefer WILLIAM Il. MARSHALL.
both as true man and the representative of
great principle, to one who. in borrowed plumagc,
struts for a while on the stage of life. Whatever
may be their views on this point, one thing they
should not overlook-always render I" Honor to
whom honor is due.''