The daily Minnesota pioneer. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1854-1855, 1855-09-04
The Wisconsin and superior Rice Party

itorial duties.
The Wisconsin and superior Rice Party.
1t is fixed fact, which no amount OF
sophistry or affected denial ON the part of
the Democrat and the Known Othing Or
CANS of Ii. M. RICE can controvert, that
the interests of that individual and of his
most Jealous advocates are "bound up in a
bundle" with the fortunes of Superior,
in the State of Wisconsin, and that their
Joint efforts are directed to render Minneso-
ia tributary to that point. The course of
Mr.. RICE, during the last Congress, fur
nishes evidence sufficient to satisfy the most
incredulous that such is the true state of the
case Not only did he cause a proviso to
be inserted in the money bill for roads that
the terminus Of the Point Douglas and Saint
Louis road should not Be IN Minnesota, as
originally provided for in the last appropri-
alton obtained from Congress by Mr.. SIB-
LEY, for its construction, but in the draft of
the Railroad bill, granting lands for that
purpose, Mr.. RICE was careful to make a
specification that that also should terminate
at the mouth of Left Hand river, in the
State of Wisconsin In fact, Mr.. RICE
would appear to have had the interests of
upper Wisconsin much nearer his heart than
those of the Territory he so faithlessly rep
resented The very men who are jointly in
terested with him in Wisconsin are now
moving Heaven and Earth to effect his
election, and the friends of Mr. OIMsrED
have much cause to apprehend the introduce
ton of legion of Wisconsin residents to
cast their votes for Mr.. RICE at the APP
preaching election, at the different precincts
from Lake Superior to the mouth of the ST.
Croix. While such course would be
highly reprehensible and improper on the
part of our Wisconsin neighbors, we would
regard them as really ungrateful if they did
not manifest much interest in the political
destinies of a man who has sacrificed his
own constituents for their personal advan-
tage as we'll as his own. We must not be
surprised, therefore, to find so much solici-
tude for Mr. RIcE's return to Congress on
the part of the citizens of the neighboring
State. 1t is not to be wondered at, in view
Of past events.
Let us run over the list of the services to
his own Territory, so much Wanted by him.
self, and by the venal papers which favor
his election, and see how much praise he is
entitled to-
Erst.-He procured the location of four
land Offices OH the Mississippi river, within
thirty or forty miles of each other, in utter
disregard of the convenience of the people
of the Minnesota Valley, and of the back
counties generally, most of whom must now
travel hundreds of miles for the transaction
of their business in securing their pre-emp-
tons. No doubt these settlers will thank
Mr. RICE, in their own fashion, at the polls,
for his criminal Indifference to their inter
eStS.
Second. He procured the insertion of a
clause in the Winnebago treaty, granting
to those Indians the Blue Earth region, in
the very heartpf the finest portion of Min
nesota, and the residents of Blue Earth,
Steele, and Ricecounties will thank him in
much the same manner for converting their
beautiful country into a nest of the most
unmitigated thieves and scoundrels that ever
bore the semblance of the Red mar
neutrality-suspicious. were made to
carry on roads on the west side Of the Mssis-
sippi, all Of which but one, were in full opera
ton before he commenced his official career
and the sums of money provided would
have been forthcoming, in response to the
estimates and calls from the War Depart
ment, had no Delegate from Minnesota
been present. In the single exception OF the
original road alluded to, the appropriation
is barren of results or of advantage to the
people, because of Mr. RIcE's ignorance Of
the topography of the country. The road
cannot, according to the report of the En-
gineer officers be located in accordance
with the requirements of his bill He is
welcome to appropriate all the credit he is
really entitled to, in connection with these
appropriations, for that can be compressed
into remarkably small space.
Fourtb-He obtained not dollar of ap