The daily Minnesota pioneer. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1854-1855, 1855-09-11

10 measure MI. RICES pOllLlcal prospects,
we cannot but smile at the miserably atten-
uated character of his chances for success,
which grow less daily, and will soon be
like the little end Of nothing whitfield down
to point. ~. -.,....-..
Every one who has resided in Minnesota
during the past session of Congress, will
remember with what industry and pertina-
city the labors of Mr.. RICE in behalf of the
Territory were set forth here. How it was
asserted he strove for this and that appropri-
alton; and how in and out of the legislative
halls, he was the incarnation Of Minnesota
interests the great am-in whose deeply
revolving thoughts trembled the prosperity
Of our Territory. 1t was, to be sure, incl
dentally mentioned that corps of Mime
sofas best citizens were in Washington and
now and then it was even admitted that
they were doing good for lis by their in1u-
ence with the Departments, with members
of Congress, and with the President; but
the overshadowing name and influence OF
HENRY NJ RICE kept them in the rear, and
left him, according to the representations
of letter writer's and other interested per-
sons, as the only person to whom merit was
due. He doomed up in the far distance Of
Washington as great man. and was invest
ed with the attributes of superior being
people yielded praise and gratitude to him,
and almost blessed the hour that in the
chances and changesof politics had given to
them SO good Representative.
That favorable regard changed greatly,
when the Railroad question was agitated,
and sensible that 1t would not be well to
present himself at once, after the adjourn
ment Of Congress, before community up
on which he had inflicted deep wrong,
Mr.. RICE concluded to pass some time at
his town at Lake Superior, in Wisconsin,
which he desired then. and desires now, to
make the terminus of the Railroad He
there rested from the fatigues of labor
which had been given at the expense of
Minnesota, and finally, when he did reach
home here, his advent was as quiet as his
habits were secluded, during his brief stay
among us. He offered no account of his
stewardship--he neither gave nor took any
opportunity for explanation or justification
of his course, and he declined to avail HIM
self of the invitation which his friends Of
fered him of appearing in public. 1t was
not convenient to do so--and he knew well
enough that Mr. RICE at a distance, was
better than Mr. RICE at homeland that
for the maintenance of his political posi-
ton it was far better to be oftener heard
of, than to be seen and heard He trusted
to time to dull the keenness Of the recollec-
ton of his political per6dy, and to his fame
as Il gatherer of appropriations for the Ter
rtory, to save him from political ruin.
Hiding the Railroad question, his Wis
consin town site and railroad terminus un-
der the broad covering of the Appropriation
Bill, and sinking all other merits, if he has
any, in this, MIR. RICE has appeared with
bold and swelling 'front.' by the aid
of unblushing trickery and fraodAin this
canvass. as candidate for reelection as
Democrat, by Democrats His iadhercnts
have claimed for him. with an industry and
zeal worthy of better cause, aNthe credit
of obtaining appropriations, but plain truth
has proved that he secured only title
One by enc, as his pretensions. have been
examined, his claims have fallen away, and
their giant-ike dimensions been diminished
to those of dwarf, ,.- 1t has been discover
cred, likewise, that be has been unfaithful
to bis trust, and has preferred the interests
o. Wisconsin to those of Minnesota-that
he has been the chief means of planting an
intolerable pest in the Blue Earth country
that he has carried water on both should
ers as regards the Half Breed Tract, and
that with the venality not characteristic of
an honest man, he has striven, and is striv-
ing, to carry himself to Congress again by
the power Of the almighty dollar. And so
MIR. RICE stands at present, here at home,
stripped of the attributes which distance
lent to him, and wearing in the face OF an
indignant constituency, his proper character
of a selfish, Inscriptions politician. who,
to secure his own ends, cares not fig whe-
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