The weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1852-1858, 1856-08-23
MONDAY MORNING, AUG Is, 1856.
The Agony CeBtinues.

The Agony CeBtinues. s.s,., cy .sl
The raking which we gave tie Pioneer on
Friday morning, has considerably increased
its anxiety about the German vote. 1t has
also produced the general result by inducing
the present writing editor to throw aside al
decency and resort to the undignified expe-
dient of personalities and appeals to the bru-
ital passions of the. ignorant and biggoted a.
.mong his readers. There is mo pleasure in
following up a discussion with 'awriter of
this character; and we shall consequently
only notice one or two points of his TRADE of
Saturday. fa r4ts aitn r-as. s.-
Great stress is laid upon the wickedness
of our statement of the historical fact, that
the hierocracy Of Rome was on the side of
despotism in the days of King John, and is
there still. The Pioneer does not attempt
to controvert the statement, because that
cannot be done successfully, but falls to ours
ing at US "like a very drab-a sculliQp,," be-
cause we made it. With the religion Of
Catholics priests or laymen-or with that
of any other sect, we hare nothing to do or
say in these columns. We arc the uphold
ers of the law of equal rights to all, and ever
shall be. But it certainly does not follow
that We shall not be allowed to speak of, the
political principles of an ecclesiastical organi-
zition, if we have occasion so to do, with as
much freedom as we would speak of any oth-
er mems political principles If the news
were to come to-day that the glorious Ro-
man Republic of lS4S was restored, and that
.Garitaldi, Mazzini and their co-patriots had
again assumed those rights which were wrest-
ed from them by Austrian and French bay
onets at the instigation of Pope Plus and his
cardinals and prelates, would the Pioneer
censure us for rejoicing ct the news? If the
friends of the Venetian patriot whose body
was mutilatcd by Cardinal Bedini, the Pope's
late legate to the United States, could by
some means have his wrongs avenged, should
we be denounced for commencing theact7
But this is neither here nor there. When
the Pioneer attempts to controyert ths fact
we stated, we are ready to furnish the proof.
More than half the German population of St.
Paul are with Mr.. Orthwein politically, end
among this whole number is not one, as We
are informed, who adheres strictly to the
tenets of Rome.
But the skeleton of Know Nothingism is
again invoked, and terrible rattling made
with its dry bones. The names of all
the leading X. N.'s of the North who have
for the time abandoned their old orgapiza-
ton in order to rid the country of the curse
of slavery extension, are paraded in formiJ-
able array in the columns of the Pioneer.
Now, what docs this all amount to No one
has denied no one pretends to deny-that
the efforts Of the Republican party from the
start have been to unite all men, Of what
ever party or creed, who agree with them
upon the one issue Of slavery extension.
We nominated our candidates, neither Of
whom have ever seen the inside Of a Know
Nothing Lodge we laid down our platform
which distinctly depounces Know-Nothing-
ism. We then said to ALTO Know Moth
ings and foreigners" Come brothers, and
help us establish liberty and build up Free
Labor in this virgin land Of the West, in
stead of allowing it to be cursed with eter-
nal slavery"
The success that has attended these ef
fforts at union is what annoys the Pioneer
IT sees the sane york going on ip Ninneso-
tia among the free-thipkipg Germans as ID
shown to have been done in Iowa and St.
Louis before the late elections. So it raves,
and curses and damns the men who are fore
most in the work-lies about 0rthwein---
swcars,hs has no influence, but at the same
time shows its deep anxiety by taking SC
much notice Of him !s00ioi.I -
Well, let the ittlo creatures bark eai
.at~ ar