Minnesota weekly times. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1854-1859, 1856-04-19
TUESDAY, APRIL Is, 1856.

erncr Germans organ, the Cheese Press, as it
is now universally called, it seems to have been
the aim of its sapiet editor to malign and call
in question the character of our most useful and
respected ctizens-and with the exception Of
the rabble who cling to the Executives skirts
no one, however pure, has assurance that the
next shower of mud discharged through its FL
thy columns will not be directed at himself
People abroad, if that sheet ever gets abroad,
must form an exalted idea of the character Of
our citizens as portrayed in its columns. We
were reminded Of the depravity Of this sheet
on picking up its issue Of Friday, which con-
tans a contemtibly low fling at the editor oil
the .MinnesOfidn and the item to which this
a'auseating dose is appended was so complete
ly foreign to vulgarities that it must have re-
qured mind habitualy trained in obscene his
tory to have conceived the idea in such a con.
nection. However, if this was the only in
stance in which public decency has been shock
ed through that medium, We would willingly
extend the editor some charity; but another,
and if possible, blacker article. appeared in
its columns some months since, viz: ga scene
in an editors sanctum," which, by the way,
met with such universal disgust that the editor
was forced to apologize for its appearance in
endeavor, by strict scrutiny, to publish decent
paper-which promise has never been fulfilled.
In recent number, the editor saw proper 10
denounce, in cowardly and insinuating way,
Mr.. W1NsLow as bankrupt and srindLr.-
When it is considered that Mr.. WINsLow is
one of the most energetic and enterprising
citizens our city has ever known, and never
failed to meet liability, this foul charge
of falsehood and neanness, must recoil and
cover with disgrace the ignoble wretch who
penned the libel. Monuments Of Mr.. WINS
Lows en,eprize, and loyalty to the best inter
ests Of our city, can be seen on every street.
and his name will be remembered and revered
by our grateful citizens, long, long after such
men as the editor of the German organ and
his ridiculous charges have been drowned in
the sea Of forgetfulness.
If the faction. who are known to be the pa.
rents of this disgraceful offspring and burlesque
on all newspaperdom, have no. yet ascer,aned
that their astonishing editor is writing them
all politically dead, they are much farther ad.
vanced in estate of lunacy' than we had sup
posed. In fact, we cannot do otherwise than
hold them, in part, responsible for the litels SC
frequently thrown out through their organ
against the character of our best citizens.
We are aware that we use harsh language
in this connection; yet when the editor Of a
public journal, in order to crafty petty spite
and malice, so far oversteps the bounds of pc.
likeness as to unjustly and uncalled for charge
our best business men with Iankruptcy-thus
endeavoring to injure their credit at home and
abroad-we feel called upon to apply the lash,
and if possible give foreign readers some idea
Of the true character of the paper, in which
those charges originated and we trust the 9th.
er city papers will feel like sustaining the char
acter Of our business men from such foul, un.
just and cowardly assaults.