Minnesota weekly times. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1854-1859, 1856-01-19

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The members Of the Minnesota House Of Rep
resentatives were engaged yesterday morning in
appointing q committee to consider that portion
Of the Governors message relating to Slavery.
At IL O'Clock the question came up for consider
alton, and after most ludicrous scene of dodg.
ing and trembling, turning pale and skulking be-
hind motions to adjourn, . call Of the House, 30.
committee of three was appointed, consisting
of Messrs. Holland, Lott, and Mcleod, from whom
report is expected. An effort was made to place
Mr.. Norris on the committee, but failed. Mr.. Ide
moved that the committee mako a report in the
morning, which brought several members to their
feet and caused the blood to vacate usually flush
faces. Mr.. Ide, observing the predicament in
which his motion had placed Messrs. Gere, De-
Lavergne, johnson, Hubbell and several others
who were elected by Republican votes, maguani-
mously withdrew his motion, and then certain
members of the House breathed freer.
The length of our currency article prevents US
from giving further report of the proceedings.
They will be forth coming tomorrow, in the mean
time we say to- our Republican friends-Drive
them to the wall--make them show their colors.
The gentleman last behind, kept the House
from transacting any business yesterday after
noon. He was in search of book from which
to make quotation In order to annihilate US i
As the Sergent-at- arms couldn't find him, it is
supposed he has left town. ... s..-.a
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DEMOCRACY AND sHINPLAsTERs!
We have seldom been called upon to peruse
or reply to any article evincing such gross ig-
norance and stupidity on the part of an editor,
as the one in the Free Press of the 16th.-
When, few days since, we commenced warn
ing the people against the further federation
and use Of Georgia and other shinplasters. we
predicted that the Free Press would be the first
paper to rush to the aid of wild-ca, and red
dog bankers. Our opinion was based upon
certain known intimate relations existing be-
tween the chief owners of the Free Press and
certain bankers in this city. The article in the
TINES which has stirred up the Free Press, is
as follows: -...-.-
SHrSPLAsreRs Avoid Shnplasters rs you
would serpents, whether they are manufactured
at home or abroad. Pull together to lay the foun-
dalton for a sound currency, and one which will
do US credit when we become State Times.
"Suppose, Mr.. TINES, you consent to let the
currency entirely alone.-Free Press.
We should like to oblige your friends, the
wildcats, Mr.. Free Press, but sense of duty
compels us to most respectfully decline the
The course we have taken on this
subject, was simply for the reason that
we felt it our duty to warn the public at large
of tie almost universal determination Of the
people of the States contiguous TO Minnesota
and the Mississippi, 10 drive all Georgia and
other shinplasters out of the field they h; We so
extensively heretofore occupied In Wisconsin
for several months past, all Georgia currency
has been out-lawed by force of the public con-
tempt of the whole people--all the banks of
the principal Milwaukee, Racine, James,
vile. Madison, WATERFOWL, refuse it utterly
Tn. Great Illinois Railroad Company refuse it
---the Marine Bank of Chicago---one Of the
best conducted institutions in the State, refuses
it. The people in and out Of Chicago,
Galena and Dubuque, are moving against it.
In its palmiest days it never had respec-
table standing outside Of Illinois, Wisconsin
and Minnesota, and while the good work is
going on below, shall we refuse 10 lend our aid!
Shall we countenance it here after it has be-
come stencil in the nostris OF the whole COM
mercial world between this and N. York city
---after it is repudiated in payment for the very
paper perhaps on which the editor of the Free
Press writes his learned commentary on the
currency, and in defence Of the illegitimate
spawn here at home tina. is gradually creeping
into every avenue Of trade?
Says the Free Press:
"The constitution of the United States makes
gold and silver the only lawful tender, and pro-
hibits States from emitting bills Of CREDIT
Well, sir, suppose it does, how does that af-
feet the goose, or rather, the currency question
We believe that the latter is the one you are
trying to elucdate. We advise that you ''post"
yourself on the construction of constitutional
provisions before you quote them. What have
-" bills of credit to do with banks or State cur
rency? A somewhat celebrated work on the
Science Of Government" says:
446. Bills Of credit are declared to mean
promissory notes, or bills issued exclusively on
the credit of the state, intended to circulate as
money, and which the faith of the state only is
pledged to pay. The effects of this kind of paper
money on the public prosperity, by destroying the
necessary confidence between man and man, as
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disastrous. These bills of credit, having no
funds set apart to redeem them, were seldom
paid, except at a ruinous discount. The losses
sustained by the community from this species of
money, prior to the adoption Of the constitution,
induced this restriction upou the powers of the