Minnesota weekly times. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1854-1859, 1856-09-13
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MINxRApoLls, Sept. 9Th, 1856.

MNxRApoLis, Sept. 9Th, 1856.
The Pioneer and Democrat, q the 9th inst,
contains letter purportiag 70 have been written
By some person Ut Minneapolis, referring to the
meeting Of the Fremont Club held st Barber's
Hall, Tuesday evening, September I'd. ~
If this letter had even semblance of truth,
its statements could be attributed in measure
to the ignorance of its author, who. in that case.
would have been likely to. have made some mis-
take and stated part of the proceedings of the
meeting correctly but as he preserved the con-
sistency of lying and incorporating in every
particular, his only object must be to make POI
litical capital, by classifying and slandering those
who took part in that meeting. !" So y 's'sih
This correspondent of the Pioneer and Demo-
crat is one of our late would-be leaders of the
ro-Slayery Democracy, whose only argument is
the slime of personal abuse with which he prides
himself of being inexhaustible; and such only
is the character of the argument to which this inn
portant personage-the recent mouth-piece of the
Border-R uf6an Democracy of Minneapolis--re-
sorts. "Drowning men grasp at straws." The
fact is that this meeting was very largely attend
ed, and more came than could be conveniently
seated in the room and those that spoke were
listened to with marked attention, and frequent
ly were, enthusiastically applauded. There were
but two or three Buchanan and Fillmore men at
the meeting; and when an opportunity was Of
fered them to speak in opposition to what had
been said, to advocate their principles, if they
had any, (which was very much doubted, they
dare not as much as open their mouths; and no
person in the room from the beginning of the
meeting to the end cheered or spoke word for
Buchanan or Fillmore.
7 The general attendance at this meeting is a bad
omen and is very annoying to some of our lonely
and hungry Pro- Slavery Democrats, one of whom
having got tired of shouting alone for " Old
Buck" came that evening and stood on the side
walk at the foot of the stairs of the Hall, and
bawled out Z" Hurrah for Fillmore - but as the
blaat of this calf found no response, he retired
for the night, discouraged and disguised ;-but
the next morning he went to one of his compeers,
who happened to be at the meeting, and who is
apparently ready to do any dirty and mean work !;
and both put their heads together, and the pent-
up feelings of these poor dsconsolate and forsa-
ken beings found vent through the columns of
the paper above referred to in lengthy letter of
personalities, every statement in which is false,
as all that were there Except, perhaps, the au-
thor of the letter. will testify! Are the Border
Rufian Democrats of Minneapolis driven to this /?
l PRo-BoNo- PUBLco.
GO 1t is surprising to US that the Pioneer will
admit articles into its columns that reflect per-
sonalities. The gentlemen alluded to, are every
one of them worthy men, and although the arti-
Gle will not, and cannot injure them, still it
shows bad taste, Ito speak mildly,) both on the
part of the writer and the journalists who give
publicity to his lies.-ED.