Minnesota weekly times. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1854-1859, 1856-05-24
MONDAY, MAY l9, 1855
THE CONSPIRACY!

In our last paper our acquaintance with one
Willis A.. German, ssthe hero of thousand bat
tles,' and the most s available man in the Uni
ted States for the Presidency" 1--WE have his own
word for this,) had progressed to where he had
deceived us as to the condition of the Printing
Office he had offered to sell a.us for $500, which
was worth $30O-(for proof of this, consult our
late partner, J. d. II. Mitchell, Esq.) and which
was subsequently used to publish the st. Peter
Courier, which, until recently, acted in the ca
pacty of his (German's) organ. (We beg par
don of Mr.. Morgan, the late editor of the Cour-
ier, for thus alluding TO him in connection with
Germany Having made German acquainted
with the, fact, that we ad purchased other ma
terial, and did not wish his, we issued on the
18th of May, 1854, the first copy of the ST. PAUL
DAILY TINES. 1t was at this period that we be-
came more intimately acquainted with him. He was
as cozy lap dos-as fawningas dove-as
gentle as soft soap, and as affable as sweet po-
tatoes !-all smiles, all promses-all in all-om-
nipotent, the Alpha and the Omega, the quintes.
cense of greatness-the embodiment of goodness
the all-powerful, overpowering, mighty genius,
who but spoke and the world did his Bidding.
who but swayed his sceptre and inanimate matter
sprung into life and sang paaus in his praisc
Well, we were not very particularly disturbed in
consequence of all this gas! We knew the man, land
knowing his prominent bump to be VANITY, we
tickled it, and how he danced danced to the mu-
sic of his own fattery! .-. .e ...E- ..zs
We had not published many numbers of the
TINES, when this said German, on the petition
of Secretary Resser and others, pardoned ne
gro by the name Of Munroe. who had been con-
victed by aJury for assault and battery with in
tent to kill. The facts in this case we &c so plain
and the inevitable results, detrimental to the
public interest) which would follow the pardon,
that we at once condemned the coaduct of
the Governor as unwarrantable and preiudiciai
to the mantainance and execution of the laws
and the interests of society. 1t was severe
blow to his mightyness, these articles, for if we
were correctly informed, he had boasted about
town that it would not be long before the TINES
would be his organ but his dignity was Offend
ed we were similar to a fractious horse and
kicked in the traces, and fsaling our heels, he
gave US the cold shoulder we'll spiced with that
peculiar bombast for which he is noted, inter-
spersed with stray oaths that add so much to his
conversational powers. We were not troubled
with this German again until after we common
ced discussing the fraud in the Minnesota Land
Grant Bill We wish the reader to take par
and charged again upon US, that Willis A. Cor
man instigated US to oppose the bill. The facts
are these when the news came that the bill
had passed the House of Representatives we were
the first to publish it in an extra and rejoice
over it. When, subsequently,, it was announced
that the Senate had passed the same bill, we an
nouced that, remarking, that now the matter
and the opposing elements growing out of the
passage of a charter the winter previous, could
be harmonized, rs the new bill provided thct tn e
grant should be disposed of by some future Leg
islature thereof, of the Territory. ...
And why was this clause inserted? Because
while the first Charter was on its way through
the Legislature-had even passed that body
Willis A. German most solemnly pledged his po-
litical friends (among whom at that time were
the editor of the Democrat, David Olmsted, and
A. j. Morgan, late editor Of the St. Peter Cour-
ier) that he Uould not sign the Bill-that like
Andrew Jackson (poor, dead Jackson, what a
pity to be associated with German or m ntioned
in the same breath with him, he would tare it up
and stamp itbeneath his feet, and yet, not three
hours after this solemn premise had been given,
he signed the very obnoxious Bill he had pledged
his friends he would not and then, after hav-
ing lost his old companions, he sought to re in
state them in his affections by repairing to Wash
ington, and inserting the clause in the Land Bill
concerning the disposition of the land, which
gave rise to bitter and protracted discussion !
Had German carried out what he had solemnly
pledged himself to do, there would have been no
difficulty about the Railroad matter, and by this
time we should have had part of the road already
graded, and perhaps in running order. So much
for our connexion with this tier, and so much
for the part played by Willis A. Gorman Now
We wish it distinctly understood, that at the time
the Railroad discussion arose, German would not
speak to us in consequence of our opposition to
his pardoning Monroe, and that not until he had
read one or two articles in the Times, was he
aware that an alteration had been made in the
Bill. We are thus explicit in order to set forev-
er at rest this stereotype slander that the Exec
utive was the prime-mover in originating the
the railroad discussion. We originated it and
hold oursef responsible for the issue. Subse-
quently, we sonversed with German on the sub
ject, but not finding him reliable, we cut him and
padded our own canoe. And this brings Us to
the opening of new chapter, which will be
forth coming in our next. -r->.
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