The weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1852-1858, 1856-03-22
THURSDAY, MARCH 20, 1855.
Barssew, the Usurpsr.

Barstew, the Usurpsr.
We gave the news yesterday that Bar
stow, the bogus Governor of Wisconsin, at
ter having acknowledged the jurisdiction o.
the Supreme Court-by appearing before il
by counsel and submitting his case-had
withdrawn from the Court after he found il
about to decide against his claims, and had
proclaimed to the world that the Court had
no jurisdiction in the premises! A more
thorough act of disqualification we have
never known; and if the people of Wiscon.
sin do not make the usurper and his corrupt
gang smart severely for this outrage upon
the rights the majority, VIE very much mis-.
take their spirit.
AS matter of course, ali rna.ner of false.
hoods and Misrepresentation are sent forth
to deceive the people at home and abroad
Here is what the Dubuque Express and Her
aid says:
"Governor Barstow having been declared
duly elected by the Legislature of the State
the authority created by the Constitution d
Wisconsin, for the purpose of canvassing the
returns Of Gubernatorial elections, is unwil
ling to be ousted from Office by body hay.
ing no jurisdiction in the matter, and evi
IDENTIFY acting from partizan motives.
"The Supreme Court Judges are elected by
the Legislature subject to Impeachment
by the Legislature, and can no more revise
the decision of the Legislature in the case
than they can revise decision of that body
in case of impeachment and removal of one
of their own members. If the Legislature
has decided erroncusly, we do not see that
thu is any way of reaching it."
Now, there are several wilful falsehoods, OF
falsehoods founded in gross and unpardona-
BILE ignorance, in each of the above para.
graphs. In the first place, it is not the du.
ty of the Legislature of Wisconsin to canvass
the returns for Governor; the Legislature has
not canvassed them, neither has the Legis
lature declared Barstow "duly elected"
Secondlyi The Supreme Court Judges
Of Wisconsin are not elected by the Legisla-
ture, but by the people-jjust the same as
the Governor and the Legislature are cleo
ted. What possessed the Dubuque edi-
tor-a near neighbor of Wisccnsin-to make
assertions so reckless as these The ques-
ton of jurisdiction would never have beer
raised, had not the Court indicated its fina
decision by the decision of a main prelimi
nary question.
Touching the way Barstow was elected O.
new facts are leaking out every day. The
Madison correspondent of the Grant County
Herald gives the following ''good 'un" from
that interesting portion Of Wisconsin-polit
cally speaking--immediately across Lake
ST. Croix from us: ......... g..
A discovery was made a few days since il
relation to the Supplementary Returns,
which establishes beyond doubt the fact thai
they are forgeries. The returns from Spring
Greek, Bridge Creek, Gilbert's Mill are each
written on two half sheets of paper, which
are pasted together at the top, and writer
on in the same manner as lawyers usually
write, viz: by commencing at the top of ono
Of the sheets, and after writing down on one
side, turn it over and write on the other side
in an opposite direction. On examination il
appears that the two half-sheets in which the
returns from Gilbert's Mill were written, are
not halves of the same sheet, but that one o.
Us ha!f sheets eroctly tit one Of those from Bridg
Greek, and the OTHER one fits one Of those from
Spring Greek. There is no mistake about it
but they are certainly halves of the same
sheet of paper for they fit exactly, and you
might tear paper from now till doomsday
and you never will be able to make two
sides exactly TT, unless they were first tori
apart. 1t is, to say the least, curious coin
cident that one half of sheet of paper
should be at Bridge Greek and the other hal
at Gilbert's Mill; and that one half of an.
other sheet should be at Spring Greek, and
the other half at the same Gilbert's Mill, es-
pecially as some of the places are $50 miles
apart, and the paper is all Of the same stamp
and soater mark as that used 6n the Capitol los