The weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1852-1858, 1857-12-26

And ef you marry that Jerushey
You've crost the laiN TO git,
Remember that your deers lucy
Died in konseqwnse OF it.
HONORABLE Henry III. Sibley."
New York Tribune of the 1th OF Dec.
alluding to the facts that were being
ID here concerning the forgery OF votes
ct Mr.. SIBLEY, Governor, copies the
nent that a return Of 80 votes for SIB-
lad been filed in the Sccretarys office,
rting to have been cast at Kandiyohi
net, Davis county, when there was proof
that only nine persons pretended to
here, and none Of those legal voters
f them being boy only 16 years old !
the facts, the Tribune makes these
remarks
is by such votes-or rather, by such
ls-that Mr. Sibley is to govern Mime
or the next two years. His title will be
Honorable Henry II. Sibley."
Ell are we called upon to admire the in
irony the New York Tribune contrives
lvey by few well chosen words, in
T juxta-position but never has it be-
spilled its hot iron with such seething
as il the simple sentence-"His title
,e the Honorable Henry H. Sibley!"
words, in their application to Mr.. SIB-
have even a finer point than the Tri-
could possibly have been aware of.
ere is probably no person in the Union
sets up for the possession of so large a
tity of honor of the most honorable
ty as the aspiring gentleman in ques-
ng in the Indian trade, and one Of the
called Indian traders noted for tricks
unscrupulous dealings, he has always
ed himself in being mot as other men"
claiming to be above the meannesses and
.ionable practices of his craft in their pc
dealings.
hatever his fellows might be, he was of
rent clay-an honorable" man Of the
aristocratic water!
breathed nothing but honor-he slept
othing but honor-his meat and drink
honor.
inSiauate even, that he was not the very
and body too, of that imaginary element
: Antony eulogised SO much, would at
time excite indignant wrath in his own
,rable bosom, besides cause simultane-
his friends and funkeys to hold up their
Is and to turn up the white of their eyes
ducks in thunder storm, in the holiest
liveliest of all holy horrors at so sacrile-
5 doubt, and at the iniquitous, and nev-
o-be-sufliciently condemned doubters.
ut it so happens, that in these latter days,
lge as it may seem, both doubts and
bters, in this regard have been multiply
in singularly great degree!
he session of the Constitutional Convep-
enlightened many minds touching the
ity-the elastic caou.chouc properties-of
SIBLEY's honor!
Ohm W. NoRTH's speech in the regular
stitutional Convention, was perfect eye
ner on this point.
herein he shows Mr.. SIBLEY up, as, few
before the Convention assembled, de-
ncing to him the idea Of admitting dele
IS from PemJina; and then he exhibited the
.rse of the coin: Mr.. SIBLEY only a few
after the session of the Convention COM
iced, endorsing the admission of the Penn
L Delegates as perfectly correct and prop
md participating in disgraceful revolution
antics mainly because the Republican
nbers proposed resisting the very outrage
had before denounced
such tergiversation convinced a goodly
nber of people, that Mr.. SIBLEY's honor
s'nt prime stuff, nor any above the usual
average!
Nor did his speech in reply to Mr.. NORTH
which he eQuivocated and 9uibbled out of
dilemma, add to his reputation for hon
BILE -mindedness and straightforward
egrity.
N truth, the few awkward speeches
,lumsyat a speech as bear is dancing a
by him in the bogus Con-
tion over which he presided, had the palm
meanness, unfairness, misrepresentation
intolerance, awarded to them pre-emi-
tly over any body else's diatribes in that
utiful body of runaways from the regular
INVENTION. To most peoples minds, "Hal
Dakota" invariably showed himself up in
own speeches, as possessed of about as
ch fairness, high-mindedness, veracity and
lOr as Betsy Baker, the quakeress, showed
self imbued with real piety, according to
!, old rhymes
"Betsy Baker
She was quaker,
She would mt dance
Bat she would-fb!"
Amongst other peculiarities of action in
it Convention which rather damaged Mr..
'LEY's honorable reputation, was the man
, he treated Judge SHERBURNE, a gentle
n who c position and character and ability
,uld have enforced from Mr.. SIBLEY res
It and consideration, instead of contumeIy
insult. Judge SHERBuRNE originated, in
!. SIBLEY's bogus Convention, series of
olutions for compromising the difficulties
,ween the two Conventions, and by unit
on one Constitution, through the interpo-
ION of joint Committee of Conference,
is save the Territory from the inconven-
ICE of two governments, and'the horrors of