The weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1852-1858, 1857-08-08

SATURDAY MORNING, AUG. 8, '57.
OFFICIAL PAPER or THE CITY
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BORUP & CAKES BANK.
BANKING HOURS FROM "A. NJ, TO 8 Pm.
Where's that MajOrity2
The present week will end the fourth week
that will have passed since the time fixed by
law for the meeting of the Constitutional
Convention. The incidents that occurred at
the time of the organization, and those which
have occurred since, we have endeavored to
present to our readers from day to day. 1t
is a noted fact that the seeding body, claim
ing to be Democratic, which meets daily in
the Council Chamber at the Capitol, has all
the while asserted that it comprised major.
ity of the members elect. The bold impu-
dence of this assertion can be better under
stood when the people fully learn the truth,
which, as yet is only partially before them.
There has never been one-half of the number
of los on that floor since the day of the first
regular meeting of the bogus body on the
l4th-one day after the date designated by
law. There has never been one half of this
number sworn in in public sight, although the
Pioneer is continually asserting that fifty,fve
members of its party were legally elected
and are at work framing Constitution. The
pretended credentials of fifty-four claimed
members were paraded on the day Of final
organization but all of this fifty-four Una.
king but one-half of the Convention, count
ing the British American delegation purport-
ing to come from Pembna,) have never yet
been in their seats. Upon the most contro-
verified points that are now daily arising in sha-
pingth details of their bogus Constitution,
the leaders are afraid to allow the yeas and
nays to be called, for fear of exposing their
meagre numbers.
In order to make show of majority, the
leaders, backed up by their accredited or
gan, the Pioneer, have, from day to day,
falsely asserted that either Mr.. Isle or Mr..
PHELPS, of Mower County, (Republicans)
had no right to their seats, inasmuch as Mr.
ARMSTRONG, one Of their candidates, had de.
feated one or the other of these gentlemen
at the polls. All this has been done, and is
still persisted in, notwithstanding the fact
that the official returns of Mower County,
and the result thereby shown, are matters of
as great public notoriety as the returns OF
Ramsey County, right here at home. We
append an abstract Of these returns, with
the certificate Of the proper officer, and the
seal ofthe county attached. This shows that
Mr.. Isle was 62 votes ahead of Mr. ARM
STRONG in the county, and that Mr.. PHELPS
who has been the most villainously assaled
about the matter, had majority of 66 in
Mower county, to say nothing about his BOG
votes in Houston, where ARMSTRONG did not
get vote. Mr.. ARMSTRONG was sent for
by the bogustes, and arrived here one week
ago last Saturday, to see, as he expressed it,
what was up" He appeared, from the
short interview we had with him-although
politics and the Convention were not men.
tioned-to be man of principle, and conse-
quently one not willing to prostitute himself,
as STREETER, J. P. WILSON and others have
done, by taking a seat in the bogus body,
and participating in Its proceedings. He
told the truth to bis political friends-said he
was not elected, and went back home there
by depriving them of their last scheme of
fraud and vllainy which they have contrlved
to procure the fifty fifth man, and thus make
a show on paper of majority of the whole
Convention.
TIE bold lie that the aggregate returns
show large popular majority on their side
at the election of delegates, is only another
act IN their desperate drama. The pretend
ed popular majority Of 1000, or any other
majority, has no tangible existence whatever,
counting the whole portion of the Territory
within the limits of the proposed State.
1t is by thus playing the game of bluff"
and resorting to wholesale lying, that Cor
MAN and his coadjutors expect to succeed
The following are the official returns of
Mower County, alluded to above:
OficioI Result Of tie Election held in the Coun-
ty Of Moacer and Territory Of Minnesota, on
the first day Of June, a. D. 1857, .to, tie Election
of Delegates to the Constitutional Congention:
Aansan B. Vaughan received. ............419 votes
Robert Ltle received ................. .....4I0 g
bo!u fheIFs received ...-....4I6 IS
T. H. Armstrong received ACCOMPLISHMENTS S
Jno. NJ. Wyckof received. ................... 342
Henry Armstrong received. NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. / "
Samuel r. Dixon received. ............,,..
TERRiToR Y OF MINNESOTA, &C
County Of Mower N0'
l. Rufus l.. Kimbal Register of Deeds and Clerk of
the Board of county Commissioners the said county
of Mower, NJ. T., do hereby certify that the is
true and correct copy of the result of the SAID election
held In the said county of Mower, NJ. T., first
day of June, A. D. 1851 according the official re-
turns of said county of Mower
Given under my hand and seal this 21st day of July,
1857.
lsEAL RUFUS L. KIMBALL.