The weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1852-1858, 1857-08-08
The Tribune In Danger OF Annihilation.

The Tribune In Danger OF Naturalization.
Once in about every six months our self
conceited neighbors of the Pioneer and Dem
ocrat put on couple Of pairs Of giants boots
and breeches-which they retain in their Of
flee for these especial occasions-and proceed
to annihilate the New York Tribune. We
have not however noticed that Mr.. GREEL Ely,
Mr.. DANA or any other gentleman connected
with the editorial department Of that useful
and widely circulated journal, ever felt the
usual equanimity of their temperament the
least particle disturbed by the loud mewing
of these two small pussies in big boots. On
the contrary, We are led to believe that the
circulation, and consequently the influence Of
the Tribmne has been largely increased in
Minnesota by their malicious grimalkin cries,
feeble and impotent as they are upon sensi-
BILE people.
The Pioneer was taken with its last fit of
Tribuneplobia yesterday morning ;and some
place within its desperate howl of exactly
two columns in length, it makes most pal
pable and broad-faced lying assertion, and
in connection asks the "three thousand sub
scribers of the Tribune in Minnesota" what
they have to say about it We suppose those
supporters of the Tribune in Minnesota are
all to give direct answer for themselves up
on this question, if deemed necessary. We
do not intend to attempt to answer for them,
as in the first place we have not the space;
and in the second we are fully convinced they
are, as body a class of men who have
knowledge of the fact. that polit-
ical organ whose paying business it is to up
hold the doctrines OF modern Pro-slavery de-
mocracy, can only accomplish its ends by
lying and deception; and therefore
its apeals to them will 60 entirely unheeded.
We will let the Tribune take care of itself.
Its ability to do so, no one questions. AS
proof of this fact, we turn the Pioneer and its
bogus Democratic friends of the west end
over to the tender mercies of its leading edi-
torial of the 27th-the material portion OF
which we publish below.
The Journal of Commerce, one of the Pio-
aeer's black allies, having endorsed the Pho
aeer's course and published a batch of its
alsehooods injustification Of the action of the
minority members of the convention, the
Tribune takes occasion to lay the whole ques-
ii before its readers by quoting in full the
case as presented by these two pro-slavery or
cams, and then proceeding to answer as fol-
lows:
"This is their whole case, made outby the
most adriot and thoroughgoing champions of
he Slave Democracy let us see what it af-
firms and what it dares not deny
1. 1t affirms that ''the Black Republicans"
nave "not quorum of legally elected Dele
rates )" but it does not, because it cannot,
leny that majority of the legally returned
Nle~bers are Republicans. Now represen-
ative body always is and must be organized
ny quorum Of the persons holding the le-
,al certificates of election, which are prama
facis evidence of the fact they set forth
The body, when properly organized, can in
institute an inquiry into the correctness and
validity of these returns but, until such in
luiry has been had and judgement pro-
nounced thereon, the certified Members are
the Members in fact, and a majority of them
constitute legal quorum for the transaction
Of business. Even in the famous New-Jersey
contest, the Democracy claimed that this
fundamental rule was not overstepped, be-
cause there were conflicting returns, and the
House simply declined to decide between
those returns prior to its action on the Main
Question. Taking their own statement of
the case as unquestiOned, the Democratic
Members of the Minnesota Convention are
shown to be violating the first principle gov
erning the organization of deliberative bo-
des-the principle, namely, that the certii-
Gates of membership granted by undouted
returning officers must be respected until the
House, after investigation, shall, by a direct
vote, have overruled them.
Now lie. us set forth the real facts in the
case, and all of them.
l. The Enabling Act authorizes each
Council and each Representative District of
the Territory to elect to the Constitutional
Convention twice as many Members as it
sends to the Territorial Legislature. The
number of Councilmen and Representatives
is "a, so that full Convention would natu-
rally be composed of 1OS Members.
H. But the district or county of Pembi-
ma, on the north line of the Territory, lies in
good part outside of the limits prescribed by
the Enabling Act of Congress for the propos-
ed State of Minnesota, nearly all its inhabi-
tants (who are mainly French and Indian
halfbreeds long resident in that region) re-
side outside the proposed State, in what will
probably hereafter be known as the
Territory and ultimately the State of Dako-
tab. Of course, these have no equitable and
moral, yet they may have technical and le-
gal, right to be represented in the Minnesota
Constitutional Convention and it is claimed
that six members are now in St. Paul hold
ing what purport to be certificates of cleo
ton from Pembina Our correspondent says
that these certificates are signed by the clerk,
not of Pembina, but of .Nicouet County, and
that one of the members thus certified e.. P.
Wilson) has lived ever since he came to
Minnesota in Ramsey or Hennepin County,
near st. Paul, and is believed never to have
been within five hundred miles of Pembna
He believes it can be proved that no election
was held in Pembina County, and that the
certificates of election of the persons claim
ing to represent that county were manufac-
tured in St. Paul. Still, if they are properly
authenticated as emanating from the return
ing officers Of Pembna County, we hold that
they are to be respected in the preliminary
organization.
III. The county of Hennepin was EMIT
led to choose two members in its capacity of
Council District, and four other members in
its capacity of Representative District. The
vote was close, and two of the Republican
and four of the Democratic candidates stood
highest. But the Republican ballots were
correctly designated and cast for two mem
bers from the Council, and four from the Rep
resentative District while the Democratic
ballots were cast for six members lin lump
from the county. These last were rejected
by the returning officer as not cast according
to law, and thus all the Republican candi-
dates We're returned. They are, of course,
prin.G fade members but will naturally be
unseated in favor of their competitors, should
the facts, upon contest, appear as above.
w. The st. Paul Pioneer 4. Democrat
asserts that several of the Republican men,
bers were chosed ON the Jumped ticket, so
that the certificates might have been given to
their rivals, as was done in Hennepin. But