The weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1852-1858, 1857-07-18
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In regard TO the Pembins delegation webeiieve that
on Ensbng Act the members from that district can
NOT be refused their seats In the me
er portion Of the Pembina district lies within the limits
of the State at least one half OF the popula
ron resde east the Red river and while on the west
side of the river there but two election on
the east side there three.-fion<er Of Sunday
The above is fair sample of great many
more base falsehoods contained in an editorial
not half column in length. Our neighbors are
certainly growing more and more desperate.
With plenty of maps that can be secured by
every member OF the convention, they have
the audacity to assert that the greater por-
ton of Pambina lies east of the Red river of
the north With JAMES McFETRIDGE, the
collector of the port of Pembina, here as
delegate-a man who, By la,c, is compelled to
reside and keep the Custom House outside OF
the limits of the proposed State, we are
coolly told that it is right and proper to ad-
NIT the Pembina delegation
And then, over in another column, upon
the same page of this truth and justice loving
sheet, edited by a brace of howlers about
"Black Republican nullifaction " of laws Of
Congress, the very act is published which
alone creates this convention, and clothes the
embers with power to make constitution.
The third section of that act says:
That on the first Monday in June next, the legal vo-
tiers in each representative district then eristg acin
10 elect two delegates &c.
Here, then, the very law which the Pioneer
has all the while professed determination
to abide by, condemns in plain and positive
terms the course which would admit these
delegates to seats. No matter if four-hfths
of the district is within the proposed State,
the district ITSELF as whole, is not there,
and it is therefore excluded from participant
ing in the formation of the constitution.
When the Wisconsin constitution was formed,
the case was different. On that occasion
Congress provided that the whole of Wis
consin Territory should be represented
Hence the portion of Minnesota then forming
a part of that Territory was represented.
We mention this fact merely because we un-
derstand the Wisconsin case will to-day be
cited as precedent for admitting the Penn
bina members.
But no men in Minnesota know better
than the editors Of the Pioneer that our con
struction of theIlaw is the only correct one
that can be given. They have great party
object in view, however Since it has been dis
covered that Minnesota is to come In as
Republican State, they don't want her to
come in at all Their Southern owners
such as JAMES L. Orr, of South Carolina,
who was here the other day-has given them
orders to this effect, and of course they are
ready to obey. They know that the Repub-
lican members of the convention will resist
TO the last the admission of these men whom
Congress has placed outside; and if this be
done, says the Pioneers party, then you shall
make no Copstitution-"we will break up
the Convention in row." Of course, we can
have no State, if this occur. On the other
hand, if the Republicans quietly submit to
the wrong of allowing the Penlbina members
to participate, the body is an illegal one, not
constituted as Congress provided it should
be: and when we apply for admission under
it, the Democratic Congress will slam the
door in our face for multiplying the enabling
act.
This is no doubt the intended game-a
game planned and we'll understood by the
leaders here and at Washington. 1t will be
seen at glance that it is game similar to
that of "heads win, tails you lose" Moth
ing but the frmness of the Republican men,
bers to-day can thwart its contamination and
protect the people in their rights in forming,
legally, the organic law of their future State.