The weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1852-1858, 1857-04-04

as follow of the men who were foremost in
working our Railroad Grant through
Congress:
"After Mr.. Rice, who, as Delegate, of
course took the lead, and had the position to
do the most good, there was no Minnesotian
in Washington who worked harder or effect
ed SO much as Mr.. CHUTE. He had been
there before, knew the ropes, is man of sa-
gacity, and untiring energy, and l am
free to award to him the credit of doing
more for the passage of the bill than any
other outsider; and if you ever have an OPP
portunity of seeing that credit is given to
Hon. B. F. WADE of the Senate, for his in
terest and personal efforts in behalf of the
Bill, hope you will not forget him. While
Toombs, Douglas, ct. al. will be eulogized,
MIR. Wade will be forgotten, though there
was no man in either House who took a
deeper interest in seeing justice done to Min
nesota than he did"
There is much truth, as we know from
other sources of information, in this state
ment. The Ohio Senator, Mr.. Wade, not
only worked for us in his place in the Senate,
but took off his coat and labored with those
House members of his party who were fear.
full to vote for the bill lest they should be
charged with corruption; and by his forcible
style of argument stiffened up their back
bones amazingly at the very time their votes
were most wanted. Any one who has ever
met Mr.. Wade, and has become acquainted
with his manner of doing work of this char
acter, can imagine the way he went at it in
this instance, and the ultimate force of his
peculiar and successful style of reasoning.
Another hard worker for the bill has not
received from the press of Minnesota the
need of praise which is his due. We allude
to Senator Stuart, of Michigan. We venture
to say that no member of either House felt
greater solictude Or manifested more ear
nest desire on the subject than he We might
cite, also, the untiring energy of Mr.. Bennett,
of New York, Chairman of the Committee
on Public Lands in the House, as we'll as the
good works of scores of others in both
branches who deserve always to be remem-
bered by the people Of Minnesota. While
we would not detract an iota of credit from
Mr.. Toombs or Mr.. Douglas, to whom we
owe much, we think the fulsome and erclus-
ice praise bestowed upon them in certain
quarters, is in very bad taste, to say the
least. Gen. Shields, also, is lionized at the
expense of other Minnesotians at Washington
at the time. The General is a good man,
and one whom we highly respect as per-
sonal friend; but the fact that his name hap
pened to stand at the head of certain Pc
tition, does not prove that he secured the
grant, or that the people of Minnesota are
bound to send him to the United States Sen
ate as a reward for his past winters labors
There has been already, in st. Paul and
elsewhere in the Territory during the past
two weeks, quite enough toadyism in eulogy
of two or three men who managed to get
this Land Grant. We earnestly suggest to
those who seem determined to single out
Mr.. Toombs as the e1clusiye lion of Minneso-
ia in the Senate, whether that gentleman,
being as he is, a liberal, high-minded and
honorable man, may not repent himself of
what he has done for US, by coming to the
conclusion that the people of Minnesota are
a set of crazed enthusiasts or horde of
calculating sycophants.