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

The old adage says that "a candid confess
sion is good for the SOUL" We are glad that
two of the leading Democrats of the Mime
scta Valley have come to the conclusion to
adopt this motto, despite the tactics drilled
into them by their more INSCRIPTIONS friends
of the Pioneer, and other leaders. That i'm
maculate organ of the negro breeding De-
mocracy goes off into "tantrums' whenever
the fact is charged home upon lis editors,
that its party leaders are opposed to the adj
mission of Minnesota into the Union as a
State unless she can come in as "Democrat-
ic" State. But a particular friend of the Pi-
onse''s-Mr. Register-ocD Deeds CowAN, of Nj
colet county, owns up to the charge like a
man. Ofcourse he is good authority, as he
had recently assigned to him the delicate do
ty Of making out credectials for the bogus
members from Pembina-a duty which in
law he had about as much right to perform
as has Mr.. OLIVIER, the Register Of Ramsey
county. A few nights since, Mr.. CowAN
and those noted gas-bags, +. j. WHITLoCK
and WIN. B. Dom, caused to be gathered to-
gether some fifty or a hundred ofthe loalerage
of st. Peter and Traverse DIES Sioux, at which
meetings Mr.. CowAN reported, according to
the Pioneer, the following resolution embody-
ing one of the principles of the party, which
was unanimously adopted:
ReeOZre6 That We cordialIv .nnroya of tho sto nd
against fraud and injustice which the Democratic dele
CATION have made and that exhor them to adhere
remain a TERRITORY ttdn that the Odious tea
tures Of modern RepubIicdnisn shall be thrust qtton
as IN ourtunddmentaSh aac against the expressed will
of the people,
There That's owning up like men. "No
State unless it is Democratic State"
The other candid confessor is our especial
favorite, Uncle 10 BRowN-" the gentleman
from Henderson" as president" S1BLEY rec
ognises him on the floor of the bogusites.-
JOSEPH has written a letter to his paper, the
Henderson Democrat, in which the following
unwholesome truth and mortal falsehood are
set forth.
On Sunday eueaing, we attended the first Democratic
caucus, consisting of so ne twenty-five Democratic
bers elect to the Constitutional Convention During
session of the caucus proposition received from
certain Republican Members of the Constitutional Con-
venton, proposing IL O'Clock NJ. the following day
as the time for the meeting of the Convention. To this
proposition the Democrats present acceded, far
they were concerned and at the of the Democrat
ic members the next morning, the proposition duly
and formally concurred in, and the Republicans in
formed thereof through a Committee.
So, JOSEPH, it is then true that you had
Sunday caucus, the assersions of the Pho
meer to to the contrary Notwithstanding
But why couple this admission with the false
assertion that you acceded to the proposition
of the Republicans to meet at IL o'clock on
Monday? Don't you know that this is a
most awful lie, and that we have the written
documents to prove it such, which we have
already published
But these confessions of CowAN and
Brown are worth something. They prove
tho charges Of venality and double dealing
which we have made against their party; and
we feel it due to them that they should be
placed Fright upon the record"