The weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1852-1858, 1857-12-26

Died in konseqwnse Of it
HONOR Henry HI. Sibley.'
New York Tribune of the 9TH OF Dec.
abiding to the facts that were being
ID here concerning the forgery OF votes
ct Mr.. SIBLEy, Governor, copies the
nent that return Of 80 votes for SIB-
lad been filed in the Sccretary's office,
,rting to have been cast at kandiyOhi
net, Davis county, when there was proof
, that only nine persons pretended to
here, and none of those legal voters
f them being boy only 16 years old |!
the facts, the Tribune makes these
remarks:
is by such votes-or rather, by such
ls-that Mr. Sibley is to govern Mime
or the next two years. His title will be
Honorable Henry IL. Sibley."
ell are we called upon to admire the in
irony the New York Tribune contrives
lvey by a few we'll chosen words, in
juxta-position ; but never has it be-
spilled It's hot iron with such seething
as it the simple sentence-"His title
oe the Honorable Henry II. Sibley.';
words, in their application to Mr.. SIB-
have even a finer point than the I'ri-
could possibly have been aware of.
ere is probably no person in the Union
sets up for the possession of so large
tity of honor of the most honorable
ty as the aspiring gentleman in ques-
Nc in the Indian trade, and one Of the
called Indian traders noted for tricks
INSCRIPTIONS dealings, he has always
ed himself in being mot as other men"
claiming to be above the WEAKNESSES and
.ionable practices of his craft in their pc
r dealings.
hatever his fellows might be, he was of
rent clay-an honorable man Of the
aristocratic water
e breathed nothing but honor-he slept
othing but honor-his meat and drink
honor.
} inSiauote even, that he was not the very
and body too, of that imaginary element
: Antony eulogised so much, would at
time excite indignant wrath in his own
,rable bosom, besides cause simultane-
' his friends and flunkeys to hold up their
Is and to turn up the white of their eyes
ducks in thunder storm, in the hottest
liveliest of all holy horrors at so sacrile-
doubt, and at the iniquitous, and new
o-be-sufliciently condemned doubters.
ut it so happens, that in these latter days,
lge as it may seem, both doubts and
Oters, in this regard have been multiply
in singularly great degree!
he session of the Constitutional Convep-
S enlightened many minds touching the
ity-the elastic caou.chouc propertieS-of
SIBLEY's honor!
Ohm W. NoRTH's speech in the regular
Convention, was perfect eye
Ter on this point.
herein he shows Mr.. SIBLEY up, as, few
) before the Convention assembled, de-
icing to him the idea of admitting dele
; from PemJina; and then he exhibited the
rse of the coin: Mr.. SHELLEY only few
5 after the session of the Convention COM
ced, endorSin. the admission of the Penn
Delegates as perfectly correct and prop
nd participating in disgraceful revolution
antics mainly because the Republican
abers proposed resisting the very outrage
lad before denounced
UGH tergiversation convinced a goodly
lber Of people, that Mr.. SIBLEYs honor
mt prime stuff, nor any above tie usual
nocratic average!
or did his speech in reply to Mr. NORTH
'hich he equivocated and 9uibbled out of
dilemma, add to his reputation for hon
Die high,mindedness and straightforward
gritty.
q truth, the few awkward speeches-he's
lumsy.at a speech as bear is dancing a
lpipe-made by him in the bogus Con-
ion over which he presided, had the palm
meanness, unfairness, Misrepresentation
intolerance, awarded to them pre-emi-
,ly over any body else's diatribes in that
ltiful body of runaways from the regular
vention. To most peoples minds, "Hal
Dakota" invariably showed himself up in
own speeches, as possessed of about as
h fairness, high-mindedness, veracity and
'r as Betsy Baker, the quakeress, showed
self imbued with real piety, according to
old rhymes
"Betsy Baker
She was quaker,
She wouldn't dance
Bat she would-Jfb"'
other peculiarities of action in
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