The weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1852-1858, 1857-10-24
A Good Quiz on the Pioneer.

The st. Paul Advertiser thus takes off our
mild and s.forbearing" contemporary of the
Pioneer in its groans over the interruption to
the troubling eih.iu-byes" process of our Irish
fellow citizens of the Second Ward, on elec-
ton day, after o'clock, P. NJ:
BULLIEs, KNAvEs, ScouNDRELs, RAscALs,
VILLAINs.-The Pioneer of Wednesday de-
nounces in terms of just indignation the
gang of Republican bulles," who undertook
to revive the obsolete and offensive right of
challenge at the Second Ward polls on the
preceding day. Crimson streets are conf
IDENTIFY predicted as the result of a repetition
Of this insult to the community.
We can testify to the atrocious conspiracy
of these DULLES against the sacred right of
every lrishlnan to vote sixteen times, and to
the intense disgust excited by their unwar-
rantable interference with established Gus
tom. We have taken pains to ascertain the
names OF some Of these odious wretches, and
we publish them here that they may be
speedily brought to condign punishment:
TIRE REPUBLICAN, BULLIEs
George w. Moore, the sscoundrel - ROYAL
Lowell, j. B. Philips, Amos w. Hall, John
B. Spencer, Mr.. Atkins, w. F. Duffy, E. In
gals, j. NJ. Phillips, and other names nm
known, fifteen in all, who backed I'D the
scoundral Moore in his nefarous plot.
To these we fear we shall have to append
the names Off. G. Ramsey, sheriffs Tullis and
Bracket, NJ. E. Ames, and several police
i,en who at intervals interrupted the proceed
ings Of our Irish fellow citizens in the most
disgraceful manner. 1t is painful fact,
showing the depths of degradation to which
human nature is capable of descending, that
most of those men were actually armed with
deadly weapons to protect the insolent as
symptoms of the challengers, and were en-
tirely prepared for the contingency of Grim
son streets, in the event of that luxury being
considered desirable.
And what makes their conduct more rep
rehensible is that they have the reputation
and appearance of respectable men, Of high
social position and hitherto of irreproacha-
bic character. Several of them are members
of churches-wolves in sleeps clothing; in
furthermore stating that this petty clique OF
interlOpers numbering but 10 or 70 against
some 400 whose strongly expressed wishes
they Opposed-we show this tyrannical out
rage in its most abominable light. 1t is
needless to say to our enlightened fellow cit
liens that this barefaced attempt of fac
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overwhelming and unanimous majority-is
an insduous attack at tie very principle of
Democratic institutions and furnishes a rrec-
edent which if persisted in will result in the
subversion of all free government. But to
cap the climax of this infamy let it be re-
membered that the men whose votes were
challenged were generally strangers who in
that sacred character should have been ex
empt from the insult of this public inquisi.
ton. We know personally Of one Wagon
load of ten or twelve persons from Dakota
county, and another from St. Anthony-who
were thus inhospitably treated-when COM
mon courtesy should have dictated a cordial
reception of visitors from neighboring towns
We join with the Pioneer in commencing
the remarkable forbearance exhibited by ouI
Democratic friends on the occasion Of this
persist mt maltreatment. Their patience
really reached the sublime limit of christian
resignation. Messrs. Moore, Spencer, Love
and others, furnished instances, in their coat:
hats and persons, of the prevailing sweetnes
of temper. They were not only treated wit
forbearance but were Rugged and embrace
with every mark Of violent affection.