The weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1852-1858, 1857-03-21
A State Government.

AS the enabling act which has Just passed
Congress provides for a division of Mime
sofa by North and South line, we hope
the discussion on that question will now be
dropped by general consent. The delegates
to our Constitutional Convention are to be
elected in June, the Convention itself meets
in July, and if we do not quarrel among
ourselves, we have representation in Con-
gress next winter. But if we split up over
the question of boundaries, it may be two
years before Minnesota assumes her rank as
a State IN the Union.
The act of Congress is seriously defective !;
but the objections to it are more than bal
anced by the advantages we shall derive.
from settled and stable form of govern
ment. Let us forget local and partisan ami
mosities, boundary questions and capital re-
mOvals, and direct all our wit and wisdom to
the great work of forming Constitution
which shall be worthy of free, enlightened
and Christian Commonwealth Anthong
Republican,.
The above bears upon it's face an insidious
attempt to lull the people of Minnesota to
sleep upon question of vital moment to
their interests now, and to the interests of
their posterity in all time to come. 1t is a
Syren song which the Germans, the Bal
combes, the Waleses, &C., will sing in the
ears Of the people henceforward to the time
of the election of Delegates to the Corven-
ton in June next. After having, by an act
most fagrantly violative of Constitutional
and Republican principles, denied to Con-
gress the right to be heard. by her statute
books in the Legislature Of Minnesota; af-
ter attempting to dictate to Congress as to
the manner in which she should divide the
domain of the nation into States, under the
power given to her expressly in the Consti-
tuition. this German Republican O. clique,
through one Of their chief organs, now come
forth and say the question is settled!
No indeed; it is not settled, and will not
be until the Convention makes a Constitu-
ton defining the State boundaries as laid
down by the enabling act. Give this Squat
observation-disclosures clique the power in
that Convention, and they will in moment
rebel against the act of Congress; adopt a
| revolutionary Constitution annulling the
Congressional boundaries, and claim that
the people of the Territory alone are to be
consulted in the matter-that it is no bust
ness of Congress how or where the bounda
ries are,-and if they cannot have their own
way, they don't care about coming into the
Union at all. AS was the leading doctrine
of German, Balcombe, Wales and their adj
herents in the Legislature, owe must fore
stall Congress on this boundary question"
Let our Constitution conflict in it's State
boundaries with the boundaries laid down in
the enabling act, and we are just as certain
that it will be rejected by the next Congress
as we are that that Congress will assemble.
Let us, however, on the other hand, 60 to
work and elect good and true North and
South men to the Convention men who de-
spise the modern demagogue doctrine of
"Squatter Sovereignty" in the Territories,
and all will be well. We will be State in
full blast in less than one year from this
time. Railroad interests, and all other inter-
ests, direct the true men of st. Anthony
and Minneapolis to this course at this time.