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

Correspondence of the Minnesotian
Minnesota Land Grant Passcd---Repub-
licanism I'm COngress--Fair play q Jew
el..-HOnOr to who M Honor In Due.
WASHINGTON, March 9th, 1857.
have no desire to rob Peter to pay Paul,
but at the same time cannot tamely look
on and see Paul rob Peter of the credit just
ly due him. There is a wide difference be-
tween spirit of fault finding and simple
record of historical facts. The one is actua-
ted by malicious feelings, the other plain
enunciation of truths. desire to award to
Minnesota Republicans the need of credit
and praise due them for their late success
before Congress and no more.
From the organization of our Territory
until the present session of Congress, all,
or nearly so, of Minnesota influence, wheth-
er in or about Congress was democratic
The delegate democrat, and the lobby mem
bers democrats. For years they have bus
tied and noised, and done nothing. They
were all spectators; had their hearts in
tensely bent upon securing immense perso-
nal gains were boiling over with jealousics
and antagonisms, and winter after winter
met defeat. This is their history. 1t needs
not another word, for the facts are palpable
to every Que, and no gentleman will gainsay
the truth with the record before his eyes.
Now for the other picture. No individual
knows more of the history of the different
Gland bills' brought before Congress at diff
ferent sessions than myself, and no one is
better posted as to the influences which OPP
Grated for and against said bills and Mime
sofa may thank God that the democrats had
this winter mischief enough on hand to keep
them at home, and Republicans of good
order of society made their appearance at
Washington. For years 1 have watched the
course of Minnesota democrats in and about
Congress, in reference to this land bill, and
noted we'll the causes which kept the grant
from US. I am, and long have been con-
WINGED; that the fault did not lay in Con-
gress. As the Honorable A. Rust from
Arkansas remarked to me, that the confering
of the grant would be carrying out settled
principle of government "the true principle"
If the fault was not in Congress, it might
have been betrayal of the confidence of
the Territory to private ends, that kept it
from us. On the grounds of reason, justice,
and necessity it at all times presented bet
ter cause for action, and had more Congress
sonal sympathy, than the Wisconsin grant
which was to penetrate an uninhabited will
derness, to make valuable the lots of some
imaginary towns upon Lake Superior; nev-
ertheless the Wisconsin grant passed, and
Bayfield, became the speculation of the day,
and the parties piled up hundreds of thou
sands.
l remarked that this winter men of a DIFF
ferent stamp appeared upon the carpet
Men who could be neither warped from the
purpose for which they visited Washington,
cajoled or hattered out of their object. or
corrupted from the true interests of the Ter
ritory and they have succeeded so we'll that
our State owes them deep debt of graft
tude. Foremost, and at the very head and
front of this band, place RICHARD CHUTE, of
St. Anthony. 1 sag three times three for Rich
ard Chute From the moment he arrived
here, every element of power he could bring
to bear was increasingly employed, and he
succeeded. He undertook to confer with,
and secure the cooperation of the northern
and western vote, while the south was left
with Mr.. Rice. The vote came; Chute's
friends stood right up to the work, the south
tabled the BILL A Minnesotian in the Gal
lery SO cursed and swore aloud, that ex-
pected to see him speedily in the hands of
the officers. We all withdrew full of de-
spair except Chute, on whom defeat appeared
to act as stimulus developing renewed en-
ergies, and such too as always leads to vic
tory. The next day, and the next and so
on found Chute laboring as heartily and san
guine as though certain of success, and this
very determination to see no defeat led to
conquest. Upacards Of three millions of acres,
corth to the State at least t,centy millions of dol
lars, is thus secured to us, and that by the
first essay of Republicans in Washington af-
ter the democrats had been successfully de.
feated for six years.
We will all leave here in few days for
home, when I will tell our folks some good
encouraging truths. Put your best horses
10 the Republican car, for I tell you it is
bound to 60 ahead. The wild extravaganza
of the democrats, have run the thing into the
ground and the nation is rapidly becoming
disguised.
The Inauguration was finely conducted,
and with fine day passed off we'll. Gen
Cass don't agree with the President on the
"Squatter Sovereignty" question, and there
are still some doubts of his filling place in
the Cabinet. The President wants j. R.
Thompson to fill Cabinet place, but it is
thought he will refuse. I knew Thompson
when he couldn't have got vote for road.
master, now he can refuse a portfolio. Sc
things 60. He is broken down country
merchant. Yours truly,
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