Minnesota weekly times. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1854-1859, 1857-02-21
All Wrong 2.

Whatever others may think, (and there are
some of our own party who differ with US honest
ly,) we still adhere to the opinion that the feel
iDgs engendered at the present session of the
Legislature, and the action of said body, will
tend to create division in our ranks, and initiate
against the prosperity of the future State. Lo-
cal interests and local preiudces have entered in
to the canvas and amalgamated antagonstic po-
litical elements. One section of the territory has
been arrayed against the other, and st. Paul in
particular has been particularly spited. We do
not doubt but that some of the outside members
may have had reasons for removing the Capitol
felt injured by the course pursued by our repre-
sentatives-may have been dictated even by high
er and nobler motives, but what then9 Does this
justify them in their assumption of power p
Does this justify them in sprineing upon the
Legislature question which did not enter into
the canvas? Does this justify them in saddling
upon the New State debt of $4,000? Why
was this question brought before the Legislature
at this particular period What need of so much
haste Are We not soon to become State p
And suppose in the meantime the Capitol should
remain in st. Paul until our Constitutional Con-
vention is held, and we are admitted into the
Union, would the people of Minnesota territory
have been in any way injured? The expenses Of
the Convention held under the act of Congress,
would have been borne by the United States, as
we'll as the removal of the capitol by the peopl
under the same act, but mop, the expenses vii
fall upon the citizens and CM Bono ?-what
good?
1t seems to US that the whole movement is pre-
mature and uncalled for, and calculated to injure
not to benefit. How much better would it have
been to have quietly waited until the pro-
per time, that is, until we had fully arrayed our
selves in the State garment adjusted our clothes,
and felt satisfied that the tailor had made good
fit, and then brought forward the removal of the
Capitol, and having left it to vote of the peo-
pie, been guided by their decision. And then a
correct census could have been taken, and all
parts of the Territory dealt fairly by, while noU,
such thing is almost impossible. We deem the
action OF the Legislature as entirely wrong! and
We think members will live long enough to see it.
While on the one hand they tacitly admit the
"popular sovereignty doctrine, on the other
tuey seem W iSnofe IL, Ior III the Settlement VI
the boundary lines of the State they are willing
to leave the question to the people, while in the
removal of the Capitol they adopt the premises
that the Legislature only, has the right and not
the people, to act in the matter. We can not
reconcile this antagonism, and therefore do we
again reterate our convictions that the course
pursued by our Republican friends will eventuate
in serious injury to the party Notwithstanding, in
their advocacy of local question they may dis
claim any such intentions. II is not our purpose
to dictate, nor do we wish to assume any such a
position, but as a journalist We have right, and
shall exercise that right in giving expression to
such sentiments as seem to us calculated to SUBJ
serve the best interests of the party. We may
err ;-wo do not by any means consider ourseli
infallible; but We are quite willing to suffer the
odium which may be attached to our ignorance.
leaving the future to justify or condemn oul
course.