Minnesota weekly times. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1854-1859, 1857-01-31

The editor of the Pioneer and Democrat, of
this city writing under the effects of public opin-
ion, caused by his defense of all those evils which
tend to undermine and sap the very life-blood Of
society," becomes desperate, and in order to divert
The attention of the community from the position
in which he has placed himself, turns upon US
personally, Che does not like personaiities,) and
seeks to place us in the light of a " hypOcrite,"
hoping thereby to neutralize whatever effect our
late articles may have had towards arousing our
citizens to a sense of their danger and the adop-
ton Of some remedy for the evils that now envi
ron u.s. Well; this is not the first time the editor
of the Pioneer has charged US with drunkenness /;
it is not the first time he has sought to shield him.
self from the odium of his course by attacks on
us personally, and from his increasing love Of
the cup, we suppose it will not be the last.
AS to the charge of our purchasing bottle of
gin (not brandy at Anoka, when on trip up the
valley of Rum river, for the benefit of our health
We admit to be true. The liquor was purchased
by order of physician, who, previous to our
leaving St. Paul, insisted that it should be pro-
cured, and if necessary, drank, irrespective of
what the editor of the Pioneer or any one else
might say. Thus does he seize this instance with
a full knowledge of the facts, in order to make
us out ''hypocrite PIN order to divert the
mind of the reader and raise another issue be-
hind which he can hide his own sins. With the
same propriety might he enter our sick chamber
and analyss the medicines prepared for us, or
tear off the cover of our mince pie, to discover,
if possible, the lurking of brandy therein, and
if so, forsooth we are "hvpocrite !'-insincere,
and not worthy the confidence of the community.
If we enter liquor shop on business, the blear-
ed vision Of the editor CONSTITUTES it into drink |!
If we are seen in the company Of those who in
dulge in the social glass, in the distorted brain of
the Pioneer, We are drunk! If we carry bottle
from our Office to the hotel, (no matter what it
may contain,) we are forthwith "hypocrite !'-
Well, ''pie on the agony" Mr.. Goodrich we
can bear it all but if We did partake of spirit
uous liquor per order of a physician, We have no
knowledge of being picked up from the gutter
and carried home beastly drunk. If We do eat
mince pie with brandy in it, We don't induce 9TH
er people to get drunk in order to secure their
votes! IL we DO occasionally enter grog shops
on business, we cannot afford to keep side-bo
in order to entics young men from the paths Of
rectitude and sobrety and send them head-long
to destruction nor do We uphold Or defend, or
in any way shield the murderers and their abet-
tors, or even their FRIENDS who prowl about
our streets in search of new victims. Such things
belong legitimatey to you-take them The
money with which you carry on your drunken de-
hon 60 no rord Of DIV md
orous career-take it, and us you lift the spark
ling glass to your lips, think of the past-of the
principles you sold and of the friends you for
sock, and then laugh at those you seek to drag
down to your own level!
As to '' attaining" at the Republican supper,
Sc the same state of crazy drunkenness which in
an editorial way we have SO graphically described,
and singing in the open streets Care streets usu-
ally shut p those same bachanal songs to which,
in an editorial way, we have so frequently called
the attention of the police of our city, we have
only to say, that the Republican members who
were present at that supper, know whether this
charge is true false, and this is sufficient to
without an explanation. AS We are accustomed
to these fits Of drunkenness, the public will spare
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justification.
But why this personal and ungentlemanly at
tack upon us by the editor of the Pioneer Sim
ply because we have felt called upon to speak out
boldly against the murderers, and robbers and
gamblers, and rum-sellers, with all the kindred
vices that follow in their train, who now infest
our city. We have called for vigilance ON the
part of our citizens. We have set forth the start
ling fact that FOURTEEN murders have been
committed in St. Paul in the space of six years,
and not one of the perpetrators of the deed have
been brought to justice We have set forth the
damnable effects of intempsrance among our
young men! We have denounced horse racing
as calculated to lead to evil We ha We sought
to create better and healthier tone in society land
for all this the Pioneer attacks US personally and
publishes Us as lbeller! II is natural that those
who sympathize with evildoers, should seek to
defend them, but the editor of the Pioneer and all
others who assimilate with him, may rest assured
of our eternal, steadfast, Interchangeable opposition
to those insidious elements that are now creeping
into the heart of our young and growing city,
Notwithstanding their personalities or their SLAM
ders.
Go and See!
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