Saint Paul weekly Minnesotian., 1858-12-04
Attorney General Berry Alleged to be
only a Huckle-Berry.--MOre Person.
alitfes.

only a Huckle.Berry-.-More Person.
alities.
TOWNSHIP LAw.-As all the officers of the sew
the Act to provide for Township organization
approved August last, we trust they will give it a
thorough perusai, and thus become acquainted
with the provisions OF that important law. In our
will answer the purposes intended by the friends
OF township organization. The various forms are
published, and too much credit cannot be given to
our efficient Attorney General e. IL Berry, ESQ.,,
Glencoe Rgsster.'
eve are sorry to inform the goodnatured and
confding editor of Register, that he has been aw
fully sold by the Attorney General in regard to the
attached to the Township Law as published by our
State Printer. Mr. Berry has disgraced himself
and the State of which he is the law oicer by en-
bezzling from copyright work, published last
of labor which he claims to have bestowed in the
shape of notes and forms. The work is the labo.
and-under the laws of the United States-the
property of Elijah NJ. Haines, Esq, of the Chicago
bar. Mr.. Berry was required by the Legs ature
of Minnesota to perform the work; but instead OF
doing as required, he has placed the State in the
attitude of thief; and now has the tcnerity TO
claim credit through his party press for the labor
he has performed in robbing fellow member of
his profession of his right OF property
1--WE make these chargcs-which we are able to
substantiate at any mOment-with shame and hu
| initiation. The State of Minnesota Is called upon
to make amends to publisher in nelghborlng
State for the unlawful of property appropriated
by authorized agent of hers for the use OF her
citizens, and those citizens kept IN DssIni ~
| norance of the fact until legal proceedings arc
about to be commenced! A few more such acts as
this, and no Minnesotian will have the face to own
| his home.
"People of Minnesota this is one specimen OF
Democratic management and rule in our State al
| fairs here at the Capitol. Does not your cheeks
| burn with indignation at such conduct the part
| of State officer? 1t would be bad enough were
he private ctizen but he is officer elected to
| do your public business, and has done this act fol-
you, Shall we bear these humating dlsgraces for.
ever all for the mere sake of keeping Democrats In
ofice?-St. Paul Ismes''
| --NOtwithstanding the recent pledge of the
paper from which we copy the above, to "es-
chew all personalities" we therein behold il
charging our Attorney General by name, with
''embezzlement;" with having placed the
State in the attitude of a thief;" with rob
6ing fellow member of his profession y with
unlawfully appropriating property" not his
own, which is only a genteel way of saying
|
son to doubt the facts being exactly as stated
But is this a "dgnifed way of commentin:
upon them? If he has ''stole," to sag that hi
has stolen? If he has ''robbed," to sag tina
he has robbed? If he has "disgraced" tho
State and humbled Minnesota, to sag al
much? Is not Mr.. BERRY an honorable
man? Is not Mr.. BERRY "a gentleman
Can any body believe it is possible he woul(
do such thing? And then to intimate, tha
not content with purloining another man
labors, he has boasted on steamboats, and il
private circles, and got editors to puff him t
the skies, for the "great industry and consum
mate ability he displayed in eifecting tn
aforesaid purloination Such personalitie
are abominable. "The effect of conducting
PAPER on this plan, is well known to ever.
practical man of the profession. The part,
and men assailed are benefited and elevate'
in the public estimation, while the transsress
ing EDITORS party sinks in corresponding
degree and the editor himself losing the re
spect and confidence of all honorable and up
right men, soon looses his own Self-respect
Not that we would be understood as dc
Tending Mr.. BERRY for this small huckle-6err
trick, if the facts are correctly stated. Nol
indeed, do we object ourselves to character
izing crime or mcanness, or official trickei,
, in unmistakable terms of reprobation. But
does seem to Us, that our contemporary ha
not made sufficient allowance for Mr. BERRY
being a member of Mr. SIBLEYs cabinet an
that Mr.. SlBLEy being such an extremel
honorable" man, no man being in his 4
: mosphere could be guilty of anything so di
e honorable as abstractng the labOrs and int
lect of another, without acknowledgment
and of seeking to win credit from the publ
on account of the larceny True, we kno
it has been charged that Mr. STBLEY himsel
is hnoaoingly an accessory to the crime q .to1
l gery by which he exercises the Office of Gov
, ernor but his friends say, nevertheless, tina
he is an honorable man, and that it is
personality to term him disrcputable for hold
) ing and exercising an Office under such Gil
cumstances If, therefore, Mr.. SIBLEY is t
go scot free, then it is shame in this " un
courteous and undignifcd MANNER" to abus
just as worthy.a and just as honorable" a ma
as is our Attorney General BERRY. who
Mr.. SIBLEY's legal adviser and conscience
keeper to boot.
There is one corollory, will be deduced fror
all this-that in addition to some other fact
which might be mentioned, take it for all il
all we have a nice and respectable State Ad
ministration! Don't you think we have rea
der?