Saint Paul weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1858-1859, 1858-07-24

through the pen of EARL GooDRIcH, its SEN
Tor editor, vehcmenty denounced the entire
proceeding. Speaking of the Company, and
abiding to the RcEs, BRIsBIN, LowBER, Bill
LlNGs, id est omne genus, he used this strong
language:
Attacking in the first instance, the Leg
islative branch of the government and seek
ing by forgery of the public records to COM
pass their swindlng designs, they are now
engaged in proStUttiRg the Jn3icidi dr'm-met-
amorphosng the Temple OF Justice into
Halls of Jugglcry. where Right is ignored
and the Tricks and Stratagems of Profession
al Chicanery triumph"
For permitting his office to be thus, though
on his part ignorantly. abused by his Deputy
BRlsBlN. Attorney General CALEB CUSHING,
procured the District Attorney (JcHN EsAIAs
| WARREN,) TO be removed by President
! PIERCE, in the most summary manner -
| Having thus accustomed a worthy man to be
sacrificed to lis unwilling completely in the
: Professional Chicanery' necessary to &C
|
as their Swindling Designs" the next evo-
lutions of this huge Boa Constructor of Ras
caity and Fraud were made before the Su-
preme Court of the United States, where 1t
dragged its slow length along, for several
years, until very recently it was dismissed
from that Court and sent down to the Inferior
tribunal from whence it came, for the latter
Court to amend its decision on the CASE
which was found to be technically Incomplete.
There are good lawyers who believe they will
finally succeed in obtaining the lands, not
wlthStanding the undoubted forgery in the
Land Grant Act-but We think their success
will depend greatly upon the amount of COL
lusion which the government officials, not to
say the Court itself, may be got to afford to
the final triumph of the scheme.
Thus we have presented a by ief but faith
ful history of the anecedents of the Mime
sofa and Northwestern Railroad Company.
But there is an appendix yet to come,
which exhibits still more strikingly than does
even Il e past the constitutional proclivity of
the Indian Trading Wall Street Managers of
that Company to achieve fortune and success
by those means disbonOrablc to public virtue
and honest dealing, which seem to have char
acter;zed them from the start-which made
them bride the Charter through territorial
!cgislatu es - alter the Land Grant Act
through Congressman here in Minnesota
metamorphoSe the Temples of Justice into
Halls Of Jugglery."
Their appeal Case it may be remarked,
when transferred to tile silent portals Of the
usual deep sleep of the laws delay. From
time to time, however, the hopes OF the pco-
pie OF Minnesota were fed and their eXpecta-
tionskept alive, by intelligence promulgated by
tie company or their agents, that decision
IL their t;tcor was to be shortly forthcoming
that they were SIRE to get the lands: that
the cars would be along right speedily =
(Nor, we would observe, are they the only
Railroad Company managers who in order to
bAmboozle the people, are good at making
PROMISES more than they can and often more
than they intend to keep.
Tired, at length, however, with the hope
continually deferred that this company would
go on with their MISUNDERSTANDING even
Ned RICE had at two elections with charm
ing tratcrnal affection, aud to help his broth
cs's political prosperity, made parade of sur.
veying routes, locating bridges, and all that
pharaphernalia Of humbug with which he Sc
well knows how to fool people-notwith
standing these tricks Of the trade, We say
Congress was once more solicited by our i'm.
patient people to giant public lands to Min
nesota for the purpose OF aiding in the con
struction of Railroads within our own borders
In tue early part of 1857, Congress yielded
rally with lands for this purpose which
lands it is well known were by corrupt means
under the immediate auspices of EDMuNI
RICE, all disposed of at the extra session o
the Territorial Legislature held here in tho
Spring of 1886, to FOUR Railroad Companies
who engaged for that magnificent bonus, tt
dud he Cdpitt and build the Roads, just as
tie Illinois Central Railroad Company haC
accepted the lands and found the Capital tt
build the roads of the State of Illinois.
in the meantime, while these things Were
trans spring, it should be noted that the ole
Minnesota AMI Northwestern Company wa:
considered practically d.fana: their cas-,
hopeless in tic Supreme Court: and the fact
that teir Charter was obsolete unless rcviv
cd by further Legislative action, attributed
to produce the universal impression that il
was Il dead cool, in the pit, and would never
kick again. Md RICE and Il portion of thu
same crowd who originated it, galvanized it
and did so many dirty acts to preserve its ex
istence, had also entered into the body Of the
new Minnesota and Pacific Railroad Compa
ny and possessc' that likewise: SO it is no
to be wondered that Tie Minnesota ant
Northwestern Company was no longer con
sidcred distinct entity or living fact.
Suddenly, at the session Of the State LIE
gi>laturc OF Minnesota only l.tc over 81,
months after the four Railroad Compare,
had pledged themselves to furnish The Capita
to build the roads as q constellation f0r re
ceiciag he ta"ds, the public mind was startled
by their confession of total bankruptcy, and
by their making aproposition,-sugg sted, at
first, by the Railroad of which EDMUND RICE
is President but which was by each of the
f0ar Land Grant Companies eagerly adopted
as their own-that the STATE should, in atldi-
ton to giving them the lands, also find then,
a Capital Of Goc mI!ions Of dollars where
with to build their Roads