Saint Paul weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1858-1859, 1858-05-01
The Pioneer at its Old TrIcks--yyho is
Responsible.

The Pioneer in the hands IF the poor crca-
ture who in the absence Of Mr. GooDRIcn
does the writing for its columns, is the most
disingcnunus sheet that we receive. But few
days ago, we convicted it Of garbling one Of
our articles, and of even altering an important
word in the part that was quoted by it, in
order to enable the sub editor to make a
point against us TO which. without such con-
temptibc forgery, his scottish intellect was
otherwise unequal. Again, in Yesterdays
Pioneer, he displays the same disinsenuous, dis
honest trickery. Instead of quoting o rexact
language, he misrepresents with character
istic mendacity what we sail, and the gen.
cral scope of our article. That we do no
injustice even to him, we copy the following
portion of his leading article yesterday:
''The MinneSo'iin acknowledges in effect.
that a ''simplc statement of facts" was sent
to Washington, by the Republicans here for
the purpose Of prejudicing the Republican
members against our application. The OBJ
jcct Of this pamphlet it is also admitted, was
| aided by the influence Of some few Mnneso-
ia Republicans" in Washington. We are
glad the responsibility is assumed"
To show how false and unfair the above
deductions afe,we think it is only requisite to
quote what we really did say from our leader
Of the 28th, as follows:
"The Pioneer.attrihutes to simple state
ment of facts, which IL says some individual
Republican in St Paul has had printed and
| forwarded to Washington to the Re ubl can
members OF Cong ess, and to the influence
of some few Minnesota Republicans visiting
that city, the present reluctance of Congress
rush Ia into the Union.
"Real'y lis it possible that the great
NJ. Rice-the hitherto Goliath of influence
at Observation-Disclosures wi h all the host of
Minnesotlans in tie federal city attending on
the Indian treaties-aded by the renegades
Phelps nd Cavanaugh and Becker-wlth in
addition the refined ingglerv Of Joseph r.
Brown to help him-has become so impotent,
that little paper of factsand word from
one or two individuals, and they Republicans
render nucatory all his Efforts to get Dem
Ocratic Congress to admit Us into the Union.
and himself into the enjoyment of the pay
and perqusites of U. S. Senator How have
the mighty fallen No wonder he couldn't
obtain from the administration the small Of
flee of Chippewa Agent, for his dear and near
friend Mr.. Lynde p
THUS it will be seen, that zoe uttered no
Acknowledgements such as claimed, whatever;
and merely prcdicated our remarks entire
ly upon the allegations put forth by the Pr
0neer.
1t will be time enough for US to make
admissions when our contemporary sustains
any of his charges by ecidence.
If he has any awful documents to produce
we implore him to trot them out; and he
will discover that neither the Mianesotian
nor its friends nor the Republican party will
finch from assuming all the " responsibility"
which fairly and properly belongs to them
The Pioneer gave notice IN the con.
Guiding paragraph of its opening article on
the 9th, that it had some tlunderbolts forg-
ing which it would launch at us ere long
1t said
ave expect further developments of these
d
shall keep our reaflers informed Of them as
they occur"
That is it ! Uncork the entire bottle of
your wrath, and let us see the whole of the
ingredients which make you thus seethe and
bubble with so much toll and trouble. We
shall then be able to judge of the whole ex-
tent of the RESPONSIBILITY, if any, which the
poor Republican party Of Minnesota and
one of its humblest organs, the .Minnesotian,
will be compelled to bear
In the meantime, we present for the public
consideration these undeniable FACTS That
down at Washington there are
"A President of the United States
Democratic;
Six members of the Cabinet-Demo-
cratic;