Saint Paul weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1858-1859, 1858-05-15

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sess, feel compelled to "block" the game.
A vindication of the circular would find
its proper place in Black Republican jour-
nal. Yours, etc.,
JAMES MILLS
Asst. Ed. Pioneer and Democrat.
ST.. PAUL, May 18th, 1858.
To the Editors.o1 tho Mimnssotian:
The correspondence and paper herewith
transmitted, and which l respectfully request
you to insert in your columns, was first hand
ed by friend of mine to the present Acting
Editor of the Pioneer, early on Tuesday
morning, the 18th inst, and that individual
gave my friend to understand that it would
be inserted in Wednesdays or else in Thurs
days paper.
After taking whole day to deliberate,
and perhaps to consult with others about it,
my manuscript was returned to me this
morning, accompanied by the lame excuse
for not inserting it which is contained in Mr..
Mills note to me.
On one point, would suggest, that if he
is so jealous of his circulation, he should
have been jealous in the first place not to use
it for the purposes of unfounded detraction
and ISLANDERS.
On another point, l would observe that,
after having filled bis sheet with vitupera-
ton and abuse of myself and others terming
Gov. RAMSEY, Judge COOPER, DR.. FOSTER
and myself "miscreants," "candidates for
hyamy," &C., and called especially upon me,
and "desired to hear from me that my
"reputation" was in danger"-after having
thus slandered and villfied me, and called
upon me to defend myself, he has not the
manliness to place my reply in the same COL
umns where the gross and abusive attack
appeared.
/ What is he afraid of? That his own read
ers will for once see the truth and behold him
and his Washington advisers convicted of
falsehood Is the Democratic Party so
weak-so ricketty in the knees-that the
Editor of the Pioneer breads admitting into
its columns, what he characterizes as Gan
indiscrimnate attack" upon it?-afraid that
the attack might ruin it forever?
Really, I am fattered more and more by
the course of the Pioneer. In the first place,
it informs the public that since the last Of
March my letter, or Secret Circular" has
overcome and nullified all the efforts of Mr..
RICE and his colleagues to bring US speedily
inlo the Union! And now, not satisfied
with attributing this power to my humble
pen, it fears to print a communication which
itself has invited, lest it should overthrow
and destroy utterly, the Democratic Party
of Minnesota
The fairness and candot as we'll as bravery
of this slanderous sheet, the public will esti-
mate hereafter, think, at considerable dis
count. T.uly Yours,
L. A. BABcocK.
Letter from L. A. Babcock, Esq, in Re.
gard to the ''Secres Circular 20
Sr. PAUL, May 10, 1858.
see by your Sunday morning issue, that
you have procured (by what means 1 know
not,) and published copy ola private letter
written by myself sometime in the last of
March, ultimo, and by me sent to several
members of Congress, Republican and Dem
ocratic, and have headed and double-headed
the same, "Secret Circular" &C., &C., and
have made the same the ground of most I'M
warrantable abuse of Governor RAMSEY,
Judge COOPER, Dr. Foster and other prom
inent leaders and members of the Republic
can party of Minnesota.
Now, it is no doubt my duty, in justice to
the persons named and the Republican par
ty in particular of which am a very unim-
portant member, to say, that the Letter-not
"Secret Circular''-wds aCritten by myself
without the knowledge, suggestion or consent
of any Of the persons named by you, and
that it was my individual act, and in no sense
is the Republican party responsible for it,
And as to Governor RAMSEY especially, who
seems to be the person principally struck at,
he was not in the Territory when it was
written and he did not to my knowledge,
up to the present time, know that any such
letter had been written by me, or any one
else.
The Letter is mine. The language and
sentiments are mine and 1 am alone RESPONSE
BILE for its authorship, its transmission, and
its circulation.
1t was written by me in the fearless exercise
of my right as an American citizen to think
what 1 please and to give untrammcled
expression to my thoughts, in a legal and
courteous manner. And, sirs, the facts it
contains Notwithstanding your charges
that the Constitution is garbled and posi-
tive lalsehoods stated, (please point them
out),-part Of the Political History of Min
nesota and Of its Constitution.
That our House Of Representatives is actually
elected for life, is fact which, admit, is not
generally known-pcrhaps by not one in
hundred of the voters of Minnesota-but one
which will or must be admitted to be fact
by any honest man who reads the Constitu
ton. 1t is fact also which believe had
it been known before the adoption of the
Constitution, that instrument would never
have been ratified by the people and which.