The weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1852-1858, 1858-03-27
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don straight Jackets, ior e''"!
furnishing daily the most palpaole ev''e"ces
that they are crazy stark mao '-'uha"c
and consequently dangerous to themselves
o,5 ,b., c,mmunity-eydencas rs palpable
and strong as ever were required to ncarce-
rsta any noa-compos individual the state OF
whose mind was i'll question before com
missioner ID luaatieo inqatrCndi In the
State Sc. ate on Monday: because of our eX
position of the disgraceful items (iquor, re-
yol,er. etc for which an officer of that body
was voted e.rtra pay, under the false pretencc
of extra services performed by him it was
proposed to violate the Constitution and ex-
excise a censorship over the freedom of the
press. and TO restrain by terrorism It's priv
lese on behalf of the people of free comment
upon the actions of their representatives, and
upon the motives for those actions in their
representative capacity If the raging mad
L, en- who, at that time, smartng at the expo
sure of a hideous truth, disgorged their wrath
upon this paper, had proceeded to the extre-
nifty which they threatened, they would
have had we are led to believe, not quite SO
good time of it before they were through
their career as they probably supposed they
would have''when.t they started in to vent their
impotent rage upon the MnaesOtiaa. The
opportunity, much to our regret, did not
then present itself to forthwith embody their
froth and rage into q substantive proposition
for our being hung, drawn and Quartered;
and by Tuesday morning, their courage oozed
out like Bob Acres, at their finger ends
some wise old Gopher outside of their ring,
having probably cautioned them of their i'm
prudence, they concluded to forego the graft
fcation of their greedy
Fee, faw, fl. fun,
We smell the blood of newspaper man,
Dead or alive we will have some,
Fe faw fl, fun.
So We live to tell the tale; and the Reporter
of the Mnnesotian wasn't expelled from the
Senate, according to their programme
But, no sooner had the crazy proxysm sub
sided in the breasts Of the dignifed Senators,
than ike the seven devils in the scripture
thlt were summarly elected and entered IN
TO the herd of swine, the mad fit seized upon
the supporters OF the S5,OOO,OOO loan in the
House Of Representatives, and on Tuesday
last their hall rung with objurgations upon
that awful paper the Mnaeso ian-and they
capped the climax to everything ridiculous
and absurd ever written on the pages of his
tor7, by eravely resolving that they were
homes: men that they had not any of them
been brihed that pure principle alone, and
considerations of State policy alone, were
their guiding stars in giving tLeir support to
Swindlins BILL. We intimated tnat there
was no parallel to this procedure anywhere
recorded but we spoke too fast. We re-
collect one instance in Mormon history.
which mi hit have formed a sort of precedent
Tor their course The disciples of Joe Smith
once got together and adopted the following
resolutions:
Resoleed That the earth the Lords, and belongs
tohS Saints" -..... -
Resolred That are his Saints"
These gentlemen of the Legislature on
their part have just formally voted, substan-
tally, thus:
Reso're6 That only Of pure principle ought to
serve in Legisla ture. ;.-..
Peso1ced, That men of pare lrineip'e'
They should have added, at least as to
SOME Of misunderstanding to our interest p
The resort to this unusual and immodes'
measure of endorsing Themselves, besides being
ridiculous in the extreme, is o. itself calcu
lated to excite the suspicion, were other cir
cumstances even wanting, that everythin!
was not right in their motives for supportin:
the Loan Bill: and that there was an nterna
consciousness that the charge of corruptlo,
was, as to sO1e Of their number, so wei
founded as to render mutual admiration
resolution Of this kind necessary to throw tn
people off the scent How lily conceive'
for such purpose is such 'stop thief cry
ANYBODY not im,ucd with lunacy woul
have instantly perceived and there is n
mr. re striking illustration Of the truth OF th
often-quoted classical adage, that "whom tn
gods will to destroy, they first make mad,
than the passage of this ill-advised and foo
ish resolution. '" Z" wa
If thov wanted an endorsement ha'
they been sane men, or not over anxious, c
innocent ata. they would have calmly sui
1nitted their conduct TO the Judgment of the
constituents and let the people endorse the
ifthey thought they deserved it. But mu
der they say, win always out, and the vel
anxiety of the criminal to destroy all trac
Of his crime often affords the most inlallib
circumstances to detect and convict him.
These men have been makinya similar blu
der. 1t IS most significant as expressing
a negative form the opinion Of their CT
leagues who voted asainst the Swindllr
BIZ, as to the amount of principle whit
gtn.yc4,y actuated its snpporters-that Il
endorsement resolution only reserved
vote !-one more than Vas cast for the b
nits final passage, when az names were r
corded in its favor The minority refus
boldly TO vote tor the endorsement, or ell
left the hali to avcid the question. Is tt
not terribly signiFic nte @'''f ''" .-''''
We have no desire to dead harshly or
justly With the-majority Who have sustain
this talfin It's various, stages up to its fiji
passage. We think they voted for it for ,
rious constructions and that some of the
did so honesty and elrioMly; bu, with t
example of the Extra Session Of the Terri,
rial Legislature ayear ago before u.s. viii
Legislature none deny was Jo'yh ITO
stow the Land Grants upon these very Ra
raid Companies who now have demands
and partially obtained this Loan; and kno
ing from this precedent the, corrupt mode
which the off GERS Of these Companies, w