Saint Paul weekly Minnesotian., 1858-12-04
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Old Madeira Favored with M0ccasins.
It appears to be settled, that SAMUEL Me-
DAIRY, Ex-Governor of Minnesota and Post
master of Columbus, Ohio, has been appointed
by President BUCHANAN to be Governor OF
Kansas, and that the venerable Samuel has
after due elaboration as to the sum total he
could make by it, duly accepted the appoint
ment. When the announcement of this nom-
nation was first made, FoRNEY's Philadelphia
Prssspublshed the following first rate notice.
thereof:
Mr.. BucHASAN's MApEIRA.-Our excellent Pres
ident Mr. Buchanan. has taken it into his head
that the sovereign State of Ohio should be called
the island of Madeira that everybody worthy
of his favor should be called Medary; that Medary
should be appointed to all the offices, and that no
body but Medary should get any place whatever
Wealways knew that Mr. Buchanan was fond OF a
good glass of nutty old Madeira-the Wager Ma
aeira0the Reigart Madeira, the regular Madeira
of the old school. But. then, there must be an al
Tentative; we cannot live on fish all the time; We
cannot drink Madeira all the time change now
and then is good for the strongest constitutions;
So however, with Mr.. President Buchanan. He
has fallen dead in love with Sam Medary-or, as
they syllable it in Ohio, Sammedary. Our worthy
Executiv. has no eyes for ybody else. lie sees
Sam only: he drinks in Medary alone. Vain to
remind him that there is such statesman as Will
liam Allen at Chillicothe that Dave Tod lives near
Cleveland; and that old Pennsylvania Is full OF
representatives as the Buckeye State-the Presi
dent sees Sam and longs for Madeira only. The
fact is this liking for Sammedara is characteris
tic of our our new Majesty James; for Sam has
been the opponent of the aforesaid James all his
political life. He has hated him with double
headed and double barreled intensity. He has
written him down for years He has cursed hm
edtorially, delegatorially, and corporally he has
anathematized him at the church door, at the tav-
ern door, at the post-ottce door, and at every
door. He damned him at Baltimore IN ls44, IN
in 1s56-becoming temporarily chairman OF the
Convention, of which he was delegate, and Ia
boring TO sponge out the Buchanan minority by ap-
pviug the majority rule-and finally he wet-blank
eted him before the election, giving Ohio to Ere
mont by a rousing majority. Hence this Presiden-
tai regard for Sammedary. lie has been the most
consistent opponent that Mr.. Buchanan ecer had, 3,
ersn tn Ohio. And this is his title to considera-
ton.
The moment Mr. Buchanan came into power he
made Sam the Governor of Minnesota. The du-
ties of that Office being discharged after fashion,
and the Territory becoming State, Sam was
translated into the poSt-othce at Columbus snug
which he still holds The Governors chair of
Kansas becoming vacant, there was no other per-
son from Ohio to fill il but Sam, and accordingly
il is publicly rendered him! And this in less than
two years. The virtue of enmity, and the wOrthl-
ness of friendship, not often well illustrated
Medary is neither Solomon in wisdom, Cicero
in oratory, Bayard in versatility, NOR a Wllber-
force in morality; but having done his best to
prove his hostility to the President, he has thereby
won alike his affection and his regard.
Now, there is something in the above ar
ticle hardly fair. 1t says that SAMUEL di~-
charged the duties of Governor of Minnesota
after a fashion" In reply, it might be urged
that the fashion was of the true Democratic
pattern, set by Candle-box CALHOUN in Kan
sas and this doubtless is one reason why Mr..
BUCHANAN has selected him as the new Exec
utive of that Territory.
But besides this notice by the Philadelphia
Press, since Mr.. MEDARY has made up his mind
that good pickings for himself or some of his
relatives may be gathered in the fighting Ter
ritory, and has therefore accepted the Cover
norship, our ambergris friend who edits Mr..
SIBLEY's official organ here in St. Paul, viz:
the Pioneer Dc Democrat: thus commends the
new Governor to his subjects:
A NEW GovERSop OF KANsAs.-These poor dev
lis of Territories are to be pitied Filled up as
general rule by energetic and intelligent classes OF
citizens they are made the Botany Bay of broken
down, used-up politicians. The general dlsrepute
into which the very name of Territory has fallen,
comes not half much from the inferior and un-
stable character of population, as from the shakey
and damaged character of its Imported officials
We have had some and sad experiences of that
kind in Minnesota The latest and most unfortu-
nate was with Col SAM MEDARY, who, it is stated,
has accepted the Governorship of Kansas. He
came up here not to officiate Executive, but on
q tour of speculation. Failing to crafty his expec-
tations in the pecuniary line he left whan the Ter
ritory was in state of anarchy, and at a moment
when q firm, good man mil ight have been of service
to the party and the people, and posted TO Wash
ton for other and more lucrative position. He
furnished with the Columbus Post Office, as
temporary stopping place, until something better
should turn up. This has been found in Kansas,
and thther he las gone. 1t was rumored while
since that he about to resign his Columbus
Postmastership, and remove permanently to this
State. The rumor was false. He has gone to Kan
sas. We congratulate Minnesota. We commits
serate Kansas.
Is this not too nsulting9 1t is almost as
bad as the recent article by the same editor,
twitting our Democratic Senator, HENEy NJ.
RICE, with being of too 'limited capacity" to
be thought of for the Office of Vice President
"a position once filled through regular
Democratic nomination, by a man of the ca
pacious mentality of Col. DICK JOHNSON of
Kentucky! But the article now in question,
is not only insulting to Mr.. MEDARY, but it
evinces the deepest ingratitude on the part of
acting Governor SIBLEY and of his editor, for
valuable and indispensable services received
by them from MEDARY in the hour of their
direst need But for Governor MEDAHY, Mr..
SrBLEY would not now be sitting in the Exec
utive Chamber of the capitol, daily, stroking
those cavalier whiskers and those Byronic
mustaches, of which he is so proud, and put
ting on those Gubernatorial airs generally, as
though he were an honestly elected and fairly
inaugurated Governor We submit it to
candid men Of every party, whether Mr.. SIB-
LEY of all men in the world, ought to speak
disparagingly of the shakcy and damaged
character of Mr.. MEDARY. In whose behalf
and in whose service was that character most
seriously damaged and wind shaken? The
reply is ready. 1t was in Mr.. SIBLEY's, as
everybody in Minnesota well knows, We
ask Mr.. SIBLEY to recall seriatim the various
important obligations he is under to Mr.. Me-
DAIRY, and blush with shame, if blushing is
possible to twenty-year Indian trader, at al
lowing his paper thus to abuse the old "War
Horse" When the latter was Territorial
Governor of Minnesota, in that very Executive
Chamber whence Mr.. SIBLEY has dictated to
his editor these assaults upon him, the Ohio
chieftain, with care and thought, and toll and
trouble, and boil and bubble, happily mixed
the ingredients of the political witch chaldron
that charmed the sage of Me0dota into the
Gubernatorial Office Is it asked how he
mixed them ?-we answer, thus: