The weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1852-1858, 1858-03-27
MIR. SibIey and the Tax Pledge Ex-
pungers.

So. Mr.. SIBLEY has ventured out from
the dgnifed retirement which his bOgus-ship
invariably hugs so closely; being quite una
bic, we suppose, to resist this apparently safe
opportunity of hitting, over the shoulders OF
other people, that gorgon newspaperthe Min
aeeotian, against which his grudge, for its ex-
posure for the surreptious manner he obtain
ed his Gubernatoral certificate, must be
only the more bitter from his being con-
strained by prudential motives to ''nurse his
wrath to keep it warm
He makes an issue of veracity between
himself and this paper and doubt less thinks
that because he was for twenty years in the
Indian trade-a trade distinguished in histo-
~ for the high grade of morals it inculcates !.
and because, by pretending no-parsyism
and through the wealth of the Fur Company,
in tlc early days when the scarcity OF the
raw material for great men amongst sparse
population compelled people to put up with
light timber such as him-he got to be Ter
ritorial Delegate in Congress; and because,
recently, in the compromise of factions IN
Democratic Convention, he obtained Cub
ernatorial nomination, ran over thousand
votes behind his colleagues on the same tick
ct. but secured the certificate of election
through the partiality of a rascally Board of
Canvassers who counted for him hundreds OF
known f5rged and fraudulent returns, and on
his honorable protest refused to count
$500 honest suffrages legally and actually
poled-because we say, these are his ante
cedents and this his present position, that
of a bogus Governor, with fraudulent GER
tificate of election in his pocket-he doubt
tless thinks his word as to a fact will over
bear ours, in the estimation of the commu-
nifty.
But he is mistaken. When he protested"
against the counting of those $500 votes, on
the pretext of miserable technicality, which,
even as tecnnicality was unfounded, he
forfeited his claim to public confidence, and
exposed himself to the public gaze as man
who would not stop at any subterfuge or
trckery to crafty his pulling ambition /; and
it will naturally follow, that man who thus
for selfish purposes would cheat $500 peo-
pie out of their inalienable right Of suffrage,
would not hesitate to stretch or bubble
about the truth in any matter wherein his
vanity or his revenge might be gratified by
the elongation.
On the other hand, the people see ir the
.Nimesotiaa an unbought press-a fearless
press-a press upon which they can implicit
ly rely, because they kao,0 it is actuated by
only one motive-the protection of the peo-
pies interests and rights, and those of hui
manity generally-that is incorruptible from
brbes,-unawed by influence and independ-
ent of power-rebuking alike friends and
foes who may falter in the path of duty and
right-and exposing all who make the offices
of the people the medium for gratifying solely
their unholy ambition, or who are guilty ther-
in of mercenary trading for personal ends
or who make the State Capitol, the peoples
temple, money changers Office, or convert
it into den Of thieves instead of place for
the dsinterested and honest administration
of public affairs.
The People bear witness that this has been
our independent course. The People know
that we never make a statement that is not
based on facts and that with no motive be-
fore US but the peoples good, we on our part
also kl.ow that they place confidence in what
we say. Their appreciation and opprobation
ofour course has already been strongly erinced,
Jy their adding to our DAILY list, since the lst
Of January 1858, ONE THIRD ocer as ~hole
l,recious number Of permanent daily subscribers
in st. Pant alone! by their swelling our job
cork to an amount greatly ahead of our pre-
vious custom in that line by their giving us
the best transient adgertising patronage IN the
city, which is due also to our city circulation,
which now surpasses greatly our daily rivals; !;
and by the steadily advancing circulation of
the Weekly lIinnssotion throughout the Ter
ritory!
These are evidences which tell us that the
PEOPLE are Nth as, and that before our
disinterested word as to a fact, Mr.. S1BIEy's
revengelul assertion to the contrary will not
be believed by the community and still
less will he be believed, when he bubbles
and spalters in double sense as in bis let
ter answering those "repudiators' who have
addressed him in their anxious pursuit Of
knowledge under diacultiesi He says he
has chad no consultation with the Railroad
Companies" &C., about calling an Extra Ses
sion of the Legislature to levy the State tai
Of $3.50, 900 to pay the interest on the State