Saint Paul weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1858-1859, 1858-09-18


There are several Editors to the Pioneer,
representing various moral, intellectual and
physical peculiarities.
First, there is the Poodle-Dog Editor, who
fetches and carries for SHELLEY, does up the
smut which he suggests, and sneaks around
Legislative chambers and government offices
seeking something to steal in the way of fat
printing job. Then, there is the Rotary Editor,
who, in the intervals of debauch, fills up the
gaps between the barks of the Poodle afore-
said, by his own dirty maudlin. Next, is the
"Specialty" who transcends transcendental-
ism-a young man who ekes out his physique
with words of learned length and thunder
ing sound,' and who tries by covering with a
thin intellectual stucco homely bricks and
mortar, to pass his brain-temple off upon the
crowd as all of genuine Parian marble. He
affects out-o-the- expletives-words
that the commonality know not the meaning
of; he revels in the super-sensuous;" and in
a recent article from his pen, for instance,
gravely told US that the "the radical error of
our nation is the search after the super-sensu-
Gus, the ideal, which, according to Proudhon,
is identical with the unreal" description of
Yankee character which does not tally with
the frequent accusations made against us for
being too utilitarian, and for seeking the prac-
teal to the almost entire absence of ideality
and of the ornamental In comprehensive
survey of Contemporary Literature, which
we find in the Westminster ReUiew, of July,
1858, on page 139 this sentence occurs, which
would seem to have been plagarised by the
Re0ieao from an article in the Pioneer of Aug.
18th, on "Books and Authors" in which ar
ticle the above quoted ''super-sensuous'' SEN
tence is to be found. The Rsviev says: I" In
philosophy not "our nation u the primal er-
ror of our nature reveals itself in the search
after the super-sensuous- the investigation
of the metaphysical entities which we call
matter, spirit, time, space, &c."-a sentence
in which, we think, the reviewer has slightly
improved upon the sense of the Speciality s
original draft This is not the only plagar-
ism which the British reviewer of July COM
mits upon the Pioneer article of August; but
we have not space to point them out; and con-
tent ourselves with observing, that there is a
sentence in this Reuiew which so we'll suits the
peculiar especially" of the "super-sensuous y
editor, that he will have delightful oppor-
tunity some time in the future to retaliate up
on the Westminster for its plagarisms by adopt
ing in turn its language in full, with very lit.
tie skillful alteration, "a portion of one of his
editorial articles This is the sentence we al
Jude to-: "The Importance of doctrine of
indiUiduation, as antagonistic to the Panthe-
ism of Averroes, is we'll insisted on, while it
is not attempted to defend Aquinass opini ion
that the individuation of sngulars is to be
sought in matter: even more contempt is
shown for the Scotist doctrine of hecce1y''
Could there be better imitation of the super
sensuous style of the Pathological branch
of the Pioneer editorial corps? We think as
sentence it is quite equal in clearness to one
of his own (?) in the article of August 18th
before mentioned, where he says: "It is not
impossible that some decided form of social
ethics, which has no significance to genera
ton stunned with its reverberations, may fall
upon the ear of posterity like voice from
Heaven, coherent and articulate expression
of the eternal law of things )" all of which is
no doubt, entirely correct, though those rever-
berations might perhaps be thought by some
to be slightly incoherent.
But not to dwell further upon the peculiar
wordiness of the "super-sensuous" writer Of
the Pioneer, we would mention that he claims
Likewise to be Latin and French scholar
having graduated with great ectot when a
sub-Indan trader in the Indian country, al
one time being clerk of Frank Steele and
at another of the Sioux Outfit controlled by
Mons. Siblay! and suffering therein many mo.
wing accidents of flood and field.
These facts explain sufficiently two points
LIST, why he is so sensitive to insinrations
touching the infallibIe moral and int llectua
character of the Moccasin Tribe; and End
how he became authorized, as if by special
patent, on account of his being an Indian
trader, to insist that Norman-F rench, and
other provincial French, is just as good, and
in fact is Parlsian French o, and it accounts
likewise for the singular integrity he DEVELOPS
in the Pioneer of yesterday, when he tries tc
sustain his absurd position that "Honi sol
qui NAL g pense is good French instead OIL
Norman or law French, by alleging that il
was adopted upon the coat of arms OF Eng.
land by ga King of France with Norman
blood in his veins!"
On reading this, people would be led to
suppose, that bona file "King of France y
was really the author of the phrase; and that
therefore, there was an end to the argument
as French King might be readily conceded
to know French in its purity.
But it so happens, that the King of France
he alludes to, was King of ENGLAND, which
crowned head, it is we'll known in history, was
for centuries after the time of the Black
Prince, always styled in English public docu
ments "King of England, France and Ire.
land" and this too, long after that potentate
had ceased to own an inch of ground, OF
sway the slightest authority in France
Is not such deiberated misrepresentation
of a fact highly disengenuous towards tue
public?
But their Indian Trading Ethics allows q
such deceit; though we trust to see some Of
these days, a "stunning reverberation from
the popular voice which shall ignore such
ethics from our political system forever.
In another article of yesterdays Pioneer
we observe that it is coy about accepting the
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