The emigrant aid journal of Minnesota. [volume] (Nininger City, Minn. Terr. [i.e. Minn.]) 1856-1858, 1858-03-10
Gb& Gnn9rant Sin 9uurnul
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 10, 1853.

CITY OF NlNlNGER. Dakota Co.. M. r.
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 10, 1858.
Important Measures.
Our State Legislature has done work enough the past
week to make up for the dry details and formalities Of
its labors for the last few months. It has passed three
important bills, either one Of which would give that
body an historical name"
The first in importance is the Five Million Loan Bill,
being an amendment to the Constitution, which now
restricts the amount Of Indebtedness which the Legisla-
tive power may incur to an amount not Exceeding two
hundred and fifty thousand dollars, and also entirely
prohibits loaning the State credit for any work Of in
ternal improvement. Tho people Of the State, there
fore, will have to ratify the act before such n loan can
be made. 1t will soon be submitted for their approval,
and the indications are such now that it will be generally
endorsed. The matter has been before the people for
some time for their consideration, and has been thor
oughly discussed. The opponents Of the measure have
suggested every possible objection that could be urged
against it, while its friends have been no less busy in
presenting the great benefits that must follow its adop-
ton, and the result is that the Legislature have de-
cideI to submit it to the people, believing them to be
favorable to it.
The next in order is the Bank Bill, framed in &C.
eordancc with the provisions Of the Constitutions, which
requires for a basis, bills secured by State or United
State Stocks. An objection has been urged against it,
that there were no State Stock, or the other could not
be had for banking purposes here. By the adoption Of
the Loan Bill, there will be simple means provided to
give a banking currency to every county in the State
to do all the business that will be needed for some time
to come. The Loan will soon be taken up now that a
demand for it has been created by the passage Of this
Bill, and banks will be created because it is attainable.
The Homestead Bill is also Of signal Importance to
the welfare Of the State; that it Twill prove beneficial we
have not a doubt. 1t met with some strenuous opposi.
ton on account of some of its provisions ; but in it's
main features was generally approved. 1t exempts the
farm up to 100 acres, or a town residence with a lot
not exceeding 10000 square feet.
We cannot at this time specify all the provisions Of
these bills; they were all materially modified since first
reported, but expect to be able to present them in full
soon. Neither have we time to review them in their
details, to show how they must affect our interests for
good or evil. We believe they are in accordance with
the sentiments Of the people, and if all the good that
is claimed for either Of them is not realized, neither
will the disaster that some have expressed, ever fol-
low the carrying Of any Of them into execution.
Our faith is ~unabiding in the rapid aud unparalleled
prosperity Of our future course; aud we rely on the in.
~telligencc of the people and legislators TO frame laws
to meet all the wants Of the country in accordance with
this expectation. If they should occasionally err, we
eonGde in that same wisdom to remedy the difficulty
as soon as apparent, aud before serious detriment is
brought upon the country. Ia keeping up with the
great destiny that is continually unfolding to the view,
we expect to sec startling undertakings entered into. not
alone in the Legislature, but out Of it and not only in
this State, but throughout the great West.
The late attempt to A~ssassinate Napoleon.
Some surprise has been expressed on account of the
alarm into which the Emperor of France has been
thrown by the attempt on the part Of a few desperate
foreigners to take his life, when his own people seem to
manifest so much loyalty. All Europe IS in a volcanic
state, ready to explode, and sweep the ruling classes to
destruction. In the revolutionary outbreaks Of 1S48,
moderate counsels prevailed in all the administrative
acts of the revolutionists when they succeeded to power.
and this forbearancc on their part is now regarded as
the direct cause of their overthrow, because it allowed
the crafty despots to carry on their plans to regain the
power, which they used with a ruthless hand against all
| who were even suspected Of entertaining liberal views.
The revolutionary party have not been able to main.
tain even the semblance Of an existence in any part of u-
rope,-and it has outwardly seemed that the spirit that
appeared ready to permanently establish Republican In
| situations over all Europe, had been utterly extinguished
since their inglorious overthrow but such is not the
case. Although subdued, exiled and imprisoned, the
leaders of the revolutionary party are actively employed
in the only way now left to them-by secret societies.
These secret Movements have been so we'll carried out,
that they have brought within their organizations the
great mass Of the revolutionists, without the possibility
Of being broken up by any betrayal. 1t is the knowl-
edge Of this fact that has so terrified Napoleon, and led
him to The adoption Of his extraordinary p~recaution to
guard against surprise. The knowledge Of these facts
has also detached from the French Empire the outward
expressions Of good will on the part of the English
press. The British nation met the insclent demands
! and threats Of the French, as harborers of the distin-
guished revolutionary patriots. with such instant defiance
that forced from the Emperor an apology for what had
been said and done. But the breach is now too wide,
for any further harmony to exist between these natural
" antagonistic powers. The English people know that
such ~dcspotisH as now exists in France cannot long be
| tolerated in this age of the world, and believe it must
be overthrow by revolution they arc therefore look
ing for this as q momentary occurrence. Greater SYM
patty will also be shown to revolutionary parties, when
they gain power, than ever before the peoples inAu.
ence will also be more manifest in prompting their gov
eminent to sustain such, instead, as heretofore, Of con-
niving against them.
But the next time the ascendancy is gained by the
revolutionists, victims will be demanded to avenge the
martyred heroes who were sacrificed as im%pediments to
the tyranny of d~espotism; the sad experience Of trust
ing to princes, as in l84S, has been proclaimed as i'm
polite towards a class who know nothing Of gratitude,
and their doom was proclaimed when without mercy
they destroyed every actor in tho republican movement
on whom they could lay hands and their course in
preserving their obnoxious power, has been too we'll cal
culated to confirm this determination of q bloody re-
vengo. II is understood by the present rulers Of Eu-
rana that their fata II saaled xhenerex The revolutionary