The weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1852-1858, 1858-04-24


CoNrEMPrIBLE EGorIsM.-We have often
been amused by displays of editorial egotsm,
but the efforts Of the editor of the Minneso-
tian in that line caps the climax. For sili.
ness, absurd vanity. and blasphemy, We place
the article headed And they said Cruelty
him." in the .Minnesotian of yesterday, against
anything that has ever appeared in the news
paper press Of this or any other country.
Referring to his herculean efforts to defeat
the loan bill, the silly ninny says:
AND THEY CRIED CRucIrr HIN, CRucIrY Hrx."-""
N" man, nor even more than man, who disinterest-
edy abors for his permanent good, against their own
passions and prejudces, popular with the mob
The most striking instance Of this truth, I'm record
ed In holy r5 When the pc, n.ss % e
ton to a rule !"
We copy the above from the Pioneer OF
Sunday. 1t may be well to let the public
know, that Mr.. GOODRICH, the editor, is alb
sent down the river, and that the paper is now
under the editorial charge of person who
does not even pretend, as he does, to be a
gentle nan-a low, drunken fellow named
MILLS, the same who was formerly attached
to the Daily Democrat, and was sold with
that concern when it was united with the
Pioneer. He is dirty dog, with natural in
stircts for lying, forgery, and other dispica-
BILE propensities and is on this account re-
tanned IN the establishment, as Mr.. Coop
RICH does not himself like to dirty his hands
with those necessary ingredients in making
up a leading Democratic paper. While here,
Mr.. GOODRICH restraints him somewhat bu'
in his absence, the natural instincts of the
tel ow have full swing. Hardly had his
masters back been turned, when he availed
himself of the opportunity to publish the
foregoing article, in which he is guilty first.
of lying second, of garbling third, Of for
gerry
Under the first count, we include his say
ing" Referring to his herculean efforts to
defeat the loan bill'' we said, etc. This is q
deliberate Justification for We referred to no.
thing but the honors showered on our devot-
ed head by the Loan rabble in caricaturing
and burning us in effigy. The second count,
as to the gar'ling, is sustained by the fact OF
his suppressing the first portion Of our short
article, which showed the occasion for the re-
marks which concluded it. The third and
last count, the forgery, will be apparent to
every man who will peruse the original arti-
Gle entire, as it appeared in our paper Of Sat
urday last, as follows:
"AND THEY CRIED, Cruelty HIM CRU-
CITY HIM Five learn from the Times, that
elaborate Notwithstanding in efigy. etc,
were among the various modes by which,
on election day, the total depravity" Loan
men testified their admiration of the Senior
of the Mnnesotian. They overpower us with
their honors. Some men are born great
some achieve greatness-and others have
greatness thrust upon them
No man, nor even if more than man, who
disinterestedly labors for their permanent
good, against their own passions and prejudi-
ces, was ever popular with the mob. The
most striking instance of this truth, we find
recorded in holy writ, when the populace
cried, 4" Cruelty him ! cruelty him p Could
we expect to become an exception to rule?
The difference between the last para
gaph of the article as it appeared in our pa
per, and as it is garbled in the Pioneer, is in
the substitution by MILLS, the forger, of the
word " his" instead of the word 4" their" by
which forgery the whole sense of the para
graph is altered
We shall not weary the public by dwelling
further upon this matter, which is more in
teresting to individuals than to the commu-
nifty. We should not have alluded to it pos
sibly, had not its ally, the silly Times, with
characteristic mandacity caught up the Pho
neer's forgery, and quoted it as genuine ex-
tract.
The falsifer, garbler and forger, in this
small matter, is the same individual who
forged the McFErRIDaE letter in the Pioneer
about the great rush of emigration and build
ing at st. Vincent, Pembina, where traveller
subsequently found not one house the same
who justified the forgery of the poll books and
returns OF the Otter tail canvass and who
trotted out for the public amusement, with
stup idinanity, that gentleman in the upper
country fond Of his joke )" and the same
who is the author Of nearly every gross lie
and mean and dirty innuendo which that pa
per contains.