The weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1852-1858, 1858-03-20
The Messenger Sc Useth up, the Times.

The Messenger Useth Up'' the V1meS.
We find in the Messenger of Tuesday, 10th,
the following rejoinder to an article in the
Gopher organ. Its keen satire cannot we
surpassed.
awe find tie Saltwater Messenger treading
in the same shoes of it's cO-laborer of this
city, and it is about as gentlemanly in its al
lusions We have hitherto esteemed the
Messenger for its apparent fair treatment, but
if its last issue is a specimen of its future
course, we can assure it that its further at
ia ks on us will receive no retort at our
hands. If we have been mistaken in the
character of the man, we arc glad to be thus
early set rights. Paul Times"
we don't feel disposed to work ourself
into fury, or to 60 about town snivelling
shall not make q fool of ourself by cutting
his acquaintance because we can't agree with
him. or he with US, on question of public
policy. So far as . treading in the shoes of a
co laborer" is concerned, our files will show
that we took position against the Loan Bill
long before any of the st. Paul papers COM
mitted themselves either for or against the
measure. AM, did it from conscientious mo-
tives We always listen kindly to counsc c.
but VIC choose to draw our own deductions
and to arrive at our own conclusions from the
facts before us.-When we conclude to be-
come machine, to be worked and directed
bv Others, we propose to 60 to prOpelling
some other institution than public press
a mud-cart or a brick-hod, for instance
something that can't do much mischief if it
does go wrong.
From our hitherto kindly relations with
the Times, (Which we do not intend shall be
interrupted for anything he or we have said
on this question: we might perhaps feel
grieved, if we should try hard to do SO, over
the above ratLer snappish episode in the
Loan discussion-but on perusng another
article in the same column with the above,
We find the following paragraph, which would
than anything we have yet said with refer
ence to those who think differently from our
self on this question-excepting, always,
when we have Spoken directly of the r. r..
Companies. With the Companies, we have
to suck the heart blood of the people but
with those who are not sclfshly interested in
tue five million grab but act from honest,
though as we DcllcNc lulStaheu VIEWS OF pup
lie policy, we can respect them in their feel
incs and views to the same extent that we
would have ours respected. In speaking Ct
the opposition to the grab, the Times says:
at springs not from the people, but from
broken down politicians political hang
ers on-men upon whom the public have set
its verdct-ambitious men-weak minded
misunderstanding men,-all of whom care less
for the interests of the State than for their
own. But time will lay them away careful
ly on the shelf, and their places will be filled
with others whose spirits will be more in
consonance with the progress of the age"
If the Times editor were in anything like
an amiable mood, we would submit to his
better judgment if he has ever received any
such treatment" from the Messenger. But
as the shot passes high above our head, it
don't hurt us personally.
Before friend Newson commences laying
us g on the SHELF we trust he will consult
US on the subject, as we are somewhat Gs-
tidious as to posture, time, place and other
little matters connected with that event and
especially if the Pythagorean doctrine be
true. that when person dies his soul passes
into the next one born, should he be careful
as to the time when he " shelves us, lest our
old fogy spirit should pass into .Ns,osonian
disciple, and thus retard the "progress of the
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