The weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1852-1858, 1858-02-13
Our Admission not probable for Three
Months adjournment of the Legisla.
ture-Our Three COngressmem.

Months of the Legisla
ture-Our Three Congressman.
The following is an extract from lettel
received by a member OF our State Legisla
ture from prominent Republican member
of Congress:
HorsE OF REPRESENTATIVES,
January 2S, lSoS J
Ny DEAR SlR:-I have yours of the l4th. There were
some objections raised before the Senate Committee il
regard your admission, account OF the gross rau'
and trick practiced by yoar officials in sending down
the Constitution only signed by the members of the Bo
gus Convention Ii is understood that the same
committee has hatched up comp mise, and tha
the committee report unanimously 20 admit you at
once. When the bill shall have passed the Senate, il
must 20 through our House but how the MEDARy trick
will be there regarded cannot say. But my own opin
Ion IS that will be time before it will get through
Perhaps it will be required that the Constitution signed
BY the Republicans be officially certified, before tht
House will pass the bill. Ii is very probable that an at
telnpt.w be made in the House by the Lecomptonites
70 hang Minnesota Kansas and Oregon As things
stand il is 4possiblc TO tel anything about when you
Will be admitted. Perhaps month, and perhaps less,
hut more likely not in three months.
The fact Of your sending down hare one if not two
members of Congress than you entitled TO- Is
calculated to embarrass your coming in.
Yours, very truly
The above letter from a quarter entitled
to respect, gives Us he first certain news oil
the position of Minnesota before Congress,
and the probabilities of our speedy admis-
sion. Three months is set down as the most
likely period, before Our Senators and hep-
resentatiyes will find themselves snugly es-
consed in those so arm-chairs OF Congress
which Democratic simplicity and Democratic
economy have 50 magnifcently provided for
our American Solon>.
three months more will bring us up about
the first Of May aud as this is long time
to wait and as nothing the Legislature now
does. IN the opinion of eminent lawyers, will
amount to anything. without a subsequent
curative a. signed by the constitutional Gov
ernor Of re State, we submit whether an
adjournment over to that period would not
be sound policy and sound economy.
In the interval, the members could consult
with their constituents upon their willingness
or not to bear the burdens imposed by the
Monster Loan Bill, for the speculative bene-
fits it is alledged 1T will bring.
If the real people, the Farmers, Mechanics
and Business Men are willing to shoulder the
pack, so be it.
But we do most emphatically protest
against submitting such momentous ques-
tion to be voted upon by the hordes of Irish,
who would go for it without caring what the
future consequences might be, so that it gave
present work on the Railroads to the "byes;"
or to the breech -clout Indians at the Winre-
bago, Sioux and Chippewa Agencies, whose
unconstitutional votes so materially aided to
elect the Democratic ticket; or to the skill
full voting of those Democratic clerks who
Urged nearly thousand votes in the west
and northwestern wilderness counties for the
same ticket. The men who are to pay the
taxes to liquidate interest and principle of
this enormous Gift to Irresponsible Railroad
Companies, would probably, be oversloughed
and therintelgent voice overborne, on asub-
mission Of the prOpostiontoa popular vote, by
savagery and forgery, which we have alluded
to and therefore We insist that the senti- \
ment Of hat class Of our population whose
intelligence, industry and enterprise are Min
nesota's true reliance for permanent prosperity,
shall be thor 1ghy consulted - their repre-
sentatives before casting their prosperity on
sea whose navigation is so dangerous that
It is doubtful if we ever reach a safe harbor.
We direct attention to the closing
sentence of the letter quoted above, that send
ing two more members of Congress than we
were entitled to was calculated to en-
barass our admission. For this. the Demo
cratic party of this Territory are wholly res
pOnsible. At the Constitutional Convention
the Republicans protested against more than
two members Of Congress being chosen
The Democrats, headed by that arch knave
Jos. Il. BRowN insisted on three, though it
was transparent tc every body that it was
oversizing our pile. Doubtless their idea
was, that if they succeeded in electing their
men, q Democratic administration would
keep the facts Of the census out of sight, and
a Democratic Congress, would not hesitate
to admit an odd Democrat or two more than
we were entitled. to swell the Democratic
strength in that body. Indeed, boasts were
openly made here to this effect. On the 9th
e. hand, il the Republicans elected their
members, the census would be sprung upon
them nd Democratic Congress would order
q new election, and thus give the Democracy
here another chance But they have been
caught in their own trap, and their squeals
over their predlcament excite more amuse-
ment than sympathy. Our only regret is,
that the whole community suffers with the
tricksters. Still we can all bear some pres
sure, when we have the satisfaction of know
ing that our opponents are groaning under
meath at the bottom Of the pile of overset
goods.
In connection with the foregoing, the fol.
lowing from the New York Tribune affords
little more light
''There is division of opinion among the
Republicans in Congress on the subject of
Minnesota while some OF them are in favor
of getting her into the Union any how and
as speedily as possible, Others prefer that
her admission should be postponed while
rather than to have her brought in unjustly,
with representation to which she is not en-
titled, and brought in in q mode which will
put the Republican majority in Minnesota in
the attitude of dlsorganizng faction, when in
reality the real faction who have caused ali
the trouble there is the Democratic minority,
backed up by the Administration Territorial
ofhce-holders. Politically, the result of the
immediate admission of Minnesota is some |
what uncertain. Thrre are conflicting rumnrs |