St. Cloud Democrat. [volume] (Saint Cloud, Stearns County, Minn.) 1858-1866, 1858-09-30
GENERAL LOWRY,

General Lowry rather with playful irony
than indignant rebuke. Some have attrib-
uted this tot fear d, or respect for his wealth,
position, and aristocratic airs. This was q
mistake
For a year previous to that burglary, he
had been an invalid, the health of body
and mind greatly impaired BY a life Of
dissipation which he was wisely forsaking
Our lenienoy towards HIM was for suffer-
ing fellow mortal struggling towards a
better, and purer life; not for Southern
lordling, overaving his unsophisticated
neighbors with bis airs and graces.
We knew our press was DESTROYED by
him and his laquoys, IN person, to avenge
his wounded vanity; but we looked upon
hlW somewhat in the light of lunatic,
while his two accompices were in the full
possession Of all the little measure of sense
the Creator had ever given them. We
therefore blamed them more than him,
but since that event his course las been a
natural curiosity, and exhibits much more
of the low cunning which characteristics
she monkey tribe than any mark Of enlarg~
ed human intellect. Anything so utterly
devoid OF manliness, candor, honor. and
generosity we certainly never have wit
messed.
After inducing one Of his laqueys pub
llcly to assume the responsibility Of his
act, he, 10 appearance, broke off ali COM
munication with them. Hejoined church,
grew pious, mingled in the most eonde-
scending style with pious people, took
SPECIAL pains to be gracious with our best
friends and most public, and active sup
porters, induced his family to mingle with
the people as they had never done before,
and played saint with astonishing effect.
Men Of undoubted honor assured us that
no man, more than General Lowry, regrett-
ed and condemned the outrage upon the
liberty Of the press; that his opinion of
shep]ey corresponded exactly with our own;
and that his cowardly act never would
receive any countenance from General
Lowry. We could not know what to
think, but bad very good evidence that
he had been trying to get government
for the man he protested 10
desplse, and with whom he appeared to
have no communication.
Well, he played fox until he thought he
had re-establisbed his old dictatorial au-
thonty; when he hitched teams with the
Land Office, arranged the campaign for
the fall election, brought out his men,
took possession Of the Democratic caucus
meeting; and the very first thing to be |
done was, endorse Mr. Shep]y.
His right hand man, Col Caruthers, |
Register Of the Land Office, rose and pro-
oosed that Mr. sheply be elected Chair
nan Of the meeting, because, Che had
been attacked by paper not thousand
niles off," and branded as BURGLAR There
t Was His business and that Of his
master, the business Of that meeting, was
0 get the citizens Of St. Cloud to say that
open a house at midnight, and
destroying printing press which, had
ffended the Southern chiyaEry; is Tot
burglary The first business of the
doccasin party in stcarns County is to
ndorse houSebrealiing, threats of personal
iolence to women, and Wholesale distribu-
ions of type!
The majority of the meeting were Ger
'an Democrats, who had no fancy for the
ussines. So they voted down the Gen.
rails Jeemes with an indignant storm of
n o." When the little donkey doubled
own his ears and skunk off; but his master
'as not going to give it up so.
Next, he had himself proposed for the
lace refused to his laqaey. He had play
d saint so successfully, that the people
ere not ready, with one voice, to cry him
own; and some voted "Aye," though
Majority "Nay," he took the chair, and
nth the aid of his Land Office allies, sue ,,
eeded in disgusting the Democrats until
hey left the Hall in a body; when the old
naky eyed Indian trader, elected two Of
is laqueys, DR.. Palmer, and, Col Caruth-
rs,--both house-breakers-to represent
t. Cloud in the District Convention to be {
allied I'D e moore c."
Some Democrats attended that Conycn-
on, and proposed 0. Il. Hamlint for leg