The weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1852-1858, 1858-01-30

terms for "safe keep ng'-with this other dec.
laration now a!ledged to have been made at
Washington by Governor MrDARY, as quoted
from the Tribune correspondence, about the
Democratic document having been "6led with
bis prtoate Secretary" &c.,-and it will be
readily seen that there is a fb out between
these two officials and the interesting aues-
ton to be determined is, which is the fb5e,
However scant the confidence reposed in
Mr. CHAsE's fairness in general, we cannot
see what motive he could have had under the
circumstances to misrepresenr to US the facts.
On the other hand we can readily perceive
motive for MEDARY's obliviousness to, or falsi-
fcation Of the truth in this particular case.
He is at Washington for the express pur-
pose of sueing at the feet Of Mr.. BUCHANAN
for some good fat Office to keep his body and
soul (such as it ISL together. A party hack
nearly all his life, in his old age he finds him.
self broken in fortune and depending upon
the spoils of Office absolutely and purely for
daily bread. This office, BUCHANAN has the
power to give or withhold, and there is no
doubt, therefore, that MEDARY's fibbing and
disgraceiul course is dictated by the Admin
istration ITSELF The latest advices exhibit
the President to be ferociously in Earnest to
| force the Lecompton Constitution through
Congress. The admission Of Minnesota at
all carly date wonid place in the United States
Senate two moe votes against the measure
and hence MEDARY as the servant of the ad-
mnstration has his orders to try to battle off
our immediate entrance into the Union.
He is descending, however into a very low
kind of rascalIty to effec: the bidding of his
master. His whole pretence of ignorance as
to the existence OF the Republican copy of
the Constitution is downright alschood, of
which there is in St. Paul abundant evidence
to convict him. The two copies, as we have
shown, were deposited side by side in the
same iron safe, and arc probably there now
Everybody associated with him knows he
was familiar with, and frequently conversed
about, all the circumstances attending their
being there deposited. We can prove fur
thcr, that he directed the clerks in his Office,
two or three weeks before he left for Wash
ington, to make out duplicate copies of the
document and append the names of the off,
GERS and members of the Republican wing
Of the Convention to one copy, and the names
of the officers and members of the Democrat
ic wing to the other The clerks were dila-
tory in doing up this business, and when Me-
DAIRY was nearly ready to start for the Fed
eral City, the copies were not yet prepared,
and ne finally left for Washington acithout TAX.
ing any copy wiM him at all! 1t was arrang
ed however that MIR. II. NJ. RICE, who inten-
, ded starting for the same destination in few
days Afterwards should bring Oh the docu-
ments with him but when he also was ready
to 60, only single copy, and that the one
with the names Of the Democratic Delegates
appended to it, was as yet prepared; and the
package containing this copy was borne by
him to the National Capital.
e These are the exact and undeniable facts
: concerning the transmits on of our State
q Constitution to Washington. MEDARY's
+ Whole statement to the contrary of them is a
tissue of falsdojds made out of whole cloth
y lies for purpose, and that purpose the earn
e ing of an Office from BUCHANAN. The miser-
:, able abandonment by the old wheel horse Of
= the Ohio Democracy, of all pretence of de-
: cency, in this matter, is not surprising to
e those who observed his course as one of the
D, Board of Canvassers of the State election
c With the declaration fresh on his lips,
II that the hmeU they utre id ytoryeries," he
reckessly counted several hundred majority
5 for SIBLEY that were never cast for him at
y all; and concerning which the evidence was
e before the Board, that they were wholesale
u forge les, from the beginning to their end
D, 1t does not seem to us that Mr.. HENRY
J. NJ. RICE either has comported himself very
6 we'll in this transmission business. He
e was the MESSENGER who bore the copy of the
l. Constitution to Washington. The telegraph
't informs US that it was him who took it to
II the White House and placed 1t in the hands
of Mr. BUCHANAN. OF course SO wise and
2, acute a gentleman as Mr.. RICE is reported
N to be, would examine the paper first, to as
l. certain of surety that he was presenting
e the right document to the Preside Mt. We
J. take 1t for g: aned he did SO examine it,
e Undoubtedly when he did so he must have
1t noticed that only Gty-one signatures-a mi
E. nority of the whole Convention-n fact the
ID names of only tue delegates in the factous
D. Democratic wing Of the Convention, were
1t signed to it. Yet the testimony is that in
| of fbn anj. yoIo
IN he presented the imperfect document to thu
y President, deliberately rubbing in" this in
RS suit to the whole Republican party Of Mime
Ii sofa, and to the Republican members Of C on
u gress, by thus attempting to ignore the exis
in tence of the Republican majority Convention
+. and of their tens Of thousands of constitu
It ents So wise man should also have antic
" ;,,teo some of the legal and technical conse
1t oucnces If such a course. If the Enabling
3, Act reou;red tie Convention to consist of (
re certain number it would be rather prima ia
he Gle against the valid,,.vv OF documen
er purporting to cmenate from sen Conven
"a tion that it was not endorsed by n.,.'ortfy
D. a quorum of its members, which was the "a
y feet exhibited en- the face of the Democratic
10 copy. BY the time Mr.. RIcE's term in the
e T. S. Senate expires, we shouldn't wonder i
re many similar plumbers convinced his presen
! admirers; pretty generally, that the cunning
- of an Indian trader, and the maneuvering o
e q land Spectator, are after all not the hlghes
= ! types of wisdom, or craftsmanship.